NETA+2013

=Notes from Diane B.= toc

Dr. Yong Zhao-

 * You've got to know where you want to go. Technology is just a tool to where you want to go. We spend a lot of time with the how part, we need to spend more time on the where part. Where you want to go decides what matters.
 * How do you define a world class global education?
 * The broken promise - college and high school will get you a good job
 * Increase use of technology has actually caused many jobs to go away
 * The new middle class - has to be the creative class
 * Our schools need to respond to that
 * Schools need to change. Rather thinking about making employees, we need to make entrepreneurs. Come up with solutions to problems rather than just being told what to do. Confident, social, risk-takers, passion, different, rebellious, creative, how to interact with other people, unique, empathy
 * obaworld.net
 * zhaolearning.com
 * Technology - create something, connect something
 * @yongzhaoOU

Evernote -

 * kids having notebooks for each subject area. taking pictures of problems on the board, notes, can access anywhere.
 * principals use it for walk-throughs and send it to the teacher right afterwards, via evernote, audio - note
 * Formal evals. Make the eval digital and put it into the evernote. Use Skitch to label things on the pictures, attach a pdf, article related to what they were instructing on.
 * receipts, taking picture
 * grocery list
 * teachers: lesson plans, tabs for each kid, comments on lesson, on kid, portfolios that you can even share at conferences

Working smarter, not longer -

 * evernote
 * google hangout
 * Dragon Dictate (speak into and it transcribes it for you)
 * sky drive
 * Parent contact form with google forms
 * guided access (only access one app, maybe for elementary)
 * Call phone (call anyone for free through g-mail),
 * When Send (email yourself or someone else in the future)
 * Block posters
 * Measure it
 * Send Recurring
 * MentorMob.com (using several websites in one lesson, rather than opening and closing a lot)
 * Guroo
 * mrmansour.com
 * CNN student news, cnn.com/studentnews
 * goo.gl/joLj8

Flip or Not to flip? -

 * Diet, Spaces, Fun - 3 things to anchor on
 * Futureme.org - send an email to yourself - pick the month you want to receive it (NTA)
 * @eviwusk
 * eviwusk.com
 * article from her on the conference website
 * PD - needs to be ongoing, reliable, dependable,
 * [[file:flipped_classroom_handout(1).pdf|Articles to reach regarding flipped classrooms]]

Leslie Fisher -

 * Word lens - put phone over foreign words and it reads it in English; Spanish, French, Italian
 * Google translate
 * Augmented reality
 * Layered
 * Small Demons
 * Proust.com - can create your own story
 * Livescribe pen
 * Zite - customized newspaper
 * ScoopIt
 * Learnist

Apps for struggling learners -

 * bit.ly/ATNETA
 * The ipad by itself can: voiceover, zoom, large text, white on black, speak selection, hearing aid mode, custom vibrations, assistive touch
 * Guided Access
 * Reader button on website - will only focus on text
 * Dictation - Dragon Dictation. Talk into it and it dictates it for you
 * Dragon Go - talk into it and it will google search, wikipedia search, etc.
 * Letter identification - First Words, Intro to Letters, Dr. Seuss ABC, ABA flashcards

Technology in Music -

 * esu3musictechnology.wikispaces.com
 * netawikispaces.com
 * garagebandintheclassroom.wikispaces.com
 * madpad
 * musicracer.com

First grade ipads in the classroom

 * [[file:ipadpostersession.docx|handout]]

=Notes from Rick=

**Dr. Yong Zhao**

 * What do you know and where do you want to go?
 * What makes good education? Global education. How do you know what is good. Keeping people out of their parent's basement is an educational goal. Now it's 53 % staying in basement. Plus there is financial obligations with educational loans.
 * Want them to be financial, psychological & emotionally stable.
 * Lost millions of jobs in manufacturing. Output is increasing.
 * Technology hurts, out-sourcing
 * Many things can be done cheaper someplace else.
 * Don't use tech; talk to people. :-)
 * Apple has fewer than 50K people working in US. Facebook too. Large companies with less workers.
 * Middle class is disappearing. Who will be the next middle class?
 * Deuteronomy 21:18-21 Stone rebellous child.
 * Education has stifled creativity.
 * We talk about children but not creativity. Not until 1920 was creativity really mentioned in books.
 * New middle class will be the new creative class. All the non-creative jobs are done other places.
 * Traditional schools homogonize students abilities & talents.
 * We have moved from the age of necessity to the age of abundance.
 * A lot of energy goes to food. Advertising, TV, etc. to get people to buy food. And money to loose weight after you've eaten.
 * We need to be Entrepreneurial. New workers are called black-collored workers. Inspired by Steve Jobs.
 * confidence, freinds, rist-taking, passion, creativity, alertness to opportunity, global competency, uniqueness, & empathy.
 * Despite our poor test scores, Americans are quite confident. Asian parents are now getting concerned about gaining confidence.
 * Singapore is lowering standards to gain more confidence.
 * Traditional virtues
 * public provision, local control, public funding, open and forgiving, separation of church & state and gender neutral.
 * New Paradigm-- Enhanced human talents.
 * Become product-orented learning - global campus - student autonomy
 * Passion is nothing without discipline
 * Global Education Leadership: [|http://zhaolearning.com] OBA: [|http://obaworld.net].

**Managing iPads & other devices**

 * @bryancwilliams or bryan.williams@ravenna.k12.ne.us
 * Meraki - free product. Centralized management of all your devices., app deployment, enterprise security, asset management, backpack, rapid provisioning, remote live tools, network integration.
 * Not required to have hardware in the distict. Cloud based. Works on any network. Register free at [|m.meraki.com].
 * Three models - Apple recommends
 * personal ownership: students own the apps. (He recommends), personal apple ID, no app reassignment.
 * Institutional wonership: school owns apps, institution Apple ID, Apps can be reassigned.
 * Layered Ownership: both student and school
 * Apple iOS Deployment Guide (good white paper)
 * Unlimited number of devices. Meraki scales really well. San Diego has over 25k devices.
 * Demo'd screen shots.
 * If you use Configurator, you can reclaim the VPP codes. Might depend on type of model your iPad deployment. Some are saying you have to remove the codes from the leaving device even with Configurator.

**New Ideas**

 * LiveCode: similar to HyperCard. Now free. On their web info.
 * Free
 * Dr. David Brooks from UNL a free class.
 * Kanex meDrive
 * hooks into network and you plug it into your network ($99) and you can download items from your ipad into your flash drive. Pages, Numbers etc. that are WebDav files.
 * Facebook Home
 * Only for Google Android systems
 * Foldafi
 * 99¢ app to create paper boxes you can print on.
 * Vine
 * 6 seconds of video
 * Showed stop motion video. Video loops. App is free. Some example are not school safe.
 * Can download Twitter Archive in your system. Comes in a csv file. All history.
 * Wearable Tech: good way to collect data
 * Jawbone Up: wear at all times. Keep track of sleep time.
 * Nike Fuel Band
 * Fitbit
 * HapiFork
 * Leap Motion
 * Don't need a mouse. Everything is controlled with hand motion.
 * Device sits under your screen.
 * On sale May 15 and will be $15 at Best Buy
 * Arm band detecs movement. MYO wearable gestures
 * Twitter Music
 * music discovery and sharing tieing into the power of twitter.
 * Google Maps Engine
 * Put in data points and see them on a map.
 * My Scriptcalculator
 * Write your formulas in script and it does convert to formula
 * Quick Math
 * Choose an operation & you give answer.
 * Hosting web pages from a folder in Google Drive
 * Check box-sharing settings-public on the web-save the URL in the bar once you open the folder. (He has a quick setting to change name) Can map in GoDaddy

**InDesign CS6 - Linda Dickeson**

 * Start to change thinking from print to other digital mediums.
 * Notes on NETA site; does have quickstep book on InDesign
 * Go to Adobe TV [|http://tv.adobe.com]
 * Navigation button; rt click on object and go to transitions
 * Workspaces allow you to have special items in your panel.
 * File Place to place pictures and movies.
 * Choose Interactive PDF if you want to export the presentation slide show.
 * Need Adobe Digital Editions

**Weebly - Leslie Fisher**

 * Free but if a lot of pictures it is about $3 a month.
 * Much easier than Google Sites
 * Can click out of the sites options and go back later.
 * Built a web site
 * Can use Woofo by using the embed code
 * Start at [|education.weebly.com] Will give you a few more features.
 * Click on My Students; add a student; create password
 * Gives you 40 free students. More than 40 costs a $1 per student per year.
 * They answer questions on Twitter (Weebly)
 * Students can't upload files unless you buy the pro feature except through the assignment feature.
 * Friday**

**Leslie Fisher**

 * Pics of card punch & data storage.
 * Emergency TV show
 * [|www.makerbot.com] 3D printers; $1799-$2299
 * Polaroid cameras that give you the picture and stores the pic for download.
 * Kickstarter. $99 for the pen and ink that shoots out plastic.
 * Wearable & interactive technology
 * First one was calculator watch
 * ionaudio puts iPad in your guitar frame. Frets light up to show proper position; $129. Also have drum apprentice.
 * Hovercraft with HD camera controlled by iPad. Band director, coaches, admin team to look at breaks.
 * Leap motion in July for $70 for fingers to control things. Great for SPED.
 * MYO wrists controlls actions $200 price area.
 * Google glass
 * Jawbone $130; Fitbit will be bluetooth.
 * Watches (Pebble now)
 * Aura; can add interactive items to pictures
 * Layared; Kellogg adds pics on the back of their cereal boxes. Lonely planet (mag) has pics like this.
 * Medeval text support video.
 * Houghton Mifflin did a study 20% increase with iPads.
 * Showed "paper" video with Emma.
 * Small Demons
 * Type in name of Steve Jobs and get all sorts of info from mentioned in the book.
 * [|www.proust.com] Tell your story. It will ask you questions every week and then it fills in stories of you.
 * Livescribe Pens: teachers can record their lessons and share out. Pronounce the "bones". Use stickers to put on children's book and it will play adults voice reading the book.
 * She uses Zite; customized news source.
 * Scoopit:
 * CollabraCam; videos can be opened in iMovie and shared over iTunes; $5.99. Up to four devices and record at one time as the director.
 * Vyclone: like instagram for video. Uses GPS to track your location. Gathers multi-angle movie.

**Gadgets - L. Fisher**

 * Classdojo sets up class and records class behaviors. Both + & -.
 * When you hit end of class, it gives you the breakdown of each student and the total class behavior.
 * Parents can connect too.
 * Free
 * Evernote
 * Weebly
 * Digital Cameras
 * Sony NEX $500-$699 Bigger the sensor, the better the ability to take pics in the dark.
 * 16 MP; 1080 video, interchangable lens
 * Share photos on [|www.smugmug.com] Pay $60 a year and can have unlimited pictures and videos on the site. Offers non profit discounts.
 * Compact Flash cards are speed rated. Class 8 or a 10 is needed. EyeFi has GPS in the card and will tag the photo & has wifi and will start uploading photos. It is a class 10.
 * Sony has a Gloggie for video. Standard has WiFi streaming. Sport is waterproof and shock proof; no wifi.
 * Sony also has action-cams that you can attach to about anything.
 * CollabraCam - director is picked and others can have videos from up to 4 other videos.
 * Vyclone: free; server looks for same location and puts pieces together.
 * WeVideo: online video editing. [|www.wevideo.com] . Premeir Elements Video has same features but you need good wifi.
 * Popcorn Maker. Can bring up video on-line. Can add pop-ups to video. Text etc. Video has to be posted publically. Made by Mozillio
 * iPevo HD version is $99. Also can get wifi for $70 and $20 for case.
 * Google Car: $250,000 for driverless car.
 * Google inside search: gives how to search that are more effective. Doodles are the graphics and can be searched.
 * A Google a Day
 * LIFX - part of kickstarter. Lights can be controlled by phone, color, dim, notifications, tied to clock. $25 a bulb but lasts a long time.
 * Home automation products; Nest (thermostat; Parrot Flower Monitor; keeps track and monitors th emoisture level of plants.
 * My swing; records etc. for $200.
 * Coccoon Grid-it; all shapes and sizes and can put all your cables and other things on a flat item with bands.
 * WiFi dection T-shirt. Thinkgeek
 * Collusion: $99 will hook iPads together.
 * Reflector & Air Server
 * Hone: will let you know if keys are far away from your phone. $49; battery lasts for 6 months.
 * Aire mask. Breathe into it and it will charge your phone.
 * Cellulon: keyboard with light; $120 on Amazon; battery lasts 100 min.?

**Bring learning to Life with Aurasma**

 * goo.gl/XaMA9** document to share ideas
 * QR codes = scan with reader and then go to web page
 * Aurasma - free app - scan an image (trigger image) (all sorts of images) you can then get an overlay.
 * Should create channels if you have a lot of videos.
 * Dustin Carlson: Westside: writing and speaking. Used the thought that if they can write something that convinces him to buy an ice cream he would buy for the student. Had video of the student reading their example.
 * Kristeen Shabram: MS Healthy Living. Created a script (used popscycle sticks for componets) then created video on the ipad. They created their own trigger shot.
 * Ricardo Varguez: HS Spanish. Uses Morfo to get head shots that are animated. In middle school had Amelia Earhart pic and had a question below and then the answer was Aurasma.
 * Quick book reports
 * Use a map and have locations where kids dress up and have them talk about the Oregon Trail.
 * Posters for the play with a special message from the cast.
 * Math problems
 * Can choose private or public. Need channel for public.
 * The longer the video the longer the download for people. No limit set. A minute is pretty good time.
 * Search for Channels within the Aurasma app
 * Click on the magnifyig glass
 * Search for kcarlson, WMS Health Living and then follow
 * Click on the icon to scan trigger images.
 * People need to link to the channel to get the videos.

**Everything is in the cloud**

 * Darci Kerr - Hastings**
 * **Skydrive:** Can save things through your skydrive
 * Microsoft 365 - on line for schools. Skydrive for individual users. Full feature Office.
 * Share is similar to Google Docs.
 * Free for 7 GB
 * Google Docs
 * Dropbox: basically a jump drive. Only storage; no editing.
 * Dropitto.me: ties it to your dropbox account. Students can add files. Need password and it goes to a DROPitTOme folder. Can't give them feedback.
 * 2 gig amount; does go against your dropbox amount.

**Top 10 Music**

 * Jeff Ingrahm**
 * neta.wikispaces.com
 * garagebandintheclassroom.wikispaces.com
 * iPad ensemble from Gretna
 * MadTab an app that can record up to 12 voices
 * A way of introducing music to kids who can't afford instruments.
 * Music Tech Teacher; music quizes for all ages and skills. Review of facts. Many are flash based so computers work best.
 * Note name invaders; play invaders if you get time
 * Music [|Theory.net]
 * Music Racer
 * In Chrome Store, type in music and you can see a number of programs.
 * Interactive Lessons
 * Apple TV; sharing songs and video over the TV
 * GarageBand
 * YouTube; could put show music or dance steps on so kids can watch and practice steps.
 * Google + record music, have guest conductors.
 * Video conference with NY Music