A fellow Teacher Resource Specialist for Technology in my district, Laura Agnella, submitted a post about Graphic Organizers on our District’s 1to1 Learning blog this past Thursday. After reading the post, I started thinking about how I like to create…
Category: Apps
These posts are describing a particular app’s features and/or uses in the classroom.
Personal Wins!
I felt that I needed to brag a little. Actually, come to think of it, as educators, we don’t celebrate our personal wins that often. Case in point, I went into one class this week and was assisting a teacher…
Spooktacular Free Friday ‘App’etizer
This week I come to you with an app, Comic Touch 2, by the makers of Comic Life. Comic Touch 2 can be used to introduce a couple of topics. Two which this app screams to use are dialogue and…
It’s Friday! Guess what that means…
Friday, October 24, 2014 offers a Halloween app smash for my teachers. Using Pumpkin Carver Plus and YAKiT Kids students can ‘carve’ a pumpkin on the iPad, then save it to the camera roll. From within the app, YAKiT Kids,…
Free Friday ‘App’etizer
In my current district, I send out a weekly email to the teachers of the buildings I work with. Every Friday I send out a ‘free Friday Appetizer’; this is an app which is either free or temporarily free. I…
App Resource Idea!
After using my new favorite tool, ThingLink, several times this summer (as you can/did read in a different post: ThingLink Teacher Challenge); I came up with an idea on how to use it with my iPad teachers. I am asked…
Third Grade Logo Project
Today I am starting a project with a couple of 3rd grade classes. Their task is to create a logo which represents themselves. I’ll be introducing this project with this Google presentation: We will be using a variety of apps…
Free Webinars on ThingLink
Update Here is an image for Tomorrow’s ThingLink Interactive Image Share: This past summer, I participated in a Teacher Challenge… but that’s for another post. Now ThingLink wants to promote all the wondrous work created through the challenge that…
Nearpod Author’s Program Accepts ME!
It’s been a little while in the making, but I have now become a published Nearpod Author! It took a little time because I typically used Nearpod as an assessment/activity tool. I didn’t use it in a classroom for explaining…
Half Day PD for Third Grade
I offered, last school year, an opportunity for third grade teachers to really get hands-on with how to incorporate iPads into their classroom. The grade level leader asked if I could create, with her, a half day training for her…