Bridges #ReaganRays Style
Integrating Technology with Bridges
http://youtu.be/TDvv5QIfIwE​
Google Drive for Teacher Planning
UPAD Lite
UPAD Lite is a brillant iPAD application that combines three applications into one: its a notetaking application, PDF annotator, and a simple photo editing application.
Getting Bridges Materials on UPAD Lite
-Open Online Bridges Teacher Resources
-download a section
-tap screen and "open in" appears in top left corner
-tap and uPad app appears
-tap it
-wait a few seconds and then tap on the 9 little squares in the top left corner. The section should appear in your library (I left this out several times and it didn't download).
iBooks
Save all of your Bridges Resources in iBooks. Then, you can quickly and easily project the student book pages so students can work together to solve the problems.
Nearpod
Nearpod is an interactive presentation app and online tool that allows you to build a presentation and push it out to all of your student devices. Students can draw on certain slides to show their math strategies, fill in the blanks, match up items, and respond with text. Students can also take pictures and upload them as the background.
Multiplication of Fractions (5th grade)
Division Strategies (5th grade)
My Edited Video
Think Through Math
Think Through Math provides customized, personalized math instruction to students, including live 1:1 instruction with a certified teacher. Teachers can assign specific content and monitor student progress through reporting tools. Students are able to work at their own pace and enjoy learning through a fun and engaging interface.​
Kahoot
Kahoot is a game-based classroom response system for schools and other organizations. Teachers can create quizzes, discussions, or even surveys using any device with a web browser. Using a simple "drag and drop" creator tool (using any device), teachers build quizzes with embedded imagery and video, based on educational content. Students can use the application without needing an account and everyone in the room can quickly join through their personal device.
1st Grade Kahoot! examples listed below...
Finding the Unknown (1st grade)
Geometry and Fractions (1st grade)
2D Shapes (1st Grade)
Kahoot Video
Aurasma
The Aurasma App is an augmented reality app that alters the reality around you. When students scan a particular image (your trigger image), another image or video will pop up on the iPad screen.
Google Classroom
Use Google Classroom to create a class and assign lessons or projects to your class. You can post links to websites and easily embed anything from your google drive account. Anything that you post on google classroom from your google account is instantly shared with all of your students in that google classroom. When students turn things in on google classroom, a folder will instantly be created in your google drive account to store all of their work for that assignment. You can give grades in google classroom and make comments back and forth with the students
Do you want to join this Google Classroom to see what it looks like from a student's perspective? Type this code in Google Classroom and join: jg3p3f
An example of an Assignment List that I put in Google Classroom for my students to access and use
Flubaroo is a free tool that uses Google Forms to help you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill in the blank assignments
Our Favorite Apps
Chatterpix
Chatterpix can make anything talk in 3 easy steps. Take a picture, draw a line for the mouth and record your voice. Students can't wait to share their learning with this engaging app!
Chatterpix Movie
My Edited Video
Digital Whiteboard Apps
Kinder Adding
Showme App Math Tutorial.mov
Kids Doodle
Kids Doodle is a whiteboard app that students can use to show their problem solving strategies. It also records the student's work and can play it back as a video
Fraction Problem Solving
Number Pieces Basic
Number Pieces Basic is a simplified version of the Number Pieces app, designed for use with primary students. It has fewer features, putting greater focus on place value, counting, addition, and subtraction. Note that Web version is full Number Pieces app.
Number Pieces
Number Pieces helps students develop a deeper understanding of place value while building their computation skills with multi-digit numbers. Students use the number pieces to represent multi-digit numbers, regroup, add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
Math Vocabulary Cards
Math Vocabulary Cards help students deepen their conceptual understanding of key terms in mathematics. Each card features three sections: a math term, a representative example or model, and a concise definition.
Number Rack
Number Rack facilitates the natural development of children’s number sense. Rows of moveable, 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.
Number Line
Number Line helps students develop a deeper understanding of place value while building their computation skills with multi-digit numbers. Students use the pieces to represent multi-digit numbers, regroup, add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
Pattern Shapes
Students use Pattern Shapes to explore geometry and fractions, creating their own designs, or filling in outlines. As they work with the shapes students think about angles, investigate symmetry, and compose and decompose larger shapes.
My Edited Video
The Thank You Song