#NCed
(3/3) adventures this summer and in the 2023-24 school year on my professional blog and podcast:
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/
…and on other social media platforms where I share regularly now (Mastodon, Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, K12Leaders, LinkedIn, Instagram, and yes… still… Twitter!)
https://www.wesfryer.com/after/
I’m looking forward to this faculty book read / book study over the summer for next year: “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Kindle Edition” by Imani Perry
https://www.amazon.com/South-America-Journey-Understand-Nation-ebook/dp/B08HLZZ4DL/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Review on NYT (Gift Link) http://wfryer.me/44c
Today’s WONDER LINK in our middle school Robotics class: The “Landroid” robotic lawn mower!
https://www.worx.com/landroid/
More Wonder Links on:
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/wonder-links
NC Democrats say the GOP Senate budget dismantles public education | WFAE 90.7 - Charlotte's NPR News Source
“[The Republicans] have shown us who they are and what they value. They are anti-public education. They are anti-teacher. And they are anti-student,” NC Senator Rachel Hunt said.
#NCEd #NCPolitics
https://www.wfae.org/education/2023-05-16/nc-democrats-say-the-gop-senate-budget-dismantles-public-education
Please VOTE and help us decide which team built the best TROPICAL ISLAND during today's lunchtime Minecraft Speed Build Competition for Gaming Club!
https://forms.gle/pkBerdDoo8Wr2MSm7
More info about today’s speed build for our middle school GAMING CLUB is available on:
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/resources/minecraft-education/speed-build-results-may-2023
#stem #NCed #PDSchargers #GamingClub #MinecraftEDU #Minecraft
As I prepare to teach 2 new middle school #STEM courses in 2023-24 (#WebDesign & Intermediate #Coding) I'm SUPER excited about the free courses / resources & #Khanmigo AI tools now offered by #KhanAcademy! https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming
WOW!
Another wonderful Thursday morning begins in Charlotte, North Carolina! Only a few more weeks of school left, then it is summertime! #NCed
HP's "Instant Ink" service has been an absolute LIFESAVER and God-send for my wife this year, as she's been working as a North Carolina public school elementary teacher. She's printing over 500 pages per month now, but for her 29 5th graders that's been an essential part of her "instructional materials," even though they are Chromebook 1 to 1.
I'm very thankful for this service:
https://www.hp.com/us-en/printers/instant-ink.html
White students need more information about race and racism, not less https://www.chalkbeat.org/2023/4/10/23674245/white-students-race-racism-curriculum
#politics #ConCW #MediaLit #literacy #DEI #equity #justice #polarization #NCed
Teachers are making $3,644 less on average than they did 10 years ago, adjusted for inflation. NC's per pupil spending is #42 in the country. Average teacher starting salary of $37,676 is #46. New report from the NEA on educator pay data.
https://www.nea.org/resource-library/educator-pay-and-student-spending-how-does-your-state-rank
#NCed #NCpol #WCPSS #teachers #MayDay #InternationalWorkersDay #PayEducators #NC #NorthCarolina
The NEA Foundation Global Learning Edcamp: April 29, 1:00PM - 4:30PM EDT
(Tomorrow / Saturday!) Register free:
https://hopin.com/events/neafedcamp/registration
(1/2) Excitement in our middle school Robotics class today! Students are continuing to design “battlebots” using our Lego Spike Prime kits, and in the “round 1” version they are just facing off in an arena without any obstacles, trying to push their opponent out of ‘the ring.’ Today we had a victory by “flipping the opponent!” Excellent coding and Lego building / design creativity!
Learn more about our BattleBots competition (including a highlights reel from last fall)… #stem #robotics #NCed
I used #ChatGPT tonight to help me brainstorm ideas for modifying / improving the guidelines & rules for our middle school Lego Robotics "BattleBot Competition." I used the generative AI ("I Can't Draw") feature of Padlet to display / share many of these ideas, & allow students to upvote / downvote & comment on the ideas. #edtech #STEM #NCed #AI
Scratch Day is coming May 13th! Get all the details & get involved! https://www.scratchfoundation.org/scratch-day
#edtech #edtechSR #MediaLit #coding #scratch #ScratchDay #NCed
Resources related to Geographic Information Systems & real estate for the Charlotte, North Carolina / Mecklenburg County area: https://wakelet.com/wake/07fLWi9M8Tfxq0j7JpgsK
New real estate term for me today: "Triple Net Lease / Triple Net Property"
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/triple-net-lease-nnn.asp
LandGlide https://landglide.com is an app with a $99 annual subscription which provides relatively current info about any piece of property in the United States. Quality of GIS data availability varies by county / area.
Advice for college students & those with an entrepreneurial spirit:
Take a business law class in college: So many things you do in life will have a CONTRACT or other legal agreement
Take a marketing class in college
Take an accounting class: Everything involves MONEY!
On the Charlotte - Mecklenburg County "Time Machine" website you can drag a slider at the bottom to view historic overhead images of a property or geographic area
Charlotte Explorer https://explore.charlottenc.gov/ is another GIS website for the Charlotte, NC area to explore multiple layers of data related to a piece of property / geographic area
In "Birds Eye View" of the #Polaris3G website, you can also click on LAYERS to view past satellite images of a particular site
On #Polaris3G you can click "Google Street View" or "Birdseye View" to see detailed views of different properties
Learning this morning about Polaris 3G in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina & GIS this morning from one of our PDS grandparents!
Screenshot of my #Lego #SpikePrime #Scratch code for "Cleaning Up The Home: Part 2" from #CS2N https://www.cs2n.org/u/mp/badge_pages/2014
(I shared this with my #coding students today as an example of using subroutines. Also use of variables) #STEM #NCed
1 of two "Farms of the Future" #WonderLink videos I'm sharing today... All our Wonder Links are on:
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/wonder-links
(3/3) controversial about a source.
#MediaLit #ConCW #NCed #Conspiracy #conspiracytheory #MediaLiteracy
I added the [VIDEO] "Meet a puppeteer with a gift for pulling strings" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOzdN4iu28o to my day 2 curriculum (& slideshow) for "Froot Loop Conspiracy Theories" https://lessons.wesfryer.com/lessons/conspiracy-theories
#MediaLit #ConCW #NCed #Conspiracy #conspiracytheory #MediaLiteracy
That post includes the video "Measuring Sound with iPads" which I recorded in 2014. Great iPad apps for SEEING the amplitude & decibel levels of different musical instruments! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=734uBnXKwLo
I shared the Jan 2014 post "Lessons Learned With Elementary STEM Centers"
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2014/01/25/lessons-learned-with-elementary-stem-centers/
...today with #STEM colleagues. It references a unit I created titled “The Science & Technology of Sound & Music" when I was teaching 4th & 5th grade STEM in Yukon, Oklahoma.
(1/5) This week we've had beautiful weather in Charlotte, so my middle school media literacy students have been able to go outside and practice their digital audio interview and "outside sharing" skills. I LOVE the opportunity to let students just "be outside" and engage in some hands-on learning activities like this!
These lessons are a continuation of our family oral history unit and lesson series:
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/lessons/family-oral-history
I'm finding it's so important… #NCed #MediaLit #create2learn
Today my middle school students completed the 2nd lesson in our "Fruit Loop Conspiracy Theories" unit, creating a sketchnote & narrated sketchnote about the video "Conspiracy Theories & Crazy People" by YouTube animator James Rallison (@theodd1sout). I added my versions of these media projects on the unit webpage:
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/lessons/conspiracy-theories
#MediaLit #NCed #MediaLiteracy #digiURI #conspiracy #conspiracytheory #edtech
Our middle school Gaming Club members participated in a Minecraft Education SPEED BUILD today after lunch. The challenge was, "Build a Rubik's Cube!" Please VOTE and help us decide who did the best:
https://forms.gle/2Mze86NiFAWzUVNi6
(Note: You can only vote once, and therefore have to login with a Google Account. I hereby promise not to share your email with anyone or use it for another purpose!) #NCed #STEM #MinecraftEDU
I've started a "Minecraft Education" resources page on my lesson sharing website: https://lessons.wesfryer.com/resources/minecraft-education
This afternoon at lunch our middle school Gaming Club is having a "speed build challenge!"
“As coaches [of any type] our most important role is helping others become their best selves (not versions of ourselves!)” by Gretchen S Bridgers #coaching #teaching #CoachFest23 #coachfest #NCed #truth #wisdom
new post: Media Literacy Lessons (April 2023)
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2023/04/03/media-literacy-lessons-april-2023/
#NCed #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #edtech #edtechSR #sketchnote #digiURI #WikiPedia
new [VIDEO] Time Lapse: Weddington to Monroe, North Carolina (Shiloh Valley schools)
https://youtu.be/4p6pWT_Oz68 #TimeLapse #NCed
Today we "sketchnoted our Wonder Links! https://lessons.wesfryer.com/wonder-links
We watched 2 short videos on the proposed nationwide BAN on #TikTok, & the new social media law in Utah. Students uploaded their sketchnote to a shared Google Slideshow, adding their image to an existing blank slide. WORKED GREAT!
I love sketchnoting, wonder links & Media Literacy! https://lessons.wesfryer.com/lessons/sketchnoting
I wrote a blog post reflection and shared a video this week after visiting the Dixonville Cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina, as well as the Salisbury National Cemetery. I titled it, "Salisbury Slave Cemetery"
http://clt.storychasers.org/2023/03/18/salisbury-slave-cemetery/
#NCed #history #CivilWar #SlaveCemetery #NorthCarolina #storychasers #storychasersCLT
So CREATIVE! Playing with "Cursive Voting" in Google Docs!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y6c9bPSzSQNkoVxnJFVqZuyTT4fwVqnGfysciu_CMSM/copy
via @ericcurts #NCTIES23 #googleEDU #edtech #GoogleDocs #GDocs #literacy #ELA #NCed
Google Docs only allows INTERNAL LINKS to HEADINGS and BOOKMARKS. @ericcurts thinks it's easier to use HEADINGS. (Plus, I think it's great to teach students about how to structure documents with HEADINGS, so that's a bonus!)
via @ericcurts #NCTIES23 #googleEDU #edtech #GoogleDocs #GDocs #literacy #ELA #NCed
OMG! I LOVE ❤️❤️❤️ this so much. Learning about "Choose Your Own Adventure Stories with Google Docs"
https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2016/11/docs-cyoa.html
(I'm thinking of my students doing this, using a Generative AI image creator...)
via @ericcurts #NCTIES23 #googleEDU #edtech #GoogleDocs #ELA #NCed
Learning about "Dropdown Chips" in #GoogleDocs. So cool! Can make a MAD LIB! Students can CREATE too! #create2learn
Blog post with details:
https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2022/05/docs-cloze.html
via @ericcurts #NCTIES23 #googleEDU #edtech #GoogleDocs #GDocs #literacy #ELA #NCed
SWEET tip for #GoogleDocs & all Google Apps! Just type the COLON key when typing to bring up the EMOJI options!
(On MacOS, you can hold down CONTROL - COMMAND to bring up the Emoji keyboard!)
via @ericcurts #NCTIES23 #googleEDU #edtech #GoogleDocs #GDocs #literacy #ELA #NCed
LOVE ❤️❤️❤️ this! "Using emojis to summarize stories!" (This one is "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White)
Emoji Writing Prompt Generator with Google Sheets
https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2016/11/emoji-writing-prompts.html
via @ericcurts #NCTIES23 #googleEDU #edtech #GoogleDocs #GDocs #literacy #ELA #NCed
Shout out to Google's "Applied Digital Skills" website with OVER 209 LESSONS! https://applieddigitalskills.withgoogle.com/s/en/home
via @ericcurts #NCTIES23 #googleEDU #edtech #GoogleDocs #GDocs #literacy #ELA #NCed
Now learning how to do "Black Out Poetry" with a poem or other reading sample, using Google Docs!
https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2017/03/blackout-poetry.html
via @ericcurts #NCTIES23 #googleEDU #edtech #GoogleDocs #GDocs #literacy #ELA #NCed
I updated my lesson on Sketchnoting:
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/lessons/sketchnoting
Added more examples of both sketchnotes and narrated sketchnotes!
#MediaLit #create2learn #edtech #sketchnote #sketchnoting #NCed
My middle school students started a "ChatGPT Interviews" media literacy lesson today, brainstorming outlines for interview scripts (written by ChatGPT) we'll audio record next class! Details on:
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/lessons/chatgpt-interviews
#MediaLit #edtech #AI #ChatGPT #LessonIdeas #teaching #NCed #PDSChargers
Our #MinecraftEDU #Minecraft Education Edition lessons begin today in our middle school #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy classes!
I created a new #HowTo page for some common student questions: https://lessons.wesfryer.com/how-to/how-to-minecraft
Our 7th grade advisory lesson today: Build a "Vision Board Slideshow" for yourself in the new year:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hYR5VCDWx94x6CC7grYjT7wI7ko8iZl68GnUme3W8fA/edit?usp=sharing
Slides include:
1- Academics
2- Extra-Curriculars
3- Wellness
4- Hobbies
5 Dreaming
(Feel free to use the linked Google Doc as a template. I shared this with my students in Google Classroom so they each have a COPY.)
Much more streamlined! Today my middle school #robotics students co-created a "Scratch Selfie Slideshow!" This is a good way for me to:
1- Learn student names
2- Have students share links to their public Scratch website profiles
3- Practice some good skills using Google Slides & Google Forms!
#edtech #edtechSR #MediaLit #GoogleEDU #NCed #PDSchargers #edutooter
Learn more about creating and sharing “5 Photo Stories” like these on:
https://showwithmedia.com/5-photo-story/
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#create2learn #MediaLit #EduTooter #showwithmedia #edtech #NCed #PlayingWithMedia #edtechSR
“5 Photo Story” projects for January 3, 2023
I have created two versions: 1 with Adobe Express for iOS, which is a 5 image photo, collage, and another with Adobe Spark Video for iOS, which is a 5 image photo slideshow, set to music. I set the image time delay in the video version to 6 seconds, so the slideshow is 30 seconds long, with a 5 second credits slide. Total play time: 35 seconds. /1
#create2learn #MediaLit #EduTooter #showwithmedia #edtech #NCed #PlayingWithMedia #edtechSR
New [PODCAST] Episode 481: CMC World Student News
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2022/12/22/podcast481-cmc-world-student-news/