Digital Bytes – 8th May, 2017

Easiest Slideshow Ever! With the newest update to iOS, you have access to the easiest slideshow making tool we have ever seen: Memories. Simply put a number of photos into a folder on your iPad or iPhone,, open the folder and tap on the dates at the top of the screen and your slideshow is…

Digital Bytes 6th February, 2017

Teaching Reading and Thinking Skills with Photographs Take a look at the 10 photographs in this New York Times article and the accompanying mini lessons to help build your students reading and thinking skills. After you take your students through the lessons you can share more images from the New York Times section, What’s Going…

Digital Bytes 5th September, 2016

The Zen Art of Managing Smartphone Photos We get a lot of questions about the best way to manage the photos on your phone. Here are 3 ways to backup your photos from your camera roll that will save you time and energy. Calling Screen Time Digital Heroin is Digital Garbage You may have seen…

Digital Bytes – April 25, 2016

Hot on the heels of a great ReThinking Literacy conference, we have a number of great ideas and resources to share. This week the focus is on Visual Literacy – one of the themes that was highlighted throughout the conference. What’s Going on in this Picture? The New York Times has a great segment in…

Digital Bytes – March 14, 2016 Pi Day

14 March 2016 Pi Day – March 3 Today is Pi Day (3.14)! To celebrate there are some Pi Day activities. Make sure you check out the video about what pi sounds like and other activities. Google Photo Slideshow Picasa photos is slowly being phased out by Google. Those of you who still use Picasa…

Digital Bytes – 29 February, 2016

Managing Photos on Your iPad and iPhone Some great tips for working with photos that you have already captured on your iPad or iPhone. Did you know you can quickly select multiple photos by dragging your finger over them? Did you know that you can search for photos by location or date? Have a look…

Digital Bytes – January 4, 2016

Pixar in a Box When I think of Khan Academy, I think of lessons for mathematics or science. They also have something called Pixar in a Box. Students can see what they are learning in school helps to creatively solve problems that the people at Pixar face when making films. This is something you might…

Digital Bytes October 5, 2015

This week’s Digital Bytes will change your life! There are 3 fantastic articles: Converting photos of text into actual text using Google Drive, the importance of school leadership understanding the digital world and 33 digital tools for formative assessment.