Happy Friday! I'm excited about the items in this post. I hope you find a tool that you want to try with your class.
Be In The Know:
You may have noticed an additional extension that was pushed to you and your students called Share to Classroom. The extension supports your digital environment by allowing you to push websites to your students easily. The website will open on student devices as soon as you push. The extension also allows you to create an assignment, make an announcement, or ask a question in your Google Classroom right from the site.
Watch this quick video from Google Guru to see how it works. By the way, you can also send them a visual to switch gears or stop working on the device.
iPad App:
Camera app - Ever consider this is a powerful tool in the hands of our learners?
It's pivotal when doing app-smashing and it's a life skill. Imagine teaching our students how to be really good at taking photos. I found this course on iTunes, (lots of free cool courses) that you could use as a springboard for ideas to help students learn to be photographers. The course is called One Best Photo. Use the idea and think of your content to mesh the two. By the way, soon, iTunes courses will be found within the Podcast app on the device.
Cool Tools Corner:
This news made my day, and I hope it will make yours as well. You have probably heard of Storyjumper. It's a great site that allows your students to publish stories easily. The site has tons of props, scenes, and characters that students can use as they publish or even upload their own images. Now, Storyjumper uses single sign on with our Google accounts. Yay, no extra user names and passwords to remember.
As always, with anything mentioned in this post, if you want to give these things a try, let your ITF know and we will be happy to help!
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