This year, I made a promise to myself to integrate MORE technology in my classroom. One tool, that I often use is the ipad. I have spent many hours perusing the app store, looking for fun and exciting ways to enrich my students' learning and have found one app that transcends all my expectations. It is called ScreenChomp. It is FREE, and can be used in just about any setting and at any grade level.
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This is an awesomely cool platform for special needs teachers and therapists. It lets you roster your students then assign them specific apps. Once they log on all they can see are the apps assigned to them. This cuts down on distractions and reinforces the skills they need to work on. Not only does the app come with 100 built-in apps specifically chosen for special needs students but you can also track student progress, email reports, and therapy logs and monitor IEPs. Too good to be true but it is!
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It’s becoming difficult to read the news in Los Angeles these days without running across yet another article about the problems faced by the sputtering LAUSD…
As I look ahead to starting my new job at Highbury Grove, I'm thinking about all the conversations we are going to have about learning. To a large degree I want my teachers to be as up-to-date a...
(Updated September 7, 2015 to reflect new features in Socrative 2.0).Sometimes we want a quick check to see how our students are doing with a topic. We want to ask a few questions and know right aw...
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It’s back-to-school season for most educators and this year, the TechSmith Education team is writing a series of blog posts with some ideas for the classroom. Today, we want to take a look at using video in the classroom.
Using Legos in the classroom is not a new concept at all. There are so many different classroom applications for the popular brightly colored bricks, and despite the myriad of uses, the go-to task for Legos is most often math.
When I first looked at Frolyc I thought it was a lesson planning tool. Somewhat like Khan Academy's mashable lesson plans or Mentor Mob's playlist of activities--or Knowmia's carefully-crafted ma...
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Perfect for the teacher who loves to create their own activities or foir the teacher who like to use teacher created activities. EVEN better for Open Content schools, OER and MOOCs. Create an on-the-spot test, or upload maps and have students trace trade routes. Templates give you the format, all that is left is your imagination to make it real! Enterprising teachers can place their created lessons up for sale. The best thing? IT'S FREE!
Here is a list of apps and sites to help kids get started programming, learning code, in elementary school and beyond. | Cargo-Bot, Lightbot - Programming Puzzles, Magento Go to Magento Community Edition Migration Services, Scratch - Imagine, Program, Share, i-LOGO, Hopscotch, Programming Designed for Everyone: coding for kids, Simduino, Move The Turtle. Programming For Kids, littleBits, and Teach Your Kids Tech Basics With Electronic Building Blocks
These are the 70 iPad apps I'm using on my STEM iPad cart. More curriculum is available on: http:/stem.wesfryer.com | Brushes 3, Audioboo, Instashare - Transfer files the easy way, AirDrop for iOS & OSX, i-nigma QR Code, Data Matrix and 1D barcode reader, Kidblog, Singing Fingers HD, All-Star Guitar, cascadr, Beatwave, and SpectrumView
First announced earlier this summer, the LEGO Fusion toys that blend the timeless bricks with iOS gaming are now available to purchase. Even though there are number of LEGO-themed games available on the App Store, the Fusion system is different.
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I have been using googole drive more and more with teachers and students. Great tool for portfolios and collaboration.