Back to School

A brand new school year is under way.  In my role as building technology coach, it is my goal to assist teachers and classrooms in utilizing and integrating the many great technology tools that we have available to us in our classrooms today.  I have created this blog for the purpose of sharing useful tips, tools and ideas as well as to highlight the commendable work of our district teachers and students.

My role as technology coach was new last year and my first task was to introduce some foundational tools that could be used in a 1:1 iPad environment.  These tools were chosen because they could be used across various grade levels and content areas.  The focus of these tools was on content creation rather that content consumption.

To warm us up this school year, I have found some top notch ways that other educators are using some of these same or similar tools...

Anyone interested in having their learners use interactive notebooks in class this year will definitely want to see this blog post from Book Creator where Brittany Banister and Tiffany Copple from 2 Techie Teachers have detailed how they used the Book Creator app to digitalize the traditional interactive notebook.

Meghan Zigmond from Zig Zagging through Education and Technology  has an inspiring blog post about teaching informational text features to her elementary students with the Explain Everything app.  Although our district uses the Educreations app for screencasting, this idea could easily be adapted to use with just about any screencasting tool.  See Meghan's post here.

                                       

Do you play scoot with your students to review or practice skills?   Erin Flanagan from Erin*tegration has developed lots of ways to play this classic game on an iPad.  Read her post here to learn more.  Erin sells many of her products on her Teachers Pay Teachers Store.