Day 19: GAETI - Border Crossing Art Project Presentation.

Today we presented our Border Crossing Art Projects.  It was interesting to hear what everyone's thought processes on how there art could be used in the classroom.

We used the rest of the day to get our final touches done on our online portfolio.

Day 19: GAETI - Border Crossing Art Project Presentation.

Today we presented our Border Crossing Art Projects.  It was interesting to hear what everyone's thought processes on how there art could be used in the classroom.

We used the rest of the day to get our final touches done on our online portfolio.

Day 18: GAETI - Piktochart, Infographics, and Audio Files...

Today we were learning Piktochart to create infographics. Its an interesting system to create poster session type presentations.

In the afternoon session we covered the creation of online quizzes and the various systems that we can use to create the including; Kahoots and Socrative.  These can be used to track participation and increase class participation.  Socrative has a huge quiz database that can be copied and imported into your system.  This can be found at the Socrative Shared Quiz List.

Following the online learning classes we began working in earnest on our portfolios on Weebly.

SO ENDETH THE LESSON

Day 17: GAETI - Using Prezi, Using iPads in the Classroom, Newsletter Design, Blogging and Lesson Plans.

 Morning Session: In the morning session we were give a run through of Prezi presentation software by the library staff.  PREZI is free in its basic format with an EDU email address. Following the PREZI discussion we had a lively discussion of the merits and uses of iPad and similar technology in the classroom.

Afternoon Session: We were allowed time to finish our Border Crossing art projects as well as time to complete the lesson plans and other assigned projects. We were asked to describe our reasoning for decisions we made in our art projects.

The Crab

Crabs have long been representative of life and have been a part of human history as long as there have been     writings. The crab is one of the oldest species on earth. The horseshoe crab dates back over 200 million years and is literally a living fossil. Most people are aware of the zodiac sign of Cancer, named for the constellation which resembles the outline of a crab.

Both the constellation Cancer and the astrological sign Cancer are named after the crab, and depicted as a crab. William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse drew the Crab Nebula in 1848 and noticed its similarity to the animal; the Crab pulsar lies at the centre of the nebula. The Moche people of ancient Peru worshipped nature, especially the sea, and often depicted crabs in their art. In Greek mythology, Karkinos was a crab that came to the aid of the Lernaean Hydra as it battled Heracles. One of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, tells the story of a gigantic crab who made the waters of the sea go up and down, like the tides.

I chose the crab because of the longevity of the creature and its ties to most of the sciences.

Following the Art segment we worked in a group project on News Letter layout and creation.

Day 16: GAETI - WebQuest, Setting up a new course in Canvas, and more FlatStanley

Today we worked on WebQuest setting up a Web Inquiry lesson for students to follow through to gain an understanding of the typical safety measures we should follow in the Laborotory and the field.

We followed up our WebQuest Group Projects with a bit more work setting up a new canvas classroom:  

https://canvas.instructure.com/

 


From here we discovered that it was PayDay! YAY! and took a lunch.

Following Lunch, we returned to the art class to complete our Border Crossings art Project.

After art we were back to the computer class to work on various projects, including the Flat Stanley project, as well as our power points and lesson plans.

Day 15: GAETI - Dr Lee's Storytelling, More Flat Stanley, Border Crossing Art and Such

Morning Session:
Today we started off with Takk and the flat stanley projects.
TAKK was a type of social media system like a cross between Pintrest and FaceBook, For my students it might not be approved by the parents because it requires email address.

Tackk makes it easy to create pages for everything in your life. Customize your Takk to make it unique, and add fun content like Instagram pics, Vines and more.
Takk about your weekend, a birthday party invite, travel plans or whatever you want.




Afternoon Session:
We returned from lunch to work on the Border Crossing Art Projects where we got the fused glass.  I'll post an image of that when all the glue dries.  

We followed the art program with another session by Dr. Lee on Creating and Online Presentation.
We used the PPT system  to create a Movie, record audio track, export to MP4, upload to YouTube.com and secure as unlisted or private. We the uploaded our results to both Canvas and our Web Pages.


Today is Friday... Wooo Hooo!

Day 14: GAETI - Dr Lee and the Canvas LMS

Morning Session:
We began with Dr. Lee, Learning Canvas and Web2.0
Canvas is an interesting learning management system...and free.

We followed the Canvas session with a discussion on copyright law by the Library Staff.












The above picture is of me with a captured 1969 Dalek at the Torchwood Institue, Heathrow,
London, United Kingdom.


Many of the material used by teachers are covered by the Fair Use Act:

The "Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing United States Entrepreneurship Act of 2007" (FAIR USE Act) was a proposed United States copyright law that would have amended Title 17 of the U.S. Code, including portions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to "promote innovation, to encourage the introduction of new technology, to enhance library preservation efforts, and to protect the fair use rights of consumers, and for other purposes. "The bill would prevent courts from holding companies financially liable for copyright infringement stemming from the use of their hardware or software, and proposes six permanent circumvention exemptions to the DMCA.

The bill was introduced March 22, 2013 in the 110th Congress by Representative Rick Boucher (D-VA). On March 19, 2007, the bill was referred to the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property. 

Boucher emphasized that the bill would not make circumvention an act of fair use, but would instead redefine which acts qualify as permissible circumvention, stating that:

    “The Digital Millennium Copyright Act dramatically tilted the copyright balance toward complete copyright protection at the expense of the Fair Use rights of the users of copyrighted material. The reintroduced legislation will assure that consumers who purchase digital media can enjoy a broad range of uses of the media for their own convenience in a way which does not infringe the copyright of the work.”

References:

110th Congress H.R. 1201

"Boucher's latest 'digital rights' bill," Stanford Law Center for Internet and Society.

The afternoon session was the Border Crossing Art Project and then continuing on the Flat Stanley Video Project. 

We followed the art project with excel game development and then moved on to Camtasia where we learned a valuable lesson about technology... Sometimes it does not work! We relocated to another lab with computers that would operate Camtasia, and then had another seires of technical difficulties whiile installing the Microphones Headsets.  Following this we blogged... See above.