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October 14th, 2017 
My friend Merri Lea De Wit and I presented two sessions at the Iowa World Language Association conference. Our first session was experiencing a Digital Breakout and the second was learning how to create your own.  The presentation for your use. 


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Slides and Agenda from Heartland TIC Presentation 2017

Here's a link to a nice article written by Heartland AEA promoting the information in my presentation:
The video itself is an hour long, but if you want to learn and understand Breakout EDU, it's valuable.
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My daughter is in love with the song Yakety Yak.  She decided she wanted to sing it for her school talent show. We recently worked to make a background video that she could sing to.  Here is the final product. I think it turned out cute. 





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Wednesday April 5, 2017
Iowa 1:1 Institute Presentation

The presentation is a  complete guide on how to do and make a Breakout.  

ENJOY!





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One of my newest technology adventures was to to create an electronic game of Balderdash for a Professional Development for Spanish teachers at Grandview University. I'm very pleased with how it turned out. I will also be presenting Breakout EDU. 




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Breakout Presentation 1/25

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Breakout EDU-New, cool and fun things happening in my classroom. Too good not to share it with the school board. 
January 23, 2017 
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Our school recently gave a Chrome Book cart with 30 Chrome books to our exploratory team to share.  As a result, this Microsoft Word addict decided it was time to dive into google more and I registered for a class called Google Classroom Applications. I figured I would share my learning journey along the way.  

I learned to use Quicktime to screen cast.  It was quite simple, but took some time to play around and get the settings just right.  I clicked Quicktime>File>New Screen Recording.  I tu...
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Ever hate it when technology doesn't go your way?  I wanted to use a new app for a Fashion Show project in class. Simple right? I used the Chatterpix kids app. I quickly took pictures during a class to model the project.  Later I placed the pictures into Video Editor. It worked great, but you must rate them to be able to add more than 2 video sections.  I did and finished a 1 minute video. Hmmmm, next problem...how to embed into my website? I didn't really want my students work on Youtube or ...
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