Podstemic: Changing the Face of STEM Curriculum with Mobile Devices
Speakers Cathleen RichardsonCathleen Richardon website: http://cathleenrichardson.com/
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Podstemic: http://podstemic.com/
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Speakers Cathleen RichardsonCathleen Richardon website: http://cathleenrichardson.com/
Blog: http://cre8tivmind.com/
Podstemic: http://podstemic.com/
Bookmarks: http://www.delicious.com/cre8tivmind
Slideshare: http://slideshare.net/cre8tivmind
YouTube: http://youtube.com/cathleenrichardson
Google: http://www.google.com/profiles/thecathleenrichardson
Websites: http://cre8tiveduservices.com, http://cre8tivmind.com, http://cathleenrichardson.com, http://podstemic.com
- Research and Money Sources
- President: educate to innovate
- Change the equation: http://www.changetheequation.org/
- MacArthur Foundation – give money for ideas; look here, great source!
- be the future
- Grow up great program via Sesame Street
- National Lab Day – brings hands-on activities into your area
- Whitepapers: nasa, always connected, learning: is there an app for that?, the iTot generation
- National stem video game challenge
- ARPA Ed: Winning the education future ← source on money
- 10 ways to use mobile devices to support STEM (http://mobile2011blog.posterous.com/podstemic-10-ways-to-use-mobile-devices-to-su)
- 1. Videos
- iTunes U: (note so much of this material has the teacher resources right there with it!)
- Universities: University of South Florida resources
- Beyond Campus: KQED (the quest: the physics of baseball), Khan Academy, the cassiopeia project (http://www.cassiopeiaproject.com/)
- K-12: discovery education (beyond the textbook, planet earth), mythbusters, science house videos,
- 2. Internet
- Youtube and keepvid.com to save
- Web quests: Zunal (http://www.zunal.com/),
- Math manipulatives: AAA math (http://www.aaamath.com/)
- Blogging in math and science: edmodo (there is an app to go with it)
- 3. eBooks
- iBooks
- inkling (has STEM textbooks)
- kobo
- readinginmathclass.com
- HippoCampus has all books online free (glencoe, printis hall, etc)
- has an app too
- eBooks: iTunes, ePubBud, cK12.org
- http://dotepub.com/ turns the webpage into an ebook you can put on bookshelf
- 4. Apps
- Calculator: PI 83 (99cents)
- Algebra: Algebra Prep by Pearson (show me option – like having a tutor) , Numberline
- Science: NASA (with accelerometer!), google earth
- Productivity: dragon dictation, bump, mover+ (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mover/id320907954?mt=8)
- Mover+ is the quickest way to move stuff from iPhone A to iPhone B, with style. Put what you want to send on the Mover table, connect via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, and flick it offscreen where you want it to go!
- Wolfram Alpha and Wolfram Alpha Algebra
- stop saying google it, say wolfram it!
- McGraw Hill
- Track time, money, and fractions
- The elements (expensive)
- Vernier Video Physics
- students record own video and then graph stuff in there
- http://www.vernier.com/products/software/video-physics/
- Built In Camera
- blog.mrmeyer.com: you should have a camera in every math class!
- RulerPhone
- will measure things with your phone
- iLiveMathSpeed
- students see video, read a book, and assessment
- cross-curriculur
- Project Noah
- BrainPop
- Scitunes
- 5. Make your own apps without coding:
- Dashcode and MobilAp – see university of Cincinnati
- Widgetbox (make your own mobile app)
- Game Salad – cytunes
- The virtual periodic table – made in keynote to link you to sites
- Bubble Ball
- Slideshows
- 6. Video Memos to capture field notes, observtions
- 7. Communication – facetime for career talks, skype in the classroom
- Ustream (free)
- 8. Creation stations for innovations – sonic pics, imovie, evernote, prezi
- 9. Organization – class organizers
- 10. Other
- Bento (great for walkthrough observations)
- works with filemaker pro
- Proscope mobile (http://www.bodelin.com/proscopehr/proscope_mobile/) – The first wireless handheld digital microscope for iOS
- Feedback: eClicker, poll everywhere, google docs
- Google forms + Flubaroo – grade test for you
- tools → script gallery → flubaroo
- bit.ly/li6Hdc: how to use google forms in STEM classes
- genius scan will take pic of your whiteboard and change to text
- Augmented Reality – is it really real?
- CommonCraft
- Augmented Reality – Explained by Common Craft (Free Version): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-A1l4Jn6EY
- The 2011 Horizon Report
- 1. Gesture based computing
- wii
- xbox kinect (kinect education: http://www.kinecteducation.com/ – don’t need to have the xbox)
- 2. Geotagging and geolocation
- WIKITUDE:http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikitude/id329731243?mt=8
- Google Goggles – in google app
- Sekai Camera
- Starwalk (has night vision) – will tell you what stars are overhead
- Layars
- Mitar – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBG0_jfXt7o
- Environmental detectives
- Augmented reality + digital storytelling: ARIS (http://arisgames.org/)
- ARIS is a tool for you to make mobile games, tours and interactive stories. Using the GPS and QR Codes, ARIS players will experience a virtual world of interactive characters, items and media placed in physical space.
- Scvngr
- 3. Markers: QR codes
- QRStuff, bit.ly, quickmarks
- GE imagination smart grid app: http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2010/ge-plug-into-the-smart-grid/
- Google sketchup and AR media
- 3D warehouse: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/
- AR Media: plugin for google sketchup – http://www.inglobetechnologies.com/en/new_products/arplugin_su/info.php
- With AR-media™ Plugin, Google™ SketchUp™ users are allowed to visualize their 3D models using Augmented Reality directly in the real physical space which sorrounds them. In a very precise sense, through AR-media™ Plugin, SketchUp™ 3D models can be visualized out of the digital workspace directly on users’ desktop, by connecting a simple webcam and by printing a suitable code.
- Learn AR augmented reality to model objects
- http://www.learnar.org/
- need the sheet + webcam
- Argon – http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/argon/id396105088?mt=8
- use this to do all the augmented reality stuff
- free
- Junaio (http://www.junaio.com/)
- hold phone over #12 football player and you’ll get info from the game
- ariser.org
- surgery with augmented reality
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