This week’s Digital Bytes is loaded up with Google tools. Within every YouTube account is Creator Studio which allows you to listen to and download free music that you can use for a variety of purposes. Have a look at Google Keep for note taking and keeping yourself or a group of students organised. Finally, if…
Digital Bytes March 9th 2015
This week’s Digital Bytes features some excellent apps (organised by age level) for Coding, Art, Music, Writing and Film-making, a tutorial for moving incorrectly placed content in a Google Site, and some advice for parents for talking about Digital Citizenship at home with their children.
Digital Bytes – 2nd March 2015
This week’s Digital Bytes features information on finding global connections for your class, a look at the role of pictures in stimulating real-world problem solving with mathematics, and a tutorial on solving the annoying problem of ‘suggested videos’ appearing at the end of your embedded YouTube videos.
Digital Bytes February 23, 2015
This week’s focus is on reading and writing, including articles about enriching students’ creative writing skills with photography and using games like Mincraft to help your child with their reading. There is also a quick tutorial to help you learn how to delete those pesky untitled posts in your Google Site.
Primary Bytes February 9th 2015
This week in Digital Bytes we have articles on a searchable database of Public Domain media items, links to our parent workshop Parenting in the Digital Age, and a tutorial on how to embed a PDF in a website.
Primary Bytes from February 2nd, 2015
This week’s highlights from the Digital Bytes include a great article about writing in the 21st Century, talking about sexism in Superbowl ads and an iBooks Author Tutorial.
Parenting in the Digital Age
As parents, we all want what is best for our children. Kids are growing up in a digital age that is much different than the one we grew up in. Many parents are coming to grips with how they approach digital technology usage in their home. There are many approaches and every family and situation…
Documenting Learning: writing the course yearbook with iBooks Author
Learning for our students often occurs at a break-neck pace. Teachers are under pressure to finish the syllabus, students scramble to meet deadlines while balancing their other commitments. It can feel overwhelming at times and what gets lost is that sense of accomplishment, being able to look back on, remember, and take stock in one’s…
Using iMovie and a whiteboard to create RSA Animate-style videos to demonstrate understanding
For some time now the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts (RSA) have been posting RSA Animate videos. These videos are done in a definitive style showing a human creating some elaborate art “live” on a whiteboard that illustrates a talk. Here’s one of my favorites: Demonstrating Understanding through Story RSA-Animate style videos…
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…