Boyd's Bytes
October 2015
Let's start off by being appreciated as Teachers!
Add Polls to your Tweets...Twitter has something NEW for you!
Why iPracticeMath? IPracticeMath - Free Resource for TEACHERS, Students, and Parents
iPracticeMath is an at home website that will provide mathematical assistance for ALL grades, ALL ages, and ALL skillsets and its in the privacy of your own home.
It is a Simple Step-by-Step process to learn and practice the mathematical concepts that many students maybe struggling with throughout the school year.
Not sure how to use Haiku Deck in your classroom?
Check out these "Best Educational Case Studies" to get ideas of your OWN to come alive!
Don't Re-create the wheel...
More examples of what you and students can do!
76 Examples of Using Haiku Deck in School
Last weekend Kristen Swanson shared some ideas for using Haiku Deck to promote visual literacy. This morning I noticed that the Haiku Deck blog has a post containing five examples of using Haiku Deck in school. That post contains a link to Haiku Deck's Education Case Studies Pinterest board. That board currently contains 76 examples of Haiku Deck being used by students and teachers.
Who is Presentious for?
Teachers. Capture lectures.
Students no longer need to waste time taking down notes during a lecture. With Presentious, they can focus instead on understanding the material and then reviewing the captured presentation (shared via BlackBoard or a course website of choice) later as needed.
Classroom Flippers. Education in a bottle.
Presentious is also the perfect tool for flipping the classroom experience. Capture the material from your home and let students consume it on their schedule!
Those who can't make Monday's Faculty meeting. Inclusivity!
Katie's giving a presentation Monday, but not all of her colleagues will be able to attend the meeting. WithPresentious, she can give the presentation, recording simultaneously and her colleagues will be able to catch up later.
They can skim the transcript, search for keywords they're interested in and jump to exactly where they need to start listening.
What is Presentious?
Easy to Use and Present - It's ABSOLUTELY FREE!
- Upload or import your slides
- Present from our site on your laptop
- Share a link to your recording.
PROMPT: is another way for students to "Answer" questions. Instead of typing answers/let their student voice be heard! Quick and easy formative assessment.
Wowed (word cloud)
Wowed (aptly named) is a beautiful iPhone app that lets you create and tweak word clouds that you can then share with anyone.
Wowed allows you to automatically create word clouds using Tweets from Twitter, content from Webpages, text on your clipboard or from any words that you manually enter in the app. The Twitter integration is probably the easiest and offers a fascinating look into your Twitter stream. Wowed uses the native iOS Twitter integration, so your accounts are directly available in the app. You can create a word cloud of your own tweets, your @mentions, or even run a custom search on Twitter. All the word clouds you create are automatically saved in the Library, so that you can tweak or edit them in the future whenever you want.
Wowed lets you style your word clouds using a variety of different layouts, colors, fonts and even lets you manually add/remove words from the list. Once you are happy with how a word cloud looks, you can share it as an image (small or large) or as a PDF. There’s also a nifty Share Extension that you can use to create a word cloud directly from the browser.
Wowed is available Free on the App Store with a single $2.99 IAP to Unlock the Premium Features. The free version lets you choose from 3 fonts, 9 colors and 1 layout and export the image in small size only. The Premium version lets you choose from 22 fonts, 22 colors and themes, 6 layouts and export as PDF or a Large image (5120px).
YOUR TECH MENTORS ARE LISTENING...
Thank you for taking the Tech survey. We are in the process of prioritizing your requests and setting up training sessions for your needs. I have spoken with Susan Armacost- who has assured me that 1/2 day training sessions are available to our middle school staff. Amy just needs to pick the day and time for us to meet and be trained by departments. We will keep you appraised of training opportunities with Canvas, new apps, and whatever else you want to learn!
If you need to contact me for questions/help/ideas/or just chit chat...
Email: cboyd@warsawschools.org
Website: http://thebodybyboyd.blogspot.com/
Location: 2302 Isleview Drive Winona Lake, IN46590
Phone: 574 - 269-2693
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Twitter: @Boydwinona
Visitors to the website, can sort through the collections by topic or tag and find out where they are being displayed.
Digital Vaults - USA National Archives Experience http://digitalvaults.org/#
Practitioners and/or learners can browse the digital records for educational fun and/or browse seriously for research.
The Pathway Challenge is worth visiting if visitors fancy themselves as a historical detectives.
Learners could use the Digital Vaults to create a History Poster or create a Movie with any assets they collect from the "Digital Vault".