Today I had one of those “why didn’t I think of that?” moments as I was visiting a teacher. He asked me about a way to allow a student or two to mirror their screens through his laptop to project to the class. We tried a couple of options including Reflector and Airserver without great…
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….
About Choices 2
I’m still thinking about freedom of choice and our younger students. Over the last few weeks as the students have been finding out about living and nonliving things, we have been exploring the world around us with digital microscopes and the iPads. Our microscopes are DigiBlues that we hook up to our student MacBooks. We…
Using Book Creator on the iPad
A very simple set of slides to illustrate the key things to get us started using Book Creator on the iPads. Our K2 team are going to create digital books with their students this year – very exciting!
Freedom to Choose 1
Freedom of choice Is what you got Freedom from choice Is what you want Devo I’ve been thinking about freedom and choice today. Devo may not be the best song to quote on this blog post but it was the first thing to jump into my mind. If we leave out the rest of the…
Young Children and Their Cameras
Young students take beautiful photos. Each time I am involved in a photography project with the children in our kindergarten I am amazed. Their perspective, the way they frame shots, the way they seek out the beauty in the everyday. They have a natural talent. How this project started:Our K1 students started a Unit of…
Hello, hojoki!
Spurred on by a conversation with a teacher about how tedious it can be looking into hundreds of folders to see if students have turned in homework or not, I’ve been looking for ways to see how this process can be made a little more efficient and I’ve found a tool called hojoki (via Katie Day…
Navigating the Digital Learning Environment – Middle School
The increasing use of digital tools for students organize, create, and communicate in schools brings along a fair share of change from “normal” schooling. Typically, parents could expect to see notes scribbled in a paper planner or notebook for each class of the day. They could look inside the binders and see the paper assignments…
Sharing Student Work on Google Sites
At UWCSEA we use digital tools frequently for student learning. Grade 3-5 students have a Google Site which they are using to house their digital content. Below are some workflows for sharing student work to Google Sites easily. From Pages/Keynote Google Sites does not integrate easily with .pages or .key files, but there is a…
The Best Job in the World
http://www.imagechef.com/ Digital Literacy Coach, Computer Teacher, Technology Integration Teacher, I think we have a very cool job no matter what you call it. Here at UWCSEA East we are called Digital Literacy Coaches. But what exactly does that mean? What role do we play at school and in the classrooms? A quick look on dictionary.com…