Free #EdTech – Apps For Your Class is a sporadic posting I do every time I find a neat new app that is not only being offered FREE (for a limited time) but that is also educational and could serve a purpose in your classroom. While no longer free, last sessions app: Fun Slides, is still awesome and I recommend you check it out! Today I’ve found:Word LensThis multi-lingual translation app blows my mind and I have literally been walking around our school sharing it with staff and students (yes… I am that person). It allows users to:– translate typed text in real… Read More
Tech Club 2014-2015
Through my first year I’ve been thinking of starting a “Tech Club” at my school for those students who are interested in technology, programming, and electronics. I’ve been closely following the awesome projects being completed by Clarence Fisher’s students in Snow Lake and the innovative makerspaces in Eric Sheninger’s school in New Jersey as inspiration. While my plan is to organize our projects around student interests and creativity, I do have many preliminary ideas that I hope to begin with. After meeting with my principal about my ideas, I’ve divided our year into two sections: larger year-long projects and small-scale… Read More
Free Summer PD From Home!
Summertime is here… or nearly here for some of us. While society tends to believe that teachers do not do anything for the two months of summer holidays, we all know that is not the case! If you are wondering what kinds of professional development are available in your area or are thinking of beginning a new project next year but need to learn more, why don’t you check out Coursera? If you haven’t heard of, or checked out, Coursera before, they describe their idea as: “Coursera is an education platform that partners with… Read More
Welcome to Our City: Math Tech
For the past week, my Grade 8 students have been working on creating 3D Model Cities as part of their summative assessment in our math unit, Measuring 3D Shapes. They were asked to develop a unique city that required them to: – Create appropriate 2D nets (with measurements) to create the building shapes they wanted – Determine the surface area of each building – Determine the volume of each building As a side project, we then created videos to show off their awesome creations! Each student filmed and edited their own movie using their personal devices… Read More
MTS Awakening Possibilities Conference
This week was the MTS Awakening Possibilities Tech Conference and my head is still spinning over how amazing it was! Starting on Wednesday the 16th, approximately 600 educators got together to discuss educational technology in regards to:– implementation– policy– potential tools– project options– and much more!Here’s an excerpt from the official MTS Awakening Possibilities website: This conference was exciting for me for a lot of reasons. I remember attending the MTS Fab 5 Conference in Brandon in the fall of 2012 and seeing a banner advertising for an upcoming technology conference. At this time there wasn’t… Read More
Free #EdTech – Apps For Your Class 3
Free #EdTech – Apps For Your Class is a sporadic posting I do every time I find a neat new app that is not only being offered FREE (for a limited time) but that is also educational and could serve a purpose in your classroom. While no longer free, last sessions app: King of Maths: Full Game, is still awesome and I recommend you check it out! Today I’ve found: Fun Slides I think this photography app would be a easy and fun tool for students to create fast presentations! It allows users to:– Upload pictures from their… Read More
Twitter… 2 Years Later
Shortly after I began this blog in 2012 I decided to join Twitter as well. Prior to this, my only social media tool was Facebook, which I only utilized with my close friends and family. I can’t remember what exactly prompted me to try Twitter but, two years later, I am still very happy that I made the plunge! Compared to what I had been used to with Facebook, Twitter seemed chaotic and unorganized; I felt completely lost. After some exploring and trial-and-error, however, I quickly got used to the format and became a big fan of Twitter… Read More
Free #EdTech – Apps For Your Class 2
Free #EdTech – Apps For Your Class is a sporadic posting I do every time I find a neat new app that is not only being offered FREE (for a limited time) but that is also educational and could serve a purpose in your classroom. While no longer free, last sessions app: Singaling, is still awesome and I recommend you check it out! Today I’ve found: King of Maths: Full Game “Level up your mathematics skills and become King of Maths!” This interactive math facts game allows users to work their way through various mathematical challenges in order… Read More
Free #EdTech – Apps For Your Class 1
I can’t speak for your school & classroom, but in ours the majority of my students have some type of smart device. A little over half of my Grade 8s have a device that they can have in the classroom with them and this percentage increases as my students get older. If they don’t have their own, I have access to a class-set of iPads as well as my personal iPhone that I use in the classroom as well. With all of these resources at our fingertips, I’ve been closely watching to find new apps that I… Read More