— GarageBand app in a Reading Classroom – The app has an audio narration feature that allows to record tracks. Use these student podcasts (that can be shared) for –
- Booktalks
- Musical accompaniments – Ask students to choose a significant moment from their book and create a composition that illustrates the mood of that excerpt.
- Character interviews – Record mock interviews with a character from a book.
- Global exploration – Use the different instruments from around the world in Garageband to bring sounds of different cultures in your classroom when exploring a historical fiction book or any other informational text.
— Hour of Code – Wanna know more about coding? And the need for computational thinking and coding in your classroom? And how students benefit from developing these skills? If yes, then I highly recommend signing up for these professional development sessions. Fill out this Google Form to sign up.
When / where?:
- Session 1 – Wednesday, November 16 from 4-6PM in the Learning Lab.
- Session 2 – Wednesday, December 7 from 4-6PM in the Learning Lab.
— Report Cards – fyi – Clint and/ or Kshitij (from Main Tech) will be stopping by your classroom next week to do an initial set up for the report cards. This will take no more than 5-7 mins. For this, you will need to sign in to their laptop with your PowerSchool credentials. Stay tuned for more info on training sessions…
| Tech integration | |
| — Digital Assessment – 1st grade is using the Book Creator app for the Science Light unit. Students are using sound clips, drawings and/ or voice-to-text features to input their thinking | — KG is blogging about their Small Moments stories. |
| — 2nd Grade is using the iMotion HD app to create Stopmotion videos about the animal Habitats. They are using the iMovie app to share facts about the animals. | — 2nd Grade is using Aurasma, the augmented reality app to create Auras that give factual info about the animal habitat. |
| — 4th Grade is exploring robotics and coding. Much fun with the Hour of Code activities! | — 5th Grade students did a Skype interview with Marcus Eriksen, one of the founders of the 5Gyres Institute. Read more here. |
