Last week I attended the VSTE Conference and went to several seminars on Ipod Use in the Classroom. Here’s a few I’d like to share in each subject.
History – History Maps of the World, iPresidents, U.S. Historical Documents, U.S. State Capitals
Science – Constellations, Discovery (from Discovery Channel), Chemical Touch for elements
Math – Mathmagics Lite, Basic Math, Math Ref, Number Line
Brain Teasers and Games – Brain Exercise Lite, Flight Control, Enigmo
I’ll be placing these wonderful apps on our ipod touches soon for you to enjoy with your students.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: apple, Classroom Technology Use, Ipod Touch December 8, 2009
This site is an amazing site that is helpful in a variety of ways. It gives information on copyright and plagarism for upper elementary grades, lesson plans and activities, and helpful videos and tutorials on using Web 2.0 tools to help integrate technology more into the classroom. Plenty of ideas and advice from this site.
http://www.classroomtech.org/
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Classroom Technology Use November 11, 2009
Here’s a site with great Smartboard activities for Thanksgiving. It has Word Searches, Word Fun for Math, Puzzles, and games for Thanksgiving. As always, the site below provides not only great holiday activities for Smartboard use, but it also provides many daily activities for all subjects. It’s easy to subscribe to this site to receive weekly activity ideas and lessons for Smartboard use.
http://smartboards.typepad.com/smartboard/smartboard-thanksgiving-holiday-resources.html
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Smartboards November 10, 2009
Many of may not know yet, but we have a system of remote controls that go along with the Smartboard Notebook software called Senteo Response. It works much like Quizdom except that it offers many options through the Notebook program and you can create formative assessments on the spot. You can set up your questions and answers for the students to answer with their remotes. I plan on doing some training on this program later in the year, but here’s a great site that can get you started if want to.
http://downloads01.smarttech.com/media/trainingcenter/senteo_hop.pdf
Donald Barbour
Posted in Uncategorized November 10, 2009
Another great way to get students involved in the learning process is the use of Ipod Touches by Apple. Not only can you download education songs and videos, but you can also load many k-12 applications that have the students fully engaged in learning. Applications start out with very basic learning skills such as: site words, learning letters, basic addition/subtraction, and shapes/colors. Of course, there’s many upper level skilled apps that cover all subjects and core areas. You can check out these site below for more info.
http://wirededucator.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/an-ipod-touch-in-every-classroom-yes-with-education-focused-apps/
http://www.digmo.co.uk/news/ipod-touch-and-education/
http://www.apple.com/education/teachers-professors/mobile-learning.html
Posted in Uncategorized November 9, 2009
A great site to checkout many activities that you can use with Smartboards Notebook software or simply just play it from your laptop or computer is http://www.teacherslovesmartboards.com/. During this holiday season, there’s many new and fun lessons being added to go with specific holidays. These lessons keep students engaged in learning. It’s easy to go to the site and sign up to subscribe for updates.
Posted in Uncategorized November 9, 2009
