ISPP Secondary Technology Support

The Secondary floor of the Knowledge Center now has a Media Studio with a green wall.  The green paint extends to adjacent walls so media creators can get corner shots. The green screen feature is  easy to use in iMovie . Students record video in front of the screen/wall, import into iMovie, layer it over a different video clip or image, and apply the green screen effect. Meaningful integration ideas include creating newscasts set during historical events, advertising a product with student created background, setting scenes that give purpose for speaking in different languages, building conceptual understanding of time and place, experimenting with the role of context, and defying laws of physics. Community members can book the Media Studio by going to their calendars, creating an event, clicking on rooms to the right next to guests, and scrolling to KC - SS Media Lab.  Here's a video about booking rooms for events .

You can use Google forms to make quizzes to practice questions with one right answer.  Using data validation, you can enter a correct answer When the form is being used, answers will not be accepted until they are correct  Shuffle question order for more fun Complete the form multiple times to keep practicing Review data on who has completed, and how many times. For a speed test, you can check time between completions of the form. Here’s how. Watch the Video: Step by step instructions: Go to Drive and click new--> Form Enter a title and instructions Click on the down arrow next to Multiple Choice and choose Short Answer Enter your question text, and click on the three dots at the bottom right Choose Data Validation Choose Regular Expression | Matches | enter the correct answer in the space for 'Pattern' | Enter an error message in the space for 'custom error text. Choose duplicate to copy your question and edit the question ...

This activity is designed to help students collaboratively brainstorm and think about ideas. In this example they brainstormed steps they would need to follow to go out and take photographs that communicate a perspective on Phnom Penh. It can be adapted for different learning objectives. This activity gives students thinking time and processing time, and allows them to collaboratively exchange ideas and learn from one another. It is also fun. Learning Objective: determine and reflect on the planning steps for doing a photography shoot ATL: Social -Collaboration; Self-Management -Organization Media / tools: Google Docs, pencil and paper Time: 60 minutes Other possible learning objectives (second ATL would change): words related to a topic, main plot events in a novel, character traits, parts of a cell, periodic table of the elements (have them describe properties in the Google doc and write the elements on the bingo chart), multiplication (have them write multiplications in t...

Technology is frequently the target of complaints about the human inability to focus on relevant, meaningful, and productive tasks; yet this inability is as old as our existence. Check out Hamlet's Blackberry for a great exploration of human focus and tools of distraction through the ages. Technology provides us with a chaos of opportunity that can be distracting, but getting rid of technology will not cause us to tap into our focus. Our minds, untrained, have a chaos of their own. Learning how to tap into our focus takes thoughtful practice and reflection. We need to learn to 'clear the mechanism' as Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner) does in For Love of the Game . In this clip, Chapel / Costner has to shut out the voices of critics, the noise of the crowd, and an annoying bull horn. He did not have a phone buzzing in his back pocket, but if he did, he would have needed to shut that out too. It would be lovely if there were a simple formula for engagement. In my experi...