The 4C's Get Digital

Middle & Upper - Prestonwood Christian Academy - August 2016

The 4C's Get DigitalMiddle & Upper - Prestonwood Christian Academy -August 2016

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Padlet - www.padlet.com

Great for communication, collaboration, critical thinking

Padlet is a place where people can collaborate and communicate by posting images, documents, text, audio and other content on a virtual wall with anyone anywhere and from any device.


Task #1: Create and Post: What's Your Quote for 2016?

  • What will be your quote or motto for this school year?
  • Navigate to recite.com and create your visual quote
  • Download your image
  • Upload your image to this padlet


Sample Padlets


Padlet Ideas and How-To's


Reflect

Discuss in your groups how your students could use Padlet in your classroom to meet the 4C's.


Try it

  • Review Padlet in the Classroom and look at the video tutorials here
  • Create a Padlet account
  • Create and customize a padlet you might could use
  • Customize your background and settings
  • Generate and save the link to give to your students
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Let's Collaborate and Communicate with Quizlet Live

Quizlet Live is an in-class, team based learning game. Students are randomly grouped and they must work together to correctly match a Quizlet set's terms and definitions. The first team to match 12 in a row wins! It's active. loud, and amazing!


Let's Take a Quiz


  • Navigate to quizlet.live
  • Join the session with the join code provided
  • You will be assigned a group
  • You must find your group and answer the questions correctly
  • All will have the same question, but only one will have the right answer
  • Choose the correct answer, but be careful. If you miss, you have to start over!
  • The first team to get 12 in a row correct WINS!


Reflect

Discuss in your groups how students can accomplish the 4C's using quizlet live


Try It


  • Create a Quizlet account if you don't have one already
  • Search the quizzes already available
  • Create a live quiz with your group


Quizlet Live Tutorial

Let's 4C the Future!

iMovie - It's a Powerful Tool and it's on Your Devices!

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Video Covers All the 4C's!

Using Video in Your Classroom

iMovie is one of the easiest tools to use. You can create movie trailers, photo stories and more.


Samples


Reflect

Discuss in your groups how your students could create videos in your classroom to meet the 4C's. How can video allow your students to demonstrate mastery of the lesson goals and objectives?


Resources for Using Video


Try it: It's Movie Time!

Work in groups or pairs to help each other. Pick a task to try. You can't mess it up. Choose one

  • Use iMovie and make a movie trailer introducing yourself, your school, department, or your class procedures.
  • Create a couple of "doodles." Create screenshots and then bring them into iMovie to create a doodle video.
  • Have a little green screen fun
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Things Your Students Can Do with YouTube

The Creator Studio


  • Create their own channel
  • Create and share playlists
  • Find free music, sound effects, images, and videos to use in their projects
  • Edit video
  • Create a photo story


Download YouTube Videos

Keep Vid- Download any YouTube Video (but you must stay within the copyright and fair use guidelines)


Reflect

Discuss in your groups how students can accomplish the 4C's using the YouTube Creator Studio


Try It

Choose one or more

  • Setup your YouTube Channel
  • Download a YouTube video to edit using Keep Vid
  • Peruse the royalty free music, video and image library in YouTube
  • Create a Playlist of your favorite videos and share it with someone

Google Apps and the 4C's

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There is no end to the things you can do in Google!

Google Search Essentials

Searching Google is a critical thinking skill. Knowing how to search using right terminology helps students find the info they need. In your groups, divide and conquer. Have each person try one of the essentials below and share what they discovered.

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Create Your Own Adventures

Google Docs

Slides

YouTube

Forms

TourBuilder with Google

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Other Apps

Google Drawings

Google Sheets

Google Keep

Geoguessr

A fun activity that makes students think critically. By carefully studying an image, they have to "guess" where it might be.

  • Visit Geoguessr and scroll through the first page to learn more about the resource. Start a Single Player game or try out Challenge Mode to experience the site.
  • Use Geosettr to Create a Geoguessr Activity for a digital scavenger hunt for a location that you know well and share it with someone

Great Google Connection Apps

  • Powtoon - Great for creating animated video!
  • And you can connect lots of apps directly from Google Drive. Just open Drive, select New, More, Connect more apps and choose what you would like to work from within Google Drive


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Reflect

Discuss in your groups how students can accomplish the 4C's using the Google Apps

http://ditchthattextbook.com/2014/02/03/20-collaborative-google-apps-activities-for-schools/


Try It

Just explore. Work with two or three others to do one of the following:

  • Connect some apps
  • Play with PowToon
  • Create an adventure
  • Make a collaborative document for the first day
  • Make an infographic of your class rules
  • Create a mind map
  • Find something from Google that suits you and explore!
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GeoGuesser and Google Maps

GeoGuesser is a fun activity that makes students think critically. By carefully studying an image, they have to "guess" where it might be.


Try it

Visit Geoguessr and scroll through the first page to learn more about the resource. Start a Single Player game or try out Challenge Mode to experience the site.

Bonus: Use Geosettr to Create a Geoguessr Activity for a digital scavenger hunt for a location that you know well and share it with someone.


Reflect

How could you and your students use GeoGuessr to build critical thinking skills?


Geoguessr Essentials

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Angie Bakke

Angie is an educational technology trainer and consultant who enjoys helping districts, schools, classroom teachers and students implement today's 21st Century Learning tools.

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