ADE

Apple Distinguished Educator Institute Singapore 2008
Blogging the experience!

 __[|1 comment]__ December 3, 2008 5:09 PMby __[|Ann Martin]__

Presentations by Groups
Notes for my reference: Word cloud Cartoon Create YouTube channel Collaborative google map Original content to wikipedia Google custom search Flickr to upload images TagCrowd to get keywords mindnode - free mindmapping Google sketch-up Apple Education - global learning - iTunes U (U of South Florida - good K-12 topics) Ted Talks Google map of interesting places or places to visit - show to class xtranormal.com

ALI Journal:
to document the PD that you do

everything up on ALI before end of Jan

Panel Discussion
Strategies for good use of tech -- emphasize community aspects -- ownership brings responsibilities - if you have enough laptops on a cart - make them personal with name(s) so always goes to same kid -- AUP - flexible - have rules about what can be downloaded Tech Issues -- some schools parents pay a "technology fee" - each gradelevel selects necessary software - bundles of software loaded to computers -- most schools wipe computers when students leave schools -- good idea to have an implementation committee - parent/student/teacher/admin - is also an Apple booklet that talks about this Issues with misuse of laptops -- lunchtime program with fun options - student led and run -- keep students engaged in class -- treat students with respect - gain their trust and discuss the necessity/responsibility of working together -- tell students that teachers want to teach with engaging materials - when students are off task this goes back to parents - ultimate result is discontinuation of laptop program -- remote desktop for locking computer - issue with cost of remote desktop, very expensive for entire school -- propagate the myth that they are being watched!! -- responsibility of teacher for supervising

Spotlight - sharing
PlanBook: __[]__ $30 per license, site license available publish to mobile me account Moodle www.angryalien.com - plot, protagonist, etc cosmopod - __[]__ - download videos with one click - changes file format automatically tubetv - same as above but free

virtualbox - run linux and windows Salinclicker (spelling) control computer from phone leadertalk.org - group blog www.voicesofadeasia.com - group blog for this group - send name to Amanda Apple Programs - Services - speech - Start speaking text PictureSync - batch uploader - __[]__ bubbleshare xtranormal -

Diigo - __[]__ - can make highlighting and comments on blog post - not on public blog but on linked page classtools - __[]__

__[]__ - hides desktop for presentation __[]__ - totally for fun knowledge forum - purchase - good use of tags Skitch - screen picture and annotation - __[]__ little geometry - onscreen set of geometry tools chemsense animator - animator and can save as quicktime movie

__[|0 comments]__ December 2, 2008 6:34 PMby __[|Ann Martin]__

[|ADE Day 4]
Work day for getting our Group Project together. Greg, Kate, Amy and I work on our unit samples. It's hard to work under pressure!! One reflection that I have is how important it is to PLAN before you start to work! We'll upload some of our work to the Apple Learning Interchange and have enough done to show at project presentations tomorrow.

At the end of the day 5:00-6:00 there is a lecture by a professional photographer. Absolutely, amazing photographs! Following there is a short demo of the software titled 'Aperture'.

Photography Lecture by Peng-Eik Chng

**Seeing Photo Graphically, Thinking Graphically**
Composition: the art of clearly presenting your creative vision in an appealing manner • Impose order and structure on the chaotic world around us • By organising the photo frame and placing of the subject Framing and Placement of Subjects • Ask yourself: What is my Subject? What am I really photographing?, What do I want to show the audience? What's the purpose? If you can't answer these questions, then you are not communicating thru your photos, they are just snap shots. If there are several answers to each question then you should be taking several pics and making them into a photo story.

Before you click the shutter, check
Have I chosen a subject? Does it stand out or have I isolated it? Is the background pleasing and not cluttered and distracting? Is there good light for the subject?

Rules of thirds
When a subject is placed in the center of a frame it usually looks boring and static. Points of power - eyes are attracted - intersection of thirds Give space - space in front of moving boat, not behind - must be a useful space

Layering of Foreground to Background
Layering is a technique used especially in landscape photography to divide the picture into 3 parts - foreground, center, background. This injects a sense of dimension into otherwise a rather empty picture and leads the viewer's eyes. (Leads you through the picture and out the back.) It is usually used in conjunction with rules of a third. Also - lines in photograph lead viewer to main subject.

Breaking Rules?
When you have a purpose.

**Cool Development in Digital Photography**
HD Video Higher ISO WiFi GPS

=APERTURE= Big brother of iPhoto. Can store folders in Library or keep in location on HD. Allows you to manipulate the picture. Can see thumbnails, picture or both. Magnifier checks for clarity. Allows you to make changes and keeps original file. File management - only has one directory of photos (iPhoto makes its own directory so original directory is still there) Can make a change to multiple files at once. __[|0 comments]__ December 1, 2008 10:58 PMby __[|Ann Martin]__

[|ADE Day 3]
Great Day today! Our group went all around Singapore gathering pictures, short videos, and sound files for our project. NATIONAL MUSEUM: We started at the National Museum to take some background shots of culture of Singapore and different ethnic groups who live here. We spoke with one of the docents who was not a recent immigrant but his grandparents had come from India.
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LITTLE INDIA: Next we took the MRT to Little India and had to have some Indian food for lunch before we could continue on - we had a great lunch! So, after cooling down and getting some food energy, we continued to find people to interview about the immigrant experience in Singapore. A 27 year old waiter at the restaurant, a student who had been here for 4 years, spoke to us about his experiences.
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ARAB STREET: Imagine vibrant colors in masses of textiles and materials, shiny sequins and buttons, rich carpets, sparkling jewelry and you have a glimpse of Arab street. We wandered up and down streets and talked with a 51 year old woman (who looked about 35!) in a textile shop and 2 different men in a carpet shop.
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CHINATOWN: Our next task was to find a Chinese woman to interview. We spoke with a young girl from China who has only been here for 2 months, but spoke limited English and then to a lovely young girl from Indonesia.
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Now, that doesn't sound like much but it took all day with lots of walking in hot, humid weather, searching for MRT stops as well as doing a bit of shopping along the way. We headed back to the hotel, had a quick rest and then out for dinner which ended up being back in Chinatown. I was craving a foot massage but just couldn't pay 10 times what we pay here in China! So after a bit of wandering through the markets we headed back to the hotel. It's now about 11:00 and we're getting all the photos and footage downloaded and ready to work on tomorrow. We'll have to adjust our Guiding Question as the interviews didn't go exactly as we expected, but I think we'll still end up with a good project. __[|0 comments]__ December 1, 2008 12:04 AMby __[|Ann Martin]__

[|ADE Day 2]
Here we are in a room at an Apple store in Singapore. It's an amazing training center with room for us 65+ ADE's with connection, electricity and 4 huge screens across the front of the room.


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Before we get started on the notes for this morning. You can watch the progress of our groups project at __http://when-in-rome.wikispaces.com/__ This is a wiki for our planning process.

The focus for today is Web 2.0 tools. There is reference to Web 3.0 in regard to virtual worlds such as Second Life, but for now let's concentrate on Web 2.0!

The overarching theme of web 2.0 is the collaborative nature and connectedness that the tools enable. Links, information, tools, connections, etc. all on ADE wiki.__https://adeasia2008.wikispaces.com/__

Here are some notes from today...

1. __[|http://www.classroom20.com]__ - a Ning for classroom educators. Kind of one stop shopping and a good jumping off place to get involved. I'll join and get involved. It has concrete examples and a good place to find people and topics.

2. __[|http://www.go2web20.net]__ is a huge list of Web 2.0 tools. I'm thinking of the possibility of having my Grade 10's do their second project on some aspect of these tools.

3. Google Maps: great resource! There are lots of things that you could do with this is a classroom. You can draw a line from one location to another and it will give the miles. You could trace explorers journeys - use one map so kids could see how routes overlapped. You could have students map the content of a book. You can then send this file to GoogleEarth. You can also put pictures and other content up.

4. Twitter: micro-blogging. You need followers and people to follow you. It enables immediate feedback. You can use Twirl or TweetDeck as an app to run Twitter without having to keep the web open. You can look at it as a river of information - not to keep track of every tweet, but as a reference when needed. There are educator, tech, news available through different individuals - it is moving beyond "what I had for lunch" tweets. Observe good practice when twittering - don't waste people's time and remember your professional image. Try to give back as well as take. Not too many people are using it in the classroom - some uses are collaborative stories, communication between teachers in a building, anecdotal classroom evidence.

5. Delicious - social bookmarking - travels with you. Able to see other's bookmarks. Use a Bookmarklet - for any browser - for bookmarking on the fly. Digo? mentioned but not explained.

6. Flickr - picture sharing. Can join groups. Use of notes on a picture for analysis and comments for interaction. Example - art picture. Look at Flickr toys.

7. Ning - can create your own social networking site. Look at__[|http://globaleducation.ning.com.]__

8. Google Docs - interactive documents - multiple users can use at one time and it won't override like a wiki does.

The pouring rain outside is preventing our next planned activity - we'll see if it clears soon. Meanwhile we'll be working in our groups on our project that we started yesterday.

OK, rain has cleared and we're off on our next adventure. This sees us in groups roaming Singapore in a quasi "Amazing Race" to gather clues, work collaboratively, take digital images, video, and use an iPod touch for notes. There are 5 stations set up around the city manned by Apple reps where they have a short challenge for us to do so that we can earn points, pick up our next clues and work towards solving the mystery that was presented to us. Fun!! We have a good group - all working together really well. We get around to 4 of the stations in the next couple of hours and return to the training room where we're given 45 minutes to put together a news podcast about our results. YIKES! 45 minutes to download pics, video, come up with a storyline and create a podcast!!! Well it stretches into an hour and we get something put together - not polished by any means but presentable.

I'm thinking about how to use this type of activity with students - maybe Trip Week for sure for team building as it's great for collaboration and group work. Possibly create something like this for the grade 6-7-8 Tech Conference coming up and why not even for the next teacher Inset??


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Dinner at a film set??

Then a movie - local producer - low budget - great film - all shot using Final Cut!!

Back to hotel at 11:00 - midnight now and going to bed!!

__[|0 comments]__ November 30, 2008 11:50 PMby __[|Ann Martin]__

[|Apple Distinguished Educator Day 1]
I've been meaning to get this blog started, so here is the perfect opporunity. I am in Singapore at the Shangri La on Sentosa island - lush, green, hot, humid, both rainy and sunny, perfectly manicured and overlooking the sea with huge cargo ships anchored off shore.


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We show up for our first session and all the Apple personnel and about 10 Apple Alumni form 2 lines and cheer and applaud as we walk in - sort of like a celebrity opening!! It’s a high energy welcome.

The morning sees us doing some introductory activities with speakers. Here are just a few random things: Apple training is all about pedagogy and using the tools - there will be no instruction on how to use any software. Changes in instruction: Education as a process: “Knowledge keeps like fish, not very well”

We did a process activity titled “Yes, and…” A group is formed and one person starts a story/discussion/topic then the next person has add to it by starting with Yes, and… and so it goes around and around the group with each person adding their input - always starting with Yes, and… The purpose is to emphasize positive communication - can’t use “no” or “but”…

ACOT2 - new way of looking at educational process.

Here's the address for the ADE Wiki - huge resources here.__https://adeasia2008.wikispaces.com/__

Challenge based learning - realistic and authentic

“Teachers move beyond the role of facilitators and become collaborators in learning, seeking new knowledge along side the students.” What a change for many teachers, some may just be getting to the facilitator role…

Next, we paired off with a partner. Using at least 3 Apple tools we had a short discussion getting to know the person and then created a presentation introducing this person to the group. When we were done the projects were set to autorun as we wandered around to watch them - there were Keynotes, videos, podcasts - such creativity and lots of humor!

Lunch

Next, we learned about our major project. There were predefined themes and we got into groups based on people we chose to work with as well and the theme we wanted to work on. Our group is working within the “Cultural Perspective” theme. We met to do some brainstorming - used Inspiration, set up a wiki and got some good ideas going.

Title: When in Rome...


 * Area of Interaction:** Community and Service


 * Guiding Question:** How do people acclimate to a new culture?

How do you define a culture? How is acclimating to a culture different from being assimilated into a culture? How does acclimating to a new culture affect an existing culture?
 * Sub-Guiding Questions:**


 * Challenge:** To help newcomers acclimate to a new culture

Dinner on the beach - exhausted - to bed!


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