Showing posts with label NEMCC Mobile Learning Conference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NEMCC Mobile Learning Conference. Show all posts

Monday, June 13, 2022

Mobile Learning Conference 2022 - Level Up With Student Tech Leaders

 Thank you so much for joining me at the Mobile Learning Conference 14 for my session on Level Up With Student Tech Leaders!

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Need to teach your students technology skills for in-person classroom, distance, hybrid, or online learning? Let them teach each other! 

Our student Genius Squad tech teams learned new tech skills, leveled up and earned badges as they moved through synchronous and asynchronous course resources, and put their skills to work through service learning to support their teachers & classmates. Check out the work of our elementary Genius Squads & resources that helped them level up their skills & created an interest in computer science careers. 

Presentation Slides:
Everyone Can Create Challenges
For anyone who wants to follow along with our elementary Genius Squad program, click the links below for each challenge to see the details and resources for each iPad challenge if you want to share these resources with your students to do in class or independently.

I will continue to expand these challenge resources over the summer and throughout next fall so please keep checking back if you are interested in more resources similar to these.

Challenge #1


Students watched Oliver Jeffers for Apple Education video about drawing the world the way that you want to see it for Earth Day and then created their own enhanced photos of the environment around them with the aid of Markup on their iPads.

Oliver Jeffers for Apple Education from Oliver Jeffers on Vimeo.


Challenge #2



Challenge #3



Challenge #4




Resources:
Check back for future blog posts on new tutorials and challenges for elementary Genius Squad students.

Apple
Apple Teacher Learning Center 

 Google

Google Meet
Video Conference Expectations

iPad Skills
How To Unlock Your iPad

How To Connect Your iPad To Wifi

Overview Of The iPad 

Navigating On The iPad
 

iPad Control Center

Personalizing Settings On Your iPad

Getting And Organizing iPad Apps

The iPad Camera App

Creating Screenshots On The iPad

Annotating Photos With Markup On The iPad 


Schoology
How To Sign Into The Schoology App
 

 How To Find Courses In Schoology

Link To Video On YouTube  

 How To Find Upcoming Work In Schoology


How To Use The Schoology Assignment Camera

How To Upload A Photo To A Schoology Assignment 

 

How To Upload A Photo From An Album In Photos To A Schoology Assignment


How To Upload A File From The Files App To A Schoology Assignment  

How To Upload From Notability To A Schoology Assignment



Do you have some great tutorials or iPad challenges to share? Please add them in the comments.




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Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Mobile Learning Conference 13 - Level Up With Student Tech Leaders

  Thank you so much for joining me at the Mobile Learning Conference for my session on Level Up With Student Tech Leaders!

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Need to teach your students technology skills for distance, hybrid, or in-person classroom learning? Let them teach each other! 

Our student Genius Squad tech teams learned new tech skills, leveled up and earned badges as they moved through synchronous and asynchronous course resources, and put their skills to work through service learning to support their teachers & classmates. Check out the work of our elementary Genius Squads & resources that helped them level up their skills & created an interest in computer science careers. 


Presentation Slides:

Everyone Can Create Challenges
For anyone who wants to follow along with our elementary Genius Squad program, click the links below for each challenge to see the details and resources for each iPad challenge if you want to share these resources with your students to do in class or independently.

I will continue to expand these challenge resources over the summer and throughout next fall so please keep checking back if you are interested in more resources similar to these.

Challenge #1



Challenge #2



Challenge #3



Challenge #4




Resources:
Check back for future blog posts on new tutorials and challenges for elementary Genius Squad students.

Apple

 Google

Google Meet
Video Conference Expectations

iPad Skills
How To Unlock Your iPad

How To Connect Your iPad To Wifi

Overview Of The iPad 

Navigating On The iPad
 

iPad Control Center

Personalizing Settings On Your iPad

Getting And Organizing iPad Apps

The iPad Camera App

Creating Screenshots On The iPad

Annotating Photos With Markup On The iPad 


Schoology
How To Sign Into The Schoology App
 

 How To Find Courses In Schoology

Link To Video On YouTube  

 How To Find Upcoming Work In Schoology


How To Use The Schoology Assignment Camera

How To Upload A Photo To A Schoology Assignment 

 

How To Upload A Photo From An Album In Photos To A Schoology Assignment


How To Upload A File From The Files App To A Schoology Assignment  

How To Upload From Notability To A Schoology Assignment

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Sunday, June 20, 2021

Mobile Learning Conference 13 - 10 Steps To Hosting An App Design And Prototyping Camp

 Are you interested in learning more about how to host an in-person or virtual summer camp or after school club for students to get them excited about coding and computer science? You can host a club or camp focused on app design and app prototyping in 10 easy steps.

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App prototyping is the process of creating a working model of an app. Before spending a lot of time writing the code for an app, you can create a prototype to help you map out the interactivity and features of the app. Essentially creating models of each screen, the features of the app, and demonstrating what happens when you push a button. Does the app go to the camera app, a photo gallery, a data entry tool, or back to the home screen?

I hope you are able to join me to learn more about hosting a virtual summer coding camp or after school club focused on app design and app prototyping as a way to get students excited to learn more about computer science, coding, and app development. You can also integrate smaller pieces of this experience into any content area class to introduce the concept and help students make cross-curricular connections.

In addition to getting students excited about computer science and helping them to be more aware of the app development process, all of the materials that you need to help guide you through the process are completely free from Apple and can be used by anyone, regardless of having any coding experience. Resources are linked below.

Session Description
Learn 10 steps to guide you from start to finish in organizing and holding a virtual or in-person summer camp or after school coding club for students focused on app design and prototyping to build their interest in learning how to code and develop iOS apps. Hear about the process and free resources available to help your students learn more about app design, UI, and UX while prototyping a working model of an app using the Keynote app on the iPad to help solve a problem or challenge in their community. No previous coding experience needed. 

Google Slides and PowerPoint users can follow this process, too.

Presentation Slides

Session Slides

Marketing:
Creating a flyer to get information about the camp out to students, staff, and families is a very important step in the process so that everyone knows about the opportunity. Fortunately there are lots of great tools, apps, and applications that you can use to create your flyer.

I used Keynote and shapes from the built-in shapes library to create the flyer shown below.



Layout and Graphic Design:
Keynote
PowerPoint
Google Slides
Canva

App Ideas:
Where to start? We had students brainstorm ideas of apps that they thought could help solve problems or challenges in their communities or could help to promote opportunities or resources that  people might not know about.

We used the Google Jamboard app. Padlet would be another great resource for this task too. Both of these apps allow students to add sticky notes to a board to share ideas with others. By using a collaborative community board, students who were still struggling to come up with ideas were able to take inspiration from the ideas shared by others.



Learning About App Design:
Apple has an awesome App Design Journal that is a Keynote file that guides students through the four stages of the app design process: brainstorm, plan, prototype, and evaluate. The journal is loaded with helpful information and spaces for students to sketch, write, and record their thoughts as they move through the process.




Creating An App Prototype:






Building Interest - Creating A Good Pitch Statement: 



Celebrating Student Success:



Keep The Interest Going:


Resources:
Apple K-12 Education Teaching Code - Curriculum and resources for teaching code.
Apple Teacher Learning Center - Learn about iPads, apps, Mac computers, applications, and integration ideas. Get started earning your Apple Teacher badges.
App Design Journal - Keynote file students can use to guide them through the app design and app prototyping process.
App Showcase Guide - Tips, suggestions, and steps to hosting an app development or app prototyping showcase.
Google Meet - Video conference application.
Google Jamboard - Internet-based collaborative whiteboard. Great for collaborative brainstorming. Saves in your Google account.
Keynote - Apple presentation app for iPads and Apple computers. Awesome for creating presentations, drawing, animation, video, and layout and design.
PowerSchool Schoology - Learning Management System for hosting courses and groups making it easy for students to find, access, and share materials and learning.
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Sunday, May 30, 2021

iPad Challenge - Create A Stop Motion Animation Robot Video

 For anyone following along with our elementary Genius Squad program, here are the details of our third iPad challenge if you want to share these resources with your students.

This week students are exploring shapes in the Shapes Library in Keynote and how to break apart some shapes and then assemble shapes to create an original robot. Then they will create a stop motion animation robot video by animating the shapes in the Keynote app. Finally they can watch their video in the Photos app on the iPad and share it from there.


Challenge #4

Goal: Create a stop motion animation robot video out of shapes.

 

What do you need?

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Your iPad

 

Keynote app

Shapes in Keynote
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Photos app
How To Find Shapes In The Shapes Library In Keynote

Watch the video to learn how to find shapes in the Shapes Library in the Keynote app on your iPad.




Change Document Setup To 4:3
Watch the video to learn how to change the Document Setup in the Keynote app on your iPad.


Format Shapes
Watch the video below to learn how to format the shapes on your slide by changing the color of items.


How To Break Apart Shapes
Watch the video below to learn how to break apart some of the shapes in the Shapes Library in the Keynote app on your iPad.


Create Your Robot

Now that you have selected your shapes, it is time to combine them to create an original robot.

Watch the video below to learn how to create your robot from the shapes you selected. 

Make sure your robot is original.


Robot Animation Challenge
If you didn't know how to use the Shapes Library in Keynote or how to break apart some of the shapes before, you do now! Good job!

 

Ready for the Robot Animation challenge?

  

After you have finished creating your robot on a slide in the Keynote app, duplicate the slide and move one or more things a little on slide 2.

Then duplicate slide 2 and move one or more things slightly on slide 3.

Keep repeating this process until you have at least 50 slides or more.

Share your finished video in the next media album.
I can't wait to see what you create! 


How To Export Keynote Slides As A Movie
Watch the video below to learn how to export the Keynote slides as a movie to create your stop motion animation video.



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Thursday, May 6, 2021

I'm Presenting At The Northeast Mississippi Community College Mobile Learning Conference

  I am excited to share that I will be presenting at NEMCC Mobile Learning Conference in June!

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I will be presenting a session on a couple of great topics for anyone in a distance learning or virtual learning situation:
  • 10 Steps To Hosting An App Design and Prototyping Camp
  • Level Up With Student Tech Leaders

I am looking forward to sharing some great resources for teachers and students and a model of how to make computer science and technology leadership experiences available to students even during distance learning situations.

I hope that you are able to join me.

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