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Monday, 16 November 2015
Monday, 5 October 2015
The Global Read Aloud has started!!!
The Kindergarten and Grade 1 students will be tweeting each week on #GRAAmy with their thoughts and opinions about each of the Read Alouds written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal!
The Grade 2 & 3 students go to WriteAbout to blog and respond to other students from around the world
Sunday, 5 July 2015
Little Bears get spotlight in Board Newsletter!
Congratualtions Grade 1 students. Your Aurasma "Our Community" Gallery Walk was featured in the June KPRDSB Newsletter!
Using Augmented Reality was really a step up to showcase your reasons for adding a new feature to our community and the people at the Board wanted to share that with everyone else! Here's the article and the video from the newsletter!
Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board
Teacher Spotlight: Augmented Reality at Murray Centennial
June 2015
Take 60 grade one students, choose a strand of the new Social Studies curriculum, collaborate with the Teacher Librarian in the lab so you can use a tech tool to show student learning and what do you get?
An Aurasma “Our Community” Social Studies Gallery Walk at Murray Centennial PS.
Aurasma is a 3D presentation tool that allows you to insert photos and videos into a trigger image. When you scan that image with the Aurasma app, the photos and videos come to life and you can see and watch everything. It was pretty mind-blowing for the grade one’s when they first saw themselves on the iPads!
The students had to design a “human-made or physical feature for Quinte West and be able to defend why they thought their feature would be of benefit to the community.”
In the classrooms, the students studied features of Quinte West and explored their understanding of our community. Next they figured out what and where they wanted their feature to be, and drew a picture of it. In the lab, the students recorded a video stating where, why and what they wanted to add to Quinte West then created their “Aura” in Aurasma Studio with the help of Lab Buddies.
Invitations were sent out to our Director, Superintendent, the Mayor, Councillors of Quinte West, the Quinte West Public Library, and our School Trustee. Along with parents and families our guests were provided with instructions to pre-download the Aura app on their devices!
The day of the Gallery Walk the students shone, informing guests why there should be a Toronto airport in QW, a zipline from the YMCA to Murray, a coffee shop in the public library, a fishing boat school, and a doggie grooming hotel by the dog park just to name a few!
Check out our project in this video!
For more information, please contact Mary Walker Hope, Teacher Librarian & TCT at Murray Centennial Public School (mary_walkerhope@kprdsb.ca)
NOTE: This project can be completed using netbooks and one mobile device to view the triggers!
Using Augmented Reality was really a step up to showcase your reasons for adding a new feature to our community and the people at the Board wanted to share that with everyone else! Here's the article and the video from the newsletter!
Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board
NEWSLETTER
Teacher Spotlight: Augmented Reality at Murray Centennial
June 2015
An Aurasma “Our Community” Social Studies Gallery Walk at Murray Centennial PS.
Aurasma is a 3D presentation tool that allows you to insert photos and videos into a trigger image. When you scan that image with the Aurasma app, the photos and videos come to life and you can see and watch everything. It was pretty mind-blowing for the grade one’s when they first saw themselves on the iPads!
The students had to design a “human-made or physical feature for Quinte West and be able to defend why they thought their feature would be of benefit to the community.”
In the classrooms, the students studied features of Quinte West and explored their understanding of our community. Next they figured out what and where they wanted their feature to be, and drew a picture of it. In the lab, the students recorded a video stating where, why and what they wanted to add to Quinte West then created their “Aura” in Aurasma Studio with the help of Lab Buddies.
Invitations were sent out to our Director, Superintendent, the Mayor, Councillors of Quinte West, the Quinte West Public Library, and our School Trustee. Along with parents and families our guests were provided with instructions to pre-download the Aura app on their devices!
The day of the Gallery Walk the students shone, informing guests why there should be a Toronto airport in QW, a zipline from the YMCA to Murray, a coffee shop in the public library, a fishing boat school, and a doggie grooming hotel by the dog park just to name a few!
Check out our project in this video!
For more information, please contact Mary Walker Hope, Teacher Librarian & TCT at Murray Centennial Public School (mary_walkerhope@kprdsb.ca)
NOTE: This project can be completed using netbooks and one mobile device to view the triggers!
Sunday, 31 May 2015
Thursday, 14 May 2015
Thursday, 30 April 2015
Last step to publishing your Aura - adding title and hashtags
This is the final stage for your project. Once you have completed this step, your Auras will be out there in the wild wild world of technology!
Follow the steps in the video and you're done!
Follow the steps in the video and you're done!
Last steps to publishing your Aura - Title and Hashtags
Following someone's Channel on the Aurasma apps
If you are at this stage now, CONGRATULATIONS!
That means that you have created an Aura in Aurasma Studio, you have saved your Aura and tagged it with 'mcps' or 'mcps7' or 'mcps8' and you are ready for other people to be able to see your Aura on their devices and now, people are ready to scan your trigger image that you've printed off! PHEW!
The following video takes you through the steps to be able to look at someone else's Aura. Have fun!
That means that you have created an Aura in Aurasma Studio, you have saved your Aura and tagged it with 'mcps' or 'mcps7' or 'mcps8' and you are ready for other people to be able to see your Aura on their devices and now, people are ready to scan your trigger image that you've printed off! PHEW!
The following video takes you through the steps to be able to look at someone else's Aura. Have fun!
How to see someone else's Auras on the Aurasma app!
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
Aurasma History Project!
Do you have a ticket to AURA?
In your classroom, you should already have chosen your Trigger artifact, have your images ready and in your folder in Students Commons and your video recorded and placed in your folder too.
If so, you have your ticket to AURA!
Watch this video to see how things work in Aurasma Studio.
Create an Aura in Aurasma Studio
The first thing we are going to do is get you into your School Email account so that you can set up an account in Aurasma Studio using your email account. Exciting times!!
Once that is done, we'll start importing images and video and creating our auras!
In your classroom, you should already have chosen your Trigger artifact, have your images ready and in your folder in Students Commons and your video recorded and placed in your folder too.
If so, you have your ticket to AURA!
Watch this video to see how things work in Aurasma Studio.
Create an Aura in Aurasma Studio
The first thing we are going to do is get you into your School Email account so that you can set up an account in Aurasma Studio using your email account. Exciting times!!
Once that is done, we'll start importing images and video and creating our auras!
Monday, 23 March 2015
Grade 7s! Welcome back!
We have applied for a technology grant for $15,000 … AND got it! And now you get to use the technology. iPads, Nikon digital cameras, professional microphones. Just wait! It's going to be amazing!
The first project that was put forward to the Board was to create professional Read-Aloud books for our Primary students. Say WHAT???
You guys are going to research and check out read-aloud books that are out there on the internet right now and figure our what makes them really rock - (you're hooked and want to listen to the whole thing) and what really sucks or loses your attention before you get half way through. Once we have figured out what is going to make amazing Read-Alouds, you will each get to choose a favourite book from when you were a kid and YOU are going to become a film maker and create one of these read-alouds that we will publish on our YouTube channel for the world to see but also make a QR code for all the Primary Classes at Murray to have at their disposal to read at the listening centres they will now have with the iPads for their classrooms! Man. Long sentence!
Down to BUSINESS! Go to any of these sites. Read Alouds 1, Read Alouds 2, Read Alouds 3, Read Alouds 4, Read Alouds 5
Choose any of the Read-Alouds and start brainstorming on the Popplets on the Smart Board. Popplet is just a web brainstorming tool that does the "bubble organizing" for you! Click on any bubble. Click on any of the grey and white dots and you will get a subset bubble that branches off from the main idea. Make sure you read the posts that are already there. Don't write down the same thing twice! Add to the posts if what you have to say is related!
Any great feature - add it to the "So COOL" map. Any feature we should avoid in our read-alouds, add to the "So NOT" mind map.
Good luck! I've started you with 3 categories. Let's see what you get!
You guys are going to research and check out read-aloud books that are out there on the internet right now and figure our what makes them really rock - (you're hooked and want to listen to the whole thing) and what really sucks or loses your attention before you get half way through. Once we have figured out what is going to make amazing Read-Alouds, you will each get to choose a favourite book from when you were a kid and YOU are going to become a film maker and create one of these read-alouds that we will publish on our YouTube channel for the world to see but also make a QR code for all the Primary Classes at Murray to have at their disposal to read at the listening centres they will now have with the iPads for their classrooms! Man. Long sentence!
Down to BUSINESS! Go to any of these sites. Read Alouds 1, Read Alouds 2, Read Alouds 3, Read Alouds 4, Read Alouds 5
Choose any of the Read-Alouds and start brainstorming on the Popplets on the Smart Board. Popplet is just a web brainstorming tool that does the "bubble organizing" for you! Click on any bubble. Click on any of the grey and white dots and you will get a subset bubble that branches off from the main idea. Make sure you read the posts that are already there. Don't write down the same thing twice! Add to the posts if what you have to say is related!
Any great feature - add it to the "So COOL" map. Any feature we should avoid in our read-alouds, add to the "So NOT" mind map.
Good luck! I've started you with 3 categories. Let's see what you get!
Thursday, 19 February 2015
L'Histoire 7: New France and British North America 1713-1800
Wonderful 7F of the 7/8F combo. Here are some links to sites that will help you inquire and wonder about life in this country now called Canada. You can form your own opinions about how Canada came to be from a historical perspective. Start wondering!
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
Black History Month
Click on this link to start to understand the place that these people had in the forming of our country and our sense of identity.
NFB Black History Month Films
If you have a Smartphone or a device that can load apps, download the app called "Augmented Reality Freedom Stories". It's free at the App Store.
You will be able to see and hear the stories of over 20 courageous Black people who found their own way to FREEDOM. Just open the app, and hold your device over the target pictures that Mme Walker Hope and Mrs. Traynor have and be amazed!
You can do this at home too by printing out the pictures at the Harriet Tubman Institute website.
Here's the link!
Freedom Stories Target Pictures
Hopefully at least one of these people will 'inspire you to inquire' for your project. Good luck!
NFB Black History Month Films
If you have a Smartphone or a device that can load apps, download the app called "Augmented Reality Freedom Stories". It's free at the App Store.
You will be able to see and hear the stories of over 20 courageous Black people who found their own way to FREEDOM. Just open the app, and hold your device over the target pictures that Mme Walker Hope and Mrs. Traynor have and be amazed!
You can do this at home too by printing out the pictures at the Harriet Tubman Institute website.
Here's the link!
Freedom Stories Target Pictures
Hopefully at least one of these people will 'inspire you to inquire' for your project. Good luck!
L'Histoire 8: La création du Canada - Creating CANADA! 1850-1890
This symbaloo contains links that will help you understand and research what it was like to live in this country that would become Canada in 1850 from all sorts of different perspectives. A lot of the links that are side by side are the same website in english and in french to help you with your vocabulary.
Inquire and be inspired!
Inquire and be inspired!
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