Anne Weaver

360 videos with phone & Google Street View

Instructions with pics https://www.readinbrief.com/take-360-photos-on-iphone-and-android-mobile/

1. Open the Google Street View app .
2. Tap Create +.
3. In the bottom right, tap Camera .
4. Take a series of photos, with the circle matching the yellow dot each time. Elbows in. Look up and down to find dot.
5. At the bottom, tap Done when the tick at the bottom goes green. Make sure to look up and down to get enough images.
6. Your 360 photo is stitched together and saved in the “Private” tab on your phone. The photo is also saved on your phone (unless you turned this setting off).

• Save to Album to your phone or RoundMe app or kuula.co or google.com/maps
• Can make public or private
• Can blur faces within app but only in the Private tab

Publish 360 https://support.google.com/maps/answer/7013640?co=GENIE.Platform%3DiOS&hl=en

• More instructions https://filmora.wondershare.com/facebook/how-to-post-360-photo-to-facebook.html
• Bit older instructions https://www.slideshare.net/proyectoste/how-to-create-360-images-with-google-street-view-app
Reflector app is good for teaching: shows what is on phone or PC – not free

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Posted by Anne Weaver on June 28, 2017 in Uncategorized

Evidence based practise: Mix

07 Mar

Tools like Office Mix https://mix.office.com/en-us/Home are useful for teachers and teacher-librarians as they allow student self-paced learning, quizzes can be included, and it provides analytics about student use. Screenshots are shown below of slides in an example of Mix used for information skills revision. The boxes with a blue box and checkmarks contain quiz questions in the actual Mix. Office Mix enhances Powerpoint, so also has the advantage of being a familiar tool for many people.

Analytics and statistics http://www.mixforteachers.com/see-who-watched-your-mix.html

Quizzes http://blogs.ntu.ac.uk/digital_practice/2016/01/27/office-tips-tricks-interactive-quizzes-in-powerpoint-with-office-mix/

More at: http://www.mixforteachers.com/ and http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/08/a-handy-tool-for-turning-powerpoint.html

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Posted by Anne Weaver on March 7, 2017 in Uncategorized

Reading, listening, typing

03 Mar

Sites about news, typing and reading levels, that might be of interest.

With rewordify, students can simplify text http://rewordify.com Kids can paste their text snippets of choice in and read a book that way, simplifying it for themselves. An example is below where I copied in a bit from Romeo and Juliette (though http://nfs.sparknotes.com/ – No Fear Shakespeare – is best for making Shakespeare easy). Also the last site in the dot points has reading skills practice that might be of interest.

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether it is higher-quality in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of terrible and shocking fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposite (or fighting against) end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-pain and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is going to eventually get, it is a perfection/completion
Completely to be wished. To die, to sleep ;

Sites with different reading levels

Breaking News English http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com
News in Levels http://www.newsinlevels.com/
Newsela some content free, but some not https://newsela.com
Smithsonian have Tween Tribune where news type articles are in different levels http://tweentribune.com
British Council site http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice

Also, came across this site with free audiobooks http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning including Holes http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/Hoyos/01/default.html You can listen at fast or slow speed and it has the text as well.

Typing

Also, if wanting typing practice, there are links at my other blog for student self-paced typing. I have used typing.com with Year 7 and 8s and it is great and it was free when I used it. Teachers can set up a class and see each student’s progress and there are tests and games along the way https://ahsmakerspace.wordpress.com/2016/08/22/typing-programs/

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Posted by Anne Weaver on March 3, 2017 in Uncategorized

SHYWG 2016 Immersive Writing Workshop

27 Mar

The posts from previous years can be found on this blog. Some resources from previous years, including videos, can be found at: https://readingpower.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/edutech-fantasy-quest-presentation/

2016 Event Video https://animoto.com/play/8FqHtK6fC0WYfj14eq5KDg

2016 Heroes https://animoto.com/play/4OLt0mV4PQzWO9jIrvrf6g

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Posted by Anne Weaver on March 27, 2016 in Uncategorized