These are a couple of the many Diigo links that I got from EdCamp Boston that I hope to pursue. There were many conversations about "Blended Learning", iPads and learning and other topics. The "smackdown" at the end gave us many links to use with our students. Some of the notes I made are:
- 6 word memoir in Animoto
- Edmodo turn in for assignments
- LittleBirds for writing and drawing
- Fotobabble for recorded story sent to parents by email
- Storybird make student accounts within classroom
- Animoto accounts only last 9 months but can set up for class
- Prezi
- Voicethread - kids can do presentation online instead of being live (differentiation)
- Sliderocket- in google apps marketplace- has voice record, can embed twitter feeds (latest 20)
- Storify
- Paper.li - newspaper generator with embedded social media
Alice, Mike and I had a chance to visit with many colleagues from around New England.
Saturday was the first Maine "edcamp" sponsored by vendors and held at Waynflete School in Portland. This was a great day of connecting and sharing with other educators whose focus is using technology to support learning. I attended a session on iPads in the Elementary classroom and learned a few new apps and some management tips. The session on Digital Portfolios didn't apply directly to what we want to do in Yarmouth, but some of their methods could be useful. Alice, Mike and I presented a session on Google Apps in the Classroom with Kern Kelly from Nokomis High School. Kern has developed comprehensive digital portfolios of their older students and each graduating senior receives a gift of their name as a web domain so that they can carry their portfolio on beyond their K12 years. He also shared a great