UPDATE 1/18/15 – I just added a post that gives more details about using augmented reality with this lesson. Go to “Outside My Snow Globe” to learn more! Earlier this year, I posted about a short video called, “BumbleVille.” This cute animation would be fun to show your students at this time of year. You … Read more
One of my goals this year for Genius Hour is to guide the students into creating more dynamic presentations to share what they have learned. If you are a teacher, you have probably experienced the excruciatingly long Powerpoints proudly displayed by students to a mostly disinterested audience of their peers. A couple of my strategies … Read more
UPDATE 11/2/2020: Here is a link to over 45 Thanksgiving activities you can use in your classroom. Many of us in the States have only a week and a half left before the Thanksgiving holidays. Here are a few resources that might be fun to sprinkle into the curriculum as everyone starts running for the … Read more
I debated about whether or not to post this, yet, and finally decided to take the plunge. The con of doing this is that I am planning a surprise for my co-workers, and I don’t want them to find out. The pro of posting today is that some of my readers might want to try … Read more
UPDATE: Tellagami no longer offers the text-to-speech or customization in the free version of the app. You can read more about the Tellagami changes here. I decided using three apps and a website for one project was not enough, so I decided to throw another iPad and an additional website into the mix this … Read more
It’s been getting a bit harder to access all of my scattered Augmented Reality resources lately, so I decided to create a page for this to add to the blog. I was going to use a pretty Symbaloo, but apparently my blog host does not play nice with their embed codes. I won’t go into … Read more