Would you like parents or out of town people to watch special events or student presentations in your classroom? Here are 10 steps to livestream events in your classroom:
1. Notify viewers of the time to tune in and the URL of the Facebook page you'll be livestreaming from ( for example, your personal page, a school site or other. If you use your personal, you'll be able to set the Live feed to "public" before you begin the stream) 2.Disconnect your phone from school wifi (sorry, you have to use your own data) 3. Open your Facebook app 4 At the top left, press the red movie camera icon that says "live" 5. Make sure to select your audience as "public" from the dropdown menu next to your profile pic 6. Type the title/topic of what you are filming in the text area where it says "describe your live video". Use the map pin icon to add a location check-in if desired (we're listed on Facebook as Piedmont Open Middle) 7. Press the blue "Go Live" button at the bottom. It will countdown 3,2,1 then begin broadcasting (live streaming) 8. You will see the confirmation "You're live we're building an audience for you." People will be watching 9. Press the speech bubble icon at bottom to view the comments the live audience is leaving, if desired (you'll be able to read them later if you don't watch them during the livestream) 10. Press "finish" when you are done with live streaming the event. From there you can: a. Download a copy of the video to your camera roll (that will let you then be able to upload it to google Drive or Youtube or edit it via imovie first) b. Post your video to facebook for those who want to watch it later – you can even send the link in your parent newsletter. c. If you don't want people to be able to replay the livestream, you have the option at this step to delete it. Below are screencaptures of how these steps will look in the app:
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![]() Mr. Chandler shared how to have an Academic ConverStation! He got the ides from the teaching channel website, which he highly recommends. This system allows students to chunk their readings (a close reading strategy) by pausing to discuss and then share out. At the end of each ConverStation question, only ONE person moves to the next station for question 2. Mr. Chandler points out that this is a great system because it allows students to populate the ideas from each group throughout the class, and gives students something to say that no one else in their circle has heard since many issues reappear from question to question. ![]() Both the Science and Math departments talked about using Envelope Pull Questions as a conversation starter for their topics. Mr. Kollar pointed out that many students in his class had NEVER had to explain math to another person before that exercise. He recommends the method because students tire of listening to a teacher and enjoy hearing from each other and listen more closely that way. He recommends the structure employed by Ms. Adornato and Beckham for their science lesson you see on the green sheets in these photos) Ms. Beckham and Adornato say that questions that involve some gray area are essential - ones that can be debated. They note that students who thought they could use common sense to "fake" a response without having read were held accountable by classmates who corrected them by referring back to counterintuitive facts listed in the text. ![]() Until I heard Ms. Thornburg, I always thought alpha boxes were very low level and just a step away from busywork. But Ms. Thornburg shared with us how it enhances her lessons in several ways: She begins a unit by having students fill an alphabox. The words they generate function like a pretest, giving her an idea of what they know. Then they watch a video or read a reading from a DBQ set, pausing after each to fill in even more blanks in the alpha box. Through this strategy, students pay closer attention as they listen and look for words they "need." Then they have a class discussion and explain to each other what they chose. As a bonus, the alphabetical constraint forces creative divergent thought (Ms. Thornburg mentioned students comming up with "eXcommunication for the X in the alphabox and with "New Ideas" for the I. Who would have thought that you should give students boxes to get them out of the box?! Great job, Humanities folks (and this works with any content area) After the conversation, students used their alphabox full of vocabulary as notes with ready made ideas for writing.
Years ago, expensive and unweildy 3 ring binders were stored here at school for each student and took up almost a whole room for each grade level. Now after a bunch of starts we have devised a method to use Google Drive for students' IB portfolios. Below is all you ever wanted to know about electronic IB Portfolios, possibly more:
What Is an IB Portfolio?
How do Students Get an Electronic IB Porfolio?
How is the IB Portfolio organized?
What goes in to the IB Portfolios:
When do students add work to their portfolio folders?
How do students add work samples to the appropriate IB Portfolio subfolder for the class?
How are competed rubrics added to the IB Portfolio Subfolders ? To add a paper copy :
To add an Electronic Copy:
Earn Renewal Credits for PlanningNovember 8th, 2016 (11:00-1:00pm) Register for Think Tank MY TALENT CODE: 416080 Need some additional collaborative work time? This is not a traditional PD, but instead a open work session time! This is a chance to collaborate with other grade level teachers and PL Specialists and front load your planning by creating playlists, pathways, choice boards, PBL's, etc. During this work time, you can walk away with a product to use during this school year! Be sure to bring any standard resources, tasks, or a device that you would want to utilize! Read Write for Google![]()
DYKNow![]() link to a Canvas course Ms. Newburger shared. (Reminder You will have to log-in to NCedcloud) Twitter for EducatorsWorld Language Close Reading "Luck"
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