Meet Them Where They R!: #ISTE13 My Take On Day 3 (Monday, June 24)

I'm so tired... A ton of information along with an extensive, yet strategic stroll through the ISTE Expo. However, the biggest take-away from today deals with the vital notion that education is not about the tool...it's about the child using the tool and developing a relationship with him/her and showing them how to exploit that tool to do anything he/she wishes.

My other take aways are listed below:

Session 1:

Going Google - Oshkosh Area School District

Why Google:

*Treat internal and external devices as BYOD

Ideas For Out Transition

Start training with a few teachers and send them out to train the massess

Community survey regarding our website and Google transition

Start a blog to provide updates for staff

Button approach to links on the website

Session 2:

Did You Know? Amazing Features of Google Apps

delivr.com/2e6zb

Great ideas to using Google applications like:

Use Google draw for seating charts
You can make your documents view only
Using pre-made Google templates (Awesome!)
Adding comments in directly in Google Docs for Language Arts or any essay or paper
Research directly within the Google Docs
Cite directly from site that was pulled for research within the doc
Can modify picture tools that are ok for copyright purposes for usage rights
Also search videos within document and embed in presentations
Now can insert images in Google Forms
Can also insert date and time for parent teacher conferences in forms

Check out

The Chrome Web Lab
GeoGuesser ( A must)
Voice recognition flash cards
Peanut Gallery films
100,000 stars
Cube Slam
Webcam Swiper (uses webcam to turn the page for you of a book)
Everynote Clearly
Adblock for YouTube
Gmail Labs are great for our new email addresses for going Google!
Google Cultural Institute (formally called Art Project) Take a White House Tour (There is a YouTube video of the camera crew going through to create the site)

Everything including all links can be accessed from the presentation embedded in the QR code above.

Session 3:

10 Killer iPad App Projects Kids Will Love

@hollydornak and @mrsjdyer

Cool Apps

Skitch (creating fractions with pictures taken with app and annotated over)
TurboCollage Lite (saves to photo log and then use Postino to create postcards)
Postino (can physically mail out with real addresses or emailed)
STickyboard (sticky notes) and Grafio Lite (Graphic Organizers): for story boarding
Poplit (for thinking maps)
Sock Puppet (pretty cool)
Puppet Pals (can draw your own backgrounds and use images that are cut out as the characters: pretty cool)
iMovie (of course)
iMotion HD (Stop Motion)
OSnap (Stop Motion with all the bells and whistles)
Cute Cut (video editor)
Educreation (video lesson creator)
Doodle Cast (INteractive White boards) (Using this to teach lessons and have exported out for students who are absent or a way of parents learning a lesson that was taught in class.
pow (comic strip designer)
scribble press (creating books)
Little Story Maker (can have voice narration)
Book Creator (Create books with QR codes on pages to highlight student work. Also create books with audio for your beginner readers. Students can also create books for their research papers. Exports to everywhere including Drive, Evernote and Dropbox. COOL can even open in iBooks. Build a library of books created by students that you can even consider selling for a fundraiser. )
Pocket BMX (sports reporting for games that can be done in Evernote)
Croak.It! (recording capabilities for 30sec that builds an url that can be turned into a qr code)
Drop Vox (syncs with dropbox account and turned into an url and qr code eventually)
qrstuff.com (qr code generators)
recordmp3.org (qr code generator for audio)
FaceTime and Skype For Education (Did a virtual tour of the fire station with a fireman with an IOS device)