Tag: Technology
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What I’m Teaching This Week: Digital Learning Day
I am celebrating Digital Learning Day with my classes this week. It falls on February 27th, but I will be celebrating all week to ensure that my classes get in on all the fun. As I mentioned in a previous post, my students have been begging to play Gimkit. I broke down and spent about…
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App Review: Kodable
The first week back from winter break is coming to a close. In order to ease back into the week, we started using a new app in the library. 1st-5th grade students started using Kodable this week. I will get kindergarten on the Kodable train later… I knew I wouldn’t have the energy to help…
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Green Screen by Do Ink Tutorial
I recently shared a green screen video of one of my students on my teacher Twitter. It has gotten an amazing response, so I want to talk about how we did it. I have an amazing library… I still can’t believe how lucky I am most days. I have a portable green screen that is…
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What I’m Teaching This Week #3
This week begins my STEM rotations with my older grades (3-5). I’ve got all my iPads ready to control my robots and things. Monday was a little shaky, but I added some additional stations so I would have smaller groups. Tuesday and Wednesday have went well. Here are the stations: Classkick assignment on close reading…
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Building a Report for iPad Barcodes, Serial Numbers, & Checkouts in Follett Destiny
I’ve had a good bit of frustration that there is NOT a way to do this without some legwork. With over 600 devices in my building alone that are managed by a management system that requires serial numbers, sometimes it is handy for our techs to have a list of serial numbers that they can…
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Taking a minute
I can’t remember what the last post I wrote was even about. I’m sitting at my desk in my office and I’m getting ready for the day. I get to school early and I like to have my breakfast while I am getting situated. I wanted to “take a minute” to recap the first few…
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Like Sand in an Hourglass
Time has slipped by like sand in an hour glass. It wasn’t until I was packing for my trip back to Martinsville last Saturday that I realized how little time was left. It seems like a while, but with everything that is going on I know the time will simply fly away in a whirlwind.…