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When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts. - Larry Ellison
Are You Integrating?
Creativity and Innovation- The student uses creative thinking and innovative processes to construct knowledge, generate new ideas, and create products.
Here are some tips and resources that can help your students meet this standard.
- Have students create and present an infographic as a group or in stations on any topic using one of these great tools.
Piktochart / Visual.ly / Dipity - Assign students to use online tools such as iPiccy, Pixlr, or Big Huge Labs to edit pictures for their next presentation. Be sure to show them how they can save in different formats. Can't get to the lab? Make this a whole class activity.
See this site to learn more about your particular grade level TEKS for Technology Applications.
Twitter Terms You Should Know
Tweeps
Twitter followers who are your friends in person or online. They tend to have the same interests as you.
Hashtag
A method of tagging your tweets so others can follow other tweets easier. Example: Using #education in your tweet would be a way for others to search for tweets about education.
Microblog
A small version of a blog. Twitter users post messages that are no more than 140 characters.
JP's Apps Gone Free!
Here are some apps that recently became free! Be sure to check them out for your students and see if they align with your next lesson. (These apps may not remain free so get them today.)
Interactive Books
- The Adventures of Puppup: Lost at the Zoo (Grade K-2)
- Jacob's Angle (Grade 4-7)
- Scarlet Flower Fairy Tale
- Three Little Pigs- A Play (Grade PreK-3)
- The Wizard of Oz Interactive Children's Book (Grade 2-5)
Math
- 123 Math: Preschool Math- Delicious Number 2 (Grade PreK-1)
- AppTutor AWP- Addition Word Problems (Grade 1-3)
- AppTutor MT- Multiplication Tables (Grade 2-5)
- Mathstrainers Pro (K-12)
Word Cloud Generators You Don't Want to Miss
If you have never used a word cloud generator you are missing out. These online tools are a great way to make vocabulary lessons more interesting. Word cloud generators create images that visually represent written data. You can make a word cloud as a teacher or have your students create them as you teach them new words. Read this article to learn about Ten Word Cloud Generators
Contact Information
Instructional Technology Coordinator
Taylor ISD
Email: jphale@taylorisd.org
Website: http://it.taylorisd.schoolfusion.us
Location: 3101 North Main Street, Taylor, TX
Phone: 512-352-6361
Twitter: @edtechminute