Explain Everything Workshop

Explain Everything Workshop

Lansdowne Middle School

February 15, 2013

Tim Pelton,  tpelton@uvic.ca

The Plan

·      Why are we here?

·      Exploring examples

·      Lets make something

·      Now try to build something on your own

  

Why are we here?

Why might iPads be useful?

·      access to content (textbooks, websites, blogs, wikis, etc.) 

·      document camera features (with an appropriate stand)

·      exploration of interactive content/activities

 – to discover relationships, to master concepts, etc.

·      consolidation of processes – to build mastery and fluency

·      demonstration of mastery and skills - by capturing a performance

·      creation of interactive activities to share understandings

·      creation of conceptual vignettes to support the learning of others.

Explain Everything (EE)– what is it?

·      Interactive whiteboard (advantages/disadvantages)

·      Explore prepared activities (class or individual)

·      Generate a screencast with audio (share, flip, extend)

·      Challenge students to create (explanation, demonstration, etc.)

Some supporting apps

·      Paper

·      Eraser

·      iMovie

Lets look at some examples:  (static)

EE Videos on youtube

·      Angles in a triangle  

·      Trip to Grandma’s house 

·      Negative x negative is positive? 

·      How tall is a tree? 

·      Sum of fractions 

·      Mental math example 

·      Rebuilding algebraic solution. 

·      Volume/capacity of a box 

Your turn: search on youtube  for: explain everything math

Reflection on what we’ve seen in the videos

·      What works?

·      What doesn’t work?

·      What do we want to try?

  

Lets look at some sample EE  projects

Download and open these activities:

·      Canadian coins 

·      Fraction Strips

·      Adding Fractions 

·      Multiplying Fractions 

 

Reflection on what we’ve seen in the projects

·      What works?

·      What doesn’t work?

·      What do we want to try?

  

Tutorials on Explain Everything:

·      Overview  

·      Demonstration part 1 

·      Demonstration part 2 

Let’s make something (guided activity):

        

A problem solving process:

·      Understand the problem  (e.g., Angles in a Triangle)

·      Make a plan (sketch it out – e.g., ‘Paper’)

·      Carry out the plan (using various apps – EE, Paper, Eraser,…)

·      Look back (what works? what else?)

  

Now you try it (supported activity)

         Start with a project to demonstrate/explore something

·      What are you trying to do?

·      How are you going to do it? (sketch it out)

·      Try it out.

·      What worked? What’s next?

         Then generate a video (to share it)

·      Same goal – but now you are making a fixed presentation

·      Plan out your presentation (sketch it out, script)

·      Build it, save it, publish it

·      Evaluate it.  What’s next?