Blog Tips and Tricks #8: Time Savers with Pre-made URLs & GDOCs as a Medium

I tried to upload quizzes from online math books and found some quicker ways to accomplish the task after several frustrating attempts. With Blogger you will find outside mediums to be your friend. HTML friends include "notepad," not MS Word and this video highlights Google Docs as your friend to quick copy-and-paste several links with attached URL's to your blog.

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Flipped Learning Podcasts

Podcast 1:
http://archive.org/details/Episode1AaronSams

Podcast 2:
http://archive.org/details/FlnPodcastEpisode2BrianBennett

Podcast 3:
http://archive.org/details/Episode3RamseyMusallam

Flipped Learning

AACE and EDMEDIA 2012: Denver

Flipped Classrooms & 21st Century Resources on Prezi

A Reflection on Today

There are a few things to keep in mind after today. Be sure to document all the lessons you learned today so you will not forget them over the summer. That was part of the point in having a Flip camera. The other part was for you to begin documenting as much of your class as possible so that you may extend your differentiated classroom. These videos can be used as part of your scavenger hunts, as we discussed, as well may be added to your blogs tutorials and lesson archive. When a student forgets a concept or you just want to refer to it later you will always have it to pull. Not to mention students will have access to them from their homes.

With this in mind I encourage all to share their videos on their blogs so we may learn more from them. Also, I encourage those of you who did not watch Mr. Falcon's tutorial videos to do so. He has valuable information for the beginner cameraman. His lessons will make your videos more professional, more enjoyable and can be applied immediately.
http://979falcon.blogspot.com/

Remember that if students learn in an outdoor environment through tactile measures the information they have learned is more likely to become imprinted into their brain. Then during lessons they will have greater recall when you mention aspects of both the concept and the lesson. Videos, pictures, audio, any other technology you can add to these experiences is only a plus and will enhance your lesson's impact! The more that students "Pull" information from apps and their surrounding environment, the more impacting it is. The more you "Push" the information through lectures in the classroom, the less impacting your lessons will be.

I encourage you to build, build, build over the summer! The most frustrating thing for faculty around you, the students and the administration is when in-services take place and no one takes those jewels of information and explores them fully. You will only know if something works and is valuable to your classroom through practice. You have all summer to practice and build. I plead with you, do not come back in August without buckets full of ideas and games, lessons, activities already built to be used in your 2012-2013 lessons! Your knowledge and creativity is too great not to share; don't sit on your hands.

Another frustrating aspect and I encourage you to fight this in tomorrow's in-service is when teachers are not open and are not willing to try. When other's share their ideas you will only get out of their lessons what you put into them. Remember and reflect on the discouragement you feel when students are not open to your lessons and take away nothing leaving your classroom.

Continue to learn! Continue to share! You will find the information for events for tomorrow on Mr. Arias' blog if you have not checked it already:
http://arias-slamnscience.blogspot.com/

Let the Brainstorming Begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .: Motivational Speech of the Day.

Let the Brainstorming Begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .: Motivational Speech of the Day.: I believe we are teachers in a position of technological shift. We need to learn so many technologies, yet be wary of which may become obsol...

Mr. Falcon's Media Studies Class: View this tutorialNext look at these "on the...

Mr. Falcon's blog post is the perfect thing to run with! This is the perfect medium for us to embrace film again as teachers, and he is willing to work with any of you in any capacity, as his later blog video examples show. Be creative always and as Dr. Wirth shares, ALWAYS DOCUMENT for your future practices, for you to speak at conferences, for obtaining your Masters Degree, it's limitless.

Mr. Falcon's Media Studies Class: View this tutorial





Next look at these "on the...: View this tutorial Next look at these "on the fly", a video shot quickly, videos shot this year and last school year. Compare the ch...

In-service for 5/30/12

Here is the presentation that I made as an intro for tomorrow. I intended to upload this in form of a video, but my school computer is not cooperating with me. I will try again when I get home. In the meantime, here is the power point. I think you will still get the idea flipping through it on your own. When you are finished be sure to go to Mr. Arias' blog for the 2nd set of information (http://arias-slamnscience.blogspot.com/) and them Mr. Falcon's for the last part of information (http://979falcon.blogspot.com/).



https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eYG3_pKjYfTd05ZrNVXqcH6LXjZA6T0rhKn8M7eIU0s/edit

Website Recommendation of the day: http://www.thedailyriff.com/

Check this site out and really explore it, because it has given me so many ideas! I just wish I had more time right now to explore them and apply them. I think this is the hardest part about working for approval of your principal, the parents, your students and yourself; the work is never done and never easy. Enjoy! http://www.thedailyriff.com/

Flip Your Classroom!

I really love this video because it made me watch again and again. It was as if Katie was not in control of the video, but drove the message. I think very highly of her and am pleased to see her step back and process how to send messages through her creative lens; she inspires me! I want to take on this style of learning. I hope you will come with me, because I need supporters and people to bounce ideas off of. I like this video so much and want to encourage you so much to look into it that I will post the same post three days in a row. I hope you are inspired!

My Favorite Flipped Classroom Video

I really love this video because it made me watch again and again. It was as if Katie was not in control of the video, but drove the message. I think very highly of her and am pleased to see her step back and process how to send messages through her creative lens; she inspires me! I want to take on this style of learning. I hope you will come with me, because I need supporters and people to bounce ideas off of. I like this video so much and want to encourage you so much to look into it that I will post the same post three days in a row. I hope you are inspired!

Flipped Classroom: Cool Vid!

I really love this video because it made me watch again and again. It was as if Katie was not in control of the video, but drove the message. I think very highly of her and am pleased to see her step back and process how to send messages through her creative lens; she inspires me! I want to take on this style of learning. I hope you will come with me, because I need supporters and people to bounce ideas off of. I like this video so much and want to encourage you so much to look into it that I will post the same post three days in a row. I hope you are inspired!

Flipped Classrooms 4

So how do you manage a classroom of disruptions? Entertain, engage, love, care and follow this example:

A Flipped Classroom: Revision

If you were paying attention you might have noticed I already posted this once, however, I added the wrong video. I have since gone back and corrected the mistake. But for all those that don't have time to go back and check those things I am reposting the blog today so you will receive the post in your feeder. I hope you enjoy the video; I know I do!

I have been researching "Flipped Classroom" and believe it may solve many of my problems in the classroom. Our 10th Grade teaching strategies are showing declining scores and I want to amp up and get "hands on," "dirty hands." I want to help the students with their work and see what they can do themselves up close. I can no longer rely on parental support, especially at the high school level. Parents claim to either not know the content or just don't have the patience, know how and time to spend with students. Its kind of sad, but I understand; especially for my classroom, where they are all struggling just to get to school due to life's struggles. Hopefully my tactics next year will remediate problems for me, for them and for their parents. Hopefully next year we will see change and better results.

Here is a video on what and why I need a flipped classroom:

Flipped Classrooms 3

I am excited because I have been talking with fellow teachers and the principal and vice principal about "Flipped Classrooms." They are where I initially heard of the idea and now find it popping up everywhere.  I like this teacher explaining recourse with the idea because she is honest and reserved (something I can relate with) . Take in her ideas and words, not her nervous tics. I love her vids and ideas!

Flipped Classrooms 2

Next year I want to "flip" my classroom. If you watched the first video from the previous post you know what this means. I have been researching how to best and most effectively do this and I have definitely appreciated this teachers videos. Enjoy!

Flipped Classroom

I have been researching "Flipped Classroom" and believe it may solve many of my problems in the classroom. Our 10th Grade teaching strategies are showing declining scores and I want to amp up and get "hands on," "dirty hands." I want to help the students with their work and see what they can do themselves up close. I can no longer rely on parental support, especially at the high school level. Parents claim to either not know the content or just don't have the patience, know how and time to spend with students. Its kind of sad, but I understand; especially for my classroom, where they are all struggling just to get to school due to life's struggles. Hopefully my tactics next year will remediate problems for me, for them and for their parents. Hopefully next year we will see change and better results.

Here is a video on what and why I need a flipped classroom:

Website Recommendation of the Day: Uwall.tv & Pandora

vs. 

Here are competing webites, one trying to make a name for itself and one which is dominating the market already. To be honest I am not sure how much they compete, because one is .mp3 based and on cell phones, ROKUs, and many other devices, while the other I did not hear about until tonight and bases their playlists on .mp4 format (video).

I use Pandora ALL THE TIME, but as technology progresses and ROKU (not to mention other products coming from Google and Apple) continue to progress I foresee Uwall taking over because they took Pandora's model and made it visual, using YouTube, not to mention they allow you to set up play lists based on your mood. 

 vs.   

The real choice is up to you and you may want to continue checking which is better over time. Databases and product grow over time; although so does whether a company finds money for support or charges customers. Time tells all!

Art Integration: Science Storiented -Wind Map

Art Integration Idea(s) of the Day

Science Storiented: Wind Map: Click on the picture to take you to an uber-cool wind map of the United States. The wind map is a personal art project that maps and puts...

Website Recommendation of the Day:TuneTune

Here is a website I'm sure many of you will be able to use and have been looking to find for quite a long time. Convert Youtube files into mp3's. Find the music and the versions (concert, class sessions, TedTalks, etc) into on-the-go listens for your ipod.

I really love this video because it made me watch again and again. It was as if Katie was not in control of the video, but drove the message. I think very highly of her and am pleased to see her step back and process how to send messages through her creative lens; she inspires me! I want to take on this style of learning. I hope you will come with me, because I need supporters and people to bounce ideas off of. I like this video so much and want to encourage you so much to look into it that I will post the same post three days in a row. I hope you are inspired!

Art Integration Idea: Crayola Lesson Plans

I want to share with you all Crayola's search engine for art integration. I personally have not found anything useful, because it seems a bit elementary, but that generally is their target audience. Perhaps the elementary will find this useful, but I encourage everyone to at least take a glance.

http://www.crayola.com/lesson-plans/

Website Recommendation of the Day: Words as a Form of Visual Art

50 Extremely Awesome Examples of Typography

Here is the link to the place where I found these photos and the rest of the article. I am in no way responsible for these cool ideas, I only wish to share them with you, I hope you like them!

http://blog.reflexstock.com/2010/08/50-extremely-awesome-examples-of-typography/

This time we’re gonna show you some truly inspiring works with text, also referred to as typography. This can be used many places; in magazines, advertisements, websites, logos and more. These great pieces will show you that there are no boundaries and that you can make almost anything with text if you have a good portion of creativity and talent.

Typography can in todays terms be so much more than what you find in a book or magazine. It’s turned into a very inspiring form of art, and there are many great pieces out there. Many times they can be mixed with either other graphical elements or some sort of poem or saying. Here we’ve picked out 50 pieces that can inspire you and maybe give you some new ideas. Enjoy!

Gun by ~mou5e

Burdened by ~dylanroscover

En Masse by ~clockblock

your type by ~O-nay

I Speak Alone by ~Gordorca

Beauty by *mrgraphicsguy

Typography Plate 002 by ~Postpwned

I am not myself by ~OrigamiSuicida

What Lies Within by ~um0p3pisdn

Got a Light by ~DesertViper

Typography by ~e-emoo

John Lennon in Type by ~Dencii

Come Back To Me_1600×1050 by ~Dmaghar

Lying by =RenzGFX

Steven Paul Jobs by ~dylanroscover

Instant by *Shinybinary

The Raven by ~swordfishll

DUB.TILL.DAWN by ~ICDP

Lion by ~rickystuffedpie

The Garamond Fox by ~StolenStars

Think Differently London 2 by *crymz

Martin Luther King Jr. in Type by ~Dencii

Lemons by ~Beautelle

I love typography by =mindCollision

Triumph over Chaos by ~MasterC88

Big Yellow taxi by ~TonyFbaby

Love is an accidental gift by ~mujiri

Milking by ~buioaloha

Broken Stars by `shebid

The Fall of Sin – Extended by =Anton101

Bang. by ~Q8Toba

ARTRIBUTE header by ~H3AD3AD

science typo by =Mirousensei

Imagine by =blissart

Conceptual Art by ~AagaardDS

.CMYK by ~TheSpinxSage

99 Percent by *jeffrey

TYPOGRAPHY with Helvetica by ~sarakhanoom

Highway of Endless Dreams by ~Axytrix

Addiction by ~tokarnia

Typography by ~AilesdeMort

The Dark Knight by *Prain

love’ by ~drinadesign

One chance by ~Papa-figo

creativity is my thing by *razangraphics

love and knowledge by =CHIN2OFF

Doing it daily by ~northcoaster

Nothing Less Than Forever by ~jawalyfe

social networking by ~IigouthamiI

Typo by ~KalvinK

We hope you’ve gotten some inspiration from these great examples that show the diversity that can be found within typography. Remember that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, maybe you’ve liked some and disliked others. We would also love to hear your opinions. Which is your favorite?

Thank you for reading!

http://blog.reflexstock.com/2010/08/50-extremely-awesome-examples-of-typography/