I’ve been seeing and participating in a lot of Challenges lately. From Edublogs, SMART, & ThingLink I’ve had a chance to think outside the box and review creative ways other educators are using tools. So I helped develop the idea…
The Hidden Truth of the Unconference
Over the last few months, the members in my department and I have been discussing professional development. One key phrase has been, “People don’t know what they don’t know.” We have offered a couple of unconference-styled professional development days. Teachers…
Getting Creative with a Free Friday App
Paper Camera is a creative way to take pictures or video and make it look like it is a comic. They have an assortment of filters which are applied in real-time, no waiting or delays. This could be a nice…
Catching Up on Past Friday Apps
I’ve been a little lax in my posting. Here are two Free Friday Apps that I missed posting on the blog. Friday, December 5th Last year, I shared with my teachers a Free Friday Apps, Math Duel($2.99), an app that…
Sizing Up a Free Friday ‘App’etizer
SAMR is currently a huge buzz word! And I don’t claim to be an expert on this model, so I may be incorrect with the rest of this post (comment to help me set the record straight). I believe that…
A Heritage Project Idea
This was originally posted on the ThingLink Blog For the last several weeks, I have been working with third grade teachers and their students on their heritage project. As part of their social studies curriculum, the students researched their family’s…
Inspiration From a Colleague Leads to a Free Friday ‘App’etizer
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…
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…
When it rains, it pours: Playing w/ Forms pt 2
Just when you thought you gained a handle on new updates… I go and read a post at the Google Drive Blog on a few more customizations you can make with Google Forms. I already posted about some that I…
My Recent Playing w/ Forms
This past week, I read a post from Mr. Clay Reisler (iPaddiction) on creating custom banners and password protecting forms. This had me start playing around with Google Forms more. I love having the ability to customize items, so being…
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…
Remember Webquests? I do!
Webquests were internet adventures for students which consisted of having a webpage set up for students with resources needed to complete an activity. I have a grad course I’m teaching currently online where we explore creating a webquest using one…
ThingLink Video
ThingLink Video is a new web tool (sorry, no app yet) that allows a person to add ‘tags’ to a video. ThingLink has now made videos interactive. I can place tags anywhere within a video which I either upload or…
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…
My Experiences with Symbaloo
Symbaloo is a wonderful tool! It allows a user to share links to other resources easily and visually. It is quite easy to setup and there are a ton of tutorial resources available. I have been using Symbaloo in three…
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…
10 Weeks of Professional Development you can ‘touch’
This summer I had the opportunity to take part in a PD Teacher Challenge. Each week, for ten weeks, a new task was proposed using ThingLink as our medium. Sometimes it was to learn how to incorporate various media types…
Global SMART Exemplary Educators Summit
So back in March I posted about applying for SMART’s 2014 educators’ summit. Big news, I was accepted! And now here it is Thursday afternoon of the summit. What is there to say… yes, this is an all expenses paid…
App Review: Truss Me!
Physics Teachers and Students need to Truss Me! cross posted at: classthink.com Truss Me! is an iOS app which is taking the educational market by storm. It fits into the ideology of Gamification; using an engaging method to solve problems.…