The Sai-Do-Si Team is headed to ...

We are really looking forward to attending the annual 21st Century Learning Conference starting tomorrow.  We are really excited to be sharing what we learn with you as fast as we learn it! On top of our sharing with you, Shannon and Taylor have the opportunity to share on using iMovie to create a classroom hook. 

Check out our trailer here.

 We are also very excited to have Barbara, Lauren and Mike VK as co-authors for the weekend.  We will be sharing and updating the blog as we attend a diverse collection of workshops.  You can also collect information and follow events of the conference by following the hashtag #21CLHK on twitter.

  It is going to be a great weekend and we look forward to you joining us for the ride.   Comment and send questions to us as we go, we will do our best to check back in!

 

Digital Curation: Using Storify to Curate Information

 

We recently did a training on Storify which is an excellent tool for digital curation. The basic definition of digital curation is, "Digital curation is the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets. Digital curation establishes, maintains and adds value to repositories of digital data for present and future use." (From wikipedia). For the purposes of our school though we offered this as an opportunity for our students to become curators within their classes. Providing opportunities for students to filter through resources and choose the best information for a subject that they are working on.

 

For example, let's say that you want your students to explore the current situation related to Syrian Refugees.  Students would be able to go into Storify and search for reputable sources that could be curated about what is happening. 

The exciting part to Storify is that you can lay it out in a "Story" manner.  Meaning you can take your readers through a story of the Syrian refugees completely based on information curated from the web.  This tool is an excellent one for personal Pro-D as well as an individual or class project.  Something we highly recommend and another exciting opportunity to bring a diverse experience into the classroom. See a previous post, created in Storify about Grit in the Classroom.

Some iPad Things iUse guest presenter Lauren Waymire

Check out the amazing presentation created by Lauren about Apps she uses in her classroom.

Flipped Classroom: A Look Ahead (Infographic)

Schoology Tools!

Here is the screen cast from our Pro-D Snapshot.  Enjoy!