Building Your Google ToolkitHereʻs a quick snapshot of some of the tools that Google offers and a glimpse at what they can do of you, in your classroom. Click on the image to view the entire infographic.
Tools discussed: Drive, Forms, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Google Now, Google +, Moderator, Sites, Chromebooks, Cultural Institute.
This was a great video shared by Adam Bellow, keynote speaker at the 2014 HITC conference hosted at Kamehameha Schools Keaʻau Campus. Itʻs a must see!
Last week students from Kumu Sone’s IT Academy Foundations course participated in a two day App Development Workshop. Students learned how to use the Mac program Xcode to create their own apps. Aside from gaining basic skills in programing, students were able to showcase their creative side as they developed their own, simple practice apps to test what they learned. Kumu Sone shared, “Giving the students exposure to the new wave of mobile technology through the app building workshop was an amazing experience. I wanted to include this topic in my curriculum but I just didn’t know where to begin, now I can take off where this workshop ended and continue the learning.”
What did the students think?
“Learning to build apps was awesome, there really is no limit as to what we can do with this, this is my future!”
“I didn’t know anything about code, but now I can actually read and write code.
“I got so much out of the workshop and I liked how we were able to be creative in making our own apps.”
The App Development Workshop, which was sponsored by KS ITD’s Emerging Tech group, featured Honolulu Community College instructor Ms. Monir as the presenter. This was the second workshop offered by KS ITD, this spring. The first one took place on the Kamehameha Schools Hawai’i campus. The third and final workshop this spring will take place at the Kapālama campus in March.
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Here’s a good resource when looking for tools that address various levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. http://nhoetnews.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/70-web-tools-organized-for-blooms-digital-taxonomy/
Arranged in a Prezi, there are direct links to each of the sites listed.
Interested in PD at your own pace on a variety of topics both professional & personal? Check out the Udemy site. It offers both free and paid options to learn what you want, when you want.
Need some more info before you decide to take a look? The following excerpt is from Udemy’s about page:
“…But the world is changing rapidly. And now, more than ever, learning is something that happens outside the classroom throughout our entire lives.
We now have to learn new skills every year just to stay relevant in our jobs (not to mention making a career change!). And it’s not just our careers, we also want to learn and continually improve in the things we do outside of work. Whether it’s yoga or golf or photography or anything we’re passionate about, we want to be better. Every day we see our friends sharing their new achievements and posting their milestones on Facebook; how do we keep up and reach our potential?
We’re busier than ever. And despite having access to a mountain of information via the internet, we still struggle to find structured, comprehensive, trusted sources who can excite us and teach us all the things we want to know. We need trusted experts, guides, to help us on our way – we need the ability to learn from the amazing instructors in the world.”
