MEMSET

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

5PM - 7PM

The Meadowbrook School of Weston

Agenda

Next Meeting:

Regina at Nashoba Brooks will host in January

One new thing:

• 1-1 iPads
• Makey Makey by
• Digital Portfolios-Kingsley

• Also using sites
• Evernote
• Minecraft 3D printing - Meadowbrook

• Use creative mode
• claim plot
• Print ready to print on 3D printer
• maker Faire NY

• 3D printing

• Nashoba-mimeo teach
• New scheduling BB&N-working with teachers in room rather than as special

• Some classes in by project in lab
• insert inet safety and other lessons into integrated curriculum (PreK-6)
• Also at Tenacre

• Flipped classroom and blended learning (middle school BB&N)

• always had integrated model, not tech lab specialist
• Each class give one class each week meet with students during library time
• Librarian goes into class during projects (one week at a time)

• Foederman from Brookwood-Math head embraced flipped classroom
• Camtasia-screencasting software
• Post lesson for nightly homework, in class worked with those who were struggling in the class as they worked on problems
• Park School-Using explain everything
• Good for when teacher goes away and has lessons already prepared
• Skype and Goolgle Hangout? Yes in Meadowbrook when a teacher had to go away for emergency,
• Conversation about platform for screencasting. Quicktime (simple) vs. Camtasia (robust), Explain everything, Blendspace, podcasts with images

Design Thinking with head of middleschool Meadowbrook

• Impetus was STEM education (+A)
• Looked around country to see best practices
• Lense of STEAM can be too limiting. Design thinking transcendent. Put question first. Muck around in the question. discovery
• Parent conference experience is not great (from parent survey)

• Different groups (student, parent, teachers) discuss what they want out of conference
• Discovery and empathy (who is involved and what they need)
• Interpretive phase, then ideation phase (generate ideas)
• One outcome-choose your own type of conference: in person, phone, advisor only, child at conference, etc…
• Surveys after to improve on model
• Mike-Used design thinking with mapping in combo with science teacher

Open items

• Content filtering

• left content filter, went to lightspeed box.

• Fablab/Idealab

• Doug from Brookwood
• design space to work collaboratively and creatively
• visited advertising company, other schools (Mullen Advertising) http://www.mullen.com/about/
• Idea paint (use only brand, do not use home version) Have tech to install it.
• projector screen with appleTV
• movable walls with castors - reconfigure room. Rug with pinwheel design.
• quotes around top border about collaboration
• Large flat panel monitors groups can work tranparnt to teacher and other groups
• Teachers slow to adopt room use

Apple TV

• Update to new

• conference room display (turns off movies, etc)

• Maverick server (mountain lion, also) caches
• Onscreen code- caused some issues with different devices. teachers did not want to enter code. (as opposed to password)
• Turn off ir receiver under security on computer image to prevent ir remotes from affecting computers
• can enroll in MDM or casper??
• pair one bluetooth keyboard to all appleTVs, walk around with it.
• holders on thingerverse for 3D printing
• Kaptek adapter for HDMI to VGA plus audio

Next session ideas:

content delivery: music, etc

airvideo HD (stream library of video)

MassCUE

Meadowbrook: Digital Citizenship, iCreate stop motion

Fessenden: robotics

Kingsley & Meadowbrook: MEMSET

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Notes from Doug:

iPad app: Leafsnap for using leaves to identify trees.  Great for younger grades.

“Makey Makeys”  Visit: http://www.makeymakey.com/

for inventing

Dan Riles is using Weebly to do digital portfolio.  They are public (They used Google Sites last year and didnít like it)  Ced at Fessenden uses Google Sites but with a template “Teacher Dashboard”

Jen at BB&N have experimenting with Evernote as a way to publish content to parents.

Schools doing 3D Printing via minecraft, at Makerís fair (Makerbot is the most expensive 3D printer)

Check out MimioTeach:

Must use a pen instead of touch but can be used with anyoneís software such as SmartNotebook on a whiteboard

Explain Everything on the iPad is a good tool to review again.

Check out Blendspace.com for creating/posting lessons.

STEM curriculum around “design thinking” ñ presented by Brendan Largay, Head of MS at Meadowbrook.  ---as a means to solve problems

        Discovery phase

        Interpretive phase

        Ideation phase ñ generating ideas about what things might look like

Should US kids be at the PT conferences?

Update our Apple TVs to the latest version of software that came out 2 weeks ago.  It adds “conference room” display.  You can name your Apple TV and it will display the name.  Go to Airplay and then Conference Room Display

Enroll Apple TV into Casper to do updates??

Cabtech HDMI to VGA adapter $80 ñdonít buy the cheaper adapters for VGA

Regarding hosting mp3 files…

Soundcloud

Audioboo

Host the files in Google drive and let it play locally on the computer

Clip converter