Looking Back at 10 years of EdCamps Oh how the time flies, EdCamp Madison is turning 10 this year! It will be held Saturday, February 3rd at Sun Prairie West High School. Which can be found at 2850 Ironwood Drive in Sun Prairie Wisconsin from 8:30 am - 3:00 pm. Get more information and register here: https://sites.google.com/sunprairieschools.org/edcampmadwi/home I will always remember sitting in my first EdCamp opening session at the very first EdCamp Madison and having no clue what I was in for. So, I’d like to take this space to go over some of the basic rules of EdCamp. No One Will Pitch It for You EdCamps are unconferences. By this I mean that they have a blank slate of sessions for the day. There may be a few predetermined sessions, but ultimately the session topics are determined by attendees during the pitch & plan session that opens the day. If an idea gets pitched there will be a session on it. If a topic doesn’t get pitched, there won’t be a session on it. So, it i
I was listening to the newest episode of the Shukes and Giff Podcast when they mentioned a new Chrome extension from the EdTech Team called AudioPlayer for Slides from EdTech Team. I was super excited to check it out as it allows users to record new audio and add it to a slide.
I teach physics in a co-taught classroom in which many of the students have difficulty demonstrating their understanding by composing written text. Many times they are able to successfully demonstrate their understanding verbally, though. This new extension will allow students to record their own audio explanations and add them to a slide to be played when viewed in presentation mode.
Last school year, we converted all of our lab reports from Google Docs to Google Slides as it allows for more robust creations and creates manageable chunking of tasks for learners who can easily get lost in long scrolling documents. In addition, it allows us to provide prompts and directions in the speaker notes leaving the majority of the canvas blank for learners to create. So, this new extension is a perfect fit for allowing all of our learners the ability to demonstrate understanding in the mode that suits them best. For example, a student may have a graph on a slide of their report in which they are expected to provide a detailed explanation for.
For some learners, describing the graph verbally may remove some barriers to demonstrating mastery that typing out a complete answer would present.
Below is a short video walkthrough of the app I created. I do a voice recording at one point so watch your audio level.
As you can see, it is not just for recording new audio. Existing audio can be added right from drive to the slide. It can be played on one slide or over multiple slides! So get the extension here. Then enable it and you'll be ready to go! Thank you EdTech Team for the great extension!
My only wish is that it didn't sit in the center of the screen when recording, or that it could be moved, as it blocks the current slide from being viewed. But, that is a minor complaint for a major leap forward in slide creation!
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