MACUL 2013
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Launch Me
Keynote Speaker: Kevin Honeycutt
I didn't take many notes on his presentation but I took away two points for myself:
- Put testimonials on my school website.
- Like Digital Grammies on Facebook. These grandmothers learned to do facebook to mentor their grandchildren. This is one way to rehearse social behavior before they jump into it.
Edmodo in the 21st Century Classroom
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More Than Khan: GooruLearning: The Search Engine for Learning
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Using Game Design in Your Elementary Classroom
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Admongo.gov Admongo.gov- where advertising is all around you. Online. Outside. On television. Who makes ads? How do they work? What do they want you to do? Here, you will explore, discover, and learn.
Can you make it to the top? To get there, you'll answer: Who is responsible for the ad? What is the ad actually saying? What does the ad want me to do? Click picture to go to Kodu Game Lab.
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Teaching and Learning in 3D with SketchUp
Aren Cooper, Drafting and Design Instructor, North Branch Area Schools. [email protected]
Click here for his presentation slide show. SketchUp is CAD for Everyone! There is an online repository of models. It ties in with Google Earth. Google Earth has actual SketchUp models and you can extract a model from Google Earth. Ric Wiltze- Mi Education Licenses - Google Sketch Up Pro Offer can be found at: macul.org/resources/otherresources.
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SketchUp Sites
Click on the icon above to go to the Trimble SketchUp Site http://www.sketchup.com/
SketchUp Training Videos 3DVINCI
Click the icon to go to 3DVinci.net.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future
Keynote Speaker: Adam Bellow, Founder, eduClipper
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Web Tools to Make Your Classroom Rock!
Presenter: Adam Bellow
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The Epic Evernote Experiment
Presenter: Nicholas Provenzano - The Nerdy Teacher.com; @the Nerdy Teacher
Skitch Evernote Flexibility to all content areas. You can upload PDFs, documents, audio files and pictures. Send emails with documents attached to Evernote. Plan Book Use Turnin.com Student Collaboration- you will need to enter student email addresses. Livescribepen.com- audio & handwriting at the same time. Get Doxie.com- scanner- scans directly to Evernote. Complete Guide to Evernote $2.99 |
Fun With Finch Robots
Presenter: Gloria Bond; Bath, Michigan
Click here for her presentation. www.FinchRobot.com Finch robots are very durable and only cost $99. The Finch is a new robot for computer science education. Its design is the result of a four year study at Carnegie Mellon's CREATE lab. The Finch is designed to support an engaging introduction to the art of programming. It has support for over a dozen programming languages and environments, including several environments appropriate for students as young as eight years old. The Finch was designed to allow students to write richly interactive programs. On-board features include:
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Other Things to Know About Finches
Snap operates like Scratch but with a Finch object. It only saves/opens in C drive. You have to move and copy it to Z drive. It works with multi-languages and multi-systems. Also works with Alice. OOP=Object Orientated Programming. Ideas to program your Finch:
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Final Keynote Speaker: Building Bolder Schools: It Doesn't Hurt to Be First
Speaker: Steve Dembo
Untangling The Web by Steve Dembo and Adam Bellow Order it at Amazon- Click here. Get a pre-order discount of 20% off. Click here. Caine's Arcade Stump the teacher VertCon1 Vinc: 6 sec video creator One Second Everyday Ed Camp Virtual Conference- DenVirt Con |
Other Presentations by Steve Dembo
T is for Tinkering: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1922908/TisforTinkering.ppsx
Untangling The Web: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1922908/Untangling%20The%20Web.ppsx Storytelling for the YouTube Generation: http://dlc.com/macul-youtube |