In Book Creator, students can add photos from the Camera Roll, take photos using the camera, draw on the pages, add text and add sound too. There are 3 types of book pages that can be chosen from, square, landscape and portrait. As well as this, you can also create comic strips; scroll down and under the books you will see the templates. To change the page colour, choose the i button [...]
I've had some great conversations with teachers over the last little while about visualising & displaying data as a form of visual communication, and we've always ended up looking at infographics. These are absolutely everywhere in the world now, so it's timely to teach kids to interpret and create them. Here's a cracking example: Also, here's a list that I've accumulated in my bookmarks collection as they've popped up on my radar. I find [...]
We've all heard of IQ and EQ, but what about "DQ" - your Digital Quotient? Sure, it sounds buzzy, but stick with us. The graphic above comes from the DQ Alliance's website, an organisation that hopes to bridge some of those great digital divides between generations. It breaks down 8 categories of skills, competencies, fluencies and characteristics required to be "digitally intelligent" in today's hyperconnected world. This post from the World [...]
So you may have seen the post on Socrative, an excellent quiz tool. While it can be web based or accessed through the app, it has many advantages such as a google login in for the teacher, a variety of ways to pace quizzes and excellent feedback. However, there are many quiz making tools out there. Kahoot is popular at the moment, with many pre made quizzes hosted on the [...]
Many teachers I meet are invisible teachers. I’m not talking about invisible teaching, where the teacher blends seamlessly into the classroom coaching students on their own journey of learning, but I’m talking about the way that a teacher shares the successes of their teaching and collaborates with like minded peers. Many fantastic teachers read about other’s ideas but end up not sharing their own, putting it down to a busy [...]
