The third and final week of iicti!

We created presentations to introduce our classmates to a connected educator that we followed.  Mine is Jen Apgar, an Elementary Inclusion Technology Coach at the Upper Grand District School Board. My Mindomo presentation is here:

Make your own mind maps with Mindomo.

We also created a learning experience, keeping the TPCK model in mind. 

My learning experience is for the students to create a device that uses a force to move (grade 3 science).  They will then create a video explaining how the device moves.  We will first view video submissions to the Moonbot challenge as exemplars and to determine the parameters and success criteria for our own Moonbot challenge.  Ultimately,  teams from our  class will enter our contest and ideally we will have expert judges from scientific and media arts fields to determine finalists, and a winning team. I was connected to some experts through classmates, and introduced to the Digital Human Library, and think I will be able to find willing experts through these channels.

My Learning Experience is here:

Lori Turk Learning Experience Plan

A document with links to resources for using  the digital tools in the plan is here:

Lori Turk Learning Experience Resources

Week 2 reflections

Week 2 flew by!  We learned so many things and met interesting people along the way.  
I created a screencast using screencastify to help teachers support their students in creating artifacts for A Kids' Guide to Canada.  Mine is about using fotobabble to create talking photos.






I used Adobe Spark to reflect on my learning:

My digital Story

In week 2 of iicti, we learned about the power of digital stories.  There are a lot of tools for accomplishing this.  I tried Adobe Spark for telling the story of joining Brian for breakfast.

Reflections on iicti learning

I am taking Integration of Information and Computer Technology in Instruction (from here on out, just called iicti, whoever decided this was a good name for a course??).  Our fearless leader is Brenda Sherry, goddess of all things tech.  Here are my reflections about week 1:

First I created a mindomo map of our week:


Make your own mind maps with Mindomo.

We had a field trip to MakerEDTO  that was such an amazing day!  The twitterverse was buzzing with excitement about all of the great things we learned.  Check out  #makeredto  to see all the posts, or look here at my storify reflections on the day: