Tech News 4 U
February 19, 2018
Check out the K-5 Hoover Chrome Store
- Number Rack: The movable, colored beads encourage learners to think in groups of fives and tens, helping them to explore and discover a variety of addition and subtraction strategies.
- Geoboard: A tool for exploring a variety of mathematical topics. Learners stretch bands around pegs to form line segments and polygons and make discoveries about perimeter, area, angles, congruence, fractions, and more.
Chrome Apps in the Chrome Web Store Grades K-5
Book Creator K-5
Many of us have known and have loved the iOS app, Book Creator. This past summer Book Creator created a version which is compatible with Chromebooks. This is a great tool for book creating or any publication that takes more than one page. Students can draw pictures, take pictures of hand-drawn illustrations, insert text and record their voice. The interface is fairly easy to navigate even for our K-2 students. The free plan lets you have one active library which can store 40 student books. Students would go to www.bookcreator.com and sign in to the Chrome version. Then choose "I AM A STUDENT." Students will SIGN IN WITH GOOGLE. Remember: when you are publishing a student's book to the web, a text box pops up with the student's full name. To ensure student privacy, please remove the student's last name. Also review student publications to make sure private information is not in the books before publishing to the web.
Check out this short video and see how easy it is to get started! https://vimeo.com/220782126
Check out this great example from Mrs. Whisenhunt's kindergarten students! Link
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