You’ve been asked to create a 1.5 hour ed tech training for teachers.
– Great!
That training will take place on a Friday afternoon, the first week back from winter break.
– Great!
Wait. Why so confident? What can you possibly do to keep teachers engaged and excited to learn about educational technology on the Friday afternoon after break?
– MaKey MaKey, of course!
Goals
- Introduce staff to the new making resources in the library
- Have fun!
- Encourage teachers to try something new and get out of their comfort zone.
- Spark excitement, enthusiasm and creativity
Training Roll Out
- Mark Picketts, our Director of Technology and Innovation, gave an introduction to MaKey MaKey, including a short video of various MaKey Makey projects:
- We asked teachers to self select into small groups, and sit together at a table that included:
- A laptop
- A MaKey MaKey
- Various materials, such as play dough, bananas, tin foil, cardboard, markers, etc…
- Each laptop had two windows open. The first window was for the MaKey Makey quick start guide, and the other was the group activity guide.
- Each group was asked to read through the quick start guide, and demo the bongos or piano software (found in the Try Out of Software section of the page.)
- Once this was achieved, users selected one of three challenges to work on:
- Control a video game with the MaKey MaKey using Canabalt (found in the Try Out of Software section of the quick start page.)
- Create a musical poster using the Create a Musical Room tutorial as reference.
- Build an “operation”game using the Scratch-Made Operation Game tutorial.
Outcomes
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Source:: Liz Beck – Hamlin Ed Tech Blog