 Well, the keynote just got out at ISTI and there are poster sessions going on and it's really loud so if you just join let me know if you can hear me okay because there is a lot of noise. People are coming out of the keynote over on this table so that's always a big attraction. There's some really neat things going on here and I want to talk to some of these poster people but I also don't want to put the microphone in front of their face while they're talking to other people but this one looks really great. Global Kids Global Authors and it looks like it might be a collaborative book creator project so I'm excited to hear more about it. On this TV screen they had a QR code that led you to something so maybe that'll be showing up soon. I'll look at some of the books that she has here. Hi, do you mind if I make a recording? Do you want to take the microphone and tell us about what you have going on here? This is part of our global collaboration project, Global Kids Global Authors. So what you see behind me are examples of the books that we have currently published in the iBook Store. Our elementary students, we've found other elementary students from around the world to participate in our global books. So using Book Creator app which is one of the best apps to use for book making. So this is what this is. If you'd like to join our global book please email me capaynotavenues.org. How hard is it to get a book into the iBook Store? It's not difficult, it's just a little time consuming, you have to have patience in order to do it. Combining all the Book Creator pages was the most challenging part of this project, but then uploading it to the iBook Store was pretty easy. It's just you have to wait. They vary, I have one book that's 50 some on pages, another one that's 30. Book Creator is one of my very favorite apps. Yeah, yeah, so it looks like your kids did a lot of great work here, awesome. What was, if I can ask you one more question, what was the biggest benefit of making collaborative books? Just the whole learning experience, our students got to learn from other students from around the world. One of the favorite units was a Schools Around the World, which was our favorite book that we've created so far because the students got to learn what other languages are spoken in different other schools from the world, what they sounded like when they sang their school mascot songs, just all those different components of the book. And the students got to have the book since we have iPads in our school, each student got to have their book on their own iPads so they can go and read at their own leisure. All the books are multimedia books, so there's videos. So we did first and second grade. Mm-hmm, yeah. That's neat. Look them up in the bookstore. Thanks. All right, let's see. I see something that says a distance teaching project. There's some kids on the floor. Let's see what else we have here. Hello. Do you mind being recorded? Are you the recording guy? Do you want to take the microphone and tell me what you have here? Do you have some green screen stuff you've done? Well, what we have here is an exposition that we made called Whistling, and it is to make children to see our, how do you say, important monuments of Mexico City from another level of... Wow. Right? So here... The video behind that is great. Where did that video come from? We recorded with a drone, so there you can go and visit it. We are going to fly it, and we all captured this with the drone. We have the Independence Angel, some temples. We have also the Socalo, that's a very important monument for Mexico City. And that's all. What's about our project? So how many times are you in this video? Well, I'm not in the video because they didn't choose me to make one of the parts because they didn't organize it well, but it is very good made, and we are proud of it. That's awesome. Some great green screen work, but their school colors had green in their tie, so it had a neat effect. See, this one's called Storytelling Across Nations, and I'll make my way through here. Excuse me. Here's one called Whaling History, a collaborative learning program. I should have looked at the program. Obviously there's a theme of international collaboration. That must be what these posters are all about. I should pay more attention to the program. You are welcome, Angie, for streaming. This is somewhat embarrassing for me. I'm a little shy, so carrying on a camera and talking to people is really pushing me along, but this one is really colorful, so I've got to see it. Thanks, Sue. Let's see if I can get the microphone up there. I was in Sicily, Tivoli. So we hit a lot of really great places. Hi. How are you? You don't mind. No, that's fine. This is Google Sites. We're a Google school, so we use Google Sites to do this. It's really easy because they can all be on sharing a page. I can give them all access to the same thing. It's just part of their email and what they're using. After they see something, if I can get this to load, I don't know if it will, but after they see something, they journal about it that night. One student will be in charge of blogging out to the parents, so they're really going to polish what they do. The other students are journaling and just processing, and they're each assigned two nights during the trip to be the really polished blogger. When we get back from the trip, they help put together the slideshow, but they also write up TripAdvisor reviews that we post to TripAdvisor itself. What it does is brings it full circle. They've gathered all this information, they've learned things, they've now experienced it, and now they're going to give it back to TripAdvisor and let other people experience it as well. What's nice is that it really works in any curriculum. The process itself can be used on a very small scale where each person is in charge of, if you're going to one place, one museum, they're each in charge of an artifact of air, or you can do it on a larger scale over our 10-day trip. We're ninth graders that do it. That was really interesting. They take trips and they do a variety of things, so they go to a museum, and then they come back and they do a variety of activities. One of the things they do is post about it on TripAdvisor. That's really authentic. They're letting other people know if they should take the time to visit that place. I've done that with Amazon Book Reviews, but I hadn't thought about doing it on field trips and then posting on TripAdvisor. That's great. Next on my wish list is a wide-angle lens. I also wish Periscope would let me record landscape instead of portrait, so I don't look like I'm taking vertical video the whole time, which I guess I am. This one's called Two Techie Teachers, Empowering Creativity, Fueled by Technology, and it's really busy. You might have to come back to this one later. If you spot something that you want to see, just let me know in a comment and I'll walk that way. This one's called the Global Nomads Group. They do a science cross-cultural exchange. That's pretty neat. Thank you, HodgeDB. I appreciate that. It's nothing like moving through clouds like this. Here's one called Connecting the Next Digital Leaders, Developing Student Capacity for Success Online. They have a lot of things here. I'm being photographed. She's her work boyfriend. Since you take a picture of me, you get to be on video. Why? We have a friend who calls you her work boyfriend because she's been following learning in hand for like five years, ever since we first got an iPad one. She's like, oh my God. But she's not here. Wait, so wait, take my picture with him so you can send it to Gene. I'm actually live broadcasting. They're like 36 people watching now. Yeah. Have you seen any poster sessions you recommend right now? I went to the Minecraft Power Grid at 24, but his colleague is stuck in the airport, so it's not glitzy or glamorous, but he knows his stuff. I'm really into making Minecraft relevant, so he's doing good stuff. Thanks for sharing. Say hi to my girlfriend for me. Gene, yeah, I knew her name. Hi, Victoria, how are you? So I'm on Periscope right now. Do you mind being, you noticed? Yeah. Okay. Do you want to give your spiel to people? Yeah. We want to know what's going on. Yeah. I'll go back. My partner, Dave and I, he works in a different school district, but we kind of created this little continuum of digital citizenship, just scaffolding it for people so it's easy for them to understand. So we started with a baseline, so kind of creating that class contract, creating those understandings of what acceptable use policies, how to use standards and stuff like that, moving all the way to independent creation, so our kids are actually posting independently, they're creating digital works independently, sharing them and collaborating with peers online and commenting and interacting. So those are two totally different parts of the spectrum, right? So we have kind of brought in little scaffolds along the way, so steps that you can take based on your comfort level or the comfort level of students or just the ability level of students, so that they can make their way closer to that independent creation phase where we as adults operate in the digital space. So out of this whole project, what was the most unexpected thing that students have done once you turned it over to them? I really honestly think the engagement with creating was amazing for us, at least at my school. Dave would have to speak for himself, but my kids are creating their own YouTube videos and they're excited about making a screencast about math concepts, which I never actually thought would be a thing, but they're like, we want to do these word walls and they take a picture of a math concept and explain it and provide examples. And not only is that amazing formative assessment data for me, it's data for the parents, it's the ability to report on those kind of things, see the growth visibly, and then also have them sharing in that digital space alongside all of those math concepts they're already learning about. So it was really cool to see that piece, three, four for me. So yeah, I found that too, like when I taught fifth grade, if it was their idea or if I coached them to make them think it was their idea, then they went with it so much further than, okay, this is the assignment, we're all doing the same thing. So that's great. Absolutely. So my kids are so independent now that I actually don't have to do any direct instruction at the beginning of every lesson. Sometimes they will, if we're scaffolding in a new piece or something like that, but it's not very often, it's just go do your thing and they can pick from any of these choices, some are analog, some are digital, and then they'll be creating in that space and they watch them at home or share them at home or share them on their blogs and it's really, really rewarding. Well, I've been surprised sometimes with my students giving them a choice that they pick analog more often than I would suspect. Is that your experience too? Not necessarily. It depends on the task, I would actually say. Some kids, they have the choice of whether they wanted to do a word wall, for example, in math, create a screencast, put it on YouTube, put it on your blog, or to do it in a math journal. I would say it was about roughly 50%, and some kids, sometimes they would choose paper, sometimes they would choose digital, so it depended on what they wanted to do in that moment, and I think we're all different learners too. So sometimes I prefer to write on paper, I like sketch noting, sometimes it's nice on paper, sometimes it's nice on paper 53 on my iPad. It just depends on what my feeling is that day. Me too, I'm always changing. Yeah, so that's grade three, four, somebody answered in the little chat there too. Well, in this room I think it's really important, so hopefully everybody seems to be hearing us okay, so that's great. I don't know, but Periscope doesn't show me the battery level right now. I flew in today and the whole time I got to keep my phone charged and phone charged, so yeah, I don't know how I guess if I leave the app I stop recording, so I don't know what my battery is yet. Well, I'll go until I can't. Thanks for sharing, these are really great projects. And you have a link, because there's a lot of people who aren't ISTI that are watching, and is the link in the poster session like you signed in as a presenter and there's a link in there? Oh, and here's one for, all right, I'll leave that there for a moment. Are you saying that the sound drops every few moments there? Book bird? All right, thank you again Victoria. All right, screenshot taken, lost the connection, you know, the chat was blocking the image, oh darn, I'm still new to this Periscope thing, I'll have to remember to keep things toward the top of the screen if you really need to read it, huh? All right, I want to see if I can find this Minecraft one that I was told about. Led by a student, oh, Craig Yan put on Twitter resources from her session too, so check on Twitter and people are so nice to share. All right, so these are, there are dozens of sessions happening right now. Let's see, 24. I don't think I'm going to be able to get close enough to hear him right now. All right, let's look, look for some more, I might pause broadcasting for just a moment. Hi, I'm Lucy Gray, this is the Global Education Conference, we just had a Global Education Day here at ISD where 300 teachers came together and talked about global collaborative projects and it was really exciting and we're here helping to get more people involved, so that's it, yeah. If they want to get more involved, where do they go? GlobalEducationConference.com. GlobalEducationConference.com, I like you are all that are easy to see, just to say, yeah. Yeah, and then our hashtag is GlobalEd15, so you can see what we were doing today if you want to follow that on Twitter. Hashtag GlobalEd15, probably a lot of tweets that came out of that. We were trending today in Philadelphia, I was very excited, I think it's the first time anything I've ever done has been trending, so yeah. And I was periscoping all the Ignite talks that we did today, so I love Periscope, I love Meerkat. You're smart to have a microphone with hope. Yeah, I don't think, there's a whole story behind getting this microphone, Amazon was delayed and I had to go, but I have it and it's very much worth it. Oh, you're like the reporter on the road, I love this, this is great. Well, half my time was like, oh, can't get close enough to that person to talk to you, let's get you. Oh, fun, this is great, very creative. So you're the man on the street here, yeah. Yes, yeah. Yeah, there's, it might be stuck, there's no, can anybody give some hearts just to make sure that anybody's alive? Periscope, I haven't figured that out. You give hearts just by double tapping the screen? Oh, I had no idea, I had no idea. I don't know if web viewers can do that or not. Okay, interesting, interesting, okay. Okay, okay, all right. Woohoo, woohoo, give me some love, no, okay. There are hearts going right there, so. Oh, that's awesome, this is a great way to bring hearts. Hi, everybody, woohoo. So the other thing I need is a wide angle lens because I do have long arms, but this is. You know what you need, let me show you what you need. Oh, she's gonna show me what I need, all right. So yeah, I know you can only chat from the app, so you can only give hearts from the app as well. They really want you to get the app, okay. I have a friend who is a filmmaking person, he's another Apple Distinguished Educator. And this is made by Landpart, if you wanna look at this. All right, Landpart. Okay, so that's on my Amazon wish list, but it's, it's 48, or 400, yeah, it's 400, yeah, yeah. The microphone was, well, it's supposed to be, no, no, no, it was like $100 on Amazon, but I had to get it locally for 130 because of this fiasco, but. I think this is totally worth it. So it's all smooth. Can I put, let's put my phone in it and see what happens. Okay. I'm very good at balancing it first. To balance it first? Let's see. So you put it in. Parascopers, you're gonna be dizzy here, but this is, what, this is like, sometimes they call this like a gimbal, is that what? Yes. Okay. And so that I turn it on. And it's supposed to stabilize and make things really smooth no matter what. Yeah, it's covering the camera too a little bit. All right. I'm gonna take a sip of wine. Ah. You get the idea. Yeah, so. I don't wanna take a sip of wine. So you guys watching, you gotta level it off and stuff, but then when you're walking around, it's not supposed to be as bumpy or jittery. Amazing. I've seen, yeah, like I said, it's in my Amazon wishlist cart. I just haven't pulled the trigger on it. I guess my phone is permanently stuck in your $400 device, that right? Sorry. Any? Gimel, yeah, kinda thing. But I don't have it set up quite right and I haven't figured this out. There's a weight in here. Yeah, I think it's called a Gimel. It's a funny word, but that's what it does. Made by Landpart. Landpart is this one. It's an ADE from Virginia who used to teach film in universities. Turn me on to this at South by Southwest and I'm like, I have to have that. And I went and bought it. So how often do you use it? Once a month. $400 once a month. You're busy and you're going to lots of different things. So you probably would use it a lot. So I'm not that busy. So, hi Ben, watch your video. We're at Hack Education, somebody was talking about it. It was awesome. Yes, yes, yes, we were talking about that, yeah. Ben, what's this video? It's a six second stories for learning. We did it for the K-12 online conference last year, which was great. Are you periscoping or mirror catting? Okay. Yeah, they just added embedding, so yeah. Side, then I could do it, yeah. It's hard to do it. It's mere reception. Mere reception, yeah. Okay. All right, I'm going to sign off for just a little bit and then I check my battery. Thanks for watching.