Kamehameha Schools Distance Learning (KSDL) Owau

Top 3 ½ Takeaways from ISTE 2017

Image represents the opportunity to engage the students in what would be a 12 year journey....

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1) Active Learning

Active learning seemed to be a over arching principle focused this year....it is in direct focused to address the image above.

Limiting seat time…ACTIVE Learning!!!

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2) Breakout EDU presentation with Adam Bellow

*Opportunity to meet Adam and have him be a guest speaker in a future PLC contributes to what I planned to take away from the conference to benefit the group and my job. Building professional relationships with key stakeholders is important.

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“Box of locks in a educational technology conference”..irony if it!

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Hi Ben,

Was great to meet you last week at ISTE. Would love to find a time to chat and learn more - think you are doing some awesome things with Breakout EDU!

Best,

Adam

3) Keynote

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“You have great taste you can do creative work.”

“To do great work you must do volume of work. Eventually you will be as good as your ambitions.”

“Secret engines of productivity 5 min of ambition, 5 minutes of feeling horrible.”

3 ½) Google Expedition, Canvas, Murul collage art wall.

*Below are potential ideas and software research may benefit Kamehameha Schools. I will be looking into google expeditions further as a ice breaking tool. Also the art collage mural as a possible attraction in the next KS educational technology conference.

Canvas

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*opportunities gained from attending ISTE 2017

Comments

Geotagging

A "wouldn't it be nice" idea that's been around a while is the ability to tag a map with images that are linked to more information about the site. Kelly C suggested it as a way for students to share knowledge about a cultural/historic site or the geographic area they live in with classmates. (right, no addresses!) There are now cameras and even storage media that embed latitude and longitude into images as they are shot. But you don't need fancy new toys to do this. I tried Flickr's geotagging map and it's fun and supereasy. Want to try it? Log in to Flickr http://www.flickr.com Sign in as " techedine " password " wist101 " yea, corny. Click the " You " tab then the " Your Photostream > Map " or Organize > Your Map links. Click the Satellite link in the upper right. Cool view! (you may need Google Satellite downloaded). Images along the bottom of the screen with colored dots have already been droppe...

Avatar Chat

Aloha all, Here's my o wau topic for this week. We all know the power of the Avatar and their popularity with our learners from our A`o Makua courses and I know we have discussed ways to incorporate them into our `Ike Hawai`i classes as well. Well, I can't take credit for finding this resource. Our resident Avatar expert a.k.a. Christy told me to check it out because Avatars can now chat. So please join me in finding out what other engaging and motivating feats these amazing characters can do to help us provide meaningful learning experiences for all our students. You can read about OddCast and their AvatarSpace or go to their Web site and test out some of these features. I'm hoping that this may provide us with a motivating way to get students, in both programs, to participate in some cooperative learning and sharing. Let me know what you think and if you feel this would be a valuable application to use. Mahalo - look forward to reading your responses! Kelly

Zoho Creator

I thought I’d share this web application I came across in my quest to find a relatively simple app to help us manage our mentoring data in the DL Orientation. Our specific needs were that it be a free online database, password protected, had the capability of rapid form development without too much programming knowledge and was easy for the end user to use. The application that met these requirements was Zoho Creator ( http://www.zohocreator.com/ ) a part of a suite of online applications including word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, wikis, organizers and more. What’s great about Zoho Creator is that they have an online repository of applications already developed that you can download to your account and use for free. Initially, I tried some of these applications, but it was overkill for our needs. Zoho Creator can do a lot if you know programming and they have a pay model where it allows you more flexibility and features. I think Zoho Creator would be a useful tool for both...