Apps and Sites for Expressing Learning
Rennie Redekopp – University of Manitoba

Session evaluation links:  Text link        or      Full link: https://goo.gl/forms/WByQ6tBebapPBP3D2

This session focuses on apps and websites that teachers can use to help their students express their learning - audio, video, text, posters, mashups, art, etc. This is a hands on session where you will learn to use the apps and sites personally and how to manage them with your students.

The emphasis here is on easy to use, free (mostly) apps and sites for those students (most of them!) who can't express themselves well in writing.

The BIG questions!

1) Why digital and not paper, crayons, glue, etc?  

     The biggest reason is that everyone can now produce a project that looks good. The programs are easy to use and have good templates so that students can just fill their content into the professional design and have a product they can be proud of.

2) Should this be the only way they show their learning?

     No, but it should be an option if you want to focus on what they know more than how the product looks or works. Most students do not express themselves best in writing - to get a what they know they need another mode of expression.

3) Are essays and writing still important!!! YES!!!!  

     They just don't always tell you how much a student knows about the content.

AND - the digital stuff is more fun to mark, even if it is mediocre.

4) Your BIG questions (or little ones)?????

Bonus - Free book! Check manace.ca on Monday

Also - I am teaching a course this winter - 5220 Teaching and Learning with Mobile Devices. Spread the word!

COMMENTS and QUESTIONS - TodaysMeet - (Teacher's Edition) - also a good place to share links to your work

Creative Commons - get images and music and videos that are free to use. Better still, have your students create their own images and sounds.

Give credit where credit is due - How to cite works in various social media formats.

There is so much out there - example - Top 200 tools for learning for 2016. http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/best-of-breed/ …#umtandt#manace_manitoba#observetogrow#smcourse

Here's what we are going to try - Choose, create, share and show (put the link into TodaysMeet). We will show some from each category.

• Google Drive - creation and collaboration (create an account if you don't have one for gmail, or youtube, or Google+ or Google Drive or ...)
• Create a presentation with at least two other people. Each of you should add a couple of slides introducing yourself (name, school, grades/subjects taught, hobbies, etc) Share the link (view only) 
• Skill Development  - there's nothing to create if you don't know anything.
• Create a set of flashcards that your students could use and add to. Share the link. 
• Animation Options
• Create either an animation of what technology you use in your classroom or of what you think you might like to be able to use in your teaching.  
• Presentations Polls and Quizzes
• Video and Audio 
• Drawing and cartoons 
• Create a political/historical/ musical/sports/whatever creation and share the link (no 'Trumping' allowed - it's too easy)
• Timelines and Infographics 
• Create a timeline of your life, a character (novel or historical), sport, musician, politician, etc. Share the link
• Mashups
• View a few samples and if you find a really good one, post it. 
• Organization
• Create an organizer for some of what you have learned today and how it fits together. If you use Gliffy you can collaborate.

Assessment - let's chat!!

Other lists:

from: https://ictevangelist.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Periodic-Table-of-STEAM-apps-smaller.png

https://ictevangelist.com/essential-chromebook-tools-and-apps-for-the-classroom/