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The Student-Centered Classroom - Liberate Learners To Flip Their Own Lessons

The Student-Centered Classroom - Liberate Learners To Flip Their Own Lessons | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

"The expanded availability of easy tech tools has empowered educators to rethink homework and daily instruction. Flipping the classroom with teacher-made videos allows students to self-direct their at-home learning. Many of these clips, however, still involve a one-day delivery of information, from teacher to student. Another approach is to allow children to make their own educational videos. They can enlighten their classmates with their creations, and they can teach themselves the material and the skills during the process of production."

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Have you considered having students use the Adobe Voice app (iPad) to create materials that others may use to review work? This post shares how one school has done this with 8th grade students and provides 3 videos embedded in the post as well as a link to a page where you can see more student work.

The post also discussed "four key proficiencies" that students may demonstrate as they create an Adobe Voice video:

* Symbolic and visual metaphor - in choosing images and/or icons  and their definitions of words students are demonstrating understanding of figurative meaning.

* Narrative - students narrate their story and provide images that seamlessly move from one point to another within the story.

* Text- students select key text, highlighting vocabulary.

* Design - students learn critical elements necessary to convey content. Elements may include, music, images, voice, color, transitions, layout and more.

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An interactive video round-up (seven tools to explore)

An interactive video round-up (seven tools to explore) | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

"Interactive video is a powerful new tool that allows teachers and learners to enhance video they make themselves–as well as the videos they discover on the Web–with text, images, maps, links, and other media...It appears that a new subgenre of interactive video creation tools is emerging...if you want to be part of the conversation, if you believe that video can do more than talk at you, you’ll be a lover of these powerful interactive annotation tools for video."

Beth Dichter's insight:

If you are looking for "powerful interactive annotation tools for video" look no further than this post from Joyce Valenz. She discusses seven tools that you may want to explore:

* Mozilla Popcorn Maker

* The Mad Video

* TED-Ed's Flip this Lesson

* wireWax

* YouTube Video Annotation Tools

* Embed Plus (available as a Chrome extension and coming soon for Firefox

* Blubbr

Each of the tools is discussed and in most cases samples of work are also provided. 

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New Creative Commons license chooser « NeverEndingSearch

New Creative Commons license chooser « NeverEndingSearch | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

If you students are engaged in creating and publishing digital content then chances are they are using Creative Commons materials. This post by Joyce Valenza introduces you to the new Creative Commons license chooser that was launched this week. Using this tool you may "enable Creative Commons licensing  in the following formats: Images, Audio, Video, and Text." Additional information is found in the post.

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Should Student Work Be Public On the Web?

Should Student Work Be Public On the Web? | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

"10+ years ago, filters and blocking tools were banning access to most blogs and web publishing services in schools around the world."

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But times have changed. Many resources that were blocked in the past are not being used by teachers on a daily basis. This post explores if the same should be true for student work. Is it time to allow student work to be public on the web?

Does an authentic audience improve student writing? Will students try harder if they share their work? These are two of the questions explored in this post. Along with the Pros of Posting Online this post includes the following areas:

* Tips for Allowing Public Posting

* Let Students Know

* Have and Review Guidelines and Rules (including sample guidelines)

* Get Parent Permission (including 18 examples)

* Encourage Sharing and Commenting

* Give Students Freedom

* Be Public Without Fear of the Public

* Don't Stress Over Moderating Everything

What are your thoughts? Do you think that your students would be more engaged if they were allowed to write to a larger audience of their peers and receive feedback from them? There are a number of comments on the original post and you may also learn from these responses.

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Crowdsourcing Fifty (or so) ways to leave your paper

Crowdsourcing Fifty (or so) ways to leave your paper | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

Are you looking for ideas for projects that are not papers, but that will help students "acquire subject matter, practice critical thinking and develop transferable information fluency and technology skills through a variety of creative activities"? If so, this post is for you! Joyce Valenza has begun a list of alternative to the paper which connect to the Common Core State Standard College and Career Readiness for Writing. You can add to this list by going to Google Doc (the link is in the post).
A wide variety of great ideas and there are additional ones added to the Google Doc, so do check it out.

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Educational Technology Guy: OrangeBook - easily create online portfolios of student work

Educational Technology Guy: OrangeBook - easily create online portfolios of student work | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

OrangeBook is a pre-beta service that promises to allow teachers to easily create digital portfolios of student work using pictures of the work and then sorting it and making it accessible.

It is not available yet, but they are allowing teachers to sign up to be a part of the initial offering.

If you are looking for a way to do e-portfolios with your students, sign up to be notified when this is available.

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