 Tackling Sammer by Courtney Kofop about the Perseverance. My name is Courtney Kofop. I'm in my sixth year at Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School. It is a blended environment where the majority of our students are attending online. I, for the past five years, have been an English teacher and for the past two, I've been a technology coordinator for our whole K to 12 environment. I'm also a Google certified educator, a near pod, pioneer trainer, and most importantly for this presentation, I'm a tack advocate. The objectives for this presentation, what exactly will you learn today? I want to review Sammer and the Sammer model. To show you how to create attack, I will also go over what tools embed into attack and then tackling Sammer. So what exactly is Sammer? I'm sure the majority of you already know, but to review. Sammer is a model designed to help educators infuse technology into teaching and learning. It is developed by Ruben Puentadora, the model supports and enables teachers to design, develop, and infuse digital learning experiences that utilize technology. This is when technology is redefining learning experience for students and allows teachers to modify their instruction. When you're getting to the augmenting stages, that's at the beginning, and you augment the learning experience with technology and can enhance engagement. And then at the very basic level, teachers can substitute technology for traditional instruction to increase achievement. So looking at this model, many people want to hit that redefinition level every time, but really you want to work your way up to that redefinition level. And you want to really focus on the task and what level of Sammer is most beneficial for students to gain the knowledge. Now attack, I love this program. It is a web page creation tool and one of the best parts of it is that it's device agnostic. So it will work on any platform. So if your students are using iPads, if they're using desktops, it is browser based and app based. So it's really wonderful that you and your students can use this on any device. It is very easy to edit and perpetually add content and it's linear and easy to follow. You can create a custom URL for easy access and then it's very easy to share. It's not a PDF or PowerPoint that has to be hosted externally. It's its own web page and did you know that TAC offered the ability to embed live maps, photos, texts, links and videos within their platform from a variety of sources. And that's where we're going to dive into today how many tools can easily embed into the TAC page and how you can use TAC to app smash with these programs and web 2.0 tools that you are using and your students are using. There are two ways that apps and tools can dress up attack by being embedded within it. There's a direct embed. Some tools can embed live and are fully functional without ever having to leave TAC such as thin thing link. But then there's also an option to thumbnail embed so other tools like shadow puppet, high coup deck and snap guide will be linked within the TAC and appear as a small thumbnail that will take users to an external site. So one of the things that I want my students to be doing is really that single sign on. So TAC allows you to do that with many of their programs like thing link. But then also it's just taking them to a link as well. So it really eliminates a lot of the hassle of all these multiple websites and tools that you're using. It can really be hosted on this TAC page that you're creating or your students are creating. Now we've talked about TAC a little bit. How easy is it to create one? So we will do that actually right now. So as you can see it is a very straightforward editor and to sign up all you need is an email address. It's also connected with Google Plus so you can just use your Google account for easy sign on. It is linked with Casper so if your school is using Casper you can easily create student accounts as well. So this is a blank canvas. There are other templates as you can see here. Blank about me Instagram blog school project. This is just a blank one and you can see that I can easily put in titles. I can put in text easily at photos and it actually has a library of photos that you and your students can choose from. You can also upload. You can connect your Instagram client. So if you have a class Instagram that's great to connect or you can paste from a URL. There is also the ability to add videos. So it is linked with YouTube, Vimeo, Animoto, Instagram, and Vine. You can also upload your own photos which is great. It's powered by vid.me. So those wonderful if you have your students using iMovie they can take that file directly from their computer and have it hosted on the TAC page. Audio as well. So it's connected with SoundCloud, Spotify, 8 tracks. You can also like videos and photos pulled from your own computer and upload. You can create buttons. So if there are tutorials or reviews that you want to link but not directly in bed. You can create that button where it will link students to it. Maps which is great for reports that students are completing. You can create a virtual field trip with information through these maps. You can have a form. So you can pose a question and have students put in their name and their answer or a question that they may have about the material. And one of the best things as I was saying it is connected to so many Web 2.0 tools already. Right off the bat you can see that you can embed a TAC within a TAC. So it's almost like an inception thing. You can connect a Twitter feed, slide share, thing link. And then here are some of the other programs that embed as well. So it is really very extensive. The amount of tools that are working in conjunction with TAC. Going back to the buttons I forgot to mention. I a lot of times I love using Google Apps and Google Forms. So I'll create a Google Form and put a customized button to that form. Maybe an exit ticket from my students and they can click on it and it takes them to that Google Form. You can also have an RSVP. So if you're setting up a school event or your students are trying to set something up they can easily do that as well. As you see at the bottom there's a comment stream. So that's where you can have a class discussion. They can post questions. They can upload photos and videos to that as well. So you can almost create an anthology of videos if you wanted to in a comment stream for your class. It's very easy to edit and really dress up your TAC because there are a variety of patterns included already. You can upload your own backgrounds. You can change fonts. You can change the palette of your TAC. So whatever is to your liking. Like I said the pattern. And then there are other options. So you can actually set your TAC to private. So maybe there is specific class information you only want your students to see. One of the great features too is you can create TAC. So maybe you're creating student tutorials and you're having students create them. And they can create TAC boards with a specific TAC such as unit one tutorials. And if they put that in it will house those tutorials on one TAC board. I do that for professional develop resources for my teachers. So all the tutorials can be found in one place. So we can take a look at that as well. You can customize your title of your TAC page. And like you said upload a photo background if you wanted to. And also create a customized URL so it's very easy for your students to find. You can turn off the TAC stream if you want to. And then you can change the rounded corners or more square look. So it is extremely easy to create these TACs. And they really turn out into great products. Once you publish there's a variety of options where you can share your TACs. So via Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest. And then also it gives you an embed code. So if you are using something like Moodle or a different LMS it is easily embedded into those as well. Here are some ideas for utilizing TAC with your students. So 20 ways to use TAC in the classroom. So you can use it for lesson planning, persuasive writing. Students can be creating these promotional products. Collaborative products because it is really easy to contribute with that common stream as I was saying. Presentations to students, districts and teachers. Parent communication, class photo memories. Like I was saying it embeds directly to a blog or an LMS so it is easy for you to use. And also if your students want to embed it into one of your learning management systems as well. Peer critiques and feedback, Skype classroom collaboration, student e-portfolios. I think portfolios and digital portfolios are extremely important for your students to be developing because it is something that they can collect and curate their artifacts that they have been creating. Especially if you are using those Web 2.0 tools like I was saying like ThingLink and embedding those directly into the TAC so it can house all the wonderful products that you are using. You can use it as a way to have your tutors communicate, video and audio display, promote events, research papers and really create interactive graphic organizers and review guides and student tutorials. Instead of just a standard essay they can create a TAC or instead of the standard book report they can create a TAC page for the book that they are reviewing. School announcements and it really is unlimited. The opportunities you can have your students use TAC and also just yourself because it is creating these interactive resources. Here are some example TAC pages that I have made over the course of the last two years for teachers and my students. I create many tutorials for my teachers on how to utilize various school programs and it is so easy to directly embed the videos and tutorials that I created and an easy way for me to archive those tutorials in one place. We recently switched to a new learning management system so I have created a series of videos on the various functions and best practices for Canvas. Ways to manage grade book and if you take a look I have created a Canvas best practice TAC so when I click that it takes me to the full library of all those and I can give my teachers this URL and they can look at the boards and access all the tutorials in one place. The format is consistent as well. Now looking at each level of SAMR here is how you can utilize TAC. So at the substitution level the very basic level where you are just substituting the TAC for the activity there is no extra layer to it. You can have students type vocabulary definitions on a TAC instead of just writing them by hand so it is direct substitute the TAC page. Moving up to the augmentation level students share TAC with a vocabulary list and collaborate on the common stream by refining the definitions they develop. Now moving up to the modification level students create a TAC. They can collaborate in images and videos of the vocabulary definitions to support the definitions they developed. And then at that redefinition level students create videos where they define vocabulary words using dialogue and images from their environment. The videos are then posted to their TAC page. Their peers can provide feedback using the common stream. All of the videos can be archived on a single TAC board by using the same TAC for example Ms. K class videos or the vocabulary list can have a specific TAC that you develop or hashtag and that can also be a class activity where you are developing the TAC name. I hope you found these instructions on how to tackle SAMR using TAC. For watching my video on tackling SAMR you can join my PLN by following me on Twitter. My username is Ms underscore cof and then you can follow me on TAC as well and look at my various TAC examples at TAC.com slash at Ms cofelt. Please let me know if you have any questions. You can find my information on my TAC page if you want to contact me for more resources.