Artkive is a free app for iDevices that is an answer to the prayers of parents everywhere – “Someone please tell me what to do with all of the pieces of art that my child brings home from school!” Jedd Gold, the creator of Artkive, developed an app that not only allows you to create … Read more
I’ve made the unilateral decision to declare Fridays a day for fun and games on the Engage Their Minds blog. This week, I present to you the infuriatingly addictive web-based game, “Sugar, Sugar“. Brought to us by the Logic section of Math Playground, “Sugar, Sugar” is a deceptively simple puzzle that gets difficult quickly. Your … Read more
Ever since I saw a presentation on Augmented Reality at TCEA this year, I have been pumped about using it in my classroom. However, I haven’t seen a lot of user-friendly applications for every-day teachers yet. I tried desperately to get AR Sights to work on my Mac at home and on my PC at school, and … Read more
“The Schools We Need” is a presentation by Chris Lehmann for Ignite, a site that collects inspiring videos that have one commonality – they are all 5 minutes long. Chris Lehmann uses his time to summarize our need for new schools that are not data driven, but are “understanding driven”. As he points out, it … Read more
Creativity Games is a site that offers a weekly creativity game every Monday. There are also weekly challenges and resources offered. Although it seems to be aimed at an adult audience, I believe many of the ideas could be used with younger students as well. For example, I love the “New World Education Game” that … Read more
International Dot Day is on September 15th. You can see my original post about it here. Recently, I found some more resources on Lori’s Latest Links: International Dot Day and More Dot Day Ideas. There are some videos with examples of how different schools have celebrated Dot Day, and some links to different lesson plan … Read more