Category: 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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Resource Roundup–Gimkit
When I attended the VSTE conference back in December, one of the many takeaways that I got from my sessions were new apps and websites. One of them, by far, is Gimkit. Gimkit reminds me of Kahoot or Quizlet Live. Students work at their own pace, answering questions on their individual devices. They are able…
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What I’m Teaching This Week #4
It’s Thursday, but here’s a recap of what we have done this week. Fifth graders have been using Tinkercad to design snowflakes. I have been slowly printing them on our 3D Printer (Makerbot Replicator+). I am laying out about 6 snowflakes at a time and drawing a “map” of where each student’s design is, then…
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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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Flipgrid for Stop Animation Videos
I’ve struggled with how to use Flipgrid with my students as fifth graders can be notorious for finding ways to get themselves in trouble. The best use of Flipgrid so far has been for students to share their stop animation videos. A lot of these videos have gotten many, many views by other students (don’t…
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Library App Review: Novel Effect
Novel Effect has been one of my favorite apps recently–and the favorite of others as it was added to AASL’s (American Association of School Librarians) Best Apps List. I am using the app this week during kindergarten and first grade storytime, so I wanted to share it with you before we get started. My students…
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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…