Showing posts with label TED Ed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TED Ed. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Amy Burvall - One Woman’s Impact on EdTech
I am a huge #SXSW fan and was bummed that I wasn't able to attend this year's #SXSWedu conference this year. However, I did stay abreast via twitter - my avenue to everything trending. One of the people that I have become intrigued with is Amy Burvall. She was part of a group hosted by EdTech Women Founder Sehreen Noor Ali.
Amy was one of twelve women that shared at the SXSWedu Lightning Talk Series - At The Helm: Women's Impact in EdTech. Margaret Roth's blog shared bios on all twelve women. When she introduced Amy Burvall, she wrote, "A Humanities teacher for 20 years in several of Oahu's private schools, Amy is a leader in educational technology professional development programs. She is currently teaching Theory of Knowledge at Le Jardin Academy International Baccalaureate World School. Her work in the History for Music Lovers project YouTube channel, which features history-based parody music videos with almost 10 million views, has appeared in Wired Magazine, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Honolulu Magazine, CBC, NPR, and international blogs and media. She was privileged to present at the TEDxHonolulu 2011 and serve as co-curator for TEDxHonolulu 2013. She has presented at Ignite Honolulu, The Association for Advanced Computing in Education, EdTech Teacher, iPad Summit, and in Vancouver at the British Columbia Social Studies Teachers Association Conference. Amy has been an active participant-learner in several MOOCS (#etmooc, #edcmooc, and #teachtheweb), named a Webmaker Fellow by Mozilla, and is a firm believer in radical transparency, open ed, and remix culture." People like Amy are inspiring to educators and students. Take a look at her amazing products and ideas.
Here is a ThingLink with Everything Amy and some of her amazing videos about history. Her students have produced amazing products too, take some time to see how she has impacted them.
Click here to view her student's work: http://amyburvall.wix.com/tok2013
Amy was one of twelve women that shared at the SXSWedu Lightning Talk Series - At The Helm: Women's Impact in EdTech. Margaret Roth's blog shared bios on all twelve women. When she introduced Amy Burvall, she wrote, "A Humanities teacher for 20 years in several of Oahu's private schools, Amy is a leader in educational technology professional development programs. She is currently teaching Theory of Knowledge at Le Jardin Academy International Baccalaureate World School. Her work in the History for Music Lovers project YouTube channel, which features history-based parody music videos with almost 10 million views, has appeared in Wired Magazine, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Honolulu Magazine, CBC, NPR, and international blogs and media. She was privileged to present at the TEDxHonolulu 2011 and serve as co-curator for TEDxHonolulu 2013. She has presented at Ignite Honolulu, The Association for Advanced Computing in Education, EdTech Teacher, iPad Summit, and in Vancouver at the British Columbia Social Studies Teachers Association Conference. Amy has been an active participant-learner in several MOOCS (#etmooc, #edcmooc, and #teachtheweb), named a Webmaker Fellow by Mozilla, and is a firm believer in radical transparency, open ed, and remix culture." People like Amy are inspiring to educators and students. Take a look at her amazing products and ideas.
Here is a ThingLink with Everything Amy and some of her amazing videos about history. Her students have produced amazing products too, take some time to see how she has impacted them.
Click here to view her student's work: http://amyburvall.wix.com/tok2013
Her wonderful history videos!
People like Amy inspire me to want to be a better educator. I love that she doesn't mind to #DARETOSHARE.
Follow her on twitter: https://twitter.com/amyburvall
Monday, May 27, 2013
Summer learning is right around the corner....
Summer Learning
As most librarians wrap up the year, the prospect of summer relaxation is exciting. Cindy and I work diligently during the year to keep up with new technology, new books, and inspiring ideas. Summer is a great time to refresh ourselves and see how we can improve libraries and ourselves for the upcoming year. Here are things I have on my list of summer learning:
1. Go through all of the 10 most popular TED Ed lessons.
This will not only help me, but after seeing what is out there, I can support teachers and possibly share highlights during any trainings that may come up. I have seen some of the 10, but not all. See my favorite one below....http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/14/the-10-most-popular-ted-ed-lessons-so-far/
Insults by Shakespeare - April Gudenrath
2. Evaluate all of my social networking.
According to Mashable, employees who use 5 or more social networks make better employees. I want to see if that is my case by looking at all of my social networks and possibly downsizing. I thing Blythe Woolston hit the nail on the head with this tweet:
http://mashable.com/2013/04/02/social-networks-workplace-study/
3. Learn how to make an award winning vine.
I have already been experimenting with vine, but I see achievable improvement. Hopefully this article will help me.http://mashable.com/2013/04/03/how-to-make-a-vine/
4. Review this gallery of 10 YouTube channels that will make you and me smarter.
http://mashable.com/2013/04/04/youtube-education/#gallery/12-youtube-channels-that-will-make-you-smarter/515cb05997b2f85fc30017be
5. 10 Tech Resources for Kids with autism.
http://mashable.com/2013/04/02/autism-resources/
Well - this is enough to get me through June - I will let you know what my July list will be next month.. Later this week I will be blogging about all the books I would like to get read this summer.
Do you have any resources you want to try out? Websites? Apps? Please share them with us!
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