Backchannel chat (Today’s Meet)
10:45 – 11:00: Understanding the SAMR model
- What is it?
- Why is it useful?
Readings:
- The SAMR Model by Maggie Hos-McGrain
- The SAMR Model
- The SAMR Model: From Theory to Practice
- Moving from S to R Part 1 and Part 2
- SAMRizing subjects (from Learning 2.013)
Resources:
- Technology Integration Matrix (Overview)
- The (actual) Technology Integration Matrix
- TIM Teacher Indicators
- TIM Student Indicators
- TIM Setting Indicators
- TIM Summary of Indicators
11:00 – 11:30: Exploring project examples
- Famous People of the Civil War+ rubric + reflective blog post (see many more fantastic projects on YIS Humanities teacherRebekah Madrid’s class blog)
- IB Lang & Lit Diigo Group (Madeleine Cox)
- 7th Graders (And One Teacher) Learning With Minecraft (Rebekah Madrid)
- Minecraft Mania (Alex Guenther)
- Code Blue! (Kim Cofino & Maria Gomez)
- Blogging (Kim Cofino)
- Students as Tutorial Designers, YIS Tutorials, ISB Tutorials (Kim Cofino)
- Tornadoes, Earthquakes, Tsunami – “in Plain English” Videos by NIST students (Will Kirkwood & Ivan Beekmans)
- Podcasting Power: Students Teaching Students (Kim Cofino, Chrissy Hellyer, Ali McAloon, Robin Bulzsa)
- QuakeStories + backstory (Kim Cofino & Mary Fish)
- 1001 Flat World Tales (Clay Burrell, Kim Cofino, & many others)
- Field Studies Blogs: ex Tobi + HS Field Reporting + MS Field Reporting
- Books Go Global!
- KinderKids Draw!
- Flat Classroom Projects (Digital Bridges) (Julie Lindsay, Vicki Davis, & many others)
- Kiva Loans (Rebekah Madrid)
- Moving on Up! (Kim Cofino, Diane Mongno, & many others)
- Influence (Kim Cofino, Teresa Belilse, grade 4 team at ISB)
- @manyvoices (George Mayo)
- iPads in Kinder – Zoe Page & Tasha Cowdy
- Blogging and Tweeting in Grade 2 (Jamie Raskin)
- YIS Early Learning Center – a Reggio Emilia environment (Clair Wain, Emma Chan, Junko Kanchemi, Barbara Folliot)
- Literature Circles Voice Thread, Grade 5 (Kristen Blum)
- The Learning Hub(YIS Teacher Blogs), other elementary teacher blogs from YIS:
- Clair Wain (ELC)
- Zoe Page (Kinder)
- Tasha Cowdy (Kinder)
- Jamie Raskin (Grade 2)
- Geography with Flipboard (Mr. Barnes, HS)
11:30 – 12:00: Project Time:
Task: Describe the SAMR stages for your project idea. Where does it fall? Why? Document your thinking on this Google Doc.