Presentation at Minnesota Brightspace Ignite on April 24, 2015, by Sheri Hutchinson, Normandale Community College and Karen LaPlant, Hennepin Technical College

1. The Classroom of the Future
Sheri Hutchinson Normandale Community College
Karen LaPlant Hennepin Technical College
MN IGNITE
April 24, 2015

2. Session Description
Attendees are asked to grab their tablet or laptop and join this
session that will have everyone using devices to collaborate, take
polls, and explore how technology can create active learning in the
classroom. Presenters will demonstrate how to dictate and share
notes, do a quick screencast, and post to a Brightspace course.
Participants will explore ideas for classrooms of the future and
watch a demonstration of cloud-based collaboration using
Microsoft® Office and the Google™ search engine. Ideas will be
shared for the Pedagogy Wheel for activities and learning events,
both in the classroom and online.

3. Goals
Upon leaving this session:
• identify key pre-digital literacy skills needed
for one's own classroom
• demonstrate the use of multiple apps for
active learning events of instruction
• explain the importance of cloud computing
with today's tools!

4. Overview
• Active learning events of instruction
• Padagogy wheels for apps
• Cloud based collaboration
• Office 365
• OneNote- OfficeMix- Sway
• Google Docs
• Polling
• Screencasts

5. Activity 1
Grab your iPad or android download Anatomy 4D

6. Active Learning Events of Instruction
• Digital Literacy
• Visit Atomic Learning, NorthStar, Lynda.com
• Bloom’s Taxonomy Padagogy Wheel
• Visit
www.unity.net.au/padwheel/padwheelposter.pdf

7. All things office

8. OFFICE365 ETC
Make Life Easier!

9. Office in education
Inspire, engage, collaborate, and
work wonders in and out of the
classroom with Office 365

10. Get Office free from your school
Office 365 Education for Students:
• available for free to students who are enrolled
at qualifying school
• Install Office on up to 5 PCs or Macs and on
other mobile devices, including Android, iPad®,
and Windows tablets
• Check with your IT Department
• Sign up at www.office.com/getOffice365

11. PowerPoint gets Interactive
• Office Mix FREE add-in for PowerPoint2013 is a
new way to tell your story with voice, video,
inking, screen recording and interactive magic
• Upload your lesson to the Microsoft Cloud
• Share a link with your students to watch in any
modern browser
https://mix.office.com

12. What is Sway?
Sway is an app for expressing your ideas in an
entirely new way, across your devices
• New presentation app
• Drag and drop photos, videos, files from
computer, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, or
cloud storage
• Works via a browser or an app for your phone,
and the presentation is stored on the web
• Microsoft announced Sway in October 2014

13. Create & share something new
• Easily create and share a polished, interactive,
web-based canvas of your ideas with family,
friends, teachers, and coworkers
• Sway makes sure your creation looks great on
any screen

14. Add your content easily
• Save time and stop switching between
different apps to pull together your content
• Sway is seamlessly integrated with OneDrive,
your devices, social networks, and the web so
you can drag and drop your content right onto
your canvas

15. Effortless design
• Built-in design engine takes the hassle out of
formatting your various pieces of content by
integrating them into a cohesive layout
• You can easily adjust the design to create a
look and feel that reflects your unique style
https://sway.com/

16. What is Digital Note-Taking?
• OneNote2013 part of the Office Suite
• Get OneNote 2013 on your PC for Free!
• Works on Windows 7 and Windows 8
https://www.onenote.com/Download

17. OneNote
• FREE OneNote on your tablet, phone, and
computer, so you can capture your ideas and
to-do lists in one place wherever you are
• Save to the cloud
• Sync note
• Share with others in OneNote 2013
• www.onenote.com

18. Activity 2
Write down two pre-skills that your students or
you (please identify which audience you are
writing for) will need to be digitally literate in this
classroom of the future.
Pass the list to the end of the table and we will
collect and give you a list of the pre-digital
literacy skill set your students will need in the
classroom of the future. Include your email
address if you’d like a copy of the list.

19. Polling Tools

20. Screencasting and media
Screenchomp Video https://www.techsmith.com/
screenchomp.html
VoiceNote—Google Chrome app speech to text
Dragon Dictation

21. Screenchomp
This recordable whiteboard is just the canvas you need
to jot your ideas down and share them – with the
world, or just a friend or two. Helpful to anyone, but
developed with teachers and students in mind,
ScreenChomp records your touchscreen interactions
and audio so you can…
• Send helpful tutoring videos home with students
• Allow kids to create videos that help their classmates
• Explain complexities from afar
• Record your most recent brilliant idea
• Share doodles with friends and family

22. Google Chrome Voice Note
Dragon Dictation
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/voicenote-ii-speech-to-
te/hfknjgplnkgjihghcidajejfmldhibfm?hl=en

23. Socrative
Polling and Games
http://www.socrative.com

24. eLearning Summit
Minneapolis Community and Technical College
July 29-30, 2015
The MN eLearning Summit is the premiere event of the Minnesota Learning
Commons, and is a gathering place for K-12, college, and university educators
and innovators in the Midwest who are committed to effective online and
blended learning.
http://www.mnelearningsummit.org/
MnSCU registrants should ask for the Coupon Code when registering online.
The discount will be calculated automatically. This discount is only available for
the early registration fee and it is not available after July 1.

25. Resources Galore
• Faculty Development Resources:
http://www.normandale.edu/current-students/academic-
resources/professional-development-center/teaching-tools
@pps for instructors; Learning Activity Library; MNSCU
Website; Active Learning; Audio Recordings; Screen
Capture and more
• Augmented Reality Resources: http://daqri.com/
• NorthStar Digital Literacy Assessment:
https://www.digitalliteracyassessment.org/
• Atomic Learning: https://www.atomiclearning.com/
• Lynda.com
• Minnesota Learning Commons https://mnlearningcommons.us/
Open Educational Resources; Digital Literacy; Accessibility;
Federal and State Regulations; Quality Practices

26. THANKS FOR ATTENDING
Karen LaPlant
Karen.LaPlant@hennepintech.edu
Sheri Hutchinson
Sheri.Hutchinson@normandale.edu