Class 17: Wrap up and troubleshooting

 BU Education Alumni  Jon-Ross Merasty-Moose

Moose Tree Gaming

Ogoki Learning Systems 

NBA Fantasy Basketball

Review course Outline

Did we meet the objectives?

Extension 

Pass / Fail Grading Option

Set up an appointment. 

How about that Zoom?

Class 16: Assessment, Other Technology and Troubleshooting

Follow up on Google Forms Self correcting self-teaching quizzes.

• Spreadsheets
• Top Hat at BU

Articles for the day

UN Declaration about the Right to the Internet

What have we missed? 

Article: What Shall We Do With Our iPads?

• Mobile Learning
• Augmented Reality
• Virtual reality
• Second Life
• Immersive environment
• RPGs

Gaming is big business 

• In Manitoba Ubisoft
•  Job prospects in Manitoba 

• Where will your students work? 
• Their job might not have been invented yet. 

     

Everything Bad is Good for You. 

What should your blog look like at this point?

• 16 Posts with minimum of 250 words per post. 
• Reflection using proper grammar and punctuation.
• Pages one per activity at the top of your blog all activities embedded. 
• Look for Easter Eggs in the Activity pages on the class blog. 

Class 15: Maps and Assessment

Academic Paper of the Day

Csapó, B., & Molnár, G. (2019). Online Diagnostic Assessment in Support of Personalized Teaching and Learning: The eDia System. Frontiers in Psychology, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01522

In Hypothesis

Nightmare scenario

Tech tool demo

ClipChamp

GIS and Maps

• Google Earth Pro
• Google Earth Tour Builder
• New Google Earth on the Web
• Making a KML layer
• Adding a KMl Layer to Google Maps

Assessment

From the ICT Continuum

Assessment of learning not as critical as assessment for learning or assessment as learning.

Kathy Schrock 

Summative

•  Benchmarking
• Objective tests are still ubiquitous
• Teach people how to take the test.  

Formative (Diagnostic)

•  dipsticking

Assessment with Technology

    Using Technology for diagnostic assessment

• TAO
• eDia 

•  Google forms           

Class 14: Computational Thinking & Maps

 

Teaching is not for the faint of heart. Teachers need to model a confident, effective, fearless commitment to learning. Out of your comfort zone is the place to be! 

Another paper we have been marking up in Hypothesis

Computational and Design thinking. 

Kathy Schrock

Could be a whole other course, probably should be but you can teach yourself. 

Etherpad

Let's try a Cryptopad.  and figure out some Markdown language. 

You could learn a lot more here if you wanted or needed to. 

Maps

GeoGuesser

Reddit r/geoguessr

Review of Map editor

• Your Places
• Create Map
• Add layers 
• Where do you get data for layers
• Search for KML files
• BatchGeo

Google Earth

• Tutorial

 

Class 13: Digital Audio, more podcasting

 Techsmith Capture. Download here. 

• Video capture tool
• Free simple and easy
• Use it for your PechaKucha about TPACK

Social media typically implies a two-way street, a conversation. Builds engagement and inclusion. Podcasting as an educational affordance is attracting significant research in the field of education and training with interest from some interesting specialized fields. Medical and nursing training use podcasts extensively for educational purposes and lead some of the current research in the area. 

Let's annotate another article and discuss it in a podcast. 

See some of the articles I've added to our Zotero group. 

When you post your podcast on your blog page you will have a comments section for people to interact with the audio presentation.  

SoundCloud lets you put comments in the audio street in context. "Wow, that was a fabulous guitar solo?" What instrument did you use there? 

Synth Podcasting platform.

Built for Education

Check out mine.  Grey Squares Among Us 

• Jump in and add a to the thread. 
• Enter podcast code EGLBQSO at https://gosynth.com/s/c/sfoyhr

  Another popular platform for podcast creators is Anchor. 

Use Audacity to edit some clips for your podcast. 

Cut and paste, (Control Z restores)

Time shift tool

Splitting tracks

Click tracks

Pinch tool

Class 12: Digital Audio

Chromebooks

• MB has been buying truckloads preparing for remote learning
• The peoples' computer -- cheap, powerful stable. 
• One Laptop Per Child
• Windows 10, MacOS 
• pricy, elitist, exclusionary
• Digital Colonialism (Interesting theoretical perspective) 

Theory: Some interesting older philosophies and theories still inform our understanding of current reality. 

• Cartesian Dualism
• Rene Descartes 
• pineal gland.
• Digital Dualism
• Hypothes.is 
• Join the Group at https://hypothes.is/groups/aVV8qPv3/ict-for-education

A little more Digital Video

• Windows10 Game Recorder and Video Editor. 
• YouTube Streaming or upload
• Slow Motion 

Podcasting

• Blurring distinctions
• just about every media outlet uses a combination of digital audio, video, and text. 
• CBC Story

Three steps

• Recording
• Posting to a server
• Distribution to an audience

Some services offer all three steps

Download Audacity with Lame

Podcasting platforms

• Internet Archive
• Anchor, 
• SoundCloud

Class 11: Video

 Audio Visual representation has been a mainstay of educational practice. 

Some times helpful some times just plain enjoyable. http://listen.hatnote.com/

Visual and auditory inputs provide powerful amplification of educational efforts.  

Some theory first

• Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
• Social Presence Theory
• Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning 
• Cognitive load theory
• Schemas

CBC Story about Survey of Universities

Neuropsychology investigations of learning processes sometimes turn our assumptions about aspects of learning and information processing upside down. My early experience learning how to do sterotaxic implantation and now.  Sprague Dawley rats ain't cheap!

Now computer assisted surgery or image guided surgery are standard practice for many procedures, 

RSVP Rapid Serial Visual Presentation 

• Spreed
• Kreeder Chrome extension that allows you to read Kindle books with RSVP

YouTube was one of the first online video platforms and its clones are still ubiquitous. The first YouTube Video

Vimeo

TeacherTube 

Khan Academy simple 5 minute videos. Organized cognitive chunks

Streaming video has become a very popular format.

Many other social media platforms now offer video capture with all sorts of funky add-ons. Tik Tok, Instagram, Facebook. 

OBS Open Broadcasting System lets you stream video to Twitch or YouTube.