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With more and more of my student’s work being put online — I thought is was about time to get to the bottom of Creative Commons. My superficial understanding was that is was a mutually agreed upon license that helped to bring some legitimacy to using others works (pictures, videos, writings, music, etc.) that can be found online.
Naturally, my first stop was my Atomic Learning account and I was pleased to find an entire workshop on the subject. The nice thing about Atomic Learning workshops is that you do not need to sit through a lot of stuff you don’t need just to find the few things you do. For example, with the Creative Commons Workshop there are over 53 minutes of lessons. I found what I needed to know by watching less than 10 minutes. I just looked for the titles of lessons that I needed.
Creative Commons Workshop
A few minutes later I was on my Flickr account changing the Creative Commons licence setting to more reflect what I actually wanted — now that I am an expert on the subject.
- Brad Flickinger, Tech Teacher, Bethke Elementary School
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15 FebI just heard from my wife that she will be on the panel for this webinar…
To ensure the best results for students, it’s important to be deliberate and thoughtful in the way technology is incorporated into the curricula. Just layering tech on top fails to take advantage of the technology tools’ full potential.
Join this complimentary webinar to hear how those ‘in the trenches’ are working together to find the best ways to integrate technology into teaching and learning.
Thursday, March 1st at 2:00 EST | 1:00 CST | 11:00 PST
My wife is the district tech training and curriculum person for the district I am in.
- Brad Flickinger
Update 2-29-12: My wife just informed me that she is part of a webinar later in March and not tomorrow’s. Oops!
We need to prepare our students to act responsibly when the moment of stupidity arrives. We should not just hand students technology and expect them to use it responsibly. They are kids after all.
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In our world of education, most teachers continue to educate themselves so that they can keep up on the ever-changing life as educators. Some things we get a little credit for and others we just do quietly behind the scenes. So it is nice when a company comes along and gives us a little credit where credit is done. Atomic Learning now offers Certificates of Completion for some of their courses.
Here is a link to a video that explains it:
http://www.atomiclearning.com/k12/movie/90567/play_window?type=Tutorial&sid=2218
Here is a quote from their blog:
Atomic Learning now offers Certificates of Completion for individuals completing a full tutorial series or training assignment.
Each certificate provides a summary of the time an individual has dedicated to self-improvement and is a great tool to:
- Track Professional Development Hours
- Build a Skills Portfolio
- Create an Evidence of Learning Repository
- Earn Recognition Among Peers
Learn more about Certificates of Completion in this overview video. And, don’t miss your chance to win a $500 Amazon.com gift card! Check out the details of this exciting contest for certificates earned between February 15 – March 15, 2012 on this flyer.
- Brad Flickinger, Tech Teacher, Bethke Elementary School
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I just uploaded a set of new photos of elementary students using iPods for amazing school projects.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/sets/72157629306333243/
- Brad Flickinger, Tech Teacher, Bethke Elementary
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In this week’s screencast I look at students using two screens to get their work done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM8xMlVCjaI
- Brad Flickinger, tech teacher, Bethke Elementary
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Wow! I must have hit a nerve with educators when I wrote my first draft of the Education Technology Bill of Rights for Students last month.
http://www.schooltechnology.org/2011/12/29/educational-technology-bill-of-rights-for-students/
I got a boat load of emails (about 90% positive and 10% negative), and based those emails I would like to add these to the original:
11) I have the right to use the cloud. I hate to save things on the school’s server, especially since I cannot get to it from home. In the world I live in I can access my files from any computer from anywhere, that’s why I love the cloud. Which is why I get so mad when DropBox and others things like that are blocked. And no, I will not save it to a flashdrive. I’m a kid, I lose, break, wash, etc. flashdrives like nobody’s business. Oh, and by the way, I love Google Docs and hate MS Word. Just to be clear. There is a bad side to cloud computing — I can’t really tell you that I left that file at home or that the file I made a home is not compatible with the school’s computer. Which has been a great excuse for forgotten work for years.
12) I have the right to use alternative forms of data entry. For example if I want to use my thumbs to enter in my essay — don’t freak out. My thumbs can handle it. Or if I want to dictate my essay to my device — that should be okay too. The world is not going to end because I don’t hand-write my rough draft. I still believe in nice handwriting, but cursive is dead, so quit trying to kick this dead horse back to life.
13) I have the right to use apps that cost money. Don’t tell me to, or make me use only cheesy free apps, when a $2 app will do a 1000 times better of a job for a project I am working on. We don’t have to only use only free stuff (I know some are good). Because when I listen to you tell me to use only free apps when I have a $5 Starbucks in my hand, it seems sort of silly. I can handle a $2 or $3 app.
So here are another three, keep the ideas coming.
- Brad Flickinger, Bethke Elementary School
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Like many of you I have started to consider the idea of flipping my classroom. But in order to do it right you need to become a master at screen recording, and to do that if you are on a PC the go-to program is Camtasia. So imagine my delight when I found out that the folks over at Atomic Learning recently updated their Camtasia training series. It’s like those guys in Little Falls are reading my mind — freaky.
Here’s their description:
Empower your training by easily creating effective videos using Camtasia 1.2. In this online training series, you’ll learn how to precisely edit screencasts by cutting, splicing, adding transitions, and captions. Also learn how to record PowerPoint® presentations, Web sites, Web cams, and software demos. Learn how to produce your video in many formats to share on video hosting sites such as YouTube™.
– Brad Flickinger, tech teacher, Bethke Elementary School
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Some times when I am speaking at a conference about iPads in education teachers will share a concern that they have about every student getting an iPad. They are worried than the students will just work in isolation and our society will become even more fractured and self-centered with students never learning to work together.
They imagine a room full of kids with headphones on just plugged into their iPads like a room full of zombies. I had this same concern when I started to design my lessons that used iPads. I made sure that most of the lessons involved team work and collaboration (a 21st century skill).
Take a look at these photos for proof.
