Mr. Martin's 7th Grade Math Instagram Angles

Mr. Martin had his students find angles for 7th grade math class using iPads, phones, etc. to take pictures of angles in real life around the school.  The students uploaded their photos to his Instagram account and had to comment with what type of angle it was and why it was that angle.  The kids LOVED it!  Follow Mr. Martin's class on Instagram at ryan_martin52.

Notability App

Notability is an app that can be used by teachers as well as students.  It is an annotation app that allows you to annotate on documents...but it is much more than that.  Mrs. Ortman is using it with 5 graders in Language Arts class as a way to reduce the amount of paper that has to be handed out.  To gear up for state assessments they have been doing a lot of reading passages with questions.  She has been uploading the passage to Edmodo, and the students then import it to Notability.  They can highlight the passage and make notes on the PDF.  They have also used it to identify figurative language in passages.

In Math, they are using it to work on a practice worksheet with missing interior angles.  The app allows the students to write their answers on the PDF, rather than on paper.  Some students prefer the pencil tool, while others prefer the text boxes.

Here is what Mrs. Ortman has to say about Notability, "As a math teacher, this is probably the most useful app I have used so far.  It has many options and still allows students to practice the skills we are working on.  Combined with Edmodo, it's very useful!"  Check out Mr. Proctor's video of some 5th grade students using Notability at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9qjZe21Mnw.

Mr. Proctor and Mrs. Krehbiel are also using it to give back digital coaching forms for Cooperative Learning coaching days.  The teacher receives instant feedback and Mr. Proctor and Mrs. Krehbiel are able to keep a digital record including pictures.

Miss Wiebe's 5th Grade Olympic Project

 Miss Wiebe's 5th graders recently studied the Olympics.  Each student completed an in-depth project on the history of the Olympics, the history of a country in the Olympics, an athlete, and a specific sport.  Students used Edmodo to download the assignment and Pages to complete the assignment.  Research links could easily be found in Miss Wiebe's digital livebinder.  Olympic apps were downloaded on the iPads for students to access as well as nbc.com for live olympic results.  Students also created an final Olympic project by using Prezi, Keynote, or PowToon.  The students then competed in their own Olympics!  View a student's PowToon at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFvVarA9rxQ.

Mrs. Boese's 3rd Grade Skype, Fairytale Writing with Illinois

Mrs. Boese's 3rd Grade class is writing a collaborative fairytale with 4 schools around the country.  The story started in Lincolnshire, Illinois, traveled to us (through use of Google Drive), and will continue on to Woodbine, Iowa and finally end in Pine Valley Elementary in Wilmington, North Carolina.  Collaborating and writing digitally is a peak aspect of Common Core.  Skype and Google Drive have once again allowed us to go outside our own classroom walls to work with other kids around the world.  The Skype was engaging and exciting to the kids who now have friends several states away and have authored a story with.  Watch our video to see small parts of our Skype visit!

Online Dr. Seuss Stories

Thank you to Mrs. Yoder who shared this awesome resource of online Dr. Seuss books!  They are all organized and put into a Smore (which if you haven't used Smore.com, check it out...quick and easy way to create professional looking flyers).  

https://www.smore.com/bv86-dr-seuss-stories-online

Room Recess

RoomRecess is a great site that is geared towards K-5 and has lots of interactive educational games to utilize.  Math, Reading, Word Activities, and Computer Lab activities are topics covered on RoomRecess.  No logins required and free!

Mrs. Rhodes' MS Art Olympics

5th Grader Jackson creates an iMovie advertisement for the Olympics and Subway in Art with Mrs. Rhodes using staff members and students.  Below are some of the students' art projects...if you look closely you will see how we use overhead transparencies...for Olympic hockey rinks!

Miss Reed's Adobe Notation Tools

Miss Reed is having the students read and annotate on documents digitally.  She attached a PDF to Edmodo, the students downloaded it and used the notation tools through Adobe and the PDF previewer to annotate using the highlighting tool, boxes, circles, text bubbles and different colors.  You could easily make a "key" for the students and have certain colors/shapes/underline represent certain ideas, etc. Great way to save paper and not having to make a copy for every student and of course the students love it!

Ms. Harrison's MS/HS iWriteMusic App

Ms. Harrison is using the app iWriteMusic to type in their sight singing examples on her iPad which she then projects using her Apple TV.  She says this has been a great upgrade from chalk to digital form!  All the students can see the notes that are clearly written.  It is a free app that gives the option to play back what you've written and add up to 4 voices at the same time.  Students could use this app to compose also!

Mr. Rewerts 7th Current Events/Wider Image App

Mr. Rewerts Current Events class created news stories using current events. 

 This one was created  by making a podcast using GarageBand. 

The Wider Image App-Current Events 

is a great app for viewing current events on the iPad.  You can browse through images quickly using thumbnail form for news stories and cultural events around the world.

Miss Reed's 7th LA Skypes for Civil Rights Movement

Miss Reed's 7th Grade classes Skyped with author Paula Young Shelton from Washington D.C.  She spoke to the classes about what life was like growing up as a "Child in the Civil Rights Movement" (her book title).  The students were well prepared by Miss Reed with a very in depth list of questions...the first question asked?...  What was one of your most memorable experiences as a child...her response is in discussed HERE and speaks about being at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's funeral.  I tweeted about it and Skype Classroom retweeted my post!