Staff Meeting Tips 3/11

You Tube kids!

BrainPop Game Up

BrainPop Make A Map

ICE 2015... in a Thinglink!

Photo Story/ Book Publishing iPad Apps

Looking for a fun way for your students to publish a book or presentation? Here are two apps that will help!

Shutterfly PhotoStory

A new chapter in photo books. Shutterfly Photo Story for iPad is an easy and fun app that lets you make a photo book you can hold, hear and share. Tell your story with photos, Doodles, text and audio, and easily order your book or share a digital version. From Shutterfly, the leader in photo books. 

Adobe Voice

Voice helps you create stunning animated videos in minutes. No filming — just talk to tell your story. Pick from over 25,000 beautiful iconic images to show your ideas and Voice automatically adds cinematic motion and a soundtrack. Persuade, inform and inspire anyone online. Make an impact.

ABCya!

Looking for a Word Cloud Generator (like Wordle) that works on a chromebook and lets you print or save your work?  

Want your kids to create their own interactive word searches or crosswords? Learn about Parts of Speech? Tell Time? Compare Fractions? 

ABCya! is the place for you!

There are even  ABCya! apps in the iTunes store!

PowerMyLearning.org

Find online games to support your instruction and assign them to your students using powermylearning.org!  This free site has organized and categorized educational, online games by grade level, subject matter and common core relevance.   The games are pulled from sites like Mr. Naussbaum, Scholastic, PBS, Harcourt... all over the web.  You can cut your surfing time in half and know that the games are school and age appropriate.  Plus, you can create classes and assign games to your students.  

The powermylearning.org interface is kid-friendly!  Students can create avatars, earn badges, connect with classmates, search and play games on their own. 

Read more about the theory behind this game-based educational approach! 

January Staff Meeting Tips

Google Timer

1. If you use the Google Chrome browser, you can just type, “timer 30 seconds” into the location bar at the top of any page! Then press the “Enter” key to activate the timer.

Flippityhttp://flippity.net/Sample Templatehttp://www.flippity.net/fc.asp?k=1-3cQzEGVytBGTFlN9AtdmTNOe1Jg4hNylPCkVHlFbtA

iFake Text

http://ifaketext.com
Classroom Uses

Kahoot! - November Staff Meeting

Easy, online, web based learning game that can be played on any device!

Teachers create multiple choice quizzes at https://getkahoot.com.  When you are ready to play with your class, launch and project your Kahoot.  A game pin will appear on the screen.

Students can go to https://kahoot.it  on any device, enter the pin and join the game!

Teacher screen/projection

Student Screen

After each question, results are shown in a bar graph.

At the end of the quiz, results can be downloaded and analyzed to see who need more help or harder questions!