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Lois Smethurst and Jenny Ashby discuss: What’s been happening? You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Tournament Of the Minds #TOM Sphero balls and drones in the classroom using the Tickle app to program them and connecting issues at school. Review of S2L 2015 Field of Mars -TV show -Steve Papp Winning Video - AppMazing  Race The rules -Appmazing Race Periscope - Inspire 2 learn sessions S2L 2016 Announced and to be in Cairns with an Environment theme -  July 2nd-3rd 2016 Other Conferences DLTV Fringe Festival - spark sessions  Narissa Leung Playground -pile of sand unused bricks, risk takers. ACER Assessment Conference Dr Rukmini Banerji https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqZZ5zz7KDM&feature=youtu.be Future events TeachMeet Bendigo Letting GO!   Seeing others catching on and giving opportunities for others to lead.  Digital leverage.

Lois and Jenny talk about Mobile2015, school visits, shopping and slide2learn. Jenny went to Mobile 2015 in Tucson, Arizona IPad configuring - redeeming free apps Creating online student TV - crucial factors: knowing the students what are their strengths, ability to work in teams, writing and elaboration, choosing a topic and succinctly but thoroughly presenting the information, performing by being engaging and speaking with authority. Shopping- books, robots, drones and Pendo's Lois Visited Yinnar Primary School - A school so committed to a philosophy about learning and effort rather than compliance and completing a task. Lois's Book Shopping: Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential, by Carol Dweck  Challenging Learning, by James Nottingham Building Learning Power: Helping Young People Become Better Learners, by Guy Claxton Outstanding Formative Assessment: Culture and Practice by Shirley Clark. Growth Mindset Pocketbook by Barry Hymer (came highly recommended too) Jenny is helping to design her new school and has attended Bastow to find out about learning spaces with Ewan MacIntosh - The learning spaces you need to plan for include: watching, secret spaces, performing, collaborative, participation, publishing You can see more extensive notes on the RUConnected Blog

Lois and Jenny discuss all things happening lately with their education focus. And the weather of course. Minecraft Camp A Saturday spent at minecraft camp. http://minecrafteps.global2.vic.edu.au https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nhOZkS3hhI Top 10 minecraft songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHG6-0h4fDk Redstone build designs Crack the Code in Maths Edn week A smorgasbpard of activities- QR code scavenger hunt Letter scamble from visiting the rooms iMovie show and tutorials for parents Minecraft discovery time - student tutorials for parents Blogging cafe - students helping parents comment Cracking the code in scratch- students teach parents some basic scratch to draw a shape. WIM centre news Use of @periscope https://www.periscope.tv/ and BTN -http://www.abc.net.au/btn/ twitter @behindthenews Dominoes fall marble runs Rube Goldberg and domino world records -YOUtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAqGcLaE5II Domino world record https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w Rube Goldberg machine Lois Prep /1 Literacy extension group Sharing picture books and developing independent strategies for young students to use in their own classrooms Maths Olympiad starting this week on May 20th http://www.apsmo.info/apsmo_v2/APSMO_Home.php pyonkee https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/pyonkee/id905012686?mt=8 Full scratch for the iPad.

At last we are back. Lois and Jenny discuss their new roles and schools in 2015. The Horizon Centre and the WIM Centres are also discussed. Scratch - project with grades from DET Vic and a feature for Education week, Cracking the Code with a Maths theme. MineCraft club - Jenny keeps us informed about how the minecraft club is coming along. BuddyVerse Minecraft Camp May 16th-17th in Bendigo at Epsom PS. 24hr skype PineValley Jenny's school participated in @beverley_ladd class' #pvskype24 in the US NPDL _Jenny outlines the latest Deep Learning Slide2Learn - Hobart Tasmania July 7th & 8th St Virgil's College, register now. Periscope live streaming - allows viewers to interact with video via text and hearts for likes. Many at once. Lois recommended BabbleDabbleDo Web site with lots of ideas for kids to make and create - science, art, design and engineering

Lois and Jenny discuss the past, present and future happenings in their schools. PAST Jenny attended Miami Device in Nov at St Stephens episcopal day school -Lead by Felix Jacomino @felixjacomino Daniel Kim from Canada - Boredom at school and an adversity to boredom lead to Pop DanThology. Videos - The psychology of PopDanthology DanVlog -Miami Keynotes- Kevin Honeycutt - don't hide your genius. Tony Vincent - Make it your own....great as usual. http://learninginhand.com/miamidevice Tony also put together a page with all speakers handouts to sessions. http://learninginhand.com/blog/2014/11/12/resources-from-miami-device Lisa Johnson - SAMR sassy SAMR PRESENT What are you doing for the rest of the year? Hour of Code - We Do Lego Scratch Christmas message. (a lot of fun now that you can embed the projects so easily) Tutorials are excellent on web sites. Generalising with programming and thinking Mindcraft update New BLog Minecrafteps FUTURE New Jobs and New Roles - April 15-16th Slide2Learn in NZ

Lois and Jenny interview Tim Wicks the Minecraft Guru from the Northern Territory Australia. At the momente he is touring Australia with his minecraft camps. The minecraft camps? Article: http://thinkfizz.com.au/training/asd-minecraft How can teachers begin? http://schools.minecraftcamps.net/ Classroom use? https://www.youtube.com/user/EduElfie Great site: http://stem.wesfryer.com/home/minecraft Students seem to have lot of time on mine craft at home how is it different when you have a minecraft camp. Why would parents send their children along ? Article: http://thinkfizz.com.au/minecraft-3/10-tips-minecraft-parents How can we get parents onboard? http://parents.minecraftcamps.net/ Is it Educational? Article: http://thinkfizz.com.au/minecraft-3/literacy-minecraft-home

Special Guest -  Bronwyn McLeod Biggest takeaways Andrew Churches message about teaching in the digital age and student engagement engagement is not entertainment Cathy Hunt’s infographic based on Andrew’s keynote Graham Brown-Martin’s importance of context and tools chosen to make a difference. The same tech doesn't suit everywhere. One size doesn't fit all even the oldest tech can be transforming - its how its used. http://learning-reimagined.com/ http://learning-reimagined.com/author/gbm/page/3/ Using sensory objects and then bringing in tech to add value- share the experience make it it in to more. Eg play dough, Lego real life to digital shared with the world. http://twentytwowords.com/all-50-states-summarized-in-lego-scenes-did-they-get-your-state-right/ Adele Brice’s Keynote and workshop - enthusiasm and whole school approach to Challenge Based Learning has had a huge impact. Students are infected by the staff enthusiasm Showbie Wonga Park PS - Challenge Based Learning iBooks Accepting the Challenge Challenge Based Learning - Power Supercharging Stopmotion - Cathy Hunt Art Teacher - refreshingly different perspective - fantastic presenter, very inspiring Handy Tips Technique to encourage children to invest in the process not the product Lego - children spend almost entire session setting up & last 30 secs on stop motion Start really simple quick activities Playdough tower - create, evaluate, move on Create stop motion with one hand behind your back Use a stand - Never move the Camera iPads are hardier than you think - clay washes off Kids are inspired by the materials, create their own, collect, bring in. Boys are less inclined to edit Don’t over procedurise the experience Activities Timelapse Tower Stop Motion Magic - rolling ball Fold green paper in half to create background and foreground Students can create cheat sheets for iMovie and Creating Stop Motion Create a creature appearing from and disappearing into the background Foldify Stopmotion (Green Screen) Lots of creativity and imagination in creating characters and backgrounds Apps iMotion HD Green Screen by Doink Doink Animation and Drawing iMovie http://www.ipadartroom.com/author/cathy/ Cathy.hart@tlc.qld.edu.au Cathy@ipadartroom.com @art_cathyhunt Biggest successes - Lois Workshop where we actually made 2 complete episodes of SLOTS (Slide2Learn Online Television Show) Thanks to Rod Hystead & Slide2Learn team for all their help and thanks to all participants who worked hard to produce the show and entertain their audience. http://loisath.edublogs.org/2014/07/06/slide2learn-2014/ Handy information Copyright slideshare - loaded with information for educators http://www.slideshare.net/nationalcopyrightunit/140702-slide2-learn ITunes U Schools can create accounts Create a course, share resources and notes Private or Public New version - discussion Heather Bailie’s Storify about Slide to Learn https://t.co/gCJLhPXfcV

Lois and Jenny discuss the Team China program that Jenny has been involved in this term. Lots of authentic uses of technology with the whole school community and Asian Literacy Development. See also the AEF website for more case studies of schools developing Asian Literacy and the AEF conference website for more information and highlights. The program is part of the 2014 Leading 21st Century schools: Engage with Asia Program The slide2Learn conference is coming up next week so Jenny and Lois discuss their sessions, TV shows and Coding and the keynotes that are coming to slide2learn in Sydney on July 1-2nd.

TeachMeetMelb NT Katherine MacFarlane PS  New Pedagogies project - Michael Fullen White Paper  1000schools -10clusters of 100 schools. VIc 80 and Tas 20 ICT peer coaching interviews- revisit last term and goals - google doc used, ėpotential results Persuasive text idea- use Pic Collage to create a persuasive text piece. 3 pics why, heading, key words etc. Use as a plan. Using tech at a higher level rather than just the same instead of writing. - visual, audio movies thinking SAMR Healthy a Hearts - Jump Rope for Heart - filming making news reports, persuasive reports. Lego Movie Maker -simple UI. Backgrounds and story. Animate! What does it mean? Why not video? TL21C_2014 -   Free PD for DEECD teachers Mapping OnDemand testing results against the AUSVELS standards - Looking at standards not the end result and making it easy for teachers to gather summative testing results Great resources available on the SLV  - History related http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au - Book/Activities Look- The Art of Australian Picture Books Today http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/look

Jenny and Lois discuss the use of skype in the classroom.  Jenny recently held the 24 hour skype and makes comments about it.  Lois has used skype for various activities - You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes My Place - theme connecting with different schools in Australia to compare and contrast - (Tipperary Station School, Puarumpi School on the Tiwi Islands) - Combined with Google Earth My Place book from Aitken Creek PS Radio Show - Connecting Students and discussing various roles and programs (Mildura West, Epsom PS) Links to Examples Connecting Grade 2 Students exploring My Place http://blps23.global2.vic.edu.au/2014/03/10/skype-with-tipperary/ Flat Classroom Eracism Debate http://www.berwicklodgeps.vic.edu.au/news/international-debating-victory Skype Debating http://loisath.edublogs.org/?s=Skype Skype in the Classroom https://education.skype.com/projects/4449-be-a-part-of-our-student-radio-show 24Hour skype wiki http://24hourskype-mar2014.wikispaces.com

Jenny and Lois have just got back to school after the Summer break. In this episode they discuss getting the school blogs up and running again and the different processes that they go through.  Different Roles on Edublogs Jenny's Quad Blogging Quick Links to Class Blogs at Lois's School - Berwick Lodge Primary School

Thinking about 2014, reflecting on 2013 taking time to catch some time zones in our day. Holiday finds 1. Google hang outs Jerry Blumengarten on 2 guys and an iPad and his twiiterhandle is @cybraryman1 so many resources, an unreal website. Best thing is that Jerry has the authenticity and credability as he's been a teacher in schools. http://youtu.be/qwFIY53H3Zs #eduVue Educational Manifesto’s - interesting discussion and starring @techyturner from Phoenix. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUEdgOdOtMQ&feature=share 2. EdChats #tlap - Teach  Like a Pirate by Dave Burgess inspired chats Passion Immersion Rapport Ask and Analyze Transformation Enthusiasm #edwebchat. Webinars chat - Susan Wells Mobiles and Makers, recording will be here http://t.co/NcUjIyFv2N #ladygeeks hangouts and chat! Make sure you’re in a fun mood as these gals like to joke around. Tony Vincent tweeted out a list of edchats telling when they are on. This is a great list to find your interests and a time you can fit in. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AiftIdjCeWSXdDRLRzNsVktUUGJpRWJhdUlWLS1Genc&pli=1 3. The Fluency21 planners have a huge range of currics linked to select. Check them out at http://app.fluency21.com/unit-plans Solution Fluency Information Fluency Creativity Fluency Media Fluency Collaboration Fluency Global Digital Citizen 4.  Big ideas series iBooks in the iTunes store Challenge Based Learning “Big Ideas” Series Power - iBooks by Wonga Park PS, Ringwood North PS and Ringwood Secondary Challenge https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/challenge-based-learning-power/id744625874?mt=11 https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/challenge-based-learning-power/id778573780?mt=11 https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/challenge-based-learning-power/id779365548?mt=11 5. The World Maker Faire is in New York in September. Nice! from #edwebchat http://makerfaire.com/new-york-2013/   Sep 21st 2014 6. Discussion anout the age resitriction on websites -age 13+ opening a can of worms? For example facebook.  COPPA Some make exceptions so younger can join somehow. Eg. Google. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1350409?hl=en LinkedIn  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10252153/LinkedIn-lowers-age-limit-to-13-in-student-push.html 4reasons under 13 should not be on sites for over 13 Common Sense Media site provides guildines. A fairly full list of social media sites with restictions listed is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites Cybersmart Parents: Parenting in an online world by Richie Lambert

Lois and Jenny discuss Lois' TV show that Berwick Lodge Primary are producing. Movies, anchor presenters and more. Apps/websites used - iMovie, Explain Everything, Handbrake, Vimeo.

Jenny and Lois discuss the following- Teach Meet Sovereign Hill Google Apps For Education Why use google apps when students already have email and teachers have mailing list set up? How can we use google apps at school in Primary school P-2? Google sites...intranets…..whats on the intranet?  What would you use it for? Apps and more Mavericks over 5 GB download iMovie in iPads not compatible with iMovie on Macbooks Updates for everything -  apps ipads - be careful not all are compatable with each other. WISE World Innovations Summit for Education. Wise.-Qatar.org recordings of the sessions. Panels keynotes etc Quicktime Player screen recording is now available, well Lois has discovered it and says its great to use on your MAc. Australian Teacher mag app- Lois has an article! Woo hoo!

Lois and Jenny pull themselves out of holiday mode to bring you episode #66 of RUConnected. Jenny has attended Mobile2013 in Tucson- Location.... The Westin la Paloma Tucson Arizona Keynotes- Dean Shareski back to the basics - What really matters. Peggy Sheahy games based learning. 3d gamelab http://3dgamelab.com - game up your classroom People to follow on twitter that Jenny met- @iapplelearner ...Katherine Burdick @techyturner .... Rodney Turner and @tonyvincent ...Tony Vincent Jenny's Travel buddy - @missb ...Bec Spink Ignite sessions -20 slides each for 15sec Pechaflickr Thanks to Alan Levine. @cogdog ...20pics each for 20secs, add a topic and random pics are shown.  You have to improvise, no planning possible. Great for vocab work with students, icebreaker for staff meetings, conference warm ups etc LOIS attended the ABC Splash FREE pd at the State Library Victoria Summary of the ABC Digital Ideas Conference Film and Audio Tutorials Report on film festival - blurred lines between film and digital stories 60secondscience vids are due 3 part vids - context, science exp, model, Evaluation (peer and self) Plans for term 4 Lois- Radio shows at lunchtime, E-smart committee, Google sites, Scratch Jenny- Programming from Bee Bots to Probots, Cargo Bot, Scratch, Hopscotch (Scratch Jr coming out) Wedo and Makey Makey - getting some basics with staff as well eg loops, procedures, sub procedures etc . Kids designing tracks setting up challenges. UPCOMING PD SLIDE TO LEARN Sydney July 1-2 2014 Some keynotes Jonathan Nalder, Graham Brown Martin Teachmeets Gippsland Hosted by Louise Van Kuyk Education Co-ordinator, Gippsland Art Gallery Sale Thursday 17 October, 4:30 to 6:30pm at Gippsland Art Gallery (68 – 70 Foster St, Sale). Teachmeet @ Sovereign Hill Ballarat http://www.sovereignhill.com.au/education/ Saturday October 26th 2pm to 4pm hosted by Peter Beckwith @GoldfieldsEd Teachmeet Sydney English teachers Nov 1st TM wharf Sydney http://www.teachmeet.net/teachmeet-at-the-wharf/ 4:00-6:00pm

Lois and Jenny Chat about the latest classroom and PD happenings, some handy apps and great gadgets. Post election - website full of Maths and stats Booth Reviews -How did your booth rate?  Sausages or cakestall? Conferences &PD Invent to learn -  Gary Stager and Sylvia Martinez Tour Website for the book Gadgets …...beebots, MakeyMakey,  weDo IWBNET IWBnet Kathy Schrock - http://www.ipads4teaching.net/presentation-resources.html https://sites.google.com/site/k12digitalconference/resources http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps.html Bloom’s Taxonomy - Cogs Creating, Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating 21st Century learning report - Assessment of teaching of 21st Century skills Professor Esther Care Melbourne Uni Software Audacity has a new upgrade 2.04 (handy to have) OnDemand testing has been upgraded to AusVels Gadgets Swivl  ...have you seen one? iPhone and iPad Padcaster Tripod Apps Mix bit.  For iPhone take video mix and share add other video and create Tellagami. PhotoSync Parallels Access

Jenny tells Lois about her recent trip to the UK. -School visits -Quad blogging........ and David Mitchell Meeting and school visit to Caton Community School -Conferences -Peeps - people Jenny met -Dawn Hallybone - Digital Life  Lois tells about her radio show and a new site she is making on Google Sites http://www.schoolradiocalendar.org/profile/BerwickLodgeStudentHour apple TV pro also avail in the Apple store is a connector adapter for VGA to hdmi so you can use Apple TV on an older projector or make it easier to connect without running long cables to the projector by using an exisiting connection point.  Scratch 2.0 http://Scratch.mit.edu Scratch for maths extension. http://blps54.global2.vic.edu.au/tag/scratch/ The online version of scratch means that student’s working space and projects are all in space. It also means that it is much easier to embed finished projects into their own or class blogs. A big improvement from the past complicated process that was required. Apple Configurator update Apple configurator has had a big update. Notification sounds when things are finished, Error message now displays under the yellow triangle so if app doesn’t install you know which one is the culprit. I’m still have problems with its stability.   Google sites Great way to curate resources, checklists, schedules, calendars and share with select audience. Different pages can have different permissions Use google forms for a checklist, copy the address so that the students can go back and update as they complete more parts of the project. Some Nice Apps Barefoot world atlas free (for now) Sketches - free nice drawing app Tinkerbox - free - thinking problem solving physics type app  - like the old Thinking Things software The Artist Mortimer   - free digital book Wifi Photo - free for transfering photos (thanks to Rod Hysted for finding this one) Toca builders

You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Lois Smethurst and Jenny Ashby discuss the following - Jenny's visit to Shepparton High School where she had a planning day with teachers (metal work, library, auslan, literacy-writing and medieval history teachers) Work flows for each area and  creating was the focus for all subjects. Deploying Evernote with staff.....evernote email address used for handing work into the teacher by students. Lois  gave us an update on the blogging challenge. TV/Radio Show - building a Google Site to hold the information - use Google forms to feed the information  into the site so that the production of the show is visible to everyone. Idea from ITMadeSimple   ICTEV Victor Steffenson the keynote,  Learning from values of the community and visual learning using film on the land.    A very interesting keynote and a webiste coming out soon with lots of videos telling stories of the land. Scootle - looking at nationwide resources, speaking and listening checklist, different wording can suit different purposes. Learning resources found by the teacher can be made available to students through a code. One bonus of book creator is not having to wait for compression. So good if just wanting to add audio to a pic. Events- TM Library...... TmMelb next Teachmeet? July 22nd -iPads, Create is to understand at Epsom PS.  A full day with Jenny Ashby at EpsomPS Monet at the National Gallery of Victoria Another podcast to listen to - TechExpress by Lyn Cutting and Craig Dunstan

Jenny and Lois discuss what’s happening lately.  Lois has been away to Tonga and jenny attended Slide2learn in Perth.You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Slide to Learn has wonderful presenters and keynotes. Jane Ross' students from Jakarta created a book in iTunes about their Challenged Based Learning Lois' students are busy creating Movies for their Inquiry based Unit around inventions and Movies for the 60 second science competition. The grade 5 & 6 students are also participating in the  Student Blogging Challenge . They are building up some great skills. The grade 3 & 4 students are doing their research on the ipads using the Internet, Explain Everything and Google Drive. Google Drive is great for shared iPads because students can access Google Drive from Explain Everything to save or open documents. Printing.....does anyone print? Fingerprint for the Mac allows idevices to print through the Mac to non airprint printers. Meraki - web interface runs alongside and in conjunction with configurator. It can send notifications to iPads and check battery charging, push updates and more. Jenny is using Book Creator and adding pics/video from gallery via dropbox sharing. Sending the book to dropbox so all can then download to their ibooks shelf. Programming Apps - Cargo Bot, BeeBot,Hopscotch,Daisy the Dino, SNAP, Koder, Catos hike (Computer Science Teacher a blog with reviews of some block programming tools) Up and coming Events ™ Melb past and present Thurs May 14th  @ Melb Library ICTEV 25th May 25th

Lois and Jenny discuss the folowing - Skype Around the World No. 2 http://24hourskype2013.wikispaces.com/space/menu In the Skype Around the World 15 schools participated with grade 5/6 at Epsom Primary School in Australia and spoke about values- things V qualities as some schools were thinking -  What do you value? and others What values do you follow in your school? The Epsom Grade 5/6 skyped over a 24 hour time period and stayed over at school so they could speak to other schools in different time zones. Web 2.0 used Google Forms, wiki, maps, spreadsheet, email, twitter, skype Video from Eastwood  Skype now free for teachers up to 10 on video hook up - perhaps want to compete G-hangouts, need to apply for a code. Alice 3.1 - Free 3D program from Carnegie Mellon University, sponsored by Oracle Learning to program with Alice Teaching with Alice PPT Alice a new generation of Programmers ACARA draft doc -  points eg. Level 2.5 pg 74 Level 4.5 pg78 Level 6.7 pg 83 Draft doc open for comments now, have you read it? Apps Less is best? Our 5 essentials are still what I would go with. No new apps.

Lois has been working with Tony Richards from iTMadeSimple to set up the Berwick Lodge WebTV. Jenny holding #saw24 (Skype around the world in 24 hours) and wikis using multi platforms  skills in using the wiki Cybersafety day - Tony Richards visit You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Lois explains.... Setting up blogs for each class - process for " rolling over"  so past work is kept. Set the old users to subscribers so their work is not lost or disconnected Add new users as authors or editors x2 student admins Add new students as categories so that their teachers and parents can filter the blog for a certain student's work under the parent category 2013 Update the header If necessary make new blogs Mirroring ways discussed Dongle Doc camera......has added bonus of showing your hand selecting swiping etc. Apple TV.....needs HDMI networks etc but nice Airserver...software on Mac/PC Reflector....software on MAc/PC https://presentation.io/ nearpod ideaflight Tony Vincent has a write up thats a great resource comparing different ways to mirror... Learning in hand   http://learninginhand.com/blog/5-ways-to-show-your-ipad-on-a-projector-screen.html Apps Bindle    create PDFs add annotations using speech bubbles and more.  Allows you to select pics more than one at a time. $1.99 All free apps on my blog - screen shots - transferred from the camera roll on the ipad to the computer using google drive. Text on Pics Pro   $0.99 http://digital-storytime.com/ Great for finding quality digital stories - Miss Spider, Cybersafety Tips Check your facebook privacy settings, search for your self and check out your digital footprint.  Make sure you have plenty of good showing.

Jenny and Lois discuss the beginning of the year and their use of Apple's Configurator to set up the ipads for the new school year. How are you setting up this year? School managed or student managed. Jenny is switching over to school managed and Lois is also using school managed shared model for ipad use. Thanks to Chris Sacco for sending me through these links which you may find helpful http://www.apple.com/au/education/volume-purchase-program/faq.html http://help.apple.com/configurator/mac/1.0/#cadf1802aed http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5188?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US http://edtechstandish.wordpress.com/what-ive-learned-about-apple-configurator-so-far/ Jenny's links from Google School Google drive ­great app for on the mobile devices. Google scholar great for searching research papers etc. http://www.googleartproject.com/ Google books Google news Google + Google Hangouts Google Apps for Education ­ Google site for intranets Cyber tips ­Tues 5th Feb cyber safety day and events ­ http://cybersmart.engagelive.net/register.aspx There will be three different online activities being offered on the day: 1. Cybersmart Detectives – which is designed for upper primary students and focuses on cybersafety 2. Cybersmart Hero – which is designed for upper primary students and focuses on cyberbullying 3. Cybersmart Networking – which is designed for lower secondary students and focuses on social networking. http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Flive.classroom20.com%2F1%2Fpost%2F2013%2F01%2Fusing-ipads-to-enhance-teaching-and-learning.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEUv-Hgk723zRWYkFMjB-3BNLp3Pw Apps Own Cloud and Web dav Drive iCab Events Cyber Safety Day Feb 5th. http://cybersmart.engagelive.net/register.aspx MOTM2013 Feb 16 & 17 Melb ­ Inspire 9 Co working space. http://inspire9.com/ Slide2Learn. April 22nd ­ 23rd Perth, http://slide2learn.net

Essential Creative Apps for 2013 Jenny and Lois discuss their essential apps and give the results of RUC listeners responses. You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Lois's must have apps Stip Designer, Explain Everything, TinyTap, Toontastic, AudioBoo, Edublogs, Educreations, Popplet Jenny's essential  apps Explain Everything, Evernote/Dropbox, Bookcreator, iMovie, Keynote, iTalk, Edublogs Survey -  5 most essential apps result If you could only add 5 apps to your iPad..........    1. Explain Everything                    2. Evernote                        3. iMovie                                   4 Skitch                           5 Twitter   Thanks to everyone who completed our survey. How to choose apps Most apps are Bad? Research  (thanks to John Pearce’s Scoopit) Common Sense Media  (site for searching for apps for a specific age, subject and purpose, rates age appropriateness also and there is an app)The New Bloom’s Taxonomy/Models for assessing iPad Appshttp://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/01/new-version-of-blooms-taxonomy-for-ipad.htmlhttp://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/06/blooms-taxonomy-for-ipad.htmlhttp://teachwithyouripad.wikispaces.com/Blooms+Taxonomy+with+AppsSAMR model curtesy of  Greg Swanson's website From Britthttp://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/01/build-media-gallery-with-your-students.html#.UOtNkoletON What's On TeachMeetMelb, Feb 2nd, Little Markov, Drummond S,t Carlton VIC 3053 MOTM2013, FEB 16 & 17, Melb – Inspire 9 Co working space Cybersafety tips Instagram – Staying Safe Online TIPS When writing contractions like we’ll that won’t move from well use auto flick the exclamation mark to add an apostrophe. Shrinkurl.     free   Eyeconit   free  Haiku deck thanks to  @iPadSammy               WordFoto  free or $1.99

Lois Smethurst and Jenny Ashby  discuss Jenny's latest project, the Skype around the world in 24 hours project (#SAW24 on twitter) Jenny has also writtten a blog post on the project that contains all the links to forms and documents. You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes World Clock - App Google Spreadsheets and Maps Map A List Handbrake, Voicethread Accounts Jarrod Robinson's PE app

Jenny and Lois discuss what they are up to school, information from their networks and share some great apps and lesson ideas.

Lois and Jenny discuss plans for term 4.  Also Lois gives us a run down on ACEC2012. ACEC2012 PowToon Nearpod Student Incident Report Alice

Jenny and Lois discuss some of the complicated issues involved in implementing a school 1:1 program. 

Jenny tells us all about her trip to Canada and the Unplugged Conference she attended while there. Lois and Jenny discuss the introduction of a 1:1 iPad program and some of the management implications in this complex issue.   Unplug'd 60 sec science video competition  Esmart  

Jenny and Lois have a busy weekend attending the Personal Learning Environment Leaders (#plelead on twitter) at the State Library Victoria in Melbourne and then interview Andrew Douch the original Flipped classroom and Podcaster Master. Preparations for the new term about to begin are also discussed. You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Douchy's Biology Podcast Free Math Apps including the Motion Math apps, the Education Services Australia apps and more.  

The end of term was a busy one for both of us so we've put together two podcasts that we created and thought best to send out together. Before Slide2learn we had the IWB Master conference on in Adelaide.  We had a great time presenting our Voices workshop over 4 sessions with our cohort. Greg Gebhart's Keynote session was great as usual and full of up to date information such as The Horizon Report  which provided evidence that oral skills are becoming more important than ever....search via voice, siri etc voice commands Apps we investigate: Autodance, LegoMovie Game based learning to be in the classroom in the next three years and personal learning environments an expectation. The super computer will be your phone and will fit in your pocket. 1 to many will be the way we work with an estimted 1:7 devices for each person by 20something. Augmented reality to become widly used in the classroom Greg showed a 9 mth old using iPad and it was quite amazing to see the babay looking in folders and out to find the correct app. Slide2Learn - Lead up - the who when and where In the ClassRoom Educreations - sticking with it- simplicity is actually its greatest asset. Toontastic for storyboarding - helping students to visualise their movies Lego Super Movie Maker - instant stop motion pro type movies - no sound Blogs - planning day was a great opportunity to work with the teachers New Web site for the school for berwick Lodge Primary school, app to follow. Using the Reflections App on your computer to capture work from the ipad and take control of it in a manner that suits your purpose. Use of photo booth for mirroring and drawing of avatars with preps. Olympic flag activity and explain everything, research the flags and then draw and record the relevance of the colors etc. Apps We Discussed Display Rec app records everything in any app on your ipad.  It has now been taken out of the iTunes store. New Podcast app from apple so podcasts are not in the iTunes or music app anymore. VPP coming soon........I wonder when (Volume Purchasing Plan for apps) iOS V6  -features Siri has been learning and can open apps . Knows about movies and sport.  3D maps. Shared photo streams New passbook app. Part 2 - Post S2L Where were we from at slide to learn? This doesnt include all the presenters. KeyNotes _Steve Cook, Fraser Speirs, Ivo Burum, Sam Gliksman, Tony Vincent, Lisa Johnson Lois Presented Voices, and Jenny's sessions were Get Real Maths, Workflows and iShare How do you go about organising something like this? Good question Lois but Google Docs was a great help and Skype considering that all the Slide2Learn team are spread all over Australia.  

In this episode Jenny interviews Wes Fryer about his wealth of experience in blogging and podcasting. Thanks to Wes for the interview. (@wfryer is Wes's twitter handle) You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes   Epsom App  Eracism Debate (Flatclassroom Project) Wes Fryer Jesse Schell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IbllMjkIIM  

In this episode Jenny interviews Lisa Johnson from San Antonio Texas. Co-Author of  HOT apps 4 HOTS (free iBook) Appy Hour radio show along with Yolanda Barker and Techchef4U (freeapp). Hope you enjoy Lisa's excitement as she talks about the new app and iPad classroom uses.

Jenny interviews Adam Phyall from Georgia, USA (@askAdam3 on twitter) about his presentation at Mobile2012 and his use of iBuildapp.com in schools. Links http://www.ibuildapp.com http://thatsmyapp.wikispaces.com/home http://mobile2012.org/wiki/materials/ http://app.gosoapbox.com/ Jenny's blog post after attending Adam Phyall's session at Mobile2012. (scroll down) http://mobile2012.posterous.com/archive/4/2012?page=6 Upcoming PD Links ICTEV in Melbourne May 26th IWB Masters' Conf Adelaide Jun 15-16th Slide2Learn 2012 at Albert Park College in Melb

Mobile2012 in Phoenix Arizona iBuild App BlogTalkRadio Apps Educreations Free Screen Casting Tool Mathtrain TechChef4U App that helps you find Free Apps Research for the "All Free Apps Ipad Image" http://www.iear.org/iear/category/app-of-the-week A community effort to review apps TechChef4U Lisa Johnson and Yolanda Barker 15 Favorite iPad Apps As Selected By Teachers Kelly Walsh TPACK iPad Project In Schools (TIPS) (Dr Jenny Lane – Edith Cowan University) UP AND COMING EVENTS ICTEV 2012 State Conference: Creative Connections

Lois and Jenny discuss the latest happenings at their schools. Some suggested topics from twitter and give their usual round up of newly tried apps. Hol jobs....clean up the desktop and ipad etc iTunes purchases for TAX Reindex Spotlight on a Mac Dropbox setup (dropbox.com )and sendtodropbox (sendtodropbox.com)  Gr8 for sharing ebooks ...book creator app shares directly to dropbox all files get a URL so gr8 for videos and audio to QR code Eracism Debate - Round 1 Finished Student Conference Series term 2 list available for those wanting to join in. Student series blog address - lots of sessions to watch recordings http://studentconferenceseries.global2.vic.edu.au/student-conference-series-agenda/ All recordings are on this page - some not on recordings link.  Great job from Romanian students. Teaching creative commons to kids Wikimedia Commons Gmail spam folder - auto decides whats junk so you may need to look in the spam folder and see what's there.  Jenny found some very important emails in the spam folder. Suggestions from Twitter for our discussion Good ways for schools on tight budgets can move forward with tech? The value of teachmeets? Sharing, networking...twitter The Teacher Divide: widening gap bet tchrs not learning,n those,like tweeps, getting smarter n smarter  To Learn or not To learn...what is your fate? Apps..../sites for iPAds that work TIP: Easy way to find newest apps when you have a full iPad....go to app store on ipad and select previously purchased sort by most recent...Then the picture shows all of your most recent app purchases. App Reviews Showyou - video curator what are your friends watching etc nice for Apple TV  airserver $11 paypal on Macbook Stack the states  US ( website from @bulamanka -Andrew S) seterra.net - all countries and states plays on iPad Three Ring...collecting student work samples on the iphone Trip advisor ... good advice on hotels for your trip Tripit... online organiser for itineraries etc.   Up coming Events TeachMeet Melb April 13th Monas http://teachmeetmelbourne.wikispaces.com/ ICTEV May 26th Melb Grammar http://ictev.vic.edu.au/ictev2012-creative-connections IWB Masters Adelaide June 15th  http://www.iwb.net.au/conferences/masterclass/default.htm S2L Melb July 2-3rd https://eventgate.com.au/Event/440/Slide2Learn-Melbourne-2012

RU Connected Edmodo Eracsism Meeting of the minds #motm Quantum 3D Movie Making Slide2Learn

Jenny and Lois have a chat about the year so far including TMMelb#2, Students presenting Collaborate a virtual conference centre, Synching iPads the legal way, and Edtech conferences for the year. They also have a short list of Apps you might like to try with your class this year. Whats News at school with Jenny - Cows, (computers on wheels, laptop trolleys) Students Presenting Whats News at school with Lois BER BUILDING technology TMeetMelb #2 Great presentation idea (7 mins or 2) Hosted by Aimie Gales’ school - Holy Family Primary School (presented about the Daily Five ) Nathan Jones - AR DinoPark (free) inspiring reluctant writers. Evernote presentation by Bec Spink - on Prezi ScoopIt Heather Bailey IPad or LapTop tips syncing. Apps  Socrative - free Teachers version Socrative Paperport notes - free AR DinoPark - free  Prezi - viewer can now edit - free PD Calendar - Upcoming Dates F2F or online MOTM#12 Feb 25th-26th Mobile2012 April 9-12th Phoenix ICTEV Melb May 26th Adelaide IWB June 15-16th Slide2Learn Albert Park July 2-3rd VITTA Aug 6th-7th August Ontario Unplugged international Aug 9-12th Oct - SLAV - ULearn NZ Oct 10-12th ACEC Perth 2-5th Oct

Jenny and Lois have a chat about the setting up for the school year and recommend some conferences and apps. Introduction 1:1 technology in classrooms Network issues Blogging Permission Forms for students New teachers get networked Ipads - updating with Xcode XCode Instructions CONFERENCES MOMT2012 Slide to Learn 2012 APPS Chinese Language App Bugs and Buttons

In this episode Jenny interviews Zoe Brannigan-Pipe, Camille Rutherford and Kyle Tuck at Brock University Ontario Canada. Jenny has recently become a virtual associate teacher and so decided to see how the project with trainee teachers was developing via an interview. Apologies to our listeners - there was an error in the podcast when it was first posted.Thi.s version is now correct Here are some links that are referred to in the interview. http://www.youtube.com/user/edtechteachers2011 http://www.edtechteachers.ca/ EdTech Cohort Twitter & blog feeds http://www.edtechteachers.ca/community/cohort-tweets-blogs http://www.ed.brocku.ca/techshowcase

In this episode Lois interviews Adam Brice and Jenny Ashby who are both at Victorian Government schools and are in the DEECD(Department of Education and Early Childhood Development)  iPad trial.  There are 10 institutions in the government intiated trial. Evaluations of the trial are happening as we speak so the results will be available later this year.  Hear what Jenny and Adam have to say.

Jenny and Lois chat about the iOS5 update and the current happenings in their schools, plus a few app recommendations. PLP Photoblogs - Our stories - grade 5 & Our stories grade 4 New Apps to Share Knowtes for ipad 500scorer VoiceThread Yahtzee notepad Upcoming Dates FtoF or online SLAV conf Oct 17th S2L Dec 3rd Hobart, Melbourne July 2012

Jenny and Lois have a chat with Brette Lockyer and discuss her use of technology and the daily5 in her literacy program. You can listen in the player or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Links The Daily Cafe http://www.thedailycafe.com/ http://daily5cafechat.wikispaces.com/ Brette's blog http://ecoradio.wordpress.com/ Twitter hash tag #daily5 Sat morning 10-11am Melb time iPad tip - Saving files using webdav, oh there’s an app for that. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/webdav-navigator/id382551345?mt=8 Brette's Apps to Share ( and ours) Book creator - expensive but nice ($7.50) ebook magic $3.99 lots of features and more page layouts indicommons app free photo pad free strip designer $2.99 an old but goodie although some now use comic life ($7.99) on the iPad vimeo free for iphone sonic pics $2.99 - navigate a slide show and add audio. Others that also allow writing or drawing include showme (free) and explain everything $2.99 (allows you to crop photos in the app also and sharing has endless possiblities.) doodle buddy free magic slate free puppet pals free or $2.99 directors version

RUConnected #37 The Asian Connection or "The Mystery Snorer" Whats News 1. Jenny's Jakarta trip to the Australian International School http://www.ais-indonesia.com/kemangwelcome.html 2. Lois' Singapore Trip 12 students, 4 teachers visit to our sister school and celebrated National Day - The National Day of Singapore is celebrated every year on 9 August, in commemoration of Singapore's independence from Malaysia in 1965- The incredible proud of their country and obvious in the National Pride - songs, & celebrations. Holiday for National Day and rest day afterwards. Students went to school for celebrations and then a normal work day and then home with some families. (v.short Homestay) http://berwicklodge2singapore.global2.vic.edu.au SKYPE 3. Mystery Skype with Mitch Hughes and Watsonia PS - Structured- animals, next numbers and skype with New York school - Nancy Sharoff WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN LEARNING 4.Jenny Ultranet school - weekly lessons with just one or to skills Adding bling to the ultranet and vokis using embed codes. 5. LOIS - New way to think about online learning for example blogging from the “Ideas Lab” Move away from the “Show and Tell” blogs to “There are four strategies that influence how we learn and the way we behave online, that this white paper explores: Connecting, Communicating, Collaborating and Learning Collectively. 6. Jenny presented at GTAV- iGeography - Here is jenny's presentation https://files.me.com/jenashby/t0giup MULTIMEDIA 7. How are your movies going? - Just finishing up, very pleased with them so far. Learnt heaps about filming with a blue screen ( mobile white board with blue paper pinned to it) 8. Animations of eggs hatching as we have eggs in the classroom http://eps12lc.global2.vic.edu.au/ - Grade ½ Learning community Something for Teachers to try - 9. Symmetry Work flow - for Ipad Use the Kaleidic Lite (FREE) to create a shape, capture it, add it to Doodle Buddy to draw the lines of Symmetry. Or use PhotoBooth with a mirror or mirro paint app on iphones and iPad Maths - Stories in addition 10. Stamping addition problems and recording voices in Kidpix to tell and addition story and then adding to a slide show of addition stories in KidPix. 11. Good chats on twitter #elemchat Sunday morning 8am Melb time for early starters http://elemchat.wikispaces.com/ #daily5 Sat morn 10am-11am Melb time http://www.thedailycafe.com/public/department104.cfm 12. New Apps to Share 1 Maths Party - ordering but starts with simple numbers and moves onto equations - one or two player (FREE) http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/math-party-free-multiplayer/id435296908?mt=8 Free app 2 Explain Everything app - sonic pics and showme- record voice draw and add pics- shares in many ways very nice - includes a cropper http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/explain-everything/id431493086?mt=8 $2.99 3. Glow draw, skywrite, fireworks http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/glow-draw!/id364873934?mt=8 skywrite http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/skywrite/id374044969?mt=8 5. Sock puppets..free App http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/sock-puppets/id394504903?mt=8 6. Writepad convert handwriting to text - nice $10.49 http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/writepad-for-ipad/id363618389?mt=8 Conferences this week VITTA - Mon 29th Aug & Tues 30th Aug http://www.vitta.org.au/conferenceinfo IWB Digital Leaders Sep 1-3 Thurs, Fri, Sat http://www.iwb.net.au/conferences/digital/default.htm

HAPPY 2ND ANNIVERSARY wow it is too. Time flies. You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes QRcodes for links to text, self and world. Playing4Real ...in the making. Collections, tasks, missions working with Brette Lockyer, Jenny Luca, Donna Benjamin and others #P4R Film making, Experimenting with blue screen techniques, - 60 Second Science Competition Looking at: similarities and differences between PBL- Just What Does It Stand For? Project based learning, Problem based learning Passion Learning Challenge based learning Inquiry learning Why use one approach over another? Apps to Share Plain text...no frills but shares nicely from the app to dropbox 21stC handing in work. IA Writer -no frills also - purposely designed so that writers concentrate on writing 4.99 also available on Mac but at 17.99 (http://www.iawriter.com/ ) Evernote Peak WhiteNote - another writing app Makes notebooks, for different projects Up and Coming Events Vitta - Leading and Learning From the Edge IWBnet Fifth National Leading a Digital School Conference

What does the Winter Solstice bring? Jenny and Lois discuss their latest conference experience and the new format that the team at IWBNet were trialling. They talk about the latest apps they have found and about their most recent successes in their schools. You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes ITL Masterclass National Conference 2011 Cohorts x4 sessions Cohort 1: The Shift to Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning - Jonathan Nalder Cohort 2: Reflecting on Teaching and Learning to Improve - Jenny Ashby Different role as a facilitator......changes of program Use of web 2.0 tools for eportfolios - twitter Cohort 3: 21st Century Teaching and Learning - Bruce Fuda Cohort 4: What is Peak Performance in Terms of Curriculum and Pedagogy - Peter Kent Cohort 5: ITL with Digital Technology: the dynamic classroom/a vision of best practice - Jodie Riek Cohort 7: Lessons from Leonardo: dealing with little da Vincis - Chris Betcher Mind Mapping by Jason Zagami - Educational Theora Keynote by Chris Betcher App Recommendations My Spelling Test Leaf Snap Qwiki Field Guide to Victoria Fauna Edmodo

Jenny and Lois discuss the recent ICTEV2011 Conference where Jenny was awarded "Educator of the Year". They talk about the ICT related activities in their schools including Elluminate and Edmodo and Jenny has a list of iPad Apps that you might like to try as well.

Do you have a class set of iPads that you need to set up? Jenny helps Lois with her new iPads and explains the tips and tricks that she has developed over the last two years of being part of the DEECD's iPad trial.

This is the Slide2Learn special. The 2 day, conference was held at the Sunshine University, on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. Jenny and Lois chat about some of the highlights and resources from the conference. The  experience of being at Slide2Learn - mobile immersion- workshops put  you in the position of being a student. The buzz of learning everywhere.   Imagine a class like that everyday. Collaboration and many :1 not always 1:1 For a great list of apps for education visit the Slide2Learn Ning http://slidetolearn.ning.com/page/s2l-2011-session-details Fantastic Films by Tony Vincent http://learninginhand.com/ff http://learninginhand.com/blog/ http://learninginhand.com/pbl/ Adam Brice, - AppleforKids

Holiday Apps SmackDown - Time to Play AudioBoo for ipods/iphones http://audioboo.fm/ HT Recorder Now Hear This NowHearThis on the iPad/iphone (great for sending a running tweet/facebook message likes in facebook come as cheers gr8 motivation Prizmo - OCR scanner & translator 10 languages Prezi app - looked great ABC Foodi Scvngr ToonPaint - free today- Make a photo into a cartoon. Pac-man Pearl diver Changes in google....just noticed action buttons what have you noticed? Is it just me or am I slow to see this....drag and drop pics.. Ultranet. Book Boxes are a great resource for DEECD teachers Jenny's Mobile2011 - presentation in Phoenix Arizona Lit and Numeracy using idevices. https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2011-04-06.1326.M.ACE02B5F35AA7E7975F015AAC6F794.vcr&sid=2008350 Digital story books review (Our Favourite is Pop Up Peter Rabbit) http://ds-ti.me/ Text edit - Sticky notes / use for fast word processing and to paste content into blogs Slide2Learn http://slidetolearn.ning.com/ Twitter hashtag....#slide2learn or #S2L2011 (better for searching conference tweets rather than s2L tweets in general)

Jenny and Lois discuss iPad 2 release, some great apps, PLP, and the Ultranet Tony Vincent on Mirroring for iPad2 EdtechCrew #154 debate - Netbooks or iPads E-bookchat on Edmodo iPad Apps We've Used Keynote App - Presentation Tool Auryn Ink App - water colour painting PhotostudioH - photo editing app Dropbox- & SendtoDropBox http://www.sendtodropbox.com Garage Band PLP link Will Richardson TEDxNYED Presentation Angela Maier’s Book on Passion Learning Conference Links? IWB Masters Conference ICTEV Slide2Learn