Digital Learning Day Activity Log
Digital Strategies to Keep You Afloat
Nearpod
Resources:
Lesson Ideas:
Elementary: Learn/Review a Concept (Include images, diagrams, videos, quizzes, drawing feature)
Middle: Learn/Review a Concept (Include outside websites, discussion features, VR images, slide shows, quizzes)
High: Learn/Review a Concept (Include outside websites, discussion features, open ended questions, VR images, videos)
Deck Toys
Resources:
- Examples: Exploring Flight, Westward Expansion
- Quick Start Guide
- Gamification with Deck Toys
- iTeach Walk Through of Deck Toys
Lesson Ideas:
Students can pace themselves through a journey type lesson. Teachers can set up paths for students to choose from or have been chosen for them. Teachers can place in questions, links, images, and a variety of other interactive components. This tool is great for making learning activities more game like.
Note: Deck Toys can be used with a login to keep up with student progress. If you don’t want to use student logins, student progress is not saved. Deck Toys only allows for two decks to be created under the free accounts.
Padlet
Resources:
Lesson Ideas
Elementary: Create a padlet of videos, online books, review websites so students can access these resources from home.
Middle: Same as elementary or set up a shared class padlet to allow students to contribute reflections or their own resources.
High: Same as above or have students create their own padlet to gather research, resources, or organize their thoughts/reflections.
Stop Motion
Resources:
Lesson Ideas:
Elementary: Students use LEGOS or playdoh to show life cycles, retell a story, work out a math problem.
Middle: Same as elementary or have students use their own drawings or pictures they take to retell a story, or depict geographical locations.
High: Have students create a movie to show scientific processes, historical events, or math equations.
Note: More curriculum examples are on the last slide of the iMovie App Tutorial above!
BookSnaps
Resources:
Lesson Ideas:
To annotate and share excerpts of the book you're reading
It allows the reader to connect an idea or thought by creating a digital visual representation. The visual representation solidifies the text content within the mind and signals the brain to retrieve the idea from memory.
Diagram the rise, fall, and climax of the plot
Highlight figurative language and imagery
Notate character conflict and internal struggles
Point out the main idea or a supporting argument
For High School: It has its own hashtag #BookSnaps on Twitter!
It's EASY! Just read, snap, reflect, add stickers, share, and repeat.
Green Screen
Resources:
Example: Civil War
Elementary: Weather reports, retell a story, show life cycles
Middle: Historical Events, retell stories, show processes (science/math)
High: Create an educational music video, create a futuristic world that solves global problems, show scientific processes
Note: Students can easily create a green screen background using a pizza box and painting it green or covering it with green paper.
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