 All right, we're live and we'll wait for a few people to join We're in very sunny and warm Tucson, Arizona this week at the Arizona K-12 Center's Tech camp and we have 125 teachers here that are Involved in different learning strands. We have making infographics Making your websites awesome and another strand where they're making task cards, and I'd like to introduce you to cat Barrett And I thought we'd talk to her about what she's learning in a strand called making your work published So I'll give you the microphone I came to camp kind of with a purpose Over at Betty Fairfax High School. It will be December of 2015 we're going to be coming up with stem project working with our ELL student population and currently I'm with John Both John's John Spencer and John Sam Ilson who are on Twitter too and they're teaching us wonderful information in this first one we have John showing us the four different types of blogs to write and The one that I'm hoping to accomplish will be the expert and the advocacy as we kind of blend a little bit of the Genius hour in with the stems type project that we'll be doing and hopefully bringing forth that research so learning this Strain I'm learning what's needed in a blog and you need to have a catchy title of course and The proper grammar and so the students will actually be writing this project And what they're learning during the stems project that we're working with and of course I have a picture of the lovely resort because everyone here is all about relaxed mode So you can't get frustrated which is helpful because I've never written a blog or been published before So you need to relax remember take deep breaths tomorrow We're going to be venturing into podcasting and we're going to be learning how to connect those reader theater moments Which with our ELL population is always important because those multiple meaning of words And so on the podcast it's going to be real interesting to hear in December what the students are learning with their stem project based on this application that we're going to take forward with their publishing and We have John Samuelson working with formerly iPad Sammy Yes, and maybe you remember him as as that he's John Samuelson. He's the host of the Techlandia podcast Yes, and that's the great thing is because you have two co-facilitators in the room And he's very organized with the list which is great for me because I'm always like I need to know where I'm at And he's perfect and then you have John Spencer who's very What do I want to call that he's very geometric and abstract thinker and I'm just like just give me a other John And so I breathe deep with my list and here's a checklist that we have about our progress about where we're going to be at Each step of the way for each day So it's self-paced which I love and I'm going to take that back and embed that with the students too because What's modeled here is carried out in the classroom and that's just ever important because it's a professional manner And it helps me reflect where I'm at where I'm headed to the next day where I need to be on Friday And how I could take this into the classroom in my principal Phil Woolly will be so happy Because I'll be organized and he'll have his continuous improvement plan ready to go with our ELL students and are never scoring But not just that we also will hopefully connect with other districts outside of Phoenix Union And we're looking at Agua Fria to connect with we're looking at Fountain Hills to connect with this project And that's why I like to come to this camp too is all the connections and networks that are made and you learn new ideas And so it just keeps fostering warmer growth. So this is my seventh year here How many years have you been at camp? This is a camp plug-and-play 10.0 So it's been 10 summers that there isn't a K-12 center has offered this camp And I'm really lucky that I've been part of every single camp they've had But I've been here seven so but each time I come I come with like a purpose to know where I'm headed to next in the classroom and Phoenix Union actually gave me my start with Arizona K-12 because you have a master of governor teacher program and This year I'm hoping to embark on to the national board certification process too with this STEM project that I have coming out in December And I'm hoping that that project will leap-start other people who are kind of unsure of how to use STEM in the classroom with ELLs with that focus That's awesome. Let's charge. Let's hear. Let's turn around you. You never want the light to be there now We now they can see us really really good So they've been giving you hearts the whole time Yeah, let's go so any questions for cat here, let me give them time to type. Yeah Follow me on Twitter Yeah, in the title of this broadcast is her Twitter name, which is readers lead PD Yeah, sorry Yeah, and she's been doing a lot of tweeting for our hashtag for a camp plug-and-play which is hashtag AZ K-12 Well, if there aren't questions there are people having a break we try to feed people really well here So we'll walk and maybe just talk to some more people in a moment, but a question. What grade do you work with again? Oh, right now this coming year I'll be working with nine through 12th graders and then my focus is going to be that RTI the bottom 25 percent In our high school and then to bump them up And then of course modify it up for the international baccalaureate students But my experience ranges from grades K all the way through 12 That's great. All right. Well, let's let's walk around here and while we're walking to see everybody else There's another question. Um, are you doing genius hour with your students? Um, you know, I've got to try it. I've never fully can say I've done done it My experience has been with avid and that advocacy kind of hour But with genius hour, we do have a presenter presenting at ignite So be sure if we can periscope that that that would be a good presentation So there's an ed camp in Chandler. Yeah, are you going to that? No, there's one global That's going to be online and twitter And I'm trying to think it's if you follow my picture on twitter It has the little icon on there, but I think the girls are doing it out of the east coast Oh, maybe there isn't ed camp chant. That's cool Um, we'll have to check that out. Yeah, see all over it's global Chandler high school. Okay way to go Chandler. We like you too Here we go. We'll we'll walk around and see see if anybody else will We'll talk to us while we're having this break. Maybe people aren't outside because it's probably what 102 degrees here Well, there are there are some people out We're at the westward look resort and it's just we've had camp here about every year and it's Oh, yeah Hey guys, do you do you mind being broadcast online? All right, so we have about 23 people here Watching and they're learning a little bit about tech camp and they just just learned all about cat and some of the things She was doing You want to introduce yourself and tell us something you've learned from camp? My name is Meg Cullum. I'm I'm a fifth grade teacher Yeah, it is science and I just think I'll really be able to use some of the things I've learned um In terms of like blogs and a newer website because I I'm realizing mine is in pretty bad shape right now Don't you think you guys think it's a little yeah Um websites are I they're always a work in progress So I will modernize it now and I have the tools to do that. So that's great. Oh, that's awesome I'm glad you're here and fifth grade's a good grade. That's that's what I taught And what what's better the cookie or the pretzel? The cookie is better. Okay All right, um How about you tell us who you are and What have you learned so far this week? Patty McFeely and I teach six And I'm using finding ways as meg said also to find new ways to utilize my websites and stuff And to try utilizing the students more having them do more creating and supposed to me dictating what they have to do Yeah In in my website when I taught fifth grade at the time everybody was naming their websites like mr. Vincent's fifth grade and so I made sure to call it something completely different I didn't want it to just be mine. I wanted the students to have ownership of it. Yeah All right, and tell us who you are and and what have you learned this week? I'm Jennifer and I'm a media teacher in paradise valley And I'm learning ways to get my kids work out there for people to see and look at to make it something important and valuable for them And what's one way to get it out? Oh blogging We've got this excellent teacher over here john spencer And he's showing us some really cool ways to make it authentic So so john I want to do a whole separate periscope with you one day But I know if people see you on here, they're gonna want to want to hear something Tell us what you've taught people today. Um, my hope is that they have been able to just kind of Experiment with creating an own blog slash website And they've been thinking a little bit differently about kind of reaching an authentic audience Sounds like you've done that Authentic teachers that's right Well our break time is almost done here Will is uh is john on twitter? Yes, and it's at spencer ideas Now right yeah used to be ed rethink and now it's spencer ideas. So check him out. He has really great stuff And we'll if I can twist his arm We'll be we'll be talking to him and the other john john samuelson in another broadcast It this is a new iRig microphone. Yeah, it's hd. Yeah, not just regular d hd Our hate well, we'll see you later