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Thursday, February 26, 2015

iPad for Learning Teaching at eLi3!

"A creative value-added fusion of SAMR, TPACK, SETT frameworks created by Zaid Ali Alsagoff!"

IPAD WORKSHOP

This 1-day workshop on iPad for Learning & Teaching will (Insya-Allah) be facilitated at the Third International Conference of e-Learning and Distance Education (eLi13) in Saudi Arabia on the 2nd February, 2013. It will awaken and empower participants on how they can use iPads more strategically and effectively for learning, sharing, communicating, collaborating, creating and publishing their e-learning content and activities using a range of essential applications. It will be interactive, engaging, fun, and you will learn a lot of tips on how to use mobile devices to engage your students in and beyond the classroom.

After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:

Download and annotate presentations/articles/notes.
Use social media to connect and collaborate with others.
Create interactive multimedia e-books.
Create and publish online interactive video tutorials.
Use a variety of apps to engage students in and beyond the classroom.

PRESENTATION SLIDES

iPad for Learning & Teaching at #eLi3 from Zaid Alsagoff

Click here to download the PowerPoint (.pptx) version.

CHALLENGE

Besides the first 30-45 minutes introduction, the rest of the workshop will be an hands-on exploration into using iPad to transform learning and teaching in the classroom and beyond.

RESOURCES

1. BASICS

How to Make a Stylus in 2-Minutes
17 iPad Tips & Tricks
16 New iPad Tips 2012
iPad Tutorials and Tips

2. APPS FOR...

iPad Apps to Support Blooms Revised Taxonomy (Kathy Schrock)
Blooms Taxonomy for iPads (Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano)
Gardners Multiple Intelligences for iPads (Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano)
The Digital Learning Farm: Apps for iPads (Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano)
21st Century Skills & Literacies for iPads (Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano)
Evaluation Rubric for Educational Apps?
SETT – A Framework for Making Informed Decisions About Inclusive Technologies
The iPad as Assistive Technology
Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) Framework

3. LEARNING *$: Means ‘NO FREE VERSION’

iTunes U
TED
Keeping Yourself Updated?
Zite
Feedly
Flipboard
Saving Online Articles for Offline reading?
Pocket
Instapaper($)
Reading e-Books?
iBooks
Google Play Books
Taking Notes?
Notes
Evernote
Notability($)
Annotate Notes & Documents?
iBooks
Subtext
PaperPort Notes
DocAS($)
Pages($)
Notability ($)
Storing & Accessing Files?
Dropbox
Google Drive
Box
iCloud
9 Mindmapping & Brainstorming Tools
QR Code Reader Apps

4. CREATING

Creating Presentations?
Haiku Deck
Prezi
CloudOn
Keynote($)
Presenting Slides with Animations?
SlideShark
Keynote($)
Writing Content?
Evernote
CloudOn
GoDocs($)
Pages($)
Creating, Editing & Sharing Images?
Skitch
Flickr
Explain Everything($)
Visualize($)
Recording & Editing Audio?
GarageBand($)
SoundCloud
Fotobabble
SoundCloud
AudioBoo
Recording & Editing Videos?
Videos
Videolicious
iMovie($)
FiLMiC Pro($)
Creating Screencasts?
Explain Everything($)
Educreations
ScreenChomp
ShowMe
Teach
Doodlecast Pro($)
Digital Story Telling?
Animoto
VoiceThread
Creating e-Books?
Book Creator($)
Book Writer($)
Comic Life($)
iBooks Author (for MAC only)
Blogging (Journal/e-Portfolio)?
Blogger
WordPress
Tumblr
Posterous

5. COLLABORATING

Live Online Video Discussions?
Skype
Google+ (Hangouts)
WizIQ
Collaborative Learning & Sharing?
Twitter
Facebook
Google+
LinkedIn
Box
Google Drive
Edmodo
Pinterest

6. ASSESSING

Poll Everywhere
Socrative
Infuse Learning

7. MOVE FORWARD?

5 Critical Mistakes Schools Make With iPads (Tom Daccord)
Roadmap for Success? Source (Slide 73)
Best Starting Point: Apps according to Learning Objectives
iMedicalApps
The Best of iPad Apps
Apps in Education
Reflector
My Delicious iPad Collection

Are you up for the challenge? :)

10 Secrets to Great Teaching Part 2

10 Secrets to Great Teaching (Part 1)
Google Video version (Part 2)
Presentation Slides (SlideShare)

PART 2

In part 2, I explore the remaining six (6) secrets (of the 10 discussed) to teaching, or ingredients to become a great teacher. The 10 keywords associated with the 10 secrets are highlighted in the graphic above. I will let the narrated presentation (below) do all the talking for now. Perhaps I will write a paper about the 10 secrets to great teaching in month or two, after more discussions and reflections with great people like you. In the meantime, have fun watching me babble and mumble about great teaching (Not sure about that!):

I tried to upload the video to TeacherTube, but without success until now (size issue?).
Anyway, as long as we have Google Video, why worry!

Hopefully, more people will join this discussion and scrutinize their own teaching to become better teachers. Teaching is a life time journey, but it would be nice to discover a bit of wisdom as early as possible. I suppose if we put our reflective minds together, we can do great things about our own teaching, and help for example others to facilitate more efficient and effective AHA moments (Synthesize and simplify content or learning so that students understand).

If you are looking for the slidecast version (2 parts-in-one) and presentation slides, you can find it right here:

view presentation (tags: learning teaching education creativity)

SELF-EVALUATION

In part 2, I actually wrote a script before recording (for testing purposes). For learning purposes, I found that writing a script got me to focus and think clearer about what I wanted to say. Writing a script is like rehearsing your presentation again and again. However, I am not sure if my arguments are more solid this time around. Anyway, I am not exactly defending a scientific paper, but instead I am having a conversation about great teaching with myself (You got to start somewhere!).

Did this narrated presentation take longer time to develop? Yes, a bit only! Actually, if you are producing a long video or cant type fast, I would recommend that you record on-the-fly without a script. However, if you have sufficient time allocated to create a script, it is actually not a bad idea. Perhaps a compromise would do, meaning you dont necessarily create a full-script, but a sufficient one to assist you to say what you want to say, the way you want it to be said. As for recording the audio, I used Audacity, which is simply a sensational free audio recording tool.

Overall, I am reasonable comfortable with writing and mashing-up slides, but I probably need a few more narrated videos under my belt, before I can feel good about my own voice. Though, hopefully the next learning videos I develop are shorter learning nuggets, which are less than 5 minutes a piece.

Oops, I forgot to mention the importance of having fun and a sense of humor while inspiring your students to learn. Yes, it is going to be a long learning process, and I AM STILL LEARNING :)

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