I had the opportunity to attend an awesome professional learning session with Amy Storer @techamys who is part for Fried Tech out of Texas. I am now a #friedfan. The session I attended was called "Jamming with Jamboard". Jamboard is a digital interactive whiteboard developed by Google. Here is a video tutorial from Pocketful of Primary for you if you need one, but honestly it is pretty intuitive. At about 5 mins into the video, she describes how to bring in an image as a background in order to have a template for students to use. She even will share some templates she made. The little trick Amy Storer blew my mind 🤯 with is that you can go to Canva (which if you aren't using, you should be) and get hundreds of premade templates that you can then use as is, or change to meet your needs. I was late to the party on this app, but slowly but surely I'm becoming a fan. Canva is a graphic design platform that is used to create social media graphics and presentations. The app includes ready made templates for users to use, and the platform is free for teachers. 🙌 🥳

I also found this great tutorial and resource by: Alice Keeler

So recently, I attended the NCCE (Northwest Council for Computer Education) conference and AI was all anybody could talk about. It came up in half to three quarters of the presentations I attended. Even one of the keynote speakers focused on the impact of AI on the teaching profession and how, NO it will not replace teachers. The speaker even had an AI software, write part of his keynote in real time. It was fascinating, funny and even a little scary. One of the AI tools that I thought was pretty cool and could easily be integrated into the classroom was DALL·E 2. It is an AI system that can create realistic images and art from a natural language description. Essentially type what you want it to created and bam you have an image. No more scouring the internet for that perfect picture to match your slide deck topic. Nope, just type what you are thinking and even the style you want it and presto you have an image. Several presenters used it and showed neat examples.

Lets talk classroom uses. Think about how powerful is it for a program to actually allow for a student's imagination to come to life before their very eyes. I can imagine all kinds of possibilities.

1. Have students write a story and then create a cover, or images to go along with their text. You could use Google Slides, Keynote, Pages, Book Creator, Seesaw, Etc.

2. Have students create an image and then narrate or tell a story about the character they see using Seesaw, Keynote, Slides, Flip, Etc

3. Or show the difference between different art styles, Pointallism, Realism, Surrealism, Gothic or Romanesque by using the same descriptor by adding in a particular style.

The picture in the upper left is what was created by DALL·E 2 when I typed in "Oil Painting of Sasquatch as a Medieval King"

Every so often I am reminded of how incredibly powerful the use of Hyperdocs can be in the classroom. They are especially useful when designing lessons were you are app smashing. I had the opportunity to attend a session by David Lockhart @bigguyinabowtie at NCCE who reminded me of this and shared some great resources. You can check out his website at http://www.bigguyinabowtie.com/.

Hyperdocs help you and students plan the process to the final product, whatever that might me. And its within the process where you have the opportunity to App Smash. This is where the design process happens. This is where It can follow DESIGN THINKING, SAMR, STEM DESIGN process, and many more.

Here are some examples curated by David Lockhart:

History and Geography

English and Language Arts

Science

Math

Special Events and Holidays

Professional Development

Other Goodies

Here is great website and resources on the use of Hyperdocs by Michelle Truman @ Driving Digital Learning

https://sites.google.com/view/drivingdigitallearning/hyperdoc-templates

Ditch That Textbook Hyperdoc Tips

https://ditchthattextbook.com/20-hyperdocs-tips-ideas-and-templates-to-use-right-away/

Who knew that a little friendly competition amongst schools using Seesaw would result in a huge increase in use in March! Congrats to everyone, I saw some great lessons being pushed out that highlight student voice and create learning loops between students, teachers & families.

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Creation Tools

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4. Curipod is an interactive presentation tool for making lessons. You can create your own lessons or use our AI generator to create engaging and interactive lessons and activities. Curipod makes reading, writing and drawing engaging and makes it easy to create fantastic learning experiences.

5. Sketchfab is a 3D modeling platform website to publish, share, discover, buy and sell 3D, VR and AR content. It provides a viewer based on the WebGL and WebXR technologies that allows users to display 3D models on the web, to be viewed on any mobile browser, desktop browser or Virtual Reality headset.

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