“Work smarter, not harder.” — Scrooge McDuck (via Carl Barks, Disney illustrator) Having iPads in the classroom, whether there are a few shared by the students, a cart that gets rolled in every now and then, or having a 1:1 initiative, does pose some interesting problems. How do you assign work and distribute files to [...]
First you must put the DE site on your home page on the iPad. Open Safari and go to the DE website. Click on the “send to” arrow right next to the URL and a new window will open. Choose ADD TO HOME SCREEN and a nice DE icon will be placed on your ipad [...]
Who does not want to share Discovery Education resources wherever they are? Whether showcasing the Web page, the DEN blogs, or a content-rich Discovery Education Streaming (DES) video, you need to become familiar with the many ways to project and mirror your iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPad Mini, iPod Touch) to be able to share [...]
Everything I know about rolling out a 1:1 iPad initiative (Part 2) See my original post from March 25 for the complete list of points in this series! Part 2: Start a shared planning blog. It does NOT have to be “pretty”! It just needs to be a warehouse of information. Start a blog to [...]
Everything I know about rolling out a 1:1 iPad initiative (Part 1) I’ll have a series of blog posts about my experience for anyone who wants to embark on the 1:1 journey! I’ll expand on each bullet point below in my next posts and share everything I have created. Stay tuned! We’ve worked for over [...]
PicCollage is an easy to use app for iPads or iPhones that will have your students creating beautiful posters in no time. The great thing about this app is that you can import images from the camera roll, meaning you can save great quality images from Discovery Education and use them in your posters. [...]
Join us at the Apple Store in the West Towne Mall, Madison, WI on Saturday, April 13 at 8:00 a.m. to learn about how iCloud can be utilized to the fullest. Learn how your iPad, and/or your Mac, and iCloud can work to your advantage to make things easy and integrated. iCloud is seamlessly integrated [...]
One of the easiest ways to incorporate Discovery Education into your classroom using iPads is to start with doing an image search. Discovery Education is the first place that I have my students learn how to search for images because I know that they have access to quality images and can use them in their [...]
When students are collaborating and working on group projects or presentations, there is often the need to collect assets so they all wind up on one machine or in one online folder. In the “old” days, when students had a shared folder on a file server, they would each drop the files into this [...]
What are you doing this Thursday, February 28th at 6pm? Come learn about how to integrate Discovery Education and iPads. Here is an example of just a little of what you will learn. This is just one of several excellent opportunities to learn about Discovery Education while never leaving the comfort of your favorite learning [...]
SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: This post contains links to songs from the 80s so listening may result in Dancing With Myself (Billy Idol) Remember the first time you saw Michael Jackson dance in “Thriller“? The 80s decade was ruled by music and for music junkies like myself it was Just like Heaven (The Cure). There were [...]
So the first of a series of after-school workshops at our school wrapped up with an amazing example of what can happen when students are given the opportunity to create. The greatest accomplishment of any educational activity is when students become inspired and the learning does not stop at the doors of the school. iMovie [...]
Intrigued by this latest touch-based technology? Wondering how these new devices are reshaping the learning landscape of our schools? Brad Fountain explores techniques for building a mobile learning toolkit powered by Discovery Education. Want the latest updates for accessing Discovery Education Techbook content on mobile devices as we shift our student’s focus from consuming content [...]
Next month, several students and I will be leading an after-school course on designing iPad iMovie Trailers. In my search to learn about how to create an iMovie on the iPad, I found some really amazing resources. Teaching Paradox has a wonderful PDF that can be downloaded to storyboard the trailer. http://teachingparadox.edublogs.org/files/2012/08/iMovie-Trailer-Storyboard-2b1qirp.pdf I didn’t know [...]
Since last spring our district, Unionville-Chadds Ford, has been exploring BYOD vs. iPads in the classroom. We have debated different tablets, netbooks, and laptops, but have finally settled on using iPads in the middle school. This was a long debate and discussion with over 25 people involved. Recently our administrative team from district office and building visited [...]
I just recently been given an iPad mini to learn to use. The intent is to learn what it can do, how I use it in the classroom and when our state’s annual ed. tech. conference comes around in March I will be able to assist other teachers in its use and integration in the [...]
Super Awesome Massive List of Websites You’ll Love! Thanks, edjudo, for compiling the original list that I enhanced. You rock. 280 Slides– Create PowerPoint style presentations online (free) 4Shared- An online storage site allowing you to upload and share music, photos, video and documents (free 10GB) 5min Life Videopedia – Short instructional videos for every [...]
Will you be in the Baton Rouge, LA area November 5th? Stop by the Barnes and Noble in Citiplace for some app sharing. Grab a pumpkin spice latte and meet us at the DEN table in the cafe. Bring your iPad and join us at 3:15 pm. The Rover app http://www.theroverapp.com/ will be shared as [...]
On Wednesday, August 15th and Thursday, August 16th, Discovery Education will be presenting a webinar that’ll help you transition into the multitude of new updates for our services. Join us on either date to find out how Discovery Education is going mobile, social, and adding even more functionality for you and your students. In this webinar, [...]
I was lucky enough to spend a week with a group of wonderful educators at the Discovery Education Summer Institute. Some of these apps I learned about from the conference and some I have used before, but most importantly, ALL of these apps can be used in your classroom- no matter what subject or grade level [...]
Back when I was in middle school, the summers before school started were always a stressful time for my parents. In order to be taken seriously by my peers, I had to keep up with what was trendy. Let’s not mince words here: all I wanted to do is fit in. I remember vividly that [...]
So after Exploring the Wonders of Weather through the DE Science TechBook with my Middle School Academy STEM kids, I took on a much younger and more energetic group of 3rd to 5th graders who were interested in Alternative Energy, during our week of College For Kids at UW Marshfield/Wood County. This mini STEM institute explored [...]
I just completed my first week of integrating the DE Science Techbook with a group of STEM middle school students, through UW- Marshfield/ Wood County Continuing Education, who wanted to explore the wonders of weather, delving into how tornadoes and hurricanes gain their destructive potential. Now, I am a math teacher who integrates science and [...]
Over the last few weeks my students have taught me more than a few lessons about innovative uses of apps and iPads. We are collaborating with our high school to participate in Rock Our World 16 with a focus on poetry and poetry slams. We started by using facetime and having students share their favorite [...]
Here is a little web tool that can be expanded to do more than what you may think! ThingLink will allow you to upload a picture and then place link targets within the picture to connect you to different sites, listen to an explanation, or read information an important concept. It seems like a simple [...]
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