tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2422253123598720432024-03-13T06:48:35.744+07:001:1 in PracticeThis blog documents the use of technology and MakerEd in practice. The opinions expressed on this blog are that of the author Jane Ross.Jane Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01116220945042089580noreply@blogger.comBlogger240125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242225312359872043.post-33110228596331900592022-03-27T13:28:00.011+07:002022-03-27T14:06:12.075+07:00Learning is Inspired<p>Over the past 4 months I have been learning to work with wood. After moving to Australia, I quickly got a job teaching at OneSchool Global in Brisbane. I am now teaching Design Technology from Yr 3-11. It's a different experience to teaching overseas. </p><p>After settling in during my first weeks, I soon realized that I needed to up skill myself in woodworking. The school has a wood working room, full of equipment that I hadn't used before. I did try completing a safety program online, but I soon realized that I needed to attend some classes in person to learn about how to construct with wood. In my previous school in Jakarta, I ran a Maker Space. The room had a lot of specialized equipment, but only hand tools for working with wood. I had access to a wonderful laser cutter - a Glowforge, but I still had too little experience in working with wood beyond plywood boards. </p><p>In my second term of teaching, I was really excited to teach a unit all about up-cycling. This involved taking something old and renovating it to increase its value. I chose to work on a project of my own at school to gain a better understanding of the time, skills and equipment required. I had observed that my students really like PBL - Project Based Learning and having some choice around what to make. I started with a chair and brought it into school to use a provocation. </p><p>The chair did spark a little conversation but my students were not very interested in it. </p><p></p><blockquote><p>How could I get their interest? </p><p>How could I show that I am a learner too?</p><p>How could I inspire students to develop the Maker's mindset?</p></blockquote><p></p><p>My shipping had just arrived from Jakarta and with it was my 30 year old guitar. It was the perfect choice! My students are very musical and there are a lot of small music bands in the school. I chose to up-cycle this old Yamaha and along the way demonstrate the Design cycle and share my process as a learner. </p><p>How could up-cycling a guitar teach me about working with wood? Through my research, I soon realized that I would have to remove the strings and tuners and completely sand back the whole guitar (except for the fretboard). I learned that I needed to understand about finishing the wood after painting on the waterlily so that it could be played as a guitar. </p><p>Not only did I get to learn about guitars, but I also learned about my students and their skills. </p><p>Along the way I would ask: </p><p></p><blockquote><p>'What should I do next?'</p><p>'How will I know what's right?'</p><p>'Where can I get help with this?'</p></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQChRLHityvZbs9zEVLA3MnIGQd6HYOf-NYZ6c29-zcbr3z1UOZLlByspN5FG55cCbQnI9oKVJvHU52SHcx9Xt-eNU_kabuIe0kJbnV01uYiB_mnLPLR9mkAvcOICgVNp9AV6SHo2Zh16STokRutlgKbTsbdkd3kLOh8AxATRhaFr6_LkqCyK7FvaT/s4032/IMG_5385.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQChRLHityvZbs9zEVLA3MnIGQd6HYOf-NYZ6c29-zcbr3z1UOZLlByspN5FG55cCbQnI9oKVJvHU52SHcx9Xt-eNU_kabuIe0kJbnV01uYiB_mnLPLR9mkAvcOICgVNp9AV6SHo2Zh16STokRutlgKbTsbdkd3kLOh8AxATRhaFr6_LkqCyK7FvaT/s320/IMG_5385.JPG" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggGL4DeSX0-SClAuDJPOXeCYT0ZbUzQbrXFr6wWJAUA402k8GXzoDAYM0lqwKVxl2P9zbPOxNj0C3-Olk8qNwjGRsSzjn8d17QcCXbss7N9vGDjisJN_bSdxgoodhlYQXwc8iWVKFLG-90mWdwfKLyKUBgukpe9oIo4e1IcDdVFpDixE833gymh2GS/s4032/IMG_5442.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggGL4DeSX0-SClAuDJPOXeCYT0ZbUzQbrXFr6wWJAUA402k8GXzoDAYM0lqwKVxl2P9zbPOxNj0C3-Olk8qNwjGRsSzjn8d17QcCXbss7N9vGDjisJN_bSdxgoodhlYQXwc8iWVKFLG-90mWdwfKLyKUBgukpe9oIo4e1IcDdVFpDixE833gymh2GS/s320/IMG_5442.JPG" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: right;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG6vIDjcRYhIsPERPAFUTIDjjVIGQnr9faX1M5h97hKN4YLabQ3UoC_AmGTM76daDF2Y6mSmbfHZTS1RUTPlmjxdszTqEAEZK3XypUadSX96djJw-oiQKpMU8yRx2Y-cnfWl1ax98qB4ug-5MNmnwXMxahFoFDKgJcWtFDwHudLGL4g9dGpf3j33aE/s4032/IMG_5783.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG6vIDjcRYhIsPERPAFUTIDjjVIGQnr9faX1M5h97hKN4YLabQ3UoC_AmGTM76daDF2Y6mSmbfHZTS1RUTPlmjxdszTqEAEZK3XypUadSX96djJw-oiQKpMU8yRx2Y-cnfWl1ax98qB4ug-5MNmnwXMxahFoFDKgJcWtFDwHudLGL4g9dGpf3j33aE/s320/IMG_5783.JPG" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioFVvUTwLpNtmF86OKGSP7MZXkgRYiyVc7INIwAWHhIhoyCxJ9dKRCdDFBWp_YMbucO8dkj2fZ8_7vqw_srHf57LIPR-54zs_4dXe8AHs-7xI_s9Q9fP2BErQG1jg7wEIv_ZciB8gr5SE0C0_w-wQLUzdQBmKzg46xSwTAQG4mDjlZOpo10_aF7Rw8/s1800/IMG_5794.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1800" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioFVvUTwLpNtmF86OKGSP7MZXkgRYiyVc7INIwAWHhIhoyCxJ9dKRCdDFBWp_YMbucO8dkj2fZ8_7vqw_srHf57LIPR-54zs_4dXe8AHs-7xI_s9Q9fP2BErQG1jg7wEIv_ZciB8gr5SE0C0_w-wQLUzdQBmKzg46xSwTAQG4mDjlZOpo10_aF7Rw8/w321-h321/IMG_5794.JPG" width="321" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Did I inspire learning? Yes </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Was it engaging for my students? Yes </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Did I learn from my students? Yes </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Did I make mistakes? Yes</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Did I share my mistakes with my students? Yes </div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here are some photos of the student projects produced.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJk0DyjoxiGDrzrC55IUT5lwRsi7BwpQw8S0HCkjhYN-g_RSvReG5l6I_iw_GMJS22qsjUTw6O-95R-fPR9_bL_8-OwqVqx54KxPDEaxdhbMiErA3h8kJnbIaPLXUFCAST7Jf5fb5Rf60vOu9Dqnii4iEZp8_MuC4RdbuuJXzcPYN-Hqg8uH3tUv3m/s1800/IMG_5991.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJk0DyjoxiGDrzrC55IUT5lwRsi7BwpQw8S0HCkjhYN-g_RSvReG5l6I_iw_GMJS22qsjUTw6O-95R-fPR9_bL_8-OwqVqx54KxPDEaxdhbMiErA3h8kJnbIaPLXUFCAST7Jf5fb5Rf60vOu9Dqnii4iEZp8_MuC4RdbuuJXzcPYN-Hqg8uH3tUv3m/w640-h640/IMG_5991.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><br /></div></div></div></div>This is just the beginning. Through my research into guitar making, I found a Luthier (guitar maker) in Brisbane. Long story short, I went to visit that workshop on a weekend and decided to learn to make a guitar myself from wood. But, that's a whole other story and needs a post or two on it's own. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-weight: normal;">"Learning is inspired"</span></h2><br /><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Jane Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01116220945042089580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242225312359872043.post-36323797099872917412021-06-01T12:20:00.012+07:002021-06-01T12:48:15.345+07:00School Yearbook - Reimagined and Published Online with Book Creator<p>This year, I was given the task to coordinate and produce the annual yearbook. Traditionally, the yearbook was coordinated by a group of teachers and the layouts were produced by an organisation outside of the school. The book itself was a traditional heavy hardbound paper format that featured school events and those formal galleries of student photos in passport-style format. Given that our learning this year has been online, it was a logical choice to create an online digital yearbook. </p><p>I chose to use online Book Creator as this app is widely used by our students, can be accessed via any device and importantly can accomodate a wide range of multimedia. I also really wanted to make this yearbook more environmentally friendly. There are cupboards full of old yearbooks at school which will probably never be used. Using Book Creator online had meant that our whole school community has easy access to the book and all those school event highlight videos could be included directly in the book. </p><p>My process began by pitching layout ideas first to our school management and then later to all teachers at a weekly staff meeting. The biggest challenge was finding enough good quality photos of students engaged in their learning. This was because we had been learning online this year due to the pandemic. Photos taken via Zoom were not clear enough we needed help from our parents to send in photos of learning in action. It was a mammoth task to make sure that every child from Early Years to our eldest grade level was well represented.</p><p>I was keen to break away from the traditional headshot passport photo galleries that were a feature of every yearbook in the past. I have always found them to be too formal and they don't capture the personality of the individual. I started by creating a collection of ideas in which classes could be collaged together with fun themes for each grade level. Some examples of these were garden scapes, superheroes, a rainy day and 'What's your passion?'. As we had been transitioning into blended learning, I was able to photograph some students who attended school social pods using a green screen and the students who weren't able to come to campus sent in a head-to-toe photograph in front of a plain background. Each of these photos had the backgrounds removed so they could be layered together as a class.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEn4YJKEZ9-e_vFOjUvyylY2scUqD6W_56sGHsCPWo8g-0MiRqVo754nO8J5PKyKSC9GvNrUR2rDqg2w5TspgiRw1nWTLOPnUw2sJkT_Zj4qR2cw80xzm81FdiHd516tD8xX2-kNnwI6w/s2048/IMG_3762.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEn4YJKEZ9-e_vFOjUvyylY2scUqD6W_56sGHsCPWo8g-0MiRqVo754nO8J5PKyKSC9GvNrUR2rDqg2w5TspgiRw1nWTLOPnUw2sJkT_Zj4qR2cw80xzm81FdiHd516tD8xX2-kNnwI6w/w179-h239/IMG_3762.JPG" width="179" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNwbiPAZElo_Zf9AodyAhC8TfoZz1VhO4QLGB1A6J93yWb30PJ009DC705JXVcTNp4uVsyhAaUGWhD1qX3Dc2dUt0ikNqG5mqLHI_8Bo-rMwL1Jdk4pm1lHCGeDA2mU49jS0zrTUF4v_s/s577/IMG_3762-removebg-preview.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="433" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNwbiPAZElo_Zf9AodyAhC8TfoZz1VhO4QLGB1A6J93yWb30PJ009DC705JXVcTNp4uVsyhAaUGWhD1qX3Dc2dUt0ikNqG5mqLHI_8Bo-rMwL1Jdk4pm1lHCGeDA2mU49jS0zrTUF4v_s/w176-h235/IMG_3762-removebg-preview.png" width="176" /></a> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We decided to keep masks on for these class photos to capture this unique school year. I used photoshop and the website <a href="http://www.remove.bg">www.remove.bg</a> to remove the backgrounds and then layered the photos together in <a href="https://www.canva.com/" target="_blank">Canva</a> which is an online app that allows editing layers of photos to create a digital collage.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC0riRAICSFiLI9gCPGnpYMhzVMwGP7v4gQtoJUFtniVJ-2_OWQxrLyXyMSrqpcAbnaPwqf1jn-PCz1Z-ZA5_35FfPDgcuifuFFoPX8zfBsuCoKv5p9Mle4f9OOwkmGwoNeQdm769sIew/s2048/1JP++copy.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC0riRAICSFiLI9gCPGnpYMhzVMwGP7v4gQtoJUFtniVJ-2_OWQxrLyXyMSrqpcAbnaPwqf1jn-PCz1Z-ZA5_35FfPDgcuifuFFoPX8zfBsuCoKv5p9Mle4f9OOwkmGwoNeQdm769sIew/w473-h285/1JP++copy.png" width="473" /></a><br /></div></div><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMMm8G37I0hi4Yy2s9kHPiDdy43FyLSGFyFetJCfVvqFDdv0JmVINrz8q1cTT0FmR73pmECQLjEvMxvY4iDUV1IcfSYCFtufRtaQnH_Q085Xh-Dt_R8WHDYctHLyq4QLlD1VwcOu-tdKI/s2048/3KF+copy.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1301" data-original-width="2048" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMMm8G37I0hi4Yy2s9kHPiDdy43FyLSGFyFetJCfVvqFDdv0JmVINrz8q1cTT0FmR73pmECQLjEvMxvY4iDUV1IcfSYCFtufRtaQnH_Q085Xh-Dt_R8WHDYctHLyq4QLlD1VwcOu-tdKI/w473-h301/3KF+copy.png" width="473" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRMXVGTg0MVqgAyuH9WDts_M1_o4frbO4pL2L5KPUE5qek25FatDkTMEwpl3AiWT_Dzoy0MaQYcbB1fHu_3EGZrdG0QuEKX6nJzS4c7Yvc_AASf_VeGKGp42_YqSh4VlnhqvW6gIT2E64/s2048/4+copy.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1320" data-original-width="2048" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRMXVGTg0MVqgAyuH9WDts_M1_o4frbO4pL2L5KPUE5qek25FatDkTMEwpl3AiWT_Dzoy0MaQYcbB1fHu_3EGZrdG0QuEKX6nJzS4c7Yvc_AASf_VeGKGp42_YqSh4VlnhqvW6gIT2E64/w472-h304/4+copy.png" width="472" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Once the class layouts were made, it was easy to upload them to Book Creator. In Book Creator online, I added photos of online learning for each class and specialist subject area, special school events and even embedded videos. To make the yearbook more accessible, I included a Table of Contents to hyperlink to each section of the book and a back button on each page to allow a quick return to the Table of Contents. The finished book has over 215 pages and will soon be embedded on our school website. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVFeNOwVTSAylqmAQieK2ghJE8eP7bSJ54draDNzContHx1fy6cgrzoWPQoYJe47xI9sCsJFhQNalrGtQ6HrLJ6TIhqOtWXQAu7_bo8cEDeYAcFyKdHSWhbufKRrUgJBAJx6qTR3v9VuU/s2012/Screen+Shot+2021-06-01+at+12.07.25.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1418" data-original-width="2012" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVFeNOwVTSAylqmAQieK2ghJE8eP7bSJ54draDNzContHx1fy6cgrzoWPQoYJe47xI9sCsJFhQNalrGtQ6HrLJ6TIhqOtWXQAu7_bo8cEDeYAcFyKdHSWhbufKRrUgJBAJx6qTR3v9VuU/w450-h318/Screen+Shot+2021-06-01+at+12.07.25.png" width="450" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To cater to those individuals that really wanted a printed copy, I also made the PDF version available for printing on a photocopier. Here is a sneak peek at that hard copy version. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxgNWztziMUX4SY2nX3_DHvCM3tGjJIRm2bnY0Jc_Vz9KjNOa9tx3oh_t-bx_kKv3ExcUA3yTGGXEGLyM7mkg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /></div><p></p>Jane Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01116220945042089580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242225312359872043.post-49714173491419014972020-10-11T17:31:00.003+07:002020-10-11T17:34:40.870+07:00Oculus Quest First Steps<p>I have always been interested in VR and I've played around with Google Cardboard but I was not prepared with the huge difference that comes with a real VR headset. My school is investigating ways to use VR in teaching. I knew that I needed to get my own device so that I could really take the time needed to learn about VR.</p><p>It's always been my habit when using new tech, to find a way that is meaningful for me personally so that I can really see what the possibilities are. I soon learned from the free sample apps on Oculus that there is a whole world of VR fitness. I started to watch Youtube videos about different apps and decided to start with Beat Saber. </p><p>The game took my interest straight away. You get two lightsabers to slash flying blocks in the direction of the arrows on them. The larger your movement, the higher the score will be. It's a rhythm game and it's great to move and slash in time with the music. Watching Youtube I soon learned that there is a way to add songs via a program called BeastSaber. This online community hosts a huge collection of popular songs created by users for playing with Beat Saber. After a bit of working out (and watching a few tutorials) I learned how to set up my Developer account with Oculus, enable that mode on my Oculus app on my iPhone and then add songs via <a href="https://bsaber.com/oculus-quest-custom-songs/" target="_blank">SideQuest and BMBF</a>. The difference in gameplay was huge because now I could choose from hundreds of songs, and many already rated by the Beast Saber community. </p><p>Now, I'm not saying here that fitness in VR is something that will be used at school but, who knows right? I see this as a way for me to learn how to use the Oculus and I might even improve my own fitness in the process. </p><p>Soooo, I played about 14 games today in Beat Saber and it gave me enough exercise on my Apple watch to close the green exercise ring. What a plus! You might be reading this blog and wondering what's this got to do the education? Everything! I have always learned new tech by playing with it. Learning whilst in 'play mode' helps me to make connections that I might not get if I am too focussed on conquering the new tool. </p><p>Here's a video of one YouTuber playing Beat Saber. Maybe I'll learn how to use the green screen to make my own video like this? Maybe I'll learn to make my own Beat Saber map? What's that? It's creating those flying blocks that go along with the song to be played in the app. So many new things to learn! You know, I am starting to make connections as to how VR could be used already. Can't wait to learn more ...</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qBRHFcwlxdk" width="320" youtube-src-id="qBRHFcwlxdk"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242225312359872043.post-3810011089997652062020-08-23T17:55:00.009+07:002020-08-23T19:45:01.086+07:00Make a Jigsaw in Google Slides<p>I wanted to create an online puzzle activity for Grade 5 now that everyone is learning from home. The problem with many sites is unwanted ads or that users often are required to sign up. I have been playing with the idea of collaborative puzzles so that students can work together whilst practicing using a trackpad. Using Google Slides makes it easy to share and control how many users are in each puzzle. There are no ads and I can check which students are working on what puzzle as their Google accounts will show me who is in which slide deck. And it's fun!</p><p>I thought that solving a jigsaw would give some practice in clicking and dragging the puzzle pieces whilst being careful not to resize them. I can also teach the students <b>command-z</b> which is <b>undo </b>on a Mac. </p><h2 style="text-align: left;">How to make the Puzzle</h2><p>Start by opening a new Slide doc from Google Drive and creating the image that you wish to use for the puzzle. It's a good idea to use a blank slide as the proportions match well with the puzzle website. </p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Pro-Tip</h2><div>In Google Slides you can easily search for images by clicking the photo icon from the menu bar and selecting 'Search the Web'. Be sure to use photos that are labeled for reuse. </div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L5BK_Q-_tWk/X0I-lPAld5I/AAAAAAABAGY/XQdIAGyNnzAJIf6SSpQOwYPMRgL0oY6twCLcBGAsYHQ/s1166/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-08-23%2Bat%2B17.01.35.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="1166" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L5BK_Q-_tWk/X0I-lPAld5I/AAAAAAABAGY/XQdIAGyNnzAJIf6SSpQOwYPMRgL0oY6twCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-08-23%2Bat%2B17.01.35.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Once you have created your finished image - download that slide as a JPEG ready for uploading to the online jigsaw puzzle maker. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ignWHlqjDdw/X0I_2AalBZI/AAAAAAABAGk/ExkUZ0BoY3sKCpiSJag2S29Xt88jRJGkgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-08-23%2Bat%2B17.06.18.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ignWHlqjDdw/X0I_2AalBZI/AAAAAAABAGk/ExkUZ0BoY3sKCpiSJag2S29Xt88jRJGkgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-08-23%2Bat%2B17.06.18.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Go to <a href="https://thejigsawpuzzles.com/">https://thejigsawpuzzles.com/</a> and create an account. It's free and it will save your project work. You can save up to 30 puzzles for free. Create a new puzzle and upload your JPEG. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8OV9_S6R3cY/X0JkWJ7a2BI/AAAAAAABAHc/UqmUDsevh4oOE7CccHtxAZE_ayamuWufACLcBGAsYHQ/s2016/1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="916" data-original-width="2016" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8OV9_S6R3cY/X0JkWJ7a2BI/AAAAAAABAHc/UqmUDsevh4oOE7CccHtxAZE_ayamuWufACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/1.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I prefer to leave my puzzles unchanged so that the pieces don't have to be rotated. This mode is easier for beginners and for students working in groups to solve the puzzle. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7JzDgJKDI0w/X0JB0vtLNRI/AAAAAAABAG4/nLlPiSYyu7UJ5H96YpDOCYC9RxAjzNSwgCLcBGAsYHQ/s986/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-08-23%2Bat%2B17.13.42.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="986" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7JzDgJKDI0w/X0JB0vtLNRI/AAAAAAABAG4/nLlPiSYyu7UJ5H96YpDOCYC9RxAjzNSwgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-08-23%2Bat%2B17.13.42.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When you want to create the pieces, mouse over the thumbnail of your puzzle to select what kind of cut and how many pieces you want. It's 100 pieces by default but I prefer 50 so it doesn't take too long to solve. Once the puzzle pieces have been generated, you will need to copy each one by one over to your Slides document. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I like to use a <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204948" target="_blank">split-screen</a> on my Macbook so that I can copy-paste the pieces. <b>You can't do them all at once as it will act as one image. You will need to copy them one by one. </b>Do this by right-clicking each piece and choosing copy and then on your slides window click <b>command-v</b>.<b> </b>There are a couple of advantages to making the puzzle in Google Slides, no ads, no sign-ups, and students can work in small groups to solve the puzzle. Once you have all the pieces copied over, try making the puzzle to check if the size works. I didn't change the size which works well as it is smaller than the default slide. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SstqIyGVO0M/X0JDvJDmiXI/AAAAAAABAHE/1CMbI2WfWBkr0WDnxFtKyTJN3cyaW1kpACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-08-23%2Bat%2B17.23.15.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SstqIyGVO0M/X0JDvJDmiXI/AAAAAAABAHE/1CMbI2WfWBkr0WDnxFtKyTJN3cyaW1kpACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-08-23%2Bat%2B17.23.15.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AWO4c_CQPas/X0JHuHt9_kI/AAAAAAABAHQ/sKM46s9NIZ0FvgXY2D3qVEgTYBFhcIEKwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-08-23%2Bat%2B17.40.27.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1085" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AWO4c_CQPas/X0JHuHt9_kI/AAAAAAABAHQ/sKM46s9NIZ0FvgXY2D3qVEgTYBFhcIEKwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-08-23%2Bat%2B17.40.27.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Once your puzzle is ready, all you need to do is share it with your class. You can even make copies so that you can have smaller groups working on the puzzles. It's a fun way to learn about controlling the trackpad which is such an important skill for students learning to use a MacBook. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242225312359872043.post-70703109335185186882020-08-17T15:20:00.002+07:002020-08-17T18:57:35.324+07:00The Power of Publishing<p>Recently I ran two online workshops via Google Meet for the <a href="https://www.emmanuel.foundation/innovative-schools-programme " target="_blank">Emmanual Foundation's Innovative Schools Project.</a> The workshops were to help their graduates try to meet the needs of online learning now that all schools in Indonesia are closed due to the pandemic.</p><p>The first workshop was designed for teachers that are new to Google apps. I introduced Slides and led the participants through how to make a simple layout with layered photos in Slides. </p><p>I wanted to keep things very simple so we stayed completely within the app and used the Google Image Search that is inside. I taught the participants how to add .png to a photo search to get vector images with transparent backgrounds. </p><p>The task I set was to make a lesson that used photos and instructions. The participants were so keen that the workshop went on for 2 hours. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sgnMe_FVpyI/Xzo523GC7-I/AAAAAAABAFI/7FqI3VRkTyc0WLO2eUIHLkffB-Cl__6dACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-08-17%2Bat%2B15.03.12.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sgnMe_FVpyI/Xzo523GC7-I/AAAAAAABAFI/7FqI3VRkTyc0WLO2eUIHLkffB-Cl__6dACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-08-17%2Bat%2B15.03.12.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For the follow-up workshop, I taught the participants to create a virtual reading room. Here is the example that I used <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1R69Se-0kmusg_Vp7rW0E9tCNHvZwBZ7dQRuhbGepAy4/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Virtual Reading Room.</a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1R69Se-0kmusg_Vp7rW0E9tCNHvZwBZ7dQRuhbGepAy4/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1054" data-original-width="1870" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aJVTZZwtHKc/Xzo7Zfzy_sI/AAAAAAABAFU/teCUnqSCHCcbVTPo9-yPh_nJaavO26pSgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-08-17%2Bat%2B15.09.45.png" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The example that I used with the group was in Indonesian. I published these stories almost 8 years ago. They were written as a part of the backpack project that I did back in 2012 in a small village in North Sumatra. I worked with the children in that village to write every day stories about their life. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There was a lot of discussion about these books and I hope that I inspired these teachers to try publishing stories of their own. I used <a href="https://www.bookcreator.com ">Book Creator</a> to publish these books and they even have a free version that includes 40 books. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was so proud to see that these teachers (70 attended my session) were able to make their own reading rooms. Here's an example from the class. Here is a screenshot of a virtual reading room created by one of the participants. She even put links to each book and filtered the YouTube videos with SafeTube. I'm happy because I did go in detail about online safety and whilst YouTube has so many awesome videos, it's much safer to filter out unwanted content. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0DhRXmZX48w/Xzo8xEgBRZI/AAAAAAABAFg/meRrHei-fvY_UeDH-kuKWSrP1AIYxV4dACLcBGAsYHQ/s1950/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-08-17%2Bat%2B15.14.52.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1098" data-original-width="1950" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0DhRXmZX48w/Xzo8xEgBRZI/AAAAAAABAFg/meRrHei-fvY_UeDH-kuKWSrP1AIYxV4dACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-08-17%2Bat%2B15.14.52.png" width="640" /></a></div></div></div><p></p>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242225312359872043.post-3386304872203151572020-07-25T16:18:00.001+07:002020-08-20T16:21:47.682+07:00Kumparan National Children’s Online Festival<p><span face="" style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 19px;">I want to share about an event that fellow ADE Hugo Indratno I did with media site Kumparan.com here in Indonesia. We had an amazing time creating a sharing about our JIS Elementary Personal Learning Program. It's a MakerEd program which is very PBL in nature and blends Apple technology with hands-on learning. Our message for this online event was all about how parents and schools can develop children's passions and creativity. The program ran via live streaming on YouTube (Festival Hari Anak Live - Hari Ketiga - YouTube ) for a couple of hours and included a making tutorial, tips for parents, and a live talk show all about fostering passions. It was so exciting to have President Jokowi and his wife introduce the event!</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" face="" style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 19px;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Hugo and I worked with the Kumparan team to create the story behind the segments and the talking points for the talk show.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was pretty cool to be able to share our teaching with such a huge audience. 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I share about Augmented Reality and how you make it. In my workshop taught about how to create interactive augmented reality
on an iPad using Apple Reality Composer. It was a pack session and I took a suitcase of iPads from school for participants to use. We also explored Merge Cube together with Tinkercad as older iPads can use this. I wanted to make sure that I offered a number of options for schools with different types of iPads.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-weWdrcEDLSQ/X0Mk-5KZpsI/AAAAAAABAHo/DXnRDST_p7cfGv54xlUkZKWLJsoK6v8aACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2678.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-weWdrcEDLSQ/X0Mk-5KZpsI/AAAAAAABAHo/DXnRDST_p7cfGv54xlUkZKWLJsoK6v8aACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_2678.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I also share about my new book <a href="https://books.apple.com/au/book/create-your-own-ar-pets/id1499247745" target="_blank">Create Your Own AR Pet</a>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mdy4O2D86M0/X0MmaVCM4uI/AAAAAAABAH0/ztdQuu90KMAWGUs1oDmPe6sPWbTqFEXmACLcBGAsYHQ/s1792/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-02-02%2Bat%2B12.38.27.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1344" data-original-width="1792" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mdy4O2D86M0/X0MmaVCM4uI/AAAAAAABAH0/ztdQuu90KMAWGUs1oDmPe6sPWbTqFEXmACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-02-02%2Bat%2B12.38.27.PNG" width="640" /></a></div></div><p></p><p><br /></p>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242225312359872043.post-30680636026621824342019-12-29T09:24:00.000+07:002019-12-29T09:33:53.602+07:00Personal Learning at JIS - Learning How to LearnThis is the second year that I have been running the big Makerspace (double classroom) at the JIS Elementary, PIE campus. I have been wanting to update this blog with my thoughts as to how the process is going. I am aiming to publish a more comprehensive guide on this by the end of this current academic year. Until that time, I am working with teachers to further develop the program. This is a work in process but I am starting the realise that it will always be in a constant stage of development.<br />
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In the past I have published a few books on particular projects that I have done with students. I have always waited until the finish to write the book. For this book however, I am realising that it may never be finished and that I need to move forward with it as it is.<br />
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The personal learning program at JIS has come a long way. Initially it was launched with help from a consultant on inquiry, Kath Murdoch. In the beginning, each homeroom teacher conducted the personal learning in their own classroom. Personal learning meant that each student pitched a proposal for a project idea and then spent the next 6 sessions to work on it. Each project was different. It was very hectic and the students mostly did research projects resulting in a slideshow or a document about what they had learned. There wasn't a lot of projects that involved hands-on making. I believe that this was mostly because managing so many different projects was too overwhelming for the homeroom teacher and there was a lack of resources and a lack of understanding of how to developing making skills.<br />
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I saw an opportunity to help. I love to make, it's what I do in my downtime. I am constantly teaching myself new skills and almost all of my teachers are virtual. I am constantly developing my own Maker Mindset. It's hard, it really is! I fail a lot. I get frustrated a lot. In my role I am continually learning from virtual teachers and in many cases learning on my own through trial and error. This is an important skill for students to develop.<br />
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I work with Apple devices either an iPad, a MacBook or my iPhone. It's my comfort zone. I use a range of apps to help me design and figure out my projects. I am constantly working between digital and analog. It helps me to see. I use the design cycle of Investigate, Design, Create and Evaluate. Using my devices allows me to work within each part of the design cycle.<br />
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Making with your hands is so much harder that just writing about it. It requires skills, knowledge and risk taking as a learner. The Maker Mindset is all about trying to make something even when you don't know if it will work. That's the hardest part.<br />
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I began with a simple idea. I wanted to share how I learn with students. Just that. I felt that I could be the bridge and support students and teachers to enable more hands on learning. I started to work with some classes. I did this by making my own learning more visible.<br />
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I love to say this. Helping teachers and students to work outside of their comfort zone is how I help them to develop learning dispositions. We have four learning dispositions at JIS. They are, reflective, resourceful, resilient and relating. Helping students to develop the Maker Mindset creates opportunities to develop these dispositions. Using the Split Screen (what I am doing/what I am learning) to be mindful of learning really helps students.<br />
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Again - it's hard and requires a lot of energy. I have a lot to think about on this. Perhaps this post can be the start of it?<br />
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I think that this is a book waiting for me to write. I need input though. Shared learning is so much richer.<br />
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More later ...<br />
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Jane Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01116220945042089580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242225312359872043.post-54117115486481379162019-12-22T15:16:00.002+07:002019-12-22T17:10:35.952+07:00Online Book Creator App via iPadI have been a huge fan of the Book Creator ever since it first began. My son John Tambunan was indeed the first child in the world to publish a book with the Book Creator app to the Apple iBooks Store. His book is called '<a href="https://books.apple.com/au/book/little-fish/id505847227" target="_blank">Little Fish</a>'.<br />
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Imagine my excitement when Book Creator online become developed! To be able to use iPads (or MacBooks) to create online books which can be seen and edited by teachers on their own device is so powerful. I started using this app last year in the Makerspace. It is easy to use and has been a great way for students to document their learning in real time. I have hundreds of iTime journals to manage and this tool has made that process much more efficient. It is easy to see the books and you can see all of the ones that have already been published to Seesaw - by the little globe icon. Here is a screen shot of just some of the journals created this quarter.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLi3keh06cCHZZSpGp5AHLt1V0C1JChCZBl-2A95Pa33e6VSrDFyjoay9RzjVx5s2ojkvSM9Kj45bf4BicgbYjYAN10qrpfMmW-9EhEUf2YpeE-G_GgiIghnW6vJWU8JYS25Yxhyphenhyphenz9I74/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-12-22+at+16.59.49.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLi3keh06cCHZZSpGp5AHLt1V0C1JChCZBl-2A95Pa33e6VSrDFyjoay9RzjVx5s2ojkvSM9Kj45bf4BicgbYjYAN10qrpfMmW-9EhEUf2YpeE-G_GgiIghnW6vJWU8JYS25Yxhyphenhyphenz9I74/s640/Screen+Shot+2019-12-22+at+16.59.49.png" width="640" /></a><br />
After this New Year, I am planning to use a template. I have noticed that some of my students do a great job to document their learning but some struggle with including all the details. I have tried many strategies. First I tried using starter sentences on each table. Then I made a display with a checklist of what needs to be included. This did make an impact, but there are still gaps in many of my student books. iTime is such a busy hectic session so the documentation needs to run fairly independently.<br />
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I have been chatting with some of the homeroom teachers, and I am planning to try using a template with some of the classes. Here is that template.<br />
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I am hoping that this will help my students to better understand what needs to be included. I thought that including a key question for each session will also better direct their reflections. I have also created this display board with sentence starters to help reflections. This display features the JIS learning dispositions of Relating, Resourceful, Resilient and Reflective. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi804m7Pk9TsCoKWQxM0MfPknGCwN4uwx3mYxuYcMT2QsylgRE275uR9N1DaKORg-P9twUHWO-D3nrTeubka_CsB-GFTBM0Zf_a562DzNf9Yw_zgLBxB008LVLmEajEhRsPZpBOd8BNeGQ/s1600/IMG_9960.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi804m7Pk9TsCoKWQxM0MfPknGCwN4uwx3mYxuYcMT2QsylgRE275uR9N1DaKORg-P9twUHWO-D3nrTeubka_CsB-GFTBM0Zf_a562DzNf9Yw_zgLBxB008LVLmEajEhRsPZpBOd8BNeGQ/s640/IMG_9960.JPG" width="640" /></a><br />
I really need for student reflections to be more efficient so that it doesn't take away from the project time. Reflection is such an important part of the iTime process as this helps to make the learning more visible and give students an opportunity to make important connections in their learning.Jane Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01116220945042089580noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242225312359872043.post-5872316464726614322019-12-06T14:05:00.000+07:002019-12-23T19:04:53.688+07:00Laser Cut Wooden Puppets with Keynote and Apple Pencil<div style="text-align: justify;">
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We have a new Laser Cutter in the ES Makerspace. I have been wanting to extend working with wood for our students.</div>
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The first hurdle that I had to overcome was how to use the Laser Cutter. It's a Glowforge Pro. My first cut was documented on my <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Ric7cIdoM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" target="_blank">IG account</a>. I read as much information on the Glowforge site as I could. It was very easy to use as <a href="https://glowforge.com/" target="_blank">Glowforge</a> supplies you with wood for your first project.</div>
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I wanted to start using the cutter as quickly as possible with my students. A Grade 1 class that I was teaching in the Makerspace provided me with that first opportunity. The students were interested in animals and learning more about the form of animals. For example: What makes an eagle look like an eagle? I asked each child to make a silhouette drawing of their animal.</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">It took a few attempts for the students to understand that they only needed to draw the outer shape. Next we looked into making some fo the parts move. I worked with each child to identify which body part could move by adding a split pin.</span></div>
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The students took a few <span style="text-align: center;">attempts to draw their puppets which they did on paper . Next I photographed </span>each one with my iPad inside the Keynote app so that I could trace over their drawing with an Apple Pencil to create a digital sketch.</div>
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I really like to use Keynote with an Apple Pencil for this and it is easy to export to PDF. PDF files are easily read by the Glowforge laser cutter. To send it to the Glowforge, I uploaded the PDF to the Glowforge online app and then added the settings for the cut.</div>
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As I was using local plywood (uncertified material), I needed to make some test cuts and watch carefully to make sure the wood is cut through safely.<br />
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I posted my progress to my <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B5SJkhGJ5Z2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" target="_blank">Instagram account</a>, which was liked and commented on by Glowforge. They even asked me if they could share my Grade 1 work on their official accounts which is very cool considering that this is my first try at using the laser cutter with students!<br />
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After successfully cutting out all the parts the students painted their puppets and put them together ready for the puppet show. We were the first class to use the new puppet theatre in our school library.Jane Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01116220945042089580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242225312359872043.post-9937620597848467202019-10-05T19:26:00.000+07:002019-12-23T18:15:55.057+07:002nd JIS Maker Conference 2019<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I organised and ran a successful MakerEd Conference at JIS. I worked with several teachers and administrators at my school to plan and run the conference. It was attended by over 15 different schools from all over Indonesia. Our theme was, ‘Fostering the Maker Mindset’. I presented the Keynote about our personal learning program together with Hugo Indratno and I ran a workshop deep dive session on 3D printing and design using MacBooks to access Tinkercad and iPads with merge cubes to preview the 3d object via AR. </span><br />
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Here we are opening the event together and welcoming the participants.</div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My biggest take away from this event is that the teachers who attended need further (ongoing) support and have requested that I create a network of schools for MakerEd in Indonesia. I hope to action this in the near future.</span><br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242225312359872043.post-81632948699561295622019-05-07T19:20:00.000+07:002019-12-23T16:19:23.102+07:00Human Body Systems Integration with MakerspaceI was so excited to work on a Science collaboration for the Makerspace with Grade 4. I persuaded 2 teachers to try a pilot with me using different technologies to create working body systems. We used Microbits, Ozobots, simple balloon pumps and mixed media to make the body systems come alive.<br />
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The two homeroom teachers both worked in different ways. One teacher preferred to work with one system at a time and have all students exploring that one system. The other teacher got the students to research a range of different body systems in small groups and then work together with that group to create a working demonstration to show their learning.<br />
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Both types were rich learning experiences for the students. I made a short Clips video of the different groups creating the body systems and preparing to share their work through a mini exhibition with other classes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242225312359872043.post-84520664817345671212019-01-29T15:04:00.000+07:002019-12-23T15:36:49.977+07:00Spotlight and Workshops at Apple Leading Innovation Summit, Singapore 2019<div dir="ltr">
Last week I presented a Spotlight and workshops at the Apple Leading Innovation Summit in Singapore. I was invited to present along with Hugo Indratno. Honestly we were both nervous as we prepared for our Spotlight presentation. As it turned out, that preparation was a rich experience for me personally.<br />
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I have presented regularly over the years. In the past I have even worked as an Apple Professional Developer. I have also presented two Spotlights at Apple Institutes previous to this occasion. What I enjoyed the most was getting critical feedback from the Apple people whilst I was on stage practicing for the event. I am always looking for ways to improve my skills. Having detailed feedback on how to present together with Hugo was such a learning experience. I learned to pace my speaking so that Hugo and I could take more natural turns to speak. I learned to look out to the audience to make that important contact with them. I also learned to make sure that all of the pieces of information about the 'how' in my presentation were clearly highlighted.<br />
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It can be hard to be self-critical. I am open to feedback as I am used to working with a diverse range of people at my school. As a coach you need to be really aware and sensitive to others around you.<br />
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As well as the Spotlight, Hugo and I also presented two hands on workshops. We were much more relaxed in those workshops as this is more of a comfort zone for both of us. We had teachers learning about developing that Maker Mindset through creating something that moves. We even brought with us a mini swimming pool to test out what the participants made. It was fun and our participants were reluctant to pack up at the end of the session.<br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242225312359872043.post-2337835367883369232018-01-15T14:56:00.000+07:002019-12-30T08:40:28.936+07:00New Makerspace in ES PIEI have been an Apple Distinguished Educator for 10 years and it has provided such inspiration. To be connected with the amazing group of ADE educators has given me so much. I have presented a lot over the years on publishing but a few years ago I decided to challenge myself to try something new. To branch out and reinvent myself. It can be daunting to start again but I saw the potential for Maker Education and really wanted to be a part of this worldwide movement. At the time, my school had decided to develop an iTime program (Personal projects) with the help of Kath Murdoch as a consultant. I really wanted to be involved, but my job at that time was all about digital as I was a technology integration specialist. Many of my ADE peers in other schools were moving into this area but it took a while for me to follow as there was and is still so much work to be done in the digital area. I needed buy in from my school and although I could see all of the connections myself, but it took a while to grow those for others to recognise.<br />
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What I needed to do was make sure that I included digital literacy into every iTime session. Catering to as many as 20 diverse projects in each class can be overwhelming. Using our Apple devices with apps such as Book Creator and Seesaw has helped not only to grow learning dispositions but also to make the learning visible for others to see. Using iPads also gave students access to virtual mentors via videos. This effectively enabled me to help more students at the same time.<br />
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This is the first year that I have been a working in a big Makerspace that caters to the whole campus. It is very daunting! Previously, I have worked in a small room which was only able to fit 8 students at a time. The school renovated the library and as a part of that, a Makerspace was built on the second floor.<br />
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This year we opened the Makerspace doors to everyone and in that process, we needed to make sure that everyone was catered to. I am so grateful for the support of the homeroom teachers. I learn from these teachers every day as together we try to navigate the demand from our students.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242225312359872043.post-17583470761883176192017-09-08T21:37:00.002+07:002017-09-08T21:49:40.674+07:00On Being a MakerI've been thinking a lot about the process that I use to make a project. There is a pathway of sorts that helps me to go from 'Something Imagined' to 'Something Real'. A big part of my making is in the planning. I don't just randomly make. That is not the way it happens. I can't work from zero.<br />
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I might see something online. Or I see it in passing or hear about something in conversation. That's all it takes. Just enough of a hint to light a spark.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This year I have the awesome opportunity to work in the JIS Elementary Makerspace. The room that will serve as the space is a corner office with lots of windows and light. Here is the room so far ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There's not much in here yet but there are some robotics kits, Rigamijig, bike construction kits and other odds and ends. It's a start. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I find myself wondering ...</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What is a Makerspace? How can this space become accessible for all students at PIE? What can be done to get students really interested in making and collaborating in this space? What kinds of provocations can I create to help motivate students?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Something that I know well is, "People only know what they know and they don't know what they don't know." This is something that I have always told learners who are new to using technology - but actually it applies to all learning. So, how can you know what you don't already know?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am lucky to have a background in making. Back in the 80s I studied a Diploma of Art at the University of Southern Queensland before going on to train as a art teacher. I majored in Textiles and Painting. I have always been creative and have self-taught myself to make. My work in university really challenged me to understand the difference between art and craft. It was hard at times as I was trained to create art first but I was so influenced by Indonesian crafts as I had partly grown up in Indonesia. I really admire the craftspeople of Indonesia and had considered that to be a form of art. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My lecturers told me that art is an expression and has message whereas craft is a skilled form and can be quantified. Craft can also be duplicated. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I know that the very concept of the maker movement is still being defined. If we start with what is a maker, we will find that it is a person who can create, produce, build, invent or manufacture something.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My understanding </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is that things made in a Makerspace are utilitarian. The things there are designed to be more practical rather than just attractive. Indeed startup companies like Quirky and Kickstarter are equipping makers with access to resources that can help turn an idea into a real life product. I strongly believe that making leads to new understandings and making new connections. An example of this is traditional weavers from Bolivia are being employed to make heart implants that cannot be produced by a machine.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How amazing that these traditional craftspeople are now weaving implants to save lives. It's their skill that cannot be reproduced by a machine. How creative was the Bolivian cardiologist Franz Freudenthal to make such a connection between craft and science.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So where do I begin? How can I turn this office space into a creation station? Over the past two years, my school has been developing an iTime program for all students in Elementary. A typical iTime cycle will run for about 6 weeks and happen about one session a week. Students create a pitch to their teacher which will include their plan for what they want to investigate, their needs (both materials and access to expertise) and how this will help them to become better learners. This Makerspace will support student iTime project work.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And so we begin. I hope to post frequently about how this space and this program develops. My first task is to buy some consumables. I already have students knocking on the door asking for DC motors, felt, wiring, sewing supplies etc. </span></span><br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242225312359872043.post-20751594929829728512017-03-15T18:00:00.000+07:002017-03-15T18:00:40.422+07:00Scratch Jr - Coding with Junior Elementary ClassesI have been working with children in the younger grades on game creation. Scratch Jr is a fantastic app which is simple, yet it can produce a game with an ending screen.<br />
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<br />Jane Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01116220945042089580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242225312359872043.post-56239404454666746882016-09-20T19:38:00.000+07:002016-09-20T19:42:08.740+07:00Accessibility for Young LearnersWe have recently launched Easy Blog Schoolwide this year at JIS Elementary. I am so excited to get this moving. We trialled the app last year in Grade 1 and made the decision to roll out EYP to Grade 4 this academic year. Every child from EYP to Grade 4 now has their own Easy Blog. This is accessed via their iPad. I am a huge fan of the app that has been developed by a group of teachers at the Western Academy of Beijing.<br />
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The best part of Easy Blog is that it is visual and very simple to use and it doesn't take up very much time to make a post. Students can post as they are learning. Parents are connected and will get to see learning in real time as it is happening. Parents get a notification each time there is a new post added. They can easily view the blog on their smartphone. This makes it possible for the parent to see their child's learning anywhere, anytime. Over the last couple of weeks, classes have started blogging. The students have been making their first post and creating an avatar for their profile.<br />
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What is really interesting is how the accessibility settings in an iPad can open up so much for young learners and for those needing support as new learners to English. The students are able to add a keyboard in their iPad for their mother tongue. This means that they can dictate and the iPad will type in their language. Being able to work like this in two languages helps learners make important connections. As young learners often struggle with typing, the dictation offers them a way to type quickly and to practice reading back what has just been typed by the iPad to check for errors. This also means that when parents comment in their mother tongue on blog posts, the child can respond in their mother tongue too.<br />
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The iPad is able to read aloud comments in different languages, but it does take a bit of setting up. A simpler way for young students to hear comments read aloud in languages other than English, is to capture with another device (their friend's iPad) and let Google Translate read the comment. Once you have used the Google Translate app a couple of times, it becomes more fluent and can translate even faster.<br />
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Here is a screenshot of Google Translate capturing the text from a screen. I tap the photo button and take a photo. Then I highlight the Japanese text with my finger to get Google to translate it.<br />
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Next, I tap the blue arrow to bring it to this screen where I get a sound button to read the comment aloud in Japanese allowing the young child to hear what has been written. This is so exciting and so accessible. I can't wait to see it develop across the school. Today already I am watching comments being posted from parents in different languages. </div>
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242225312359872043.post-68813505667429487462016-08-18T18:01:00.002+07:002016-08-18T18:27:44.466+07:00Dictation on the iPad with Book CreatorBook Creator is one of my go-to apps on the school iPads. I work at an international school with students from all over the world. A great accessibility feature of iPads is the dictation feature in the keyboard.<br />
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I have used dictation in Book Creator as a way for young learners to be able to get their thoughts typed up more efficiently. I find it really helpful for young learners to be able to speak aloud their sentences and see them being typed up by the iPad.<br />
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Well, did you know that this in-built feature works for languages other than English? In the screenshot below I have used the Indonesian keyboard to access dictation in Indonesian. It works so well! What a fantastic way for students to practice pronunciation. Go on try it now with a language that you can speak ...<br />
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<br />Jane Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01116220945042089580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242225312359872043.post-88847318565951381952016-04-17T12:26:00.001+07:002016-05-30T11:28:49.589+07:00The Little iPodMy mum suffers from advanced Alzheimer's. She was diagnosed 7 years ago at the age of 80 as the result of a routine memory test with our family doctor. My dad has been looking after her and was her carer until about 3 months ago when she lost her mobility and needed to be moved into a care facility. This was indeed a hard time for all of us. My parents have been together for 68 years.<br />
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I live in Jakarta with my family. I have two older sisters and they live far away with one in country NSW and the other in Far North Queensland. We rarely see each other. My parents live on the Sunshine Coast. </div>
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I am able to visit each year with my parents and during the 2015 visit my mum was still mobile and talkative. My recent visit revealed to me just how much this disease has progressed.<br />
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My mum is healthy and seems happy but seeing her in a wheelchair was a big shock. My daughter came along for this visit and we stayed with my dad who lives in a retirement apartment in the same complex. We were able to visit my mum each day. I am indeed grateful that mum is in a caring place with wonderful nurses and a very homey invironment. </div>
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It doesn't quite prepare you for the reality of the disease. </div>
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At each visit I would sit and try to communicate with mum and at times I would see a glimpse under the fatigue of dementia and for a fleeting moment see my mum. </div>
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It was a far cry from our last visit when she was still walking and talking. </div>
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My dad is active and healthy. He drives, he cooks and he keeps busy as an active member of his community. </div>
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I showed my dad how to create a playlist of my mum's favourite songs and how to transfer that to the iPod. My dad got a whole bunch of songs, many from the 1940s, the time when they were first dating and would go out dancing at dance halls such as Cloudland in Brisbane. </div>
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We were so excited about this little iPod but I must admit I was a bit sceptical as to how well it would work. I was worried it would be disappointing. </div>
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The moment I placed it on my mum's ears her expression changed. She became animated and started to move her hands. We were so curious about which song she was listening to. Then the song changed and she got a bit teary but still moved and was clearly enjoying the music. At times she would try to stand up or hold her hands together like in prayer. </div>
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Jane Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01116220945042089580noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242225312359872043.post-36464679350661432692016-03-16T13:06:00.001+07:002016-03-16T15:01:57.474+07:00Vibrobots - Simple Robots that Move for a Maker ActivityLast Saturday I led some workshops at the Association of National Plus Schools annual teacher's conference in Jakarta. My workshop was all about Makerspace and Capturing the Learning in Real Time.<br />
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I used the term Makerspace in the perspective that it is a place where you can make something which could be really anywhere. I have always employed Maker activities in my classroom. I wanted to share about how making can unlock understandings in a way that viewing pictures or videos can't.<br />
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For this workshop we made a simple electric robot from recycled materials. I am really interested in robotics but I am even more interested in the mechanics and trying to understand how things work and why they work. These are abstract concepts but even young students can understand them when they get the chance to make it with their hands.<br />
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You can find DC motors inside many household items such as electric toothbrushes, battery operated fans or mixers. Here is an example of a motor inside a mixer.<br />
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<b>#Troubleshooting - </b>Be aware that your circuit must be well connected or the motor won't run. Sometimes cheap DC motors can be faulty and you may have one that just doesn't work. Recheck your wiring too.<br />
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Make sure that your learners document the process with photographs and or video. Consider the 'Split Screen Learning Intentions' and focus on not just what you are learning but also how you are learning.<br />
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Try placing the battery on the centre of the cup end with the motor on top. Does this change the patterns that your robot is drawing? Try other combinations. Try using a different weight to offset the motor. Can you measure how these changes affect the drawing that your robot does? Consider how this activity can help your students understand about circuits and motion. Take some video and compare the differences. Identify how small changes affect the way your robot moves and draws.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The copper tape can be bought online or at a hardware shop. It is best to use narrow tape for beginners as it will go around a corner more easily. If it is a young child, be aware that the edges of the tape are sharp and can cause a paper cut. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is a video of a finished circuit. The students added a drawing on top which featured a light to light up using their circuit. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242225312359872043.post-86353339441244041832016-01-05T23:23:00.001+07:002016-01-06T00:41:39.574+07:00Painter Meets Apple PencilI have had an Apple pencil for just under a week and I wanted to share my thoughts. I am a painter. I prefer to paint really large pictures using acrylics (mostly because oils take so long to dry in the tropics) and because the colours are really bright. <div><br></div><div>I have had an iPad since they were first released. I have tried sketching with it but honestly I found the screen to be too small. I also hated not being able to rest my hand if I needed to. I have a variety of stylus. I have a fine stylus, a paint brush one and a bunch of regular ones. Not really a fan. I think it's because of the small size of the screen and the feel just didn't match up. I also didn't like not being able to see past the stylus. </div><div><br></div><div>Enter Apple Pencil and iPad Pro</div><div><br></div><div>When I first heard about these two I became very interested. I did wonder about how my style of painting would translate. I like to use bold strokes with not much blending. I wondered if I could get the same look. </div><div><br></div><div>That's where I made my first mistake. Painting on an iPad offers a range of tools that you can't get with regular painting. This is what you should embrace. I am slowly realizing that I need to re-learn how to paint. How to paint with an Apple Pencil. </div><div><br></div><div>I am really liking the experience, but I have a long way to go. </div><div><br></div><div>What I like:</div><div>Being able to easily pick colours and store them. If I want I can easily colour pick colours already used. </div><div>Love being able to reposition and resize. </div><div>I like the huge choices <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">of the paint types and being able to app smash different apps. </span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Love that I can undo and redo with just a tap. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Being able to see past the pencil and to be able to hold it like a real pencil (on an angle). </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You are probably wondering why I didn't think of learning to use the smaller iPad for painting? To learn to adapt. To just embrace it. Two reasons, the screen size is just too small and the Apple Pencil really does respond well. It feels much more like the real thing compared to a general stylus. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I wonder how using these tools will influence my painting style? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrmmPMfnXWqe38lY91YW3wUqSZ1aybRI8cp2NI1pGIFDnrmWVIBYEfOOAtXp6swrh6KmSo2uInE1W9r_Laetoc38UrD1lnp7Rg7NZaiOClvvYBxMkEgAW-InLdlHR9sbb85PkAyFx69SI/s640/blogger-image-1256249148.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrmmPMfnXWqe38lY91YW3wUqSZ1aybRI8cp2NI1pGIFDnrmWVIBYEfOOAtXp6swrh6KmSo2uInE1W9r_Laetoc38UrD1lnp7Rg7NZaiOClvvYBxMkEgAW-InLdlHR9sbb85PkAyFx69SI/s640/blogger-image-1256249148.jpg"></a></div><br></div>Jane Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01116220945042089580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242225312359872043.post-79546193860465344062015-11-10T14:46:00.004+07:002015-11-10T14:54:36.513+07:00Visual Storytelling with Book Creator - Conflict Stories<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today in Grade 2 we made Conflict Stories using the new comic tools in Book Creator on our iPads. The students were able to take examples from small conflicts that they had experienced in the classroom.<br />
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The outline was - Title - Beginning - Problem - Conflict - Solution. The class has been learning about conflict resolution as a unit of work. Using Book Creator, every student was able to take a conflict and easily turn it into an illustrated story within a lesson.<br />
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As a part of the design, we learned about the Law of Thirds for the cover of the book and to use facial expressions to help tell the story. The students also learned about choosing fonts that are easy to read and colours that contrast well with the backgrounds. We also learned the difference between speech bubbles and thought bubbles.<br />
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The students really enjoyed working in small groups to act out each conflict theme. Most of the themes were about sharing. It is really easy for students to quickly build a story that draws together photos with text to support the storytelling.<br />
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Our next steps will be to finish the stories by creating voice recordings and then exporting the finished work as a video to upload to our blogs.<br />
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I love textiles. I can weave, sew, knit, crochet, knot and print and paint on textiles. My next challenge is to learn how to embed technology into my textiles. I am also curious to learn more about this to encourage more girls to work on Makerspace projects, although these kinds of projects could be also of interest to boys. Instead of a flower, you could make a robot. <br />
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Just last weekend I tried to create a circuit in fabric. One of the greatest challenges here in Jakarta is finding the resources needed for these types of projects. I decided to start with a simple circuit that requires using a coin battery, battery holder, a switch and some LEDs.<br />
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Sew your felt picture. You can do this by hand or on a sewing machine. You could even just glue the felt together with fabric glue. Next check all your electric parts.<br />
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Check the positive side and negative side of the battery. Put the
battery into the holder so that the wire brackets touch the matching +
or - Note that the positive side also runs around the edges.<br />
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The LED has a long and short side. The long side indicates the positive.<br />
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Bend the wire on the LED to make a little loop to sew through. Simple pointed pliers will do.<br />
Here is the bent LED ready for sewing.<br />
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Test your LED, thread and battery to make sure it works. Make sure you connect the thread securely to your battery case. I placed it under the small screws and tightened them. <br />
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Next you can start sewing the circuit. <br />
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It's a good idea for students to draw a diagram for their circuit to work out where the positive and negative connections will be sewn. This diagram is showing that placement for just one light. The other lights can connect to the circuit. They don't have to go all the way back to the battery. <br />
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Here is the finished project. </div>
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