My Content Vodcast
The Lion's Tale
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Got any favorite websites?
I have 4
"go to" websites that I visit almost daily.....
- weather channel-
I NEED to know whether we will be outside or inside for recess!
- pinterest - I
find ideas to make my school organized and looking good.
- drop box - This
tool keeps teachers at my school informed and up to date on important
information.
- google - I count
on this site to open up all kinds of possibilities and to find answers to
all of my questions.
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Why I LOVE dropbox.....
· Information
is uploaded, shared, and updated easily.
·
It’s
easy for our teacher to find necessary documents from the Louisiana Believes
website.
·
I
am able to share pictures with our computer lab teacher who keeps our school's
facebook page up to date with pictures, information about upcoming events at
our school, and sharing of any notes that go home.
·
We
have found that even teachers that are not so savvy with technology are able to
use DropBox easily to access important information and documents.
This is an awesome app for ELL!
Name of
app: The Phrasal Verb Machine
Skill: grammar
Grades: ages 4+
Description: The Phrasal Verb Machine shows pictures for verbs
that sometimes have more than one meaning.
Use: Using verbs correctly is difficult for ELL, but this app
makes it fun to learn about them. Students are able to choose from 100 phrasal
verbs, see a visual example in motion, the translation, an example, and other
meanings-all in 7 different languages. Then students can test their knowledge
with interactive exercises. This is a fun and engaging app with cool graphics.
This is what I think about Popplet!
There are just enough options to personalize a
popplet but not so many that the choices seem overwhelming. The colors make it
visually attractive, and the drawing tool and upload button are perfect for
those who want to take their popplet up a notch! Because of the ease of use, I
can definitely see this being used in a classroom for many purposes such as the
following:
·
a character or book analysis
·
to show the different ways to work a
math problem
·
key words to look for when deciding
which math operation to use
·
a culminating project for a science or
social studies unit
iPad App Review
- Notability by
Ginger Labs
- Skill Area: This
app could be used by our administrative team (our principal, instructional
strategist, and myself)
- This app is
appropriate to use with all grade levels and subjects.
- Description:
With this app, you can take notes or pictures, annotate documents or
pictures, then share your notes. Notes may be shared on twitter, email,
Drop Box, printed, etc.
- Our instructional
strategist went to the Plain Talk conference several weeks ago in New
Orleans and learned about an effective observation process for teachers.
In summary, the principal, the instructional strategist, and I observed 6
teachers. Using a T-chart we scripted everything the students did/said and
everything the teacher did/said. Using the notes, we determined a weakness
that we all had observed from each teacher. We divided up the teachers,
met with them, and the process goes on from there. Using the app, Notability,
we would be able to take notes, capture pictures in the classroom,
annotate the pictures, and share them privately among the three of us by
printing our notes, using iCloud, or Drop Box. This is a great way to
combine our data.
- Notability by
Ginger Labs
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