1. Blending with PBSLearning, Google Classroom, and more…
Please find this presentation at Infuseus.com
Blending with PBSLearning, Google Classroom, and more…
Randy Brooks
Lovejoy High School
Session February 9, 2017

2. Blending with PBS, GC, and More…
The morning…
How did we get here?...A brief history of my journey.
Three future-focused quotes from scholarly resources.
A few support tools of the online courses trade.
MOOCs
PBS Learning Media Resources and Tools
Google Classroom – Disrupting LMS?
Work on tool(s) of your choice while enjoying Gordon Goodwin’s Phat Band “Life in the Bubble”.
URLs for all the planned discussion items are at the end.

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23 years in Telecom.
Made an industry change to help drive webolution in education.
Focus on delivering quality and rigorous secondary online courses to the planet.
Plethora of sub-elements in flux.

4. FLIPPED CLASSROOM FAD, FICTION, or FUTURE?
TCEA February 7, Randy Brooks/Pam Simmons-Brooks

5. The Next Giant Leap: From Flipped… …to Online InfuseUs.com
TCEA February 5, 2015
Randy Brooks
Lovejoy ISD Session

6. Randy Brooks Lovejoy ISD PLTW Summit 2016 – Session 072 March 21, 2016
MECHANIX
Randy Brooks
Lovejoy ISD
PLTW Summit 2016 – Session 072
March 21, 2016

7. MECHANIX
Sketch-based online tutorial supporting truss, vector, and free-body diagram analysis which provides constructive feedback to students and student-level metrics to instructors, anytime, anywhere. Check out this video of the tool in action.

8. Score Improvement Distribution When Using Sketch Recognition Software (Mechanix) as a Tutor: Assessment of a High School Classroom Pilot
Texas A&M University Computer Science & Engineering
Sketch Recognition Lab (SRL)
Lovejoy High School
Randy Brooks Jung-in Koh Seth Polsley Tracy Hammond
March 31, 2016

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Learning Design and Technology MSEd.
Using solid pedagogy to design instruction and performance systems in the digital realm.

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Daine B. Marks, Associate Professor in Curriculum and Instruction at Appalachian State. National Teacher Education Journal Summer 2016:
“Online learning is here to stay and the question is not whether one should adopt an online program or not but how can one produce an online program that reflects the quality of the traditional delivery system.”

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Marc Prensky, Global Education Visionary, Website article ‘Future-oriented Education’ (2014):
“Future-oriented Educating means viewing technology as the “new foundation” of our education – on the same par with reading.”

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Tony Wagner, author of “Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era.” (2015).
“In regard to the information-rich world that our students are entering, what matters most in our increasingly innovation-driven economy is not what you know, but what you can do with what you know.”

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Screencast-o-matic
Super easy tool for short (15 minutes or less) videos.
Save the file where you want as a video file.
Check out this quick tutorial video. (Purdue LDT artifact)

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Blue Snowball:
A microphone for adding vocal instruction and guidance to your online elements, for $70.

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Top MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) providers:
Coursera
Over 1,600 courses from 145+ partners to include:
Columbia/Princeton/Rice/Rutgers/Yale
Hebrew U. in Jerusalem
National Museums
University of Melbourne
Edx
Non-profit founded and managed by MIT and Harvard.
Almost 400 courses from 90 partners.
Udacity
In-house productions with a focus on Math and Computer Science.

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PBSLearning Media Digital Innovators.
Using the power and history of PBS to construct lessons for all.

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Google Classroom:
No-cost LMS with a Social Media feel, and the power of Google tools.

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Thanks for coming!
The next two slides contains a stack of links to the items I planned to discuss today…and more.

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A list of links for the planned discussion items…and a few extra…
Lovejoy High School
Purdue LDT MSEd
PBSLearning Media
Google Classroom
Quiz Editor
Blue Snowball
Playposit
Screencast-o-matic

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And the list goes on…
Educator’s Technology
Coursera
Edx
Udacity
Kahoot
Quizizz
Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction (lesson planning template.)
Infuse Us (Presenter’s website)