 Okay I'm back. It looks like my microphone is working. Let me know if you can hear me okay. The chat should be open to everyone. All I worry about is the bandwidth here. Much better. Okay good good good good good. So poster sessions are are going on strong here. And I squeeze my way into one. Here are some students that have a giant iPhone poster. So I want to I want to check this out. Hello would you guys mind being on camera? It also might involve holding a microphone if that's okay. Can you tell me about what about your poster? What? Hashtag love read and share. Oh you're all you're just hanging out at this one. All right is this one yours? Hi do you mind being recorded or you're being broadcasted now. So all right. So introduce yourself and I'll let you hold the microphone so I can check out your poster while you talk and tell us what you have here. So my name is Lucia Chiran. We're here from a school in Mexico Guadalajara, Mexico called Los Altos and we're presenting eight different projects about literature ecology and biology stuff like that. So the project we're presenting today. Do you want to walk with me? All right. So we created an app and it we we linked it to Twitter and it was the hashtag was love read share and basically what we had to do was create a platform sort of like Goodreads but especially for our high school students and show the books that we were reading through 9 through 12 and share them with the reviews and whatever relations we had to like other songs movies other books that we were reading and stuff like that. So they told us we're not going to tell you what you're going to use just go find the software by yourself make sure it's easy to use make sure it's free and we created the app out of that. So what did you end up using to make the app? We used built fire we used api pie mob and cube and apps bar. What's the biggest thing you learned from this experience? I think the hands-on learning was definitely a thing because we've always been told like exactly what to do and how to do it so we had to create tutorials out of like apart from the project we were doing create tutorials for other people to know how we were using it and stuff like that. So how does that go when you're used to learning where the teachers right usually tell you here's what you're doing here's what you use was there some difficulty when it was open-ended like that? Yeah for sure because we didn't know what we were doing or how to use it and stuff like that so we just said okay we're gonna take what we can out of this and use it as much as we can of it so maybe if the teacher was teaching us there would have been some stuff that we wouldn't have been able to get by learning it in on our own because we were just exploring different parts of the internet or whatever. So you learn you learn the stuff your teacher wanted to learn but so much more? Yeah yeah and we show we even showed the teacher because the teacher was the one that told us you go look for it and teach me now it's gonna be the other way around so that was very fun to do. So is this an app that people can download right now? Yeah for sure I'll show you the app. Is it in the app store? Yeah. Kathy do you want to show him the app? Alright so... So people are watching right now and what's the what's the name of the app if they want to look for it in the app store? It's an app in Buildfire. So do they download Buildfire or do they download a specific app from the app store? No actually when we made the app in Buildfire it has a cost I think it's one dollar per app and what we have to do is we wanted to use Buildfire so we uploaded the app of Buildfire. We enter our username there and it's like a preview of the app. So other people can't get to the app is it just for... This one no but we have other ones in Appie Pie or in Movin Cube that you can download in your cell phone. So different groups made different apps when you're going? Yes. We were like 20 apps. Wow. Yeah. Was there was there one that kind of stood out when you when you have 20 apps doing similar things or were they they were all good? No they were all good. This one is the first one the categories and talk about the books Shakespeare it's hamlet here you can have the cover of the book the review of the book the argument the relations like how movies are similar to this book what which movies or series like Narnia the Lion King the... So are those the movie previews that go with the movie related to the book? Yeah actually it's like the movie like Star Wars is a trailer of the movie like to catch the idea and then it says that it's like hamlet it's about his father that is dead and all the things so how is it about like the book? So then you had to write all the content to put into this app? Yeah yeah we write it it's a all of ourselves. Okay then how long did it take to put this all together? It's like actually it's not it's really simple it's like two hours. So the app creation part wasn't the hard part when you're using you said it's bookery you're using? No actually the app creation is not really hard the hard thing is to make the reviews to like to think about all the movies are related to the book. The hard part was thinking I love it. Actually, the technology makes all this for you. Well thank you for sharing. You're on the internet here and there's lots of hearts people are giving you. They think this project's great. Okay. Thank you. All right. Hey Laura well I'm glad I can take you around to some of the posters. Let's see what else we have here. I want to go to Holy Collaboration Batman. They still have a crowd. There's a web link though for you. So the app for the students in Mexico that made their apps their teachers that just go out and make it and didn't tell them what to use they had to discover it for themselves. So she listed several she said them really fast but it seems like it turns out it wasn't important which app it was. Buildfire was one of them. I thought I heard one say bookery or something too but I love that she's it wasn't that part wasn't hard it was the content that she was putting in there. Yeah when I when I show you things up there screenshots are probably the best way to capture that so you can come back to it later. So am I an educator. Yeah I'm a former fifth grade teacher and now I work as a as a consultant and work with teachers and I'm here at ISTI learning and I've discovered that one of the best ways to learn is to bring some other people along with me and here is one of my favorite people in the world Dr. Alice Christie from Flagstaff Arizona. She's my hero I've got to work with her on a lot of projects and we'll wait to talk to her because it will be so well worth it. I'm not even sure if she's part of this poster or she's just hanging out but I want to talk to her while we're waiting we'll see what's on this big screen. We'll just we'll just see you drop. Hi Alice. A periscope hug and people can't yeah so so you're live on the internet if you don't mind. No problem. Shutterfly Photo Storybook a great little app that that's made by Shutterfly where kids can do writing bring in pictures do pick do photographs themselves and then feel great pride in publishing. So this one I love he says he this was his biography my name is Miles and I'm 10 I want to be a famous baseball player I'm sorry about this but here's the last fact about me I really don't like school except my honors classes and there he is and there he is so anyway I'm just hanging out here I actually did the research project for the pilot they had about 40 teachers across the country a lot in Arizona a lot in Pennsylvania and then I was the one that compiled all the data and wrote the research the summary of findings the big conclusion the big conclusion is the best part of the project is the ownership and learning of the kids because they've got a published book that they can put on their bookshelf put their hands on and in this digital world you can do these unusual it's like why are you holding a book like it you know we think keeping things digital because you can share it but having that physical tactile sensation and that's what is important that's what your research is important to them and we did a survey of the parents and that was so important to the parents to see what they had produced and have this physical evidence that they could show you know their friends and relatives look Johnny did this little book so they can't publish digitally and many of them do and if you go to the QR code right here at the very so that you can see it that way the children can do audio and talk about it as well but what we found was the kids writing improved their collaborative skills with their classmates improved because they needed to share iPads but the big deal was a physical book being something physical that's that's awesome you got a lot of love there so so in Periscope comments pop up like you're getting some hearts now all look at they love you oh my gosh it's going yes live yeah there's 38 people watching Laura she he's in there Ryan Reed and so we can see that so what I'm asked how much does does it cost to to have one of those books free it's free and it's just and it's just through the Shutterfly app yes it's called Shutterfly photo story it's it's free there's a QR code right over yonder if you want to download it and but the digital publication is also free the books run anywhere from like $7 for a small paperback to more like 15 to 18 for let me show you hardcover and this young woman is a budding artist and so she did her eyebrows with words in her nose and even her earrings and so you know you can see it's beautiful texture on the front cover and thick paper and what would one of these costs do you think from Shutterfly like 15 to 18 dollars still not bad and so what we're finding is PTA will do fund a little grant so if Ms. Smith in third grade wants to publish each one of her kids books PTA may say okay here's $300 or parents will often pay just for their own child's book so there's ways of making it happen without costing the schools and arm and a leg that is awesome so you did this research is that available anywhere it's it's online it's on the Shutterfly photo story page it's it's also on my ISTI page so if you go to Alice Christie.org and go to workshops and go to ISTI you'll see my whole Shutterfly thing it'll say here's a link to the research summary oh that's awesome okay we're gonna look at some books here and thanks for sharing Alice one one more one more periscope hug let's see let's do it this way still learning that the inside so let's see hug I don't that's what it's like to hug Alice on periscope that's a lot of lots of hearts hi you guys who are following nice to see you and I'll get to see you next week yeah I think so yeah we're talking about doing a we do a tech camp together in Tucson and yeah that's yeah so we'll get to see each other again more hugs yeah I just go through yeah a lot of people who are you know hashtag not at ISTI 2015 or tuning in they can ask questions sometimes they tell me where to go in a nice way in a nice way and I've said what I like for for myself is this really pushes me I probably wouldn't have had this deep of a conversation and wouldn't ask the same questions except for I know there are 41 people watching so it pushes me and gets me out of my shyness a little bit too so that's good oh I am I am I am I but oh we know what time it is you know you know this is one of the things on my watch too I put my ISTI schedule in there so I can I just went at a glance I can see like where I need to be be next yeah yeah Arizona so I had to come all the way to Pennsylvania to get my Apple watch brand new brand new like four days old it looks really good on you oh thank you I debated between various bands then I I ordered a third-party band red leather for a song so when you see me flashing my red leather you'll know it's gonna be great thanks Alice all right let's get this little web link there if you want to take a screenshot of it isn't Alice great she's always so fun and just knows her stuff and is excited and and this is really neat research about having a physical book all right so you can preview their students oh here's the it's shutter fly com slash photo story classroom and I believe Alice that they feature the the research she was talking about right on there and then there's a table of variously various published books we're looking at them upside down but how are you I'm great how are you I'm good I haven't seen you in forever yeah longer than forever just have the cats I do yeah and I I have I have humans now to twins they're two and a half a boy and a girl oh my god you must just I don't I don't tie used to so it's a folks what I'm live broad oh I'm just walking around this is the conference experience when you and I can't my arm isn't long enough very there you go I need to grow yeah so I used to talk I talk about cats all the time now it's kids yeah I guess yeah oh yeah I you know as I wear my educator have been I'm wearing my parent hat and I'm like okay my printing out some books real soon even though they don't yeah it'll be pictures of them and we'll label things in our house and they'll love to flip through them so it's yeah it's good fill out the card for the 2550 and $100 drawing ah I enjoy the rest of your conference I will you too are you doing anything else or just the just the poster session and then I'm going to be a participant and then are you on are you on Twitter can people find you people can find me on Twitter at Bel Air okay so your school my school's on Twitter thank you it's good to see you some people get a little nervous on camera you did great I know and then you get that just I should just add people and people's names of the drawings there in that fully participate in the conference experience so I don't know what time these posters end looks like some might be taken down or maybe just that one let's see back to mystery sky let's go let's go all the way down this way everybody's trying to figure out where they're going next to the blogger cafe that's a little far away I do plan to get there at some point because there should be some really really neat people in there we'll have a good time maybe after I'm good I'm going to a session at 1245 so maybe after that so oh here is the smash pub let's see this is poster 39 they even have a light up sign some of your crest via Twitter I'll check that out oh see there's there's a way to manage your ribbons on your tag is to construct so that's that's a good stem project right there you don't have to trip over your tags when you can layer them up like that hi I am do you mind alright do you want to take the microphone and tell us that this this is impressive I feel like I'm in a pub right now right so we have a menu and everything else we have a alright well welcome to our did you get a picture of our smash pop it's the best mixed drink in town and what we did is we are smashing apps we are taking different apps and putting them together to create awesome projects so that's what we did so for example under our mixed drinks we have one called the traveling artists where we combine garage band I movie and Erasmus to come up with an awesome project and you have one here the director you're mixing Teligami and I movie okay so it's really cool if you step over here we have some examples of what it looks like well thank you thank you and then we have a whole list of drinks and don't forget to show us yes it is right here if you share this you are code right here you can get to it please go to it alright okay oh awesome you have the menu you have everything and these are blogs right here we all have individual blogs can look our blogs with I am Patricia Cooper and here is my handle so thank you for coming oh don't forget to show our drinks we have the little drinks that you can have before you leave alright alright thank you for smashing my microphone so I have one question for you so this menu obviously then is presented to teachers but not to students not to students but as a teacher you can come up with your own type of menu imagine creating a menu of different books that you want your students to read and you want them to use technology to create book reports you can do that they can create a Teligami of themselves then they can use I movie and they can use video to record themselves reading the book and then you mix it all together awesome it's fun coming up with the names I bet you had get some really creative ones thanks for sharing well that was cute that menu is awesome so hopefully their link if you didn't get a chance to see it go to the ISTI poster sessions just go to the ISTI program and look up that one was called again the the smash pub and I bet their link it is right there so that's awesome or a check on Twitter maybe somebody will be nice enough to to post the link it looks like we're about to have a rocket launch so I saw this session or this poster session a little bit yesterday but I didn't get a chance to talk to them hey Chris can I can I interview you so this is this is live on Periscope right now I we just saw you launch a rocket can you that was a pretty good one can you take the microphone and tell us a little bit about what you're doing sure my name is Chris I'm on the actually the program team I help set up and decide who was coming to all the posters and this is my favorite part of the presentation or the entire conference because I get to basically see 398 sessions in just four days so I I can't see any other sessions because I'm working but I get to see the best sessions in the world including this one here this is Chloe her dad is an awesome teacher but Chloe is actually a better presenter than her dad and she taught me how to make a rocket and I made probably the coolest rocket and I am just totally psyched that this is what's going on here well thanks for sharing it's always neat to see the perspectives and and I really am to join the poster sessions I've been going around and taking people who aren't here to the posters and they they we're all learning stuff as we go through it's pretty fun so thanks well despite my effort to charge my phone every chance I get I'm almost out of charge so it'll be about an end of this broadcast and I'll plug back in this mic uses the lightning port so that's great because it's digital but it also means that I I have no hope of charging while I'm using the microphone or while I'm periscoping but that's okay it's I don't know how long periscope broadcasts are supposed to be I'm guessing maybe five minutes and mine end up being a half hour but it was a nice seeing you and I will see you later