Category: Digital Bytes
Digital Bytes – 19th March, 2018
OK Go Sandbox If you are like me, you enjoy OK Go’s amazing videos like their Rube Goldberg machine and their dance in zero gravity. Now they have teamed up with Google to create the OK Go Sandbox which is designed “to give teachers whatever tools they need to connect the joy, wonder, and fun…
Digital Bytes – March 12, 2018
Digital Childhood If you have time, read this whole PDF. If you don’t, skip ahead to page 14 where they look at the developmental milestones for children of a certain age range and then look at recommendations for digital use, risks & challenges, and impact. They look at 5 different age grouping from 3 to…
Digital Bytes – 5th March, 2018
Pickle Podcast “Explore life’s trickiest questions with curious kids – and the occasional elephant.” Pickle is a fantastic podcast out of NYC studios that explores some fantastic questions. Is it ok to tell a lie? What makes a real friend? Listen with your class, listen with your family, listen on your own. Just listen….
Digital Bytes – 26 Feb. 2018
March Media Mentors Month Keri-Lee Beasley has written a great blog post entitled Media Mentors, Not Media Police. In it, she shares 3 parenting styles, Limiters, Enablers and Mentors. There is also an excellent daily March Media Mentors Month calendar which encourages parents to do a specific small thing each day to be a good…
Digital Bytes – 19th Feb. 2018
How to Make Screens a Positive in Family Life Parents don’t talk about the joy of screens very much unless it is on a long plane journey. This article from The Guardian starts gives excellent advice on screen time. Screen time advice starts with “Enjoy screens. Not too much. Mostly together.” There is great practical…
Digital Bytes – 5th February, 2018
Create Instead of Consume Media It is easy to consume media these days but what we really want everyone to do is to create their own media. This article from Common Sense Media shares ways to get kids creating their own digital media. If you are trying to reach the inner storyteller, artist, game designer,…
Digital Bytes 29th January, 2018
50 Ways to Use Book Creator in the Classroom The Book Creator Team has put together an ebook that shares 50 ways you can use Book Creator in your classroom. The book is full of examples and videos to help you learn how to easily create your own versions of the books. Remember that Book…
Digital Bytes – 22nd January, 2018
500 Words 500 Words is a collection of stories written for kids by kids. The stories are 500 words or less and are organized in themes and read in the form of a podcast. The podcasts can be listened to directly on the website or downloaded. Maybe you would like your students to create their…
Digital Bytes – 15th January, 2018
Sutori Great news! We have just got a subscription to Sutori. Sutori is a great tool for building interactive timelines with features like images, text, and videos. Dover DLC Sean McHugh has written a blog post with some examples that you will want to check out. 7 Ways For Students to Use Google Drawings Collaboratively…