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K12ONLINE CONFERENCE DAY 8: OCTOBER 28, 2015

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k12 online badgeWelcome to day eight of the 2015 K12Online Conference. All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule.

Week Two – Today we have three presentations. Take your time to enjoy them. Share what you learn with your colleagues. You can always come back to view sessions you missed or those you want to see again. Everything is archived. Why not add a comment after watching the session!

Today’s sessions:

BEYOND THE CORE: ART AND MORE

Fairytale Compositions
Samuel Wright

 OVERCOMING OBSTACLES

Robots in Class: Mimetics’s Experience
Michael Predko

Meeting Parents and Students Where They Are
Josh Allen

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2015 2015-Overcoming Obstacles

Meeting Parents and Students Where They Are

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Presenter: Josh Allen
Location: Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
@j_allen

Presentation Description: The need to communicate and share has always been valuable, but how we do it today should be different. This session covers how to utilize Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Flipboard at a classroom and district level. I will also cover some ways to make those tools work together, allowing you to post to multiple places, reaching multiple audiences, without having to take the time to visit each site.

 

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://techfridge.com

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None

2015-Beyond the Core

Fairytale Compositions

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Presenter: Samuel Wright
Location: Daejeon, South Korea
@wrightstufmusic

Presentation Description: Grade 5 students embarked on a journey of composition that revolved around writing for characters, objects, places and more. They investigated music of other cultures, used iPads and developed their own iTunesU Course with work-samples showing their amazing creations from Chinese themes to Little Red Riding Hood.
In this video I will walk you through our lessons, student feedback and the creative process as well as the method I use to integrate iPads successfully into the music-storytelling-classroom. Visit Grade 5’s compositions on YouTube here http://bit.ly/1OtMfoj and leave your own discussions on our iTunesU Course ‘Fairytale Compositions’ as feedback – we would love to see what inspires your students to compose.

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://itunesu.itunes.apple.com/enroll/FAE-ZRK-PCK

Additional Information:
www.wrightstuffmusic.com
Music Educator and Apple Distinguished Educator

2015-Overcoming Obstacles

Robots in Class: Mimetics’s Experience

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Presenter: Michael Predko
Location: Toronto, Canada
@MimeticsCanada

Presentation Description: Thinking about using robots in your classroom?

Robots can be a very powerful tool to interest and engage students in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (aka STEM). Unfortunately, they’ve often only being used with a small number of enriched students who are already interested in STEM and will not get the full benefit that other students will get from a fun, interactive program that brings the practical side of STEM to students.

Girls, who are normally much less interested in STEM than boys, benefit from robotics programs, gaining experience, knowledge and confidence that will help them consider a STEM career in their future.

Mimetics cofounder and Chief Designer, Myke Predko discusses what they’ve learned after almost 15 years bringing robots and STEM education to 15,000 students.

 

Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://www.mimetics.ca

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Please feel free to contact Myke at myke.predko@mimetics.ca for any questions, comments or suggestions.