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…
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Digital Bytes – 16 November 2015
How to Provide kids Screen Time that Supports Learning Kids are now spending more time on devices like iPads than watching television. “Children not only need to learn how to decode the letters and words they read, but also to gain an understanding of what goes into creating information and stories of all kinds.” This…
Digital Bytes May 25, 2015
This week’s Digital Bytes has the following articles: 21 Ways to use photography and images in your classroom, Top 6 sites for free videos, photos, and audio, and managing your computer’s linked Google Drive folder.
iMovie with G1 students
Filming the X for “Don’t do this!” Our Grade 1 students were involved in a service unit recently, and one group of students decided to take action by creating a movie about how to play safely in the playground. I was invited to be a mentor to them as they went about planning, filming and…
Google Drive Videos in VideoNot.es
We are a Google Apps school and one of the advantages of this is that there are a number of applications that allow our students to log in using their Google apps username and password. One of these applications is Video Notes (VideoNot.es). It is an application in which you load a video into the…
Doodlecast in the Infant School
In the Infant school, our youngest students in K1 and K2 have been using Sago Mini Doodlecast to share their thinking about what they are doing in class. The teachers love that the app is easy to learn for both themselves and their students. Here are some samples from some students. The first looked at the…
Creative Commons Explained
cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by A. Diez Herrero As educators, we know that plagiarism is wrong, and we are very careful to share that message with our students. However, if you take a look at the pictures and images on display in most schools and classrooms, you will (probably) find hundreds…
5 Minutes to Safer Searching & Viewing
We always want to help our students find the most relevant information when searching or viewing content online. Here are two great suggestions which can lead to a safer online experience for our students. 1. View Purewww.viewpure.com is a site which allows you to ‘purify’ YouTube videos by stripping away the comments section and the…
Making Learning Visible – Mobile Video in PE
How do you know what you look like when performing a physical skill? This is a question I ask myself again and again on the golf course when the round ends up going south. Was it my elbow, my grip, am I shifting my feet, not keeping my head down? For anybody who’s watched an…