My #ISTE adventure in San Diego: Plenty of #edtech #gamification #web20 tools

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ISTE is the massive collection of the leaders in Educational Technology. I was very fortunate to get invited to the session in San Diego and I represented Horry County Schools' Middle School grade level.

Here are some images of the beautiful view of the city

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Student made Anime on @redsoftware Animation creator #edapp #mlearning #artsed #lessonplan

 

My 6th grade students studied a unit on Japan so I figured they could collaborate to create a piece of Japanese inspired animation (Anime) by using @redsoftware 's app: Animation Creator

In the past, I have done Manga work with my students, where they study the art of that time period while they learn about it in their sixth grade Social Studies class.

I wanted my students to utilize the Animation Creator app before they left me for the year, as I had some great examples in the past when my students made Greek Myth animations

If you would like to do something along this line, or a lesson on Anime, you can check out this Prezi that is a halfway conversion from my original Powerpoint with some elements copied from Lori Ingham's Prezi 

Copy of Anime on Prezi

You can also read about a recent Horry Independent article on my other students and how their use of IPods help them learn about their art content.

 

Overall though, I must say that I was a little disappointed with the school's IPods and the app itself. Not sure if it was a the school's wireless or the IPod's software, or a combination of both. SO I apologize to my 6th graders that not ALL of your animations made it into the film as I had a lot of issues of taking all thirty IPods home and uploaded them one at a time to YouTube .

My scanned in Sun News article on attacking Horry County Teachers

Here is the scanned article from the Sun News that my Letter to the Editor appeared in May 6th of this year. I wrote this letter in response to a recent piece done by WMBF news who put down teachers for taking too much time off and placing the classroom in the hands of substitutes.

 

You can also check out the original article on the Sun News website by CLICKING HERE

 

AND just in case you were wondering, I even posted the original WMBF piece "Taking roll of local teachers, who is present?" which really inspired me to speak my peace on the subject:

 

Biltmore Who's Who Selects James Salvatore Gorcesky as an Honored Member of the Executive and Professional Registry

Here is a screen cap of the Press Release site that features an article that announces my acceptance into Biltmore Who's Who

 

if you'd like to read more, CLICK THE LINK HERE to go to the official press release site