Jen+Apgar

** [|A Classroom Called Cloud Cuckoo Land] **

//A Fast Paced Keynote in < 10 mins//

 // [|What is Cloud Cuckoo Land?] //

 [|A Creative Way of Working Together]

 [|Working at the same time on the same project isn't always effective collaboration #bigpicture]

** [|Flipping Bloom's Taxonomy with Tech Tools] **

//1 Hour Break out Session//

A variety of tech based tools (Google and Chrome Apps and Extensions, Android and iPad apps, Minecraft) make today's learning environment ideal for revitalizing and rethinking the structure and focus of the High Order Thinking Skills in Bloom's Taxonomy.

Focusing on student-directed Creation, Evaluation and Analysis more heavily than Remembering makes for more engaged and collaborative learners.

In this session you will see how using a variety of tools to support Project, Problem and Inquiry-Based learning makes for authentic and memorable projects that allow ALL students to focus more on Higher Order thinking skills that will help them thrive in a knowledge economy: the ability to do critical thinking and problem-solving; the ability to communicate effectively; and the ability to collaborate.

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">**Create Your Own Learning/Teaching -** <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;">**Explain Anything!** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;">//Minds on Media Centre - Hands On Workshop//

<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;">// [|The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.] -// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000aa; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">// [|Steven Spielberg] //

<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;">Pick a topic/theme that you are passionate about. Using a Tech Tool that is new to you (some choices are listed below) you are going to put together a 1-4 minute presentation using one of these tools. This hands-on session will be about the process more than the product. You will grow your knowledge of a new tech tool by using it, you will imagine how this tool would be used by the diverse group of learners you teach, and at the end you can share your product and/or experience with the tool with your peers or students.

<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;">At the very least you will have grown your experience with a tech tool, and the resulting self-reflection on your pains and gains in the experience will help inform the focus and direction of your journey into teaching and learning with technology.

<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"> transforms your iPad into a recordable whiteboard that captures your voice and handwriting to produce amazing video lessons that you can share online. It's as simple as touching, tapping and talking. //iPad - Free - Can view and sign up on computer and through Google Accounts//

<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"> [|Explain Everything -] A unique interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool used by over a million students and educators. //Paid App for iPad and Android//

<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"> Tell stories that matter Google Slides makes your ideas shine with a variety of presentation themes, thousands of fonts, embedded video, animations, and more. All for free. //Free Computer based creation - New Android App allows creation - iPad mobile apps for viewing//

//<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"> [] // <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;">A presentation tool that incorporates an intuitive user interface, super cool comic graphics. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;">//Free Computer Based - Google Drive and Edmodo integratio//n

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"> Prezi is cloud-based, meaning you can present from your browser, desktop, iPad, or iPhone and always have the latest version of your work at your fingertips. Create or edit on the go, then auto-sync across all your devices with ease //<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Free Computer based creation - iPad app for viewing and creating //