Strategies for Activate Instruction Summit Public Schools Jon Deane,
[email protected] Jesse Roe,
[email protected] Howard Shen,
[email protected] Illuminate User Conference 2013
Welcome! • Raise your hand if . . . – You’ve been a teacher – You’ve been an admin – You’ve searched online for teaching resources – Your district/school uses Illuminate DnA
What is Activate? • • • •
Standards-aligned, playlist-based content Management and social features. Empower teachers, entice students, engage parents For free!
Why Activate? • Standards-aligned resources users need • Create playlists to organize the resources, aligning resources to learning environment • Crowd-sourced effort, where teachers build on each other's work
Hands-on! • activate.illuminateed.com • https://app.activateinstruction.org
*this is a permission that may need to be turned on
Exploring Playlists • • • •
Search for “Shen” under Teachers Choose “Mr. Shen” Check out the playlists there. We’ll be discussing the differences in format of the two playlists
Share-out • When comparing the two playlists, what differences jumped out at you?
Best Practices • Our list is based on the experiences of: – 7 teachers generating a shared curriculum for this academic year – The teaching faculty of 4 schools generating shared curriculum over the last 4 weeks – A team of 3 former teachers working all year on what playlists in a blended learning environment look like
Best Practices • Begin each playlist with an objective • Keep headings for subsections brief and link them to the objective • Name a resource with its type and title • Include the name of common resources in parentheses at the end, i.e. (Khan Academy)
Making Activate Even Better • For those of you who have Illuminate DnA: Online Testing!
Future Plans • What’s there already: – Algebra 1 and Algebra 2 curriculum
• Things we’re working on now – English, Math, History, Science, Spanish – To be complete for grades 6-12 by August
