Register! Harker Teacher Institute 2013 - Sat. June 8

It's not too late to sign up for the annual Harker Teacher Institute!

http://tinyurl.com/HarkerInstitute

The Harker School has again partnered with SVCUE (Silicon Valley Computer Using Educators) to host our annual Teacher Institute on Saturday, June 8th at Harker’s Upper School campus from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM.  The $20 registration fee includes three sessions, lunch, and a 2GB thumb drive!

Some of the topics being presented include:

• Singapore Model Drawing: A Visual Approach to Word Problems
• NoodleTools: Tools for Student Research
• Going 1:1 with Chromebooks
• Google+, Hangouts, Oh My!
• Using MinecraftEDU for Learning
• Digital Grading with Google Docs
• Alternative Assessments in History

You can find workshop descriptions here: http://tinyurl.com/HTI-Workshops

Please go to the following page to register: http://tinyurl.com/HarkerInstitute

Please forward this news to all your colleagues and educator friends.  We hope you can join us!

Instructional Technology Department

The Harker School

Daniel Hudkins, Dir. of Instructional Technology

Lisa Diffenderfer, Asst. Dir. of Instructional Technology, Lower School

Scott Kley Contini, Asst. Dir. of Instructional Technology, Middle School

Diane Main, Asst. Dir. of Instructional Technology, Upper School

Have Students upload videos to your YouTube Channel!

This was a great share today from +Kern Kelley and the +Tech Sherpas weekly Hangout! 

Teachers want to assign more video projects and the collection methods tend to hamper the situation.  Consider having students email their videos directly to your (the Teacher) YouTube account!

You can create playlists of student videos and post them to your blog or LMS page.   With creative use of titles and labeling you could use it as a portfolio piece or just simple project submission!

This is where the kids are, YouTube, why not embrace it and engage them to learn in that same environment?!?

Another option is to use Google Drive.  This may be limiting since there is probably a low threshold on your Google Drive account.  Create a shared folder with the class for the students to drop their videos into.  You can then watch the videos directly from Google Drive in a built-in player very similar to YouTube! (great option for schools that block YouTube)