Digital Bytes: Back to School

Welcome back to school! We are kicking off our Digital Bytes with an article about Classroom Design that Promotes Student Thinking, iPad activities to get to know your students, and our in-house resources about Designing Effective Presentations.

Digital Bytes 15th June 2015

In the last Digital Bytes for the academic year, we feature: – Why Wunderlist Works – an app to manage task lists collaboratively;– The 10 Most Valued Work Skills in 2020; and– Apps that help limit time on the iPad. All the best for a wonderful end to the year.

Digital Bytes April 13, 2015

This week’s edition of Digital Bytes looks at ways that teachers and students can use iPads to support the learning of Geometry including a scavenger hunt and an activity that uses Explain Everything to allow students to guess the hidden shape. Hapara’s Teacher Dashboard has a new look and there is a quick video to…

Digital Bytes 23 March 2015

In this week’s Digital Bytes, we introduce you to a great new site for finding Creative Commons licensed images with the attribution automatically included upon download – Photos For Class. There are also 3 new tutorials on our iBooks Author Vimeo album, where you can learn some fantastic new tricks. Finally, the iPad version of…

Writing a Real Book Makes a Difference to Students

I have been lucky enough to work with our Grade 3s in the publishing phase of their informational book writing process. What an adventure! Steve Kay (the Digital Literacy mentor) and I both hoped the team might consider creating digital books with iBooks Author, and were thrilled when all 7 classes got on board. We set…

Nice to Know – Infant Digital Literacy

“If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.” – John Dewey We no longer question whether or not the use of digital technology improves learning; there is a large body of research that clearly shows that it does. The vast majority of our students arrive at UWCSEA with a…

Grade 1 Poetry Books using Book Creator

Our Grade 1 students have been thoroughly enjoying their poetry unit. They have looked at the poems of different authors, tried to emulate their style, and have create their very own poems. We wanted to capture the beautiful poems the students had written, so we decided to make an eBook with Book Creator. The added…

Drawing Pad

I have been working with K1 students at school on a unit about feelings. One of the projects that we have attempted was for the students to create a self portrait of themselves using an iPad. The K1 team decided to use an app called Drawing Pad as there are a few functions that allowed…

Presentations with Haiku Deck

Haiku Deck is a wonderful free app for iPad which really encourages high quality presentations using Creative Commons images. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to get started: 1. Open the Haiku Deck app and click on the + button to start a new presentation. 2. Type in a title to your new presentation. 3….