Thing 12, Find Something New Web 2.0

http://www.polleverywhere.com/ in my Web 2.0 tool. This tool allows immediate live 100% audience participation during presentations using phones, laptops or tablets to text a response. Each poll allows 40 responses for the free version. It works with any mobile device including flip phones that can be used to send texts. Responses can be both multiple choice, true/false and/or open ended. Once you've created polls with a correct answer, you run a report to calculate how each respondent scored - and how they rank in terms of correct responses and average time to answer correctly. Polleverywhere can be used to take attendance, take a quiz, vote, take participation grades, or for individual or team competition. This tool can be embedded in Power Point or Keynote. Polleverywhere is free but can be upgraded if needed to a paid account.


I learned to use the "Bump" app to download my contacts, files and photos from an Android smart phone to an Apple iPHONE 5c.  I was told that since Android and Apple products could not be blue-toothed and it was not possible to move the information between the two without using cloud storage.  However, the app "Bump" makes the transfer between the two possible.   Yeah!

Thing 10, Figure Something Out on Your Own- QR Codes

For Technology Open House that our school has each year, I chose "Reading QR Codes". Parents, students and teachers visited by station and read QR codes I created. Before Technology Open House, I installed a scan app on an iPAD to read QR codes. One of the codes created was an QR voice code. The other code was a link to my resource website on WIX.

http://my.qrvoice.net/IqQlOT

Thing 9, Learn from Listening

Learn from listening TED Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend http://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend.html For the last 10 years, Psychologist Kelly McGonigal believed that stress was bad for the health of people and needed to be eliminated. However, now, after following a 30 year research, she is convinced that our health depends on how our belief system about stress. If we change our negative beliefs about stress and concentrate on positive beliefs when our circumstances are not going well, we can eliminate the harmful effects that stress can have on our bodies. When we see our pounding heart and increased breathing as healthy and enabling, we are empowering ourselves to handle that life throws our way. So “stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case.” Can changing our thinking about stress make us healthier? Yes, our beliefs determine our health outcome. We can also benefit by seeking help and helping others in times of stress. Studies have shown that there are benefits for our health, happiness and personal success when we help others. "Caring creates resilience.” Caring people showed no negative health effects from stress, all harm was eliminated when people connected socially with others.

Thing 11, Learn Something from a Video, "A Tour of Khan Academy Site for Coaches"

With the backing and support of Google and Bill Gates, Salman Kahn has developed a free online educational program called Khan Academy. I watched a "A tour of the Khan Academy site for coaches", a YouTube video on setting up a blended learning class in Khan Academy at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd5X7Kzu_Bpg. Teachers can log in with Facebook, Google or email. I learned to create a class, added students and explored the features of using Khan Academy. I will be using Khan Academy for math. To begin, students log in and do an 8 question adapted pretest. They will do practice problems and can watch lesson videos or take hints if extra help is needed. Hundreds of videos are available on different subjects. Students can select their own avatar and can earn badges. However, several subjects are available from Khan Academy, not just math. Other lessons included are test prep, art history, science, etc. It is nonprofit and provides free resources for students, parents and teachers. Coached can view student progress and recommend lessons when more help is needed. Coaches can view time spent on lessons, grades, and activities.

Thing 8A and 8B, Tutorials

Thing 8A and 8B, Tutorials, "How to Run a Progress Report from LiveGrades"

Cheat Sheet How to Run Progress Reports From Citynet Livegrades

I used scribd.com to embed this word document in my blog. It is free!

Thing 7, images "Sarah"

This is my granddaughter,Sarah. She loves to have her picture taken and to label it.

Thing 6, Youtube Video: Edgar Allan Poe bio

This video was chosen by another teacher and myself to use in the "Edgar Allan Poe" unit. I went to WebTop to have this video unblocked but discovered that it had been unblocked already.