I was lucky enough to be able to attend an education conference this week in Kyoto. But I think I need to give a little background before I go into any sort of detail. I am a university professor at a small school here in Japan. I have been teaching at the university level for about 15 years or so.
About four years ago I stumbled across a program by Apple called Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE). A quick search on YouTube brought up application videos from around the world of successful (and unsuccessful) applicants to the program and some of the things they were doing in the classroom. So, I threw my hat in the ring, filled out the forms, and was selected as part of the program. There are only around 2000 ADEs worldwide (a little more than that, but I'll round down), so the competition was pretty tough. If you are interested in participating, head over to ade.apple.com and you'll be able to find more information.
So every two years, we have a regional conference (or academy) and this year we were in Kyoto. Educators from Japan, Korea, and Greater China (mainland, Hong Kong, etc.) got together to share what we do in the classroom and try to find new ways to incorporate technology to support students and learning.
This time through we were focusing on how to use Clips in an educational environment. If you search for "ClassroomClips", "ADE2017", or "ForTheLoveOfLearning" on Facebook or Twitter, you will find some of the Clips my fellow ADEs made in the short time we were together. One of my favorites is this one:
It's a short instructional on how to use Keynote to make Buttons (or PNGs) for other things.https://twitter.com/marienkoen/status/885871355702509568
- marienkoen
My work group spent our time thinking about how Clips might be used by teachers and how that could be different from how students might use the application. For teachers, setting up short instruction videos for assignments, class announcements, demonstrations, and even quizzes were some of the ideas we gathered. On the student side, reports, journals, presentations, interviews, surveys, and collaborations were just a few of the possible uses for Clips. The real benefit for Clips is the limitation on editing. Students can re-shoot a clip, but doing detailed editing is better suited for iMovie or Final Cut. Clips provides student with a fast, flexible tools for making short, limited development time videos.
Here is one way that a teacher could check student understanding on a topic. I teach language, so lets look at a high school or junior high ESL classroom. The teacher records the prompt "What is your favorite color?" The goal will be to check pronunciation and student knowledge of colors. The teacher then hands the device (iPhone or iPad) to a student, then each student will record themselves saying "My favorite color is ______" while the clips are being recorded, the teacher can have the class working on some other activity.
Here are a couple more clips:
https://twitter.com/bethany_nugent/status/889302343581302784
- bethany_nugent
https://twitter.com/sjeeves/status/888623010504097792
- sjeeves
https://twitter.com/LanttoSari/status/890297326983680000
- LanttoSari
This really only scratches the surface of what we talked about. Leave questions down in the comments and I'll post some more blogs about things that we covered (Keynote, Leadership, implementations, Coding in the Classroom, Swift, Sphero, Language, whatever) or my point of view on whichever topic you would like to know more about.
I'm an Apple Distinguished Educator
Team Japan
Class of 2013