Category Archives: Ideas
iPad Apps- Juxio
Tutorial by Karen Hues, ITRT
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Creating Polymers
Creating polymers was simple and extremely entertaining. I practiced the recipe (below) with my own kids before working with the 3rd graders in Brittney Royal’s class. The reason for completing this recipe in class was to have the kids learn … Continue reading
Differentiation Using Keynote
One of my Kindergarten teachers, Vicky Rauchle, used Keynote to help differentiate writing instruction in her classroom. The idea is very simple and it won’t take long for you to replicate this idea for your students. Vicky found a variety &#… Continue reading
Famous Americans Kg Style
Mrs. Rhyne’s students made Story Kits on the famous Americans that they study. I love how Mrs. Rhyne uses the open ended apps for her students to show what they know. Here is a sample of their work.
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Don’t believe in the power of mobile devices……
If you don’t believe that mobile devices are very powerful, this entire post (including videos) was done without the use of a traditional computer. The video was filmed on my iPhone4. I edited the movie using the iMovie App for … Continue r… Continue reading
Montrose, February 7, 2012
Ms. Puschak’s class began working on their black American’s projects. Students had an open format. They could create an iMovie, Keynote, or type a report. Students had free reign as long as they did good research that they sited and … Continue reading → Continue reading
Bond MacGuffin
The Messing with the MacGuffin assignment through ds106 was a lot of fun. Short and simple. I used a list of 50 top movie one-liners to help get my memory going. This could easily be applied to a K-12 classroom … Continue reading → Continue reading
Angry Birds in 2012
Being that 2012 is a mudslinging election year, I am officially joining the campaign1 for Angry Birds to be on every device possible. I know it is a game, but since when are games banned from classrooms, especially strategy games?2 … Continue… Continue reading
Catapult Creations
Fourth graders in Mrs. Doyle’s class have been immersed in a cross curricular project this week. Combined with their study of Jamestown, and the Force, Motion, Energy unit in science, they are creating catapults. You can keep up with the entire project from her blog: http://blogs.henrico.k12.va.us/ddoyle, but I thought I would spotlight some aspects of […] Continue reading
Any Questions?- Ethernet Cord
When I came to Longdale Elementary last week and sat down I found that the ethernet cord that I use was placed in an interesting way. This raised some questions with me, mostly out of curiosity. I brought my Flip … Continue reading → Continue reading
