What is a Light Board? Why would we need a mini one?

This is a light board that I built so teachers could have a different way to present content to their classes. It is not a stand-up board, but it is more like an overhead projector where the teacher sits next to the device.

I thought it might appeal to those teachers who want some "wow" factor, but are more comfortable sitting and writing when they make their videos.

Teachers can present diagrams, notes, content as they record themselves.

Many students regard video as solely entertainment. Who can blame them? They have watched videos in grocery store lines, back seats of cars, and riding on the bus forever.

We must teach them to watch and learn from them. They are not just consumers of video, they can be creators of content themselves: curators of content.

It is a different way to look at the pretty pictures that entertain us. You can change their lives. Teach them.

Here is an example of how a teacher could use the Light Board to demonstrate Word Families.

(Yes, it's a little bit dark...Prototype fast, iterate often)

Think of technology integration as using a tool to do what you do so well: teach. Replace something with the tech tool, don't keep piling it upon the tasks you already have to do. It might take some time to get good at it, and you may fail along the way. Take that time to learn.

How to get started with a stand-up Light Board.

• How does it work?
• Do you write backwards?
• Can I do a lesson like this?
• Yes, absolutely!

These are Chromebook rules by students, for students. When we rolled out the Chromebooks to second grade students, they wanted to create a video to teach each other how to take care of their Chromebook.

While running a fantastic contest in my district, we required teachers to create and post videos to win fantastic prizes.

This is a video I did "on the spot" to help some teachers post their videos using WeVideo, an awesome product.

This video was just a fun celebration of device roll-out! Temple ISD has finished our deployment.

• Grades K-1 iPad Minis
• Grades 2-8 Chromebooks, 2:1
• Grades 9-12 Chromebook, 1:1

Our teachers use many tools to create their flipped videos. Screencastify is just one of these tools. Here is how we trained the teachers to install the Screencastify extension and set it up to save to Google Drive and YouTube. Teachers need more than a few tools in their toolbox - but not too many. Find something that works for your students, then use it faithfully and with rigor. When the time comes to re-evaluate, don't be afraid.

How do you transform? In math, what does transform mean?

If you are using a stand-up Light Board, yo may need to turn the text around (got to hear percussion...)

So here you go!

We used this to show our teachers how to use WeVideo. Basically, it is a vocabulary video which describes the menus, and walks the viewer through different parts of this version of WeVideo. I know a how-to video is only as good as the next update, but this is how we wanted to share with our teachers. It is a starting place.

1. Students create a Google Slides Deck
2. Download as a PDF
3. Upload into WeVideo, slides become clips
4. Edit, add music, tell your story.

This an example of perspective. Well sort of, I was in my Brady Bunch phase.

Seriously, I was trying to present a video where the storyteller could tell both sides of a story or argument. This is really easy to do in WeVideo.

Digital Poetry Slam

Reflect on your experience. In this case ISTE 2017, rhyme or not to rhyme, that is the question. Record yourself, then upload to the teacher Padlet.

Love this!

In our library at Hector P. Garcia Elementary, students LOVE the Osmo. It works with an iPad, uses the built-in camera, and also includes manipulatives with different learning activities from tangrams to drawing to coding.