D'Hanis Elementary
J2Training - Janet Corder & Joan Gore
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Classroom Screen
You can…
- Choose a background
- Type your instructions in the text area and zoom
- Choose a work symbol
- Set a timer
- Show the clock & calendar
- Use the traffic light
- Pick a random name
- Use the calculator
- Draw in-screen or full-screen
- Generate a QR-code
- Drag and drop the icons in the right place
- Select a language
Creative Ideas for Using Classroom Screen
Click on the menu bar (3 lines in top left corner) and click on Tips & Tricks for directions and ideas.
Webcam option for your background:
- Open the Background widget.
- Click on the Camera icon.
- You will probably need to give Classroom Screen access to your webcam.
Upload an image as your background:
- Open the Background widget.
- Click on the Camera icon.
- Find your image and click Open.
Add an Animated Emoji to your Classroom Screen:
- Use the Emoji Me Face Maker app to create your animated Emoji. Customize your emoji and email it to yourself.
- In Classroom Screen, open the Drawing widget.
- Add your animated Emoji using the upload button in the bottom right corner.
Hint: Since Classroom Screen does not save your drawings, keep a folder of your animated Emojis in Drive or on your computer.
Add a Bitmoji to Your Classroom Screen
- You will need the Bitmoji Chrome Extension added to your Toolbar.
- Find the Bitmoji you want to add to your Classroom Screen and drag it into a Text widget.
Add an Animated Image to Your Classroom Screen
- Search images.google.com for a topic.
- Click Tools under the search box to access more options.
- Choose Transparent under the Color drop-down menu.
- Choose Animated under the Type drop-down menu.
- Open Classroom Screen in a separate tab and place a Text widget on your board.
- Drag your animated image to the Classroom Screen tab.
- When Classroom Screen appears on your screen, drop your animated image onto the Text window.
Add a Gif to Your Classroom Screen
- Search giphy.com for a Gif.
- Open Classroom Screen in a separate tab and place a Text widget on your board.
- Drag your Gif to the Classroom Screen tab.
- When Classroom Screen appears on your screen, drop your Gif onto the Text window.
Other Ideas:
- Use an image of the book or a page from a book you are reading as the background picture on your Classroom Screen.
- The Full Screen Drawing widget has graph and lined paper as options.
- Use Classroom Screen to have assignment choices in a Text widget for students to select.
- Have the Text widget with bell ringer instructions written on it when students enter the room.
- The circle with yellow and green icons in the bottom right of your screen opens up a poll option.
Symbaloo EDU
- Easy method for curating digital content
- Webmixes (curated sites) are saved in the cloud, so they are accessible anywhere
- Visually engaging for students and educators
Star Wars in the Classroom
Flipquiz
Flipquiz is a Jeopardy-style game that is great for reviewing information. Divide your class into two teams and start playing! Flipquiz is ideal for interactive whiteboards, but it will work with a computer and a projector.
Epic Books
Four Star Apps
Chatterpix Kids
Duck Duck Moose
Sock Puppets
Create your own sock puppet shows with the Sock Puppets app. Watch the creativity explode when students start experimenting with this app!
Sock Puppets is free, but there are in-app purchases available.Sock Puppets Examples:
Khan Kids
Shadow Puppet
Shadow PuppetEDU is a free IOS app that allows the user to easily create videos to explain an idea, tell a story and document learning.
To create an ABC Book:
- Each student is assigned a letter of the alphabet to illustrate. They must write the letter and draw a picture of something that begins with that letter.
- After students have completed their illustration, the teacher takes a picture of each drawing.
- The teacher then has each student record the name of their letter and what begins with that letter. Example: "A is for alligator".
- You will want to create a beginning an ending slide for your book, such as a class picture or a sign that says Mrs. Smith's Class Alphabet Book.
- When the book has been recorded, you have several sharing options to choose from within the ShadowPuppetEDU app.
Click on the "ideas" icon within the Shadow PuppetEDU app for integration ideas. Here are a few of our favorites:
- Sequencing - Tell about a process or event by using transition words (e.g., schedule for the day, timeline of historical events, etc).
- Summarizing - Take a picture of the book cover. Students record a summary of the book.
- Reading fluency - Students record themselves reading the text.
- Creative storytelling - Students work together to develop a story, take photos, and record a narrative.
- Self-published authors - Students write, illustrate, and record original stories, poems, or ABC books.
- Readers theater - Student draw pictures to match their assigned part of the story. Order the pictures and have students record their lines.
- About Me presentations - Makes for a fun beginning of the year activity.
- Show and tell - Students share interesting things related to the curriculum being studied.
- How-to tutorials - Create step by step directions for how to achieve a desired outcome (e.g., how to make cookies).
- Community & culture - Create slideshows of community workers or leaders, holidays around the world, or cultures and customs.
- Math word problems - Students create word problems such as, "In this photo there are 3 red blocks and 2 green blocks. The total number of blocks is 5 because 3 plus 2 equals 5."
Popplet Lite
Popplet Lite allows students to create graphic organizers to share what they have learned.
All About Me
1. Take a picture of yourself using the front-facing camera.
2. Open Popplet Lite app.
3. Insert your picture into Popplet.
4. Create 5 Popples (bubbles) extending from your picture. Each Popple must contain an adjective that describes you.
Hello Crayons
Hello Crayons is realistic drawing app that works like crayons.
Also check out:
Novel Effect
Novel Effect is coming soon on GooglePlay and Amazon Fire! Sign-up here.
Plickers
You only need the Plickers app downloaded on one IOS or Android device to scan the student responses.
Check out lots of info on Plickers here.
Ideas for altering Plickers Cards for younger students can be accessed here.
Toontastic 3D
Toontastic 3D is a storytelling app that gives students the ability to draw, animate, narrate, and record their own cartoons.
Examples:
Benjamin FranklinQuizizz App
Quizizz has a new feature that allows the question and answer choices to be read aloud using the Quizizz app. Only available for IOS devices. The questions appear on the students' devices.
Let's try it out!
- On your device, open quizizz.com.
- Click Join a Game.
- Enter the Game Code the teacher provides and click Go.
- Type in your name and click Join Game.
- Wait for the teacher to begin the game.
Good Luck!
Flipgrid (Web and App)
Flipgrid is a video response tool that is used to create discussions among all students within your classroom. Teachers post a topic or question via text or video and the students respond to the prompt. Flipgrid also gives students the ability to comment on their classmates' responses.
Key Features:
- All of your videos are located in one location.
- You can Freeze a Topic to continue sharing the videos but prevent new recordings.
- Student comments can be turned on or off.
Flipgrid Examples:
Flipgrid Certified Grid (password is Flipgrid)
Ideas/Tutorials/Blog Posts:
- Have students draw pictures of characters in a book or story then create a talking picture of their character in ChatterPix. Upload the ChatterPix file to Flipgrid.
- Use the filters in Snapchat to create a video to upload into Flipgrid.
- Explain a Science experiment.
- Tell how to solve a math equation step-by-step.
- Have teachers create a video introducing themselves and their class to new students.
- Have students welcome new students to their school.
- Exit Tickets
- Book Talks
- Padlet of Flipgrid ideas
- 15+ Ways to Use Flipgrid in Your Class
- Tony Vincent's Review of Flipgrid - with helpful tips
- Flipgrid Unplugged #2: AppSmashing with Jornea Erwin
- Using @Flipgrid in Online #APCalculus to Allow Students to Verbalize Their Thinking Process
- Teacher and Student Guides
- Searchable Help Center
- Flipgrid Blog
- Flipgrid on Twitter
- Flipgrid on Facebook
- Flipgrid help for Students & Parents
- Flipgrid YouTube Channel
- Flipgrid Response Cheat Sheet
Create a QR Code
Create a QR Code that links to your Grid or Topic! Click the Share option and choose QR Code.
Topic Discovery Library
Share and find Topic templates that have been submitted by educators from around the world. All subject areas and grade levels are included. You can find these under Discovery in the Menu Bar.
Flipgrid Explorer Series
During the 2016-17 school year, Flipgrid expanded the learning opportunities for classrooms by offering 2 Explorer Series that connected students from around the room with a marine biologist expert and a raptor expert. Each of the series included an expert sharing information about the topic and discussion topics for the students to participate in via Flipgrid.
Follow Flipgrid on Twitter to find out when and if more series are offered.
Global Grid Connections
Connect your classroom with students of your fellow Flipgrid educators around the world! Explore connections by Grid, age or subject area and check out the educator’s goal. You can find this section under Connections in the Menu Bar.
Topic Discovery Library
Share and find Topic templates that have been submitted by educators from around the world. All subject areas and grade levels are included. You can find these under Discovery in the Menu Bar.
Flipgrid Explorer Series
During the 2016-17 school year, Flipgrid expanded the learning opportunities for classrooms by offering 2 Explorer Series that connected students from around the room with a marine biologist expert and a raptor expert. Each of the series included an expert sharing information about the topic and discussion topics for the students to participate in via Flipgrid. Below are the links to some of the series:
Follow Flipgrid on Twitter to find out when and if more series are offered.
Global Grid Connections
Connect your classroom with students of your fellow Flipgrid educators around the world! Explore connections by Grid, age or subject area and check out the educator’s goal. You can find this section under Connections in the Menu Bar.
Flipgrid Best Practices
See our Do's and Don'ts for best practices and make sure to collect Consent forms from all students before onboarding them to the platform.
Need a Recording "Studio"
Check out the Giga Pop-Up Pod from Amazon! It can also be used for a green screen!
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality
What is augmented reality? Movies have given us a sense of “alternative reality” for years. Augmented reality makes something come to life! It seems like magic.
Let's take a look at a few of our favorites:
AR Flashcards (free) - Animal/Alphabet Flashcards
1. Download and print in color the Alphabet Flashcard from arflashcards.com
2. Download the AR Flashcards App from the Apple store.
3. Open the AR flashcards App and press Get Started.
4. Hover you device over a flashcard. Make sure your sound is turned on. Touch the image when it appears and and you will hear the name of the animal and the letter it begins with.
Ideas for using AR Flashcards from Karen's Technology Locker:
-shuffle the flashcard and have students alphabetize them
-shuffle the cards, lay a limited number out, have students build beginning or ending sounds
-shuffle the cards, lay them out and have students spell their name (you may need two decks of cards)
-print two sets of cards and play memory
-identify the number of syllables in each animal word that is on the flashcard
Color Alive by Crayola (free, in-app purchases & coloring book purchase) - These coloring pages will entertain and enchant youngsters as well as the oldsters! You'll love the selfie feature! You can purchase pages within the app or buy the coloring books from Toys R Us, Walgreens, Michaels, JoAnn Fabrics or Amazon. The coloring books (Enchanted Forest, Barbie, Mythical Creatures, Skylanders and Minions) come with 7 crayons including a special color. When the special color is used on the page and then scanned with the app, effects like ice blasts, fire and pixy dust appear. *Google Play Store
Dragon
Fairy
1. Download and print the Dot coloring pages from quivervision.com.
2. Download the Quiver Vision App from their website.
3. Have students color a picture related to your curriculum inside the Dot. Be careful not to color over the black outlines too much.
4. Open the Quiver Vision app and watch your picture come to life! Touch the purple circle to see more image.
Quiver Vision - Creative Writing
- Download and print any of the coloring pages from the quivervision.com. Some of the sets of pages require you to make an in-app purchase.
- Download the Quiver App from the Apple or Google Play store.
- Have students color one of the pages. Be careful not to color over the black outlines too much.
- Have the students write a creative story based on their pictures.
- Open the Quiver app and watch your picture come to life!
Examples:
- Tennis shoe - "When my tennis shoes came to life..."
- Hot air balloon - "My hot air balloon took me to..."
QR Codes
The easiest QR Code Reader is I-Nigma. It is available for most devices.
QR Stuff is an easy tool to use for creating QR Codes.
You have several options to connect your QR Code to. The two most often used by teachers are Website
- URL and Plain Text. URL -.‐ Select the Website URL option and type the address for the website. The QR Code on the right will automatically change.
- Text -.‐ Select the Plain Text option and type your text into the white box. The QR Code on the right will automatically change.
More Examples:
Search Pinterest, Google, Teachers Pay Teachers, etc. for QR Codes in the Classroom and you will find tons of activities already created!
Writing Cubes with QR Codes
- MLK Writing Prompts Cube
- Science Writing Prompts Cube
- Oil Spills Writing Prompts Cube
- Hatchet Chapters 1-4 Writing Prompt Cube
Need writing prompts for the cubes??
- 50 Writing Prompts for All Grade Levels
- 365 Creative Writing Prompts
- Daily Writing Prompts
- Scholastic Story Starters Scrambler
Tony Vincent of Learning In Hand has created a Reflection Dice (cube) to help students reflect on a lesson, unit, activity or project,
Other Great Apps
Skitch - Easily annotate images
Dragon Dictation - Easy-to-use voice recognition app
Word Clouds - Just like Wordle
Charades! Guess Words with Kids - Play this fun game with your kids! Add your own cards that are content-related.
PhotoCard by Bill Atkinson - Create custom-designed postcards with your own photos or the nature photos included in the app
Pic Collage Kids - The kid-friendly version of Pic Collage
StoryCorps - Use to record interviews. Excellent tips and interview questions.
Adobe Spark - Turn your next newsletter, report, invitation or travel adventure into a gorgeous story. Your Slate web story gets its own URL and can be shared via text message, email, posted on social media accounts or embedded on blogs or personal websites.
Spelling City - A great resource for parents and teachers!
Science4Us - An interactive standards-based science curriculum for grades K-2
Logic Puzzles - Classic Logic Grid Problems
Easy Timer - easy-to-read timer
Doodle Pro - drawing app with shapes, colors and more
Mouse Timer - A visualized timer for everyone who wants to measure and/or visualize the time
Doodle Buddy - great drawing app!
Draw and Tell - draw and tell your own story
Ipad Tips and Tricks
Speech to Text Dictation
- Open Settings
- Tap General
- Scroll to the bottom and tap Keyboard
- Toggle Enable Dictation to On
- Tap Enable to agree to the privacy notification
- Tap Done
Use Speech-to-Text Dictation:
- A microphone (Dictation Key) will now appear on your keyboard
- Tap the Dictation Key
- Speak what you want to be typed
- Tap the Dictation Key again
Note: The Dictation Key will only appear if you are typing standard text. It will not appear when you are typing a URL (website address).
iPad Accessibility Options
Accessibility Options
Open Settings
Tap General
Tap Accessibility
Voice Over - speaks items on the screen:
NOTE - I would not use this option. It is very difficult to turn off.
- Tap once to select an item
- Double-tap to activate the selected item
- Swipe three fingers to scroll
Zoom - magnifies the entire screen:
- Double-tap three fingers to zoom
- Drag three fingers to move around the screen
- Double-tap three fingers and drag to change zoom
Invert Colors - presents white text on a black background
Grayscale - disables colors that make the display difficult for some to see (color-blind)
Speech
- Speak Selection - a Speak button will appear when you select text
- Speak Screen - Swipe down with two fingers from the top of the screen to hear the content of the screen
- Voices - many languages to choose from
- Speaking Rate - slide the dot back and forth to control the speaking speed
- Highlight Content - highlight content as it is spoken
- Speak Auto-text - automatically speak auto-correction and auto-capitalizations
Larger Text - increase the font size
Bold Text - bold the font
Button Shapes - give interactive buttons a graphical outline
Increase Contrast - can improve the contrast on some backgrounds to make text more legible
Reduce Motion - reduce some of the special effects in later IOS versions that can be distracting
On/Off Labels - adds a more visible 1 and 0 digit to the standard white/green toggles
Hearing Aids - allows an iPad to connect with and manage compatible hearing aids
Click here for more information.
Mono Audio - assists users who are deaf in one ear
Subtitles and Captioning - provides closed-captioning when available
Video Descriptions - automatically plays video descriptions when available
Guided Access - keeps the iPad in a single app
Switch Control - to be used with adaptive switches
Assistive Touch - use if you have difficulty touching the screen or with an adaptive device
Home-Click Speed - adjust the speed for double and triple-clicking
Accessibility Shortcut - allows you to access some features by triple-clicking
Connect with Janet and Joan
Email: j2training@yahoo.com
Twitter: @corderj @joangore