Category Archives: iPads
Ancient Greece Tellagami
Third graders at Kaechele went to ancient Greece using Tellagami! To kick off the lesson the students went to Britannica ImageQuest to get a background for their Tellagami. Britannica ImageQuest is an amazing resource that hosts millions of rights cleared images. I love using this site with students because I know that the pictures are age …
Everything Is Awesome At Glen Allen Elementary!
Everything is Cool When You’re Part of A Team! Jessica Robinson and I visited Julie Smith at Glen Allen Elementary to do a couple of lessons! First we worked in a first grade classroom using the iPads and then in a second grade classroom using the laptops. In Mrs. Taylor’s first grade class we had a blast …
Back to School Selfie Projects!
If you aren’t following Julie Smith’s ITRT Blog, you are missing out! I’m sad I only got to work with her for one year before getting my new Resource Teacher position at Fair Oaks Elementary because she really challenged and stretched me as an ITRT. She has amazing ideas for lessons that are truly engaging and […] Continue reading
Make a Cameo with Vimeo
It’s been over a month since my last post. Boo. What a great day to get my next post out there though! My day was just made today!! I can’t wait to make a Cameo with Vimeo! A couple months ago, my man Doug Saunders ran across a cool app called YouTube Capture. You basically download […] Continue reading
Affixes iPad Palooza!
Today, JG and the Boys (Ryan Stein, Jim Covais, Julie Goode, and myself) took the show on the road to the 3rd graders at Highland Springs Elementary! Our focus was on affixes: prefixes, root words and suffixes. We kicked off the lesson by rocking out to Flocabulary‘s Prefix Rap. After a quick review of prefixes, suffixes, and root […] Continue reading
Appy Hour with YAKiT Kids!
Its Friday! Let’s break out a new App for “Appy Hour!” Today, I got to hang out in Mrs. Short’s class at Echo Lake Elementary. Her class has been learning about what makes day and night and information about the sun. I was originally going to do the same Keynote Movie Activity I did with […] Continue reading
100 Years old for the 100th Day!
Well, with all these snow days, our upcoming 100th day has been pushed back a little bit. That’s okay though! It gives you a few more days to come up with fun activities for the students! Mrs. Batkins and Mrs. Bortner at Seven Pines showed me this awesome “Aging App” called Age Yourself. This is […] Continue reading
Kindergarten Number Sense Movies
As I like to do, I want to give a big THANK YOU to Mrs. Parsley at Carver Elementary today for letting me jump into her class and try a new App I have never tried with the students today! Mrs. Parsley has done this Number Walk Lesson before, but she wanted to add a […] Continue reading
Augmented Reality in Education: Is it Real?
Today, I had the opportunity to present on Augmented Reality in Education at the University of Mary Washington for an EdTech Conference. Over the past few months, since going to the VSTE Conference in VA Beach, I have been researching different apps that use some form of Augmented Reality. In my brief research, I have […] Continue reading
How to Make QR Codes for Your Classroom
QR codes are easy to create and easily connect your students to websites, photos, maps, and documents. If you were at the iPad Workshop for Teacher Leaders you used examples of along with the QR Scanner app to access information. … Continue reading → Continue reading
