Think Different #97
Resources for the Week of August 26
iPad iCamp Day with Kevin Honeycutt Jan 17, 2020 at KSU
HEADS UP..........IPAD ICAMP DAY this year is Jan 17th, mark your calendars. I am so excited, Kevin Honeycutt has agreed to be our presenter that day. More information coming soon, but mark your calendars and be watching for details coming in September. Registration will opens early October.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar now with Augmented reality
Read the full story, CLICK here
Get the App and find your copy The Very Hungry Caterpillar Book and experience augmented reality. Oh my goodness it is amazing, my grandkids are obsessed with it. And it is FREE.
With many middle schoolers preoccupied with Instagram, how do we keep them engaged in the lessons and texts used to build critical ELA skills?
Here's one good starting point: a great story with fascinating characters. And when we find ways to make a story come alive in a classroom--and find relevance to their lives--we can take their engagement to the next level.
Get immediate access to this and other lessons for your middle school classrooms.
For example...
Amplify ELA's The Titanic Collection unit uses primary and secondary source documents to introduce students to several passengers from the Titanic. They learn that passengers had diverse experiences onboard, varying by age, gender, and class. Students then take on the persona of one of the passengers, role-play, compare experiences, and write a letter from the passenger's perspective.
DO YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUR OWN GAMES?
Sketch Nation Create is a game-creation platform that lets you create online games with enormous flexibility, imagination, detail and fun – and share these games with friends and the Sketch Nation community!
With your own artwork, photos and sounds, you can design all the characters, obstacles, challenges, stories and levels for your games, bringing your ideas to the screen entirely through your own creativity, cleverness and skill. And now you can even make true multiplayer games for real-time play with friends, family, and more, using all the Sketch Nation tools that our users are familiar with.
Because Sketch Nation offers gaming, drawing, coding, and problem-solving in one integrated tool, it can be as simple or challenging as you choose to make it
For students, the app lets you tell stories, explore ideas, challenge yourself and show your skills through personalized video games, while learning some of the techniques involved in creating the types of games you are already familiar with.
For educators and parents, Sketch Nation provides a terrific environment to help kids explore, imagine, investigate and create – simultaneously honing their artistic abilities and getting hands-on experience with game design.
For everyone, Sketch Nation Create lets you bring your ideas, art and imagination to life.
35 Children's Books That Teach Empathy And Kindness
Translate Any List of Words Instantly in Google Sheets
More than a great tool for foreign language teachers, it’s a must-have resource for nearly all educators, especially since most of us teach ELL, ESL, ESOL students. Enter words in one column and use a simple formula to translate them to a different language in another column. It will even use the correct letters when translating to languages with different alphabets.
Learn how, step-by-step instructions, Click Here
Special thanks to Nick Lafave of Nick's Picks for Educational Technology; Tech Tools for Busy Teachers
The all-new Flipgrid Shorts Camera is packed with possibilities.
On August 1st, Flipgrid released an all-new camera that goes way beyond the simple recording tool it once was. The Shorts Camera can now function as a video recorder, screen recorder, interactive whiteboard, and video editing tool!
And of course, it’s completely free.
Want a peek at just some of the things you can do with the new Shorts Camera? Click here to see some “Shorts Camera in action” videos on the Flipgrid blog!
Thanks to Matt Miller for the scoop on the NEW Flipgrid, learn all the details here.
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