excerpt from an email share-out...
What a great group of folks from ACPS to bring back new ideas… (I've included a few more folks to our list above)
Yes, I agree with Carrie and Diane that ACPS's own Tony Wayne had to have the BEST presentation on …
- Flipping a Classroom… what was so great about Tony is that even though he was sharing about his HS Physics class, elementary educators got LOTs of practical and innovative ideas to try from him! I had many conversations about how we could work on units in elementary school in a flipping style for differentiation, etc. A hopeful "to-do" for sharing Tony's expertise and passions … Maybe videotaping and unloading to ACPS channel or making a podcast of Tony's presentation at our next event… like at EDCAMP??? Could help others access Tony's ideas and strategies. I'm thinking he has little time for an Opportunities Class??? Right, Tony? Thank you for taking the time and energy to share at VSTE!!
Some of my other highlights include:
- Stahmer's presentation on Powering UP… was such a comfortable session and will help me and others build a very useful and seamless toolkit of apps for professional use. Things like understanding how instapaper, dropbox, evernote, etc. can help organize your life. Loved it. A possible "DO-Now" could be to have a PD session on using the iPad to support our professional life… which is a different focus that all of the amazing apps that can be used with students for possibly the same thing as well as content –focused apps. Peggy could share out amazing ways to use the iPad with students as we all know!
- Brain-stretchers for me were the sessions on Mary Washington's Maker-Space and it opened my eyes to new resources on printing 3-D as well as ideas on even how this type of space can support instruction at all levels… see google docs for a few nuggets on resources. Another stretch was Be a Cantor and John Hendron's science simulations using Scratch… lots of physics!! Made me realize, that even though I've played with Scratch alongside a teacher … there's so much to learn and the skills and applications are endless. Many of us noted that we NEED a PD session by our own Jon and Erica here in ACPS and have chatted with them about this!! A "DO-NOW"
- "Many apps/software to explore or get much better at such as Evernote for effective note-taking and documenting, Tumblr could have a role in a Coaches life or students' life in documenting life in "light touches"… Not blogging, but not tweets either! Tammy's google tips session was a nice review of all the google tools … see google doc for any new information noted such as Google sites can have a static page.
- Loved the session where I had the opportunity to Push myself on using ibooks authoring with Ingram… this is a DO-Now for me and hopefully for others!! Creating ebooks on a elementary units could be a great focus and we could differentiate and best of all… with access to tools, we can have students creating their own ebooks! I loved the conversations in this hands-on session with Rich Ingram and gang from JMU, Peggy Riso and myself.
Keynotes were inspirational and I got nuggets and resources from all. I have to say, even if I didn't attend a great session, I still learned something or had an idea spark or got at least one nugget! Please collaborate on the google doc shared below for your own NUGGET mining and information sharing… It was very valuable to have a cross-section of ACPS present and the time to get to know each other personally and professionally. Great social face to face opportunities and side-by-side learning can NEVER be replaced. Good times… thank you!
this google doc below is from Google Apps in the Albemarlek12 domain... may not open for you until I slide this blog back over to this domain... just need some time!!!
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