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The LwICT Leaders Steering Committee has created a resource with helpful lessons and links related to Cyberbulling. The resources and lessons are grade and age range appropriate.

Focus on Cyberbulling_LwICT_Feb11

Please use as needed in your school/classroom to facilitate lessons, discussions and learning regarding Cyberbullying.

The following apps will be on the iPads that will be used for the iPad project.

Draft Apps for iPad Project (PDF)

Please sign up for two break out sessions for the afternoon of November 5, 2012. This can be accomplished at…

LwICT Session link on the Bits & Bytes Blog. Registration in each session is limited, so sign up sooner rather than later.

There are five exciting sessions being offered…

Scratch:

Scratch is a programming language designed to be used by a variety of ages!  Scratch is on the WSD Image; it is a free software developed @ MIT that uses snap together blocks to create animations, programs, simulations and more. In this session, get acquainted with the basic parts and functions in Scratch. Work with a buddy to create a program.  See some WSD student work samples created with Scratch, and hear about a teacher’s Scratch journey.

Gaming in Education:

Attendees of this session may or may not have access to video games for use in their classroom. We will discuss and use examples of games that could be used in classroom as texts, and why these games are valuable differentiators of – but not replacements of – traditional curricula. Further, we will discuss ways that teachers can model their practice using educational designs embedded within video games if games themselves are not a possibility for classroom instruction.

Teachers Like Free Stuff:

This workshop will focus on the development of free online education resources for 21st century educators.  The workshop will explore free screencasts, screen annotations, free online apps, QR codes and the Partners in Learning Resources.

iBook Author:

iBooks Author is an amazing app that allows anyone to create beautiful Multi-Touch textbooks — and just about any other kind of book — for iPad. With galleries, video, interactive diagrams, 3D objects, mathematical expressions, and more, these books bring content to life in ways the printed page never could. The session will be an introduction to creating multimedia books using iBook Author.

Video Green Screening with iMovie:

This session will look at green screening in video using iMovie & iPads. Lighting and green screening equipment will be highlighted. Participants will be lead through the process of setting up and successfully filming against a green screen. Then the fun will begin as participants will learn to composite their green screen video with other video or stills!

DiskAid Transfers Files to Apps on iPhone, iPad or iTouch.

Browsing iPhone Apps contents directly from your Mac (OS X) or PC (Windows) and transferring files to and from an iOS device has never been easier with DiskAid. It automatically discovers all Apps and allows to copy files, folders or even complete file trees!

Enjoy fast and dependable file copy to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch via USB connection with DiskAid and copy files, data media or folders to your iPhone iPad or iPod touch.

Getting DiskAid free for anyone in WSD1.

To get your free license, go to the following link (Getting DiskAid Free), fill in the form and click Get My Free License. The Winnipeg School Division is registered, so you will receive your Free DiskAid academic license by email (allow up to 1 hour for processing).

Getting Started with Disk Aid…

Reflect on how your school manages Academic honesty when answering the two questions below. Academic dishonesty can include “not cheating”, “not lying”, and “not plagiarizing”.

What protocol does your school have in place to discuss academic honesty with students?

What consequences do students face for academic dishonesty?

Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting. You can create sketches from photos and experiment with a wide range of brushes. The brush simulation is as realistic as possible.

Advantages of Artweaver

• Support of many different digital brushes e.g. chalk, charcoal, pencils…
• Standard image editing tools like gradient, crop, fill and selection tools.
• Transparency and Layers support.
• Effect filters like sharpen, blur, emboss and mosaic.
• Support for the most common file formats like AWD (Artweaver), BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG, and PSD.
• Pen Tablet support
• Support for many languages
• Artweaver is Freeware.
• And much more…

International Futures (IFs) is a large-scale, long-term, integrated global modeling system. It represents demographic, economic, energy, agricultural, socio-political, and environmental subsystems for 183 countries interacting in the global system. The central purpose of IFs is to facilitate exploration of global futures through alternative scenarios. The model is integrated with a large database containing values for its many foundational data series since 1960. Through this web site IFs is freely available to users both on-line and in downloadable form.

http://www.ifs.du.edu/

SAM Animation is software designed to allow students to create stop-action animations to share their ideas and understanding. The application provides a unique experience for students to show their understanding of projects in mathematics, science, english languge arts, social studies and more. Best of all it’s free!

Platforms – Windows and Mac

http://www.samanimation.com/

Shape Collage creates a collage by taking a collection of photos and arranging them so that they form a shape (defined by an image or the text you enter). When arranging the photos, they will be spread apart as far as possible so that one can see each photo.

Download (329 kb)

I used WSD as the template for the collage, click on the thumbnail to see the complete image.