Reading Contracts - #AISGreads 2015

Sometimes make a declarative promise about our goals helps us to realize them. The reading contract equally allows for an opportunity of self-reflection. 

21st Century Learning Teachmeet November

As always, this is fantastic event. And yes, I travel all the way from China to attend this. Me giving my nano presentation of "Cross-Curricular Literacy Initiative - Interdisciplinary and Differentiated". 
Just saying this title can take two minutes. 

21st Century Learning - Hong Kong TeachMeet – November 2015

Who would not want to attend this event? Look at the poster boy for this!

Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at Cocoon. 

I'll be giving a nano-presentation on...

"Division-wide Literacy Initiative - Interdisciplinary and Differentiated"

EdTechGZ 2015

Last weekend I was able to participate in this year's EdTechGZ. In it's second year, the event has nearly doubled from 2014! Lot's of strong presentations covering all sorts of interest; gamification, 1:1, makers, and my "0365 and Formative Assessment"

The online version of the presentation of my session: http://tinyurl.com/gztwhite

Step Into Our Classroom Live - Every lesson recorded for the year!

This year I have finally formalized my live-streaming of my lessons. With the summer purchase of a Logitech C920 wide-angle webcam permanently fixed in the back of the room and our Samson C01U hanging from the ceiling, we are good to go. Step Into Our Classroom Live is an separate Youtube channel from our Step Into Our Classroom. I felt as though I wanted to keep the daily recordings separate from the student resources and work.

I'm not sure how many students have gone back and actually watched a lesson after being absent... BUT, I have personally been able to get a lot out the reflective nature of viewing my lessons. It is great PD. Additionally, having a virtual eye watching adds some strange sense of always being in a teacher evaluation scenario - of which, I kind of enjoy. 

Using a Youtube channel and the Google Hangouts function within allows for the lessons to be both streamed live and automatically recorded and published via Youtube- easy and awesome!

My Alarm Clock App - 7 Minute Warning

My Alarm Clock
By Apalon Apps

Love this app! I've been trying to sort out a proper app/alarm clock for some time. 

Like most of us, I appreciate some "winding" down of the lesson- reflect on/recap what we have done and to review homework etc. 

This app not only allows me to set multiple alarms (for all my class periods, and all the alternative periods when we have community events - which is quite a lot), BUT I get to use my own audio for the alarm itself. 

So, as long as it can be put in a playlist in iTunes, it works. So, I get to create my own audio tracks!

Creepy attention getting guy... 7 minute warning

Roger W (one of our Year II students) Death Metal...

7 minute warning

21st Century Learning Teachmeet - May, Hong Kong

Although it makes for a very rough day, I wasn't about to miss out on the opportunity of presenting at the May 21st Century Learning Teachmeet in Hong Kong. My micro-presentation went over well and as always, one gets to "talk about school stuff" with a lot of very smart and proactive educators. 

The Slides version of my presentation-

Have to sum up an author's work in 25 words? Part Deux

What are the quintessential words necessary for an academic critical response? Tagxedo and a potentially smart background shape... voilà Angela Carter Word Cloud!

 

21st Century Learning TeachMeet

I had the opportunity this week to pop down to Hong Kong in order to participate in one of 21st Century Learning's TeachMeet. Most in the region are familiar with the organization and their massive annual conference, but they do a number of smaller events throughout the year. The location, Cocoon in North Point, was fantastic and there were a number of informative micro and nano presentations.

I was able to present one of my standards, "Putting the form in formative - Using Google Forms & Spreadsheets creatively in the formative assessment process". 

All is all, I was able to meet some fantastic like-minded teachers and I'll be looking to participate again in future events. 

 

Here is the Google Slides version of my physical presentation.

EARCOS 2015!!!

Yes, I will be giving a Teacher Workshop at this year's EARCOS conference at Kota Kinabalu in March.

"CONGRATULATIONS to Troy White who was chosen to present at ETC 2015 under Literacy strand."

Literacy... me... yep.