Not All Screen Time is Equal: Some Considerations for Schools and Parents Jose Picardo provides a balanced look at screen time in this article for schools and parents. He addresses issues such as the media’s propensity for click-bait headlines that don’t advance the conversation, but instead feed the flames. Six Good Places to Find Free…
Using your iPad or iPhone as a Remote to Control Your Keynote
Keynote gives you the ability to control your presentation from an iPhone or an iPad. This allows you, as the presenter, the chance to move around and not have to stand beside your computer. Your notes from your Keynote will be available to you on your iPad. You can tap the screen or swipe from…
Digital Bytes 22nd August 2016
10 Reasons Every Teacher Needs a PLN Sylvia Duckworth’s illustrations are becoming legendary in the edtech world, and this one about PLNs is no exception! The staff at TeachThought have added some ways of getting started with each of the 10 Reasons Every Teacher Needs a PLN, so why not extend your PLN by trying…
Top 10 Tips for Tech and Travel
Travel Journals using Book Creator What a great way to have a record of your summer vacation! Spice up the regular travel diary with Book Creator. Kids will have fun writing a daily log of their travels and including recorded sounds, photos and videos. Google Maps Offline I can’t imagine my world without Google Maps…
Digital Bytes 6th June 2016
Google Drive Templates – Because Caring is Sharing Who doesn’t love a good template? Erifili Davis has collated a post full of excellent Google Drive Templates, including the FakeBook one shown here. Check out her suggestions on timelines, presentations, written projects and social media templates. What Students Feel Learning in a State of Flow “Flow,”…
BreakoutEDU: Migration Edition
BreakoutEDU is the brainchild of Google Educator and High School teacher James Sanders. Observing his students playing Escape the Room style video games, he was amazed at how engaged they were and wanted to create that same level of engagement for learning and problem solving during class time. Enter BreakoutEDU. James flipped the idea of escaping from a room…
Digital Bytes – May 30, 2016
Adobe Spark This is the moment you have been waiting for. Many of us have used Adobe Slate on the iPad for Visual Storytelling. Adobe Slate has been transformed into Adobe Spark. Now you can do all the things you once did with Slate but on your computer. The bonus? You can even log in…
Digital Bytes 23 May
Google Cultural Institute Some of you may be familiar with the Google Art project which gives everyone access to the details of amazing pieces of art. It is part of a larger project called the Google Cultural Institute which includes Historic Moments and World Wonders. Tech Tools to Help you Relax Report writing, exhibition and…
Digital Bytes – May 16, 2016
Great Apps for Book Creator Book Creator is a fantastic app and one that we use across many of our grade levels. This page shares 11 great apps that you can use in conjunction with Book Creator. There are some great examples like creating animations in Explain Everything and then importing those movies into Book…
Digital Bytes – May 9, 2016
Live Slides Live Slides is a great tool for embedding live webpages into your Keynote presentations. You could include an internet based poll like Poll Anywhere, a Prezi or any number of live webpages. Livbits A fantastic example of someone who wants to share her passion for books with the world is Livbits. She has…