SPHS High School Library Newsletter
Teacher Edition April 2015
A New Way to sign up for Library Time, Chromebooks, or Computer Labs.
Please use this Google Doc to sign up for all library requests. Thank you!
The World's Greatest DIY Comic Website
http://www.howtoons.com/
Students can now access Discovery Education
Logging in with their SPHS student IDs and passwords- students are able to access
and search to find videos, interactives, images, games and more.
AS a teacher- did you know you can use DE to create assignments and assessments that your students can access at home- this is a great resource for Flipping the Classroom!
iMovie on our iPads
We have iMovie on our iPads.
Engage High Schoolers With Apps They Love (part 1)
Trivia Crack: Users of this best-selling app compete against familiar or random opponents by answering questions about history, science and more – similar to the classic game Trivial Pursuit.
Deb Norton, a technology integration specialist at Appleton East High School in Wisconsin, says the app is wildly popular with the school's students. Some teachers at the school found a way to take advantage of that popularity by hosting battles between classes, she says.
"It’s truly educational, so I’m like, ‘We have to make the best of this,’" she says.
Here’s how it worked: Each class participating in the battle had an account, and the students in each class answered the questions together.
Norton says the activity allowed the teachers to show their students they cared about their interests and addressed behavior issues too- allowing her to discuss being appropriate on social media with her students. Trivia Crack is on all SPHS iPads!
Pannoni, Alexandra. "Engage High Schoolers With Apps They Love." US News. U.S.News & World Report, 12 Jan. 2015. Web.