Fclark10's List: The Cloud

• And teachers use virtual Post-it notes to advise students as they create their own television shows.
• • Wixie allows the students to create their OWN apps through this google cloud app.
• Wixie, a cloudbased solution that allows students to create original art, voice recordings, and written communication in one place online
• The older students designed math activities using the online application, and then worked one-on-one to teach the concepts to all of the younger pupils in the project
• "The kindergarteners were learning about shapes, so the fourth-graders used Wixie to design shape activities for them with directions like, 'Fill in the triangle shapes with red,' or 'Drag the shape word inside the shape
• • Fourth graders are designing their OWN lesson plans for younger children. WOW!
• One older student took the lesson plan to a new level by integrating a project on proper nouns into the mix. Working on his computer screen, the kindergartener had to drag the proper nouns into one box, and the regular nouns into another
• With the help of Adobe Connect Professional, the district's technology team has set up a way for students, teachers, and outside parties who might participate in a field trip--like forest rangers and university scientists--to collaborate online before, during, and after the trips.
• Palm Beach students met online with park rangers via a video chat to ask questions, obtain beach reports, and gather other pertinent information
• Once out in the field, students were armed with laptops, cameras, and scientific probe devices that allowed them to gather data for use in the classroom the next day
• • Anyone is able to experience the field trip. The kids were exposed to information before, during, and after the field trip because of Adobe Connect Professional cloud App.
• Final reports (both written and video) were completed online and shared with teachers back at the school. Teachers were able to connect with the students in real time with feedback to the information they were uploading, ask additional questions, and even grade the assignments students were completing back at the park
• "pop in
• The Unquowa School in Fairfield, CT, began using Google Apps about two years ago, and today about 85 percent of the institution's teachers use the cloud-based solution for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations.
• Using the application also holds students more accountable: Excuses like "the dog ate my homework" don't fly in the virtual world. "My students come to class prepared," says Mitchell. "That alone creates a more enriching and efficient classroom environment."
• students used Google Docs to take notes in an outline format. Once the assignments were finished and dropped into their respective online folders, Mitchell was able to correct them immediately.
• If Mitchell happens to be online while students are working on their assignments, he can simply "pop in." Students can communicate with him or with other students via instant message. Mitchell can also give instant demonstrations, and the students can follow up immediately with questions
• • Google Docs is a way to communicate and share class work with peer. StudySyn offers library resources and randomly assigns peers work to edit.
• Gilbert's cloud tool of choice is StudySync, which connects students to an extensive, online library of classics, modern texts, video-based lessons, and, most important, peer-to-peer communication tools
• At the same time, they are randomly assigned a certain number of their classmates' work to review.
• "The cloud offers everybody the ubiquity of being able to access your material everywhere," says Gilbert
• "We're now at the point in education where we can have massive wikis with literally hundreds of students involved," adds Davis, "all editing and working together for a common cause."
• • Wiki lets you have groups of 500+ students which is awesome! Google offers a calendar that organized assignments and lesson plans.
• with a Google Calendar that's populated with lesson plans, assignments, and other pertinent information created for students.
• Roughly 500 students worldwide are working together online to create and edit a wiki that examines current trends in college education. For example, in looking at digital textbooks on campus, students examine the characteristics of their various generations and make predictions about the use of e-books over the next five years.
• "They are all working together to write an authentic, unique research report in the cloud," says Davis. "The end result will be a great wiki document on how their generation will actually use various technology tools in college."
• Lino, an online web sticky note service that can be used to post memos, to-do lists, ideas, and photos anywhere on an online web canvas.
• • Students use Garage band, upload to Lino, and teacher can post the feedback directly onto the website.
• collaborative workspace.
• For a recent homework project, students used Apple's GarageBand software to create a television show on ancient Indian and Chinese civilizations. The show was modeled after the TV quiz show Cash Cab, in which unwitting passengers play a trivia game for money.
• "Students use it to post images, upload movies, share ideas, and talk to one another," says Ryan
• The projects were then uploaded to a Lino page, where Ryan was able to collaborate with students by providing feedback and input directly through Lino's sticky notes and conversation tools.
• PBworks wiki page, which served as a "home base" for the shows. "This is a great way to communicate and for me to see the work they're doing both in and out of school," she says.
• In the spring of 2009, the Foundation for Blind Children launched a six-month pilot program that aimed to prove that a cloud-based, assistive-technology instruction model could allow teachers of the visually impaired to conduct lessons, adapt materials, consult with classroom teachers, and work with students remotely in real time
• Iveda Solutions and its product, Camina "camera in a bag"--a mobile, pan-tiltzoom camera system, with cellular-broadband connectivity and cloud-based video hosting services, that would allow the teacher to monitor the student's activities from a remote location.
• • HUGE step for the visually impaired. Allowed them to communicate without being present, thanks to cloud.
• The camera solution meant that the teacher and student could communicate-and the teacher could monitor the student's work--without being physically present.
• The high-quality, portable, cloud-based camera could go anywhere the student went. It also allowed students access to any number of teachers who could provide the best instruction for a specific task (without the teacher being physically present).
• Elizabeth Fierst, a sixth-grade language arts teacher, has used the district's School Loop website to create a cloud-based project called Novel Podcasts
• Students in her class choose one of three novels to read and then participate in virtual literary study groups with peers who have chosen the same novel.
• In the online study groups, they share personal reading responses and discuss character, setting, and plot.
• • Novel Podcasts allows students to review and edit the same novel together.
• Fierst is able to keep track of each student's progress throughout the project with the School Loop website's virtual discussion threads and assignment-based discussions.
• The student's peers, as well as Fierst, can leave their feedback in response to updated progress on the project as quickly as it is completed by each of the students. Then the students are able to virtually keep track of their notes and feedback in their own School Loop digital lockers, which make possible unlimited data storage, document sharing, and remote retrieval of all information
• three-paragraph written script, as a virtual book report.
• podcas
• MasteryConnect has created a free, cloud-based solution to help teachers collaborate to track their students' mastery of Common Core Standards.

• "When teachers I'm following in my school, district, or other states share their common assessments around the core, I can instantly see how other teachers are assessing and tracking mastery."

  MasteryConnect has taken aim at the old average
• -based grading system, and focused on providing a way for teachers to visualize the progress of student mastery of concepts and standards. That information is then made available to parents and administrators in real time and shows exactly how well students are doing.

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• Did you know that Google offers a sortable library of lesson plans that are free to download and use
• part of the company’s big push into education (seems to be quite the trend these days) and involves thousands of free lesson plans just waiting for you to try out.

• Features
• The App Engine SDK allows you to test applications locally in a simulated environment and then deploy your app with simple command-line tools or the desktop launcher.