Category: Conference

H5P Presentation

November 28, 2023 / Troy / 0 Comments

Check out my presentation: “Open Source H5P and Me” from the Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference.

Description

Learn how to find, create, and share FREE interactive digital activities using the open-source project H5P. Interactive video, Word completion, Choose your own adventure, Cornell Notes, Dictation, Put images into order, Students identifying words, Students answering verbally, and more are possible.

Below is a quick movie of the slides. This will definitely make more sense if you’ve seen the presentation as I tend to use images and talk about things.

If you’d like to check out some of the examples of H5P, you can head over to the MasterMoodle Moodle site. Click the login button in the top right. You can create an account. Use the enrollment key of CMTC23.

ISTE 2018

August 8, 2018 / Troy / 1 Comment

ISTE 2018 is now in the books. I’ve had some time to process the information and the experience.

ISTE is always overwhelming. There is a lot going on. There are thousands and thousands of people. (I know that they said they had the highest attendance ever, but I never heard how many). According to what I heard, there were over 18,000 people.

I didn’t feel as though I saw everything. There are poster sessions, presentations, and meetings that I would’ve liked to see but missed. This has always been the case. There is simply too much going on.

However, I always have a perspective of what I want to get out of the conference. For me, this year was about not getting caught up in the “shiny things”, but trying to focus on substantive topics, ideas and learning. I still believe that we get way too caught up in focusing on shiny things.

Observation 1

MicroSoft really, really, really wants back in on education. Chromebooks have eaten their lunch. MicroSoft took some really specific actions. They bought Flipgrid and made it “free” (there is an event set for August 1st which should provide more information (i.e. will an account be necessary? will students need an Office 365 account to use it?). Secondly, MicroSoft had a really big area in the vendor showroom. MicroSoft also has released a small tablet (the MicroSoft Surface Go), for the education market.

MicroSoft also had vending machines that gave out some swag provided that you tweeted with a given hashtag.

Observation 2

There were a great many more people creating Sketchnotes than I’ve ever seen. Sketchnotes are graphical notes. I went to a couple of sessions at a previous ISTE to learn about Sketchnotes. I also went to a couple of sessions specifically to learn and practice how to do Sketchnoting. However, even at sessions that had absolutely nothing to do with Sketchnoting, there were several people taking notes via Sketchnoting.

I’m still processing how this plays out in classrooms. I think that for many students, this could be a wonderful tool/strategy. It is clearly not a silver bullet that will fix everything, but the brain research seems pretty solidly behind this. Creating graphical notes seems to help the brain truly remember and understand the material. Which tools and how remains to be seen. iPads seem to have an advantage over Chromebooks for this task. However, iPads in schools come with many other issues.

Did you go to ISTE2018? What are your observations?

MAEDS 2016

October 14, 2016 / Troy / 0 Comments

I’m presenting at MAEDS 2016. I’m using this post to demonstrate embedding a Google Form.

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ISTE 2015 Day 2

June 30, 2015 / Troy / 0 Comments

ISTE continues to be an overwhelming and wonderful experience. I have been to several sessions that were just packed with information. One of the sessions that was absolutely packed with learning focused on using Google as an assessment tool. The session was called: Authentic Publishing: Add-Ons and Scripts Case Studies by John Calvert. (You can check out his site at http://edtechtofu.blogspot.com.) This was a wonderful session that presented some strategies for using Google Forms to have students write Tweets that demonstrate their reflection on the lesson of the day. The forms are then moderated by the teacher. Once the teacher moderates the Tweet, it is automatically posted to Twitter. By encouraging the parents to follow the Twitter account, parents now have a discussion starter when the kids get home. The session also presented a way to create a timeline from Google forms. The timelines look wonderful. There are a couple of options for creating the Timeline: students can create them individually, students can create them as a group, or the teacher can create them. I’ll need to dig into the specifics to truly understand the process and each of the tools used. I’m looking forward to it.

ISTE 2015

June 29, 2015 / Troy / 0 Comments

I’m currently at ISTE 2015. I was lucky enough to bring a group of people – there are five of us in total. For the rest of the group, this is their first ISTE experience. ISTE is an overwhelming but content rich conference. The entire day is spent either walking to a session or soaking up wonderful information.

The first session that I tried to attend (notice the tried) was closed by the time that I got there. I had hoped to attend a session on Blended Learning, but, apparently, so did a whole lot of other people. I was able to find another session, which was filled with some good stuff. This is probably pretty indicative of how the conference will go.