#teacherbookclub roundup for November

Has Twitter become a virtual staff room for teachers everywhere?

#teacherbookclub is a monthly online discussion of books relevant to today's educator.  Past guest authors have been Bill and Ochan Powell,  George Couros, Angela Maiers, and John Spencer.

This weekend #teacherbookclub discussed a multi-touch free book focused on visual note taking.  This book was co-authored by a group of Apple Distinguished Educators (including Dover's Nicki Hambleton). You can still download Sketchnoting for Teaching and Learning by

Dr. Reshan Richards and Others.

What does a 'Twitter' book club discussion look like?

In the week's leading up to the chat, the questions are shared in advanced and participants have time to consider resources and answers they'd like to share.  This month's questions are here:

#teacherbookclub - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires;

What can I expect to learn from lurking or participating?

Here is the recap of tweets shared in this month's hour of #teacherbookclub.

If you'd like to join next month's online forum, please see a DLC to learn more.
For a guide to hosting your own Twitter chat, click here.

Friendly Friday: November 11th

Grade 9 students made our mission and values visible...in just ten minutes

Can visual note-taking preserve learning? Can we design learning experiences which students can return to for exam prep or reflection?

Yes.

Visual note taking is not just about the notes.  It is often about the conversation learners need to have in order to generate the notes.  How do we capture that?

Here's an example of two of my former students annotating their visual note guide for preparing for an internal assessment:

Can visual note-taking be social? Can this allow students to collaborate in meaningful ways?

Absolutely.  Here's a quick look at 'visual note murals':

Can visual note-taking be used as a provocation for new units?

Have a look at what grade 9 Global Perspectives students did in Georgina's class for an introduction to Popular Culture:

Can visual note-taking improve results and help foster focus and well being?

Schedule a meeting with a DLC and ask for help facilitating it in a lesson to find out.

Ask a DLC to workshop with your team/department and try it out during a meeting.

Start with this recourse courtesy of Rob Dimeo who kindly gave us permission to use it in a recent PSE workshop.

@Rob_Dimeo we were very thankful for your amazing resource today! pic.twitter.com/YCWrJn68tP

— Tricia Friedman (@FriedEnglish101) November 8, 2016

What if we podcastified our PD?

How do we make our learning audible?

This past weekend, the Dover Campus hosted an annual iPad conference (see @ipadk5 #ipadk5 via Twitter for more).

In the second episode of 'Podcast UWCLearn' Keri-Lee and Dave reflect on their learning experiences and offer their thoughts on where to next.

This post hosts that episode with two agendas:

1. Learn more about the iPad conference and think about ways to follow up with Keri-Lee or Dave.

2. Think about using Podcast UWCLearn as a way to follow up on your PD experiences this year. If you are interested in asking a coach to guide you through that conversation, we are happy to do so. If you have a learning experience you want 'podcastified,' please let a DLC know and we will schedule the chat. Could this be a better way to share our learning with the broader community?

Featured in this episode are:

Pana Asavavatana

@PanaAsavavatana 

The link to her teddy bear project is here.

Carlos Galvez

@clos_gm

Shaun Kirkwood

@shaunyk

Nicki Hambleton

@itsallaboutart 

Heather B

@techstarteacher

Stephanie Thompson

@traintheteacher 

Digital Bytes 7th November 2016

The iPad Conference over the weekend was an action-packed 2 days of fun and learning. We have decided to make this edition of the Digital Bytes have an iPad focus. Enjoy!

	Visual Thinking Two great apps we love for visual thinking are Adobe Capture & Adobe Illustrator Draw (both free). Create illustrations out of your photos, or draw over the top of a picture to create beautiful images, or use a combination of text and images to create visual notes. Remember to sign up for a class account and have your students log in with that as they are under 13. Nicki Hambleton’s Precon, Learning & Thinking out Loud, had loads of resources for visual note-taking & visual thinking routines we urge you to explore!
	Fantastic Maths Apps Make sure you have a look at some of the great math apps we have available on our iPads. Have a look at Number pieces which is a base ten blocks app, Number line, and Fractions. The amazing thing is that they are available online as well.
	Touchcast app Touchcast is a fantastic green screen app with so many possibilities. One of the coolest features is that you can put a YouTube video in the background of your video. You can also annotate videos and webpages.