Learning Call: June 2019

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Student YouTube Faves

Students' Favorite YouTube Channels

Sunday, June 23, 2019

Feed Us...with Feedly!

Feed Us with Feedly!

Using an RSS Reader like Feedly.com to subscribe to sites you like.

We will do this in class together, but if you have any additional questions, you can watch the screencast below. In order to get things set up, you will need to download the TTP2019 opml file

Step#1: Download these two files

TTP2020 opml file

Assorted-feeds.ompl file

Step#2: Go to Feedly.com and Log in with your Google Account

Step#3: Click your ID icon in the bottom left and 'Organize Sources'.

Step#4: Click 'Import OPML' and find the files you downloaded.
Start with ttp2020.opml and then assorted-feeds.opml.
It will take a minute or two to process all of the feeds.

Slightly outdated screencast guide

Please create a blog post about and/or including some of the things you've found via Feedly.

Friday, June 21, 2019

TTP Solstice Friday Agenda - June 21, 2019

Create a Summer To Do List Doc in your Journals folder Jeff's
Share selected items on ‘Our TTP 2019 Summer To Do List’
Add items to Curriculum Topics Covered by Year
Share IBLL & PBLL Discussion notes and ideas
Get ready for TD#2
Need Ideas? Check out Google's New Chromebook App Hub
Share Play Day photos
Revisit TILL Holes in the Wall
Explore IBLL, PBLL, and related resources
ER Log and personal Quizlet up-to-date?

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

First Up: Please take the TILL Task Interest Survey

Next up: TILL Drills!
Remember that tsunami of TILL Tools we surfed back during the chilly months of March & April.
It's time to see how much we remember.

Try to complete as many of these tasks as you can.

Add videos to a YouTube playlist
TTP MegaPlaylist Elementary MegaPlaylist Secondary Megaplaylist PopSongs for ELT
Create a Google Form Questionnaire and post it on your blog
Find an interesting Google Map and post it on your blog
(Mapping Tools)
Embed a Quizlet, animated Wordart, Google Presentation, and/or Ted Talk on your blog
Find or Create a Quizizz and post the code on the TILL Group Notes Elementary, Secondary)
Create an mp3 file of a text to speech recording of
‘Hey Jeff, I know how to make an audio recording of a 'text to speech' sentence. Pretty cool, eh?” and post it on your blog. (see Audio Guide)
Rank these words from most common to least common:
connoisseur embellish morsel reckon lucrative trickle brat soggy
(see Week#5 Buffet / reference)

Friday, June 14, 2019

TILL Holes in the Wall

Using a Smart board

Show us what we can do with a smartboard and how we can effectively use it in our teaching

https://mytechclassroom.com/how-to-use-smartboards-in-the-classroom/

Google Classroom

Set up an experimental Google Classroom for TTP. Teach us how to use it as teachers and students and provide us with some sample activities.
Use 4ttp2019@gmail.com as the main admin account

Classroom.google.com

Video Guide: Google Classroom for Everyone its finally here! NEW 2017 Features

Presentation Guide: Intro to Google Classroom

Join Code: 5fg2us

Using Schoology

Set up an experimental Schoology.com class for TTP. Teach us how to use it as teachers and students and provide us with some sample activities.
Use 4ttp2019@gmail.com as the main admin account Schoology (video introduction) Schoology Tutorial Playlist

Join Codes

Clare Class: KCQR-G5KX-DC5FX

Clare Class, Storybook: XTVM-H92M-XBF4J

Technology Use: QCG2-WX5Q-GDJH9

with Lia: Reading: 8RWJ-M98W-ZKXMJ

Audio Recording, Mixing, and Editing

Show us how audio recorded on two or more phones can be mixed into on sound file along with a bit of a musical backtrack. Show us other cool audio editing tricks with Audacity and/or other audio software. Audacity Guide

Screen Mirroring

Show us some options for screen mirroring and how to use the different functions of mirroring in our teaching. Possibilities include: ApowerMirror & Airdroid