User Generated Education

DECEMBER 17, 2015

One of my end of year rituals is finding and posting the years’ best videos. Given my current interest in maker education , I decided to locate and post 2015 videos related to maker education, STEM, and STEAM. Maker Education: Reaching All Learners. The Next Maker Movement.

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User Generated Education

APRIL 21, 2015

Those who follow my blog know that I have jumped into and am loving the current emphasis on the Maker Movement and Maker Education. The proverbial sweet icing on the cake is that it is a perfect example of the maker movement. What a perfect model/statement of the maker movement.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2017

Sylvia Libow Martinez is a co-author of Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering the Classroom helping teachers bring the exciting tools and technology of the Maker Movement to classrooms worldwide. Previously, Sylvia was President of Generation YES, evangelizing student leadership through modern technology.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2016

My answer to you is this: We must bring more arts programming—and blend it with the maker movement—into our schools. So then… how are “making” and the maker movement uniquely powerful as avenues of learning—and where might it come up against resistance?

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2017

Tomorrow marks the first day of the national Week of Making , a week dedicated to celebrating makers and providing opportunities for people across the country to make. Our video series began in Sitka, Alaska , where we saw maker learning happening across all schools in the district with support from all members of the community.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 28, 2020

I love it because videos and the editing projects move seamlessly between all of my student’s devices. Kate Hodges, a language arts teacher in Ohio, shares how she uses project-based learning (PBL), making, and more to help students learn language arts.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Read information about this landing and watch related videos: [link]. NASA updates a “teachable moments” blog on their site and has an excellent overview of the teachable moments that will come with the Perseverance Rover Landing. Resource: [link]. Learn about the Instruments on the Rover: [link].

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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2018

They arise from the wider maker movement and they are emerging now in formal education settings globally. As the founder of MAKE magazine Dale Dougherty states in his 2011 TED Talk: “ We are all makers. ”. Makerspaces in Ontario Schools. They had opportunities to collaborate, plan lessons with colleagues and do their own making.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Product Review: Features, Lesson Plan Ideas, and Tips From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Adobe Premiere Rush is a simple to use video creation tool that includes powerful camera features, video editing, and publishing features. Video is the modern essay. Here’s how.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 11, 2019

It is a great teacher PD tool which includes videos and resources to help you learn new techniques and technologies for your classroom. She engages them globally through video conferencing, Twitter, and blogging and uses technology as seamlessly as possibly to make this all happen.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 10, 2016

YOU could be the superhero in an awesome welcome back to school video that you could shoot NOW in post-planning.). See How the Maker Movement is Moving into Classrooms.). If you really want to have fun, have a student bring in a superhero outfit and follow the instructions in Videomaker magazine to do something super-awesome.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2019

Wanting the library to be an enhancement and extension of the classroom, Amanda has tried to incorporate and further classroom lessons in the library through virtual reality, circuitry experiments, coding, green screen video production, and more. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.”

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

I am going to search the internet to find how-to tutorials, preferably with images, drawings, and/or videos. Assessing One’s Progress How am I doing with my maker project? As a curator, the maker educator locates and vets resources, especially those that will be used by younger students. Relationship Enabler and Builder.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Try some of these resources to boost your entrepreneurial education modules, try also exploring the Maker Movement. Limit videos to 7 minutes, as studies have again shown that optimal lengths for videos, in particular YouTube videos, to be around 7 minutes. Microlearning. Peer-to-Peer learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

You can find some videos online on YouTube. Lindsey: What I did was I told them, you’re going to have a chance to learn anything that you want to, and then we watched a video from Kid President about how the world needs you. I have a picture of her to document that she was folding along as she was watching this video.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 29, 2019

I had a book on maker education published by ASCD. I really love the maker movement. Here is a video of a few of my students delivering raised monies to a local charity. Game Jam: Designing a Video Game. For more about this, see Stephen Brookfield’s book, Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

The embracement of the maker movement is being seen in K-12 schools and districts across the world. It is a sandbox independent video game where players dig (mine) and build (craft) different kinds of 3D blocks within a large world of varying terrains and habitats to explore. I commonly refer to it as “Legos on steroids.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

They’ll be adding photographs, videos, audio and text about their hero. Interactivity: Book Creator is different from many other tools because you can actually record your voice with it, as well as linking to videos in these fully interactive books. Students are loving writing their own books for the world with book creator.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 7, 2016

Take a look at this video from a workshop I recently conducted (also below). I think we can all agree this should be the intended outcome when leading the maker movement. It is simple, yet so powerful in that educators (or in your case students) have to work collaboratively to come up with a creative solution to solve a problem.

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User Generated Education

APRIL 8, 2016

I am excited about the current trend towards maker education but I believe it needs to embrace a full cycle of learning including engaging in reflection. Reflection within the maker movement and maker education can occur through a process of documenting learning. creating a video. making a podcast.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Like a regular video game or program, it can ask you to input a name that it will call you throughout the experience. There’s a curated list of tutorial videos from teachers about how they are using this tool, but here are some of my favorite highlights. Tutorial Video about Programming in Metaverse – Richard Byrne (5:07).

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2017

A video my student, Rebekah, created for the Invention Project. One requirement is that if students have seen the technology in action, it’s disqualified from being the topic of their video — a commercial pretending that their invented technology actually exists. I’ve even seen contact lenses that take photographs.

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The young visitors are encouraged to tinker with the materials and create anything they dream up, be it an animated video or a collage. The Millvale site is part of a growing group of libraries that have opened up space, permanently or occasionally, for maker projects.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

And it’s using video, which seems like it’s a really native platform for them right now. With Book Creator they can include pictures, they can include video, drawings, text. Like FlipGrid video is so much fun. Just short videos in class, or short labs, even lectures where there are just a couple of points being made.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In opening their classrooms to visitors from around the country and displaying their students’ and teachers’ achievements in maker learning, the district saw the event as a great opportunity to publicize ACPS to their community through the media as a leader in the maker movement in education. Press release. Printed infographics.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Getting Started in Metaverse: Use this Metaverse Studio tour video to get started whenever you’re ready. The instant feedback, ability to create multiple paths (or branches), embed videos, 3D characters, websites, and even 360 experiences make this tool immediately interactive and usable for students.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 8, 2016

On Tuesday, a well-known player in the world of maker education, littleBits, announced the release of its first kit the company has created specifically for the education market, after having focused primarily on the consumer space previously. Educators can also get ideas through a mobile app.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

It allows you to take photos and videos of what you are seeing. And it also has, within the apps, the ability to take photos and to take videos. So you can actually video and document what it is that you are seeing through the augmented reality. So some of them just put a lot of videos and pictures and clips in.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Students created holiday scenes that they filmed and shared via video using 3D Bear. So, for example, as you can see in the simple holiday theme below, students “decorated our room” in AR as they were learning the features and tools of 3D Bear. What Else Can You Do With 3DBear?

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

So you can put in things like video, and the video can be videos taken from YouTube so the video can actually be created by somebody else. Like your videos, you have to later go into Flipsnack and put your videos in but the basic content can be created in slides and then uploaded as a pdf to Flipsnack.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 11, 2019

I gave them an outline of the brain with lobes outlined for them to color and rubber cement onto a pizza box (see video below). See the video below. I adapted the directions for their brain operation game from [link]. For their brain parts, I gave them air drying clay. Instead of a microbit, a Makey Makey was used.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 8, 2018

Sometimes they were things like Sketch videos. But we would always start every single Monday morning of with a Maker Monday. Sometimes they were kind of rapid prototyping and making things with cardboard and duct tape. Sometimes they were digital products that they made. Does it put you behind on content?

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Final Reflection: Learners reflect on the process in a way that works best for them – blogs, photo essays, video recording, podcast, sketchnotes, illustrated ebook. For example, students can write a blog, create a photo essay with a caption, record a podcast or video, do a hand-drawn or online sketch, create a comic.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 12, 2018

As you can see in the video below from my VR China trip, it really looks like I shot the video in China. Participants are also encouraged to include photos or videos to prove their case. As the students take turns experiencing the 360 video, they also look at different things. The same thing happens in virtual reality.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 3, 2018

So all of this type of discerning and analyzing information for the best method to convey — whether it be via a picture or a video. We do an introductory safety montage video for the kids, and then we get them to say the phrase, “Watch out for flying drones.” I broke my own rule, which is, “Watch out for flying droids.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

You can take your videos or those from YouTube and: Clip the video. Pause the video and add your voice just in certain spots. I’ve embedded videos below. Today she shares techniques for teaching geometry and writing – but also a remarkable school-wide project. Record your own voice over.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Make books, send the link to parents and even include audio and video. This is a perfect idea for special ed teachers and parents who want to use today’s show and make books Book Creator will let you record audio and video AND share the link with parents. That would explain what that is.

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