indy12

bit.ly/

HELLO
My name is

Brian

brianhousand.com

MANIFESTO:
A Guide for Developing a Creative Career
1. Don't be afraid to fall in love with something and pursue it with intensity. 2. Know, understand, take pride in, practice, develop, exploit and enjoy your greatest strengths. 3. Learn to free yourself from the expectations of others and to walk away from the games they impose on you. Free yourself to play your own game. 4. Find a great teacher or mentor who will help you. 5. Don't waste energy trying to be well rounded. 6. Do what you love and can do well.

7. Learn the skills of INTERDEPENDENCE.

(Torrance, 2002)

qMore than 500 million active users q50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day qAverage user has 130 friends qPeople spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook

qAverage user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events. qAverage user creates 90 pieces of content each month. qMore than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.

New Skills For A New Age

What students must master to succeed.

LEARN
Access, evaluate, and use different forms of information. Exercise critical thinking. Exhibit fluency with tech tools.

CREATE
Use various forms of media when presenting ideas. Display originality. Employ problem solving skills.

COLLABORATE
Work successfully as a team. Demonstrate cross-cultural awareness. Communicate complex ideas effectively.

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

Communication and Collaboration
Demonstrate ability to work effectively and respectfully with diverse teams Exercise exibility and willingness to be helpful in making necessary compromises to accomplish a common goal Assume shared responsibility for collaborative work, and value the individual contributions made by each team member

http://www.iste.org/nets

http://nets-implementation. iste.wikispaces.net/

Communication and Collaboration

Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.

communication and collaboration

Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats Develop cultural understandings and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures Contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems

The Standards do not dene the nature of advanced work for students who meet the Standards prior to the end of high school. For those students, advanced work in such areas as literature, composition, language, and journalism should be available. This work should provide the next logical step up from the college and career readiness baseline established here.

Students who are College and Career Ready....

Demonstrate Independence Build Strong Content Knowledge Respond to Varying Demands of Audience, Task, Purpose, and Discipline Comprehend as Well as Critique Value Evidence Use Technology and Digital Media Strategically and Capably Come to Understand Other Perspectives and Cultures

WRITING: Production and Distribution of Writing 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.

Production and Distribution of Writing

K 1 2

With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.

Production and Distribution of Writing

3 4 5

With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others. With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufcient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of one page in a single sitting. With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufcient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of two pages in a single sitting.

Production and Distribution of Writing

Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufcient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and link to and cite sources as well as to interact and collaborate with others, including linking to and citing sources. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efciently as well as to interact and collaborate with others.

6 7 8

Production and Distribution of Writing

9 10 11 12

Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technologys capacity to link to other information and to display information exibly and dynamically. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information.

SPEAKING AND LISTENING: Comprehension and Collaboration

Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

- Helen Keller

More Than Just A Video Phone!

Screen Sharing Group Video Calling Send Files

Ideas for Using Skype

Skype an Expert Classroom Exchange Virtual Field Trips Social Network Building for G/T Face to Face Interactions

Avoiding Potential Pitfalls

Plan ahead! Schedule a TEST RUN. Prepare questions ahead of time. Expect the unexpected. Have a Plan B, C, D, and possibly E.

No software to purchase or install! LIVES in the CLOUD! Work is automatically saved. Allows access to files from any computer that connects to the Internet. Collaborate on documents in REAL TIME. Instantly see what your collaborators are typing. FORM function allows you to create and deploy web-based surveys with results that are automatically compiled in a spreadsheet. FOLDER function allows you to store ANY file online. You can access from anywhere and share with anyone.

Shared Writing and Editing Student Group Projects Brain Dump SCAMPER Thinking Maps Assessing Student Work Surveys / Data Gathering Choose Your Own Adventure

Dropbox is software that syncs your les online and across your computers.

How Much Space?

2GB FREE

Install on another computer.

Invite a friend or colleague.

Share a folder.

Install on your phone.

http://www.diigo.com

Ideas for Calendar

Group task monitoring Creating a class / group calendar Assignment Due Dates Project Timelines Parent Communication

#gtchat

2013
brianhousand.tumblr.com

ONE

MORE THING...

Benets for Gifted Students - No longer just gifted on Tuesdays - Access to peers and teachers - Honors wait time - Allows for multiple questions - Encourages social connections - Promotes organization and time management - Models appropriate online behavior

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
-George Bernard Shaw

indy12

bit.ly/