INFORMATION LANDSCAPE TODAY

Eric Schmidt

Wikipedia vs Textbooks

Is Google making us feel smarter?

LET’S SEARCH

A Google A Day

Domain Extensions by Country

Wikipedia

ScreenCastify

Flipgrid Video Reflection

Creating Your YouTube Channel

Exploring the YouTube Creative Studio

Create a Playlist and add videos to it

Upload your first YouTube video

Upload an image to use as your Thumbnail

Add a button to your video

Create and do a Hangout Live Event

Video Creation Exploration

Activity 1: Deconstructing Images Worksheet

Images to Deconstruct (select your own, or try one of these):

• Tetsu Yushida image

Image-Rich Resources to Explore

• 500px
• Google Art Project
• The Big Picture
• Flickr: Interesting
• Unsplash
• In Focus
• The Flying Japanese Girl
• Dancers Among Us
• Eyewitness App

Tools and techniques to add text to images:

• Skitch
• Canva

Additional Resources

• Image Analysis
• Deconstruct an Image or, How to Analyze an Advertisement (questions to help foster an awareness to analyzing images)
• Doodling & Math video here
• A Brouchure Without Words
• HSBC Airport Ads (the power of one word with an image)
• Scorcese on Visual Literacy
• Powers of Ten – video

Activity 2: Discuss question prompts

Consuming:

• What role does media play in kids lives – even before they get to school?
• How are we using images and media in our classrooms?
• What skills do you need to understand these two videos?

Producing:

• What skills would you need to create something like this?
• What would you learn in the process of creating a video like this?
• What could this replace, in terms of a “traditional” text-based assignment?
• Is the learning in the process of creating or the product you produce?
• How could you assess something like this?

Resources for Finding Creative Commons Media:

• Search Creative Commons
• Creative Commons Licenses & Videos (could be used with students)
• CC Licenses infographic
• Creative Commons entry on Wikipedia
• TinEye: reverse image search (to find out who owns the rights to an image)
• TinEye Chrome extension
• Color Lab
• Google Advanced Image Search
• 500px
• Google Art Project
• Find photos & links & cite automatically with the Research feature on Google Docs (video)

Resources about Creative Commons

• 19 year-old’s Flickr Photo Leads to Maroon 5 Album Cover and Big Time Career
• Trump Jr’s Skittles Photo Taken by Former Refugee – And Used Without Permission

Resources for Citing Creative Commons Work & adding text

• Flickr CC Helper
• Creative Commons Citation directions

Presentation Zen Resources:

• Introducing Presentation Zen (longer version) (video)
• Designing Compelling Presentations (resource)
• How to Give a Killer Presentation (.pdf resource)

Tool for presentations that allows use of web pages without leaving the presentation!

• www.blendspace.com
• Smore

Presentation Exploration (COETAIL)

• Tara
• Rob
• Miriam
• Andrew
• Kristy
• Jennifer

Learning 2 Talks – examples of Ignite presentations

Presentation Ping-Pong

Presentation Ping-Pong Template

• Find a Creative Commons image that inspires you

In Table Groups:

• Get into groups of 5 and upload your images to a shared presentation. In your groups, arrange the pictures in order to create a shared story using these pictures

As a whole group:

• Present your story to the class

Another fun activity: PechaFlickr

Example Gifs

Math (Chocolate cut)

Math (Fractions)

Science (Currents)

Literacy (Rhyming Words/Compound Words)

Literacy (Reflections on our work)

Social Studies (Maps)

Languages (Spanish)

PE (Running movements)

Economics (consumer product movement)

Population

Reading (real life readers)

Australia state borders (Geography)

Fashion over decades (History)

Hieroglyphics (History)

Boolean Operators (Search skills)

GIF Presentation

Suggested GIF Tools:

• • Gifmaker
  • Gifcreator
  • ImgFlip
  • GIPHY
  • MakeAGif
  • Ezgif
  • Boomerang setting in Instagram

Share your Creation

Share your Gif here