Join me at the ISTELive 22 Conference for my session on Level Up Technology Skills With Student Tech Leaders to learn more about how to empower students to teach others new technology skills!
Need to teach your students technology skills for in-person classroom, distance, hybrid, or online learning? Let them teach each other!
Our student Genius Squad tech teams learned new tech skills, leveled up and earned badges as they moved through synchronous and asynchronous course resources, and put their skills to work through service learning to support their teachers and classmates. Check out the work of our elementary Genius Squads and resources that helped them level up their skills and created an interest in computer science careers.
For anyone who wants to follow along with our elementary Genius Squad program, click the links below for each challenge to see the details and resources for each iPad challenge if you want to share these resources with your students to do in class or independently.
I will continue to expand these challenge resources over the summer and throughout next fall so please keep checking back if you are interested in more resources similar to these.
Students watched Oliver Jeffers for Apple Education video about drawing the world the way that you want to see it for Earth Day and then created their own enhanced photos of the environment around them with the aid of Markup on their iPads.
Need to teach your students technology skills for in-person classroom, distance, hybrid, or online learning? Let them teach each other!
Our student Genius Squad tech teams learned new tech skills, leveled up and earned badges as they moved through synchronous and asynchronous course resources, and put their skills to work through service learning to support their teachers & classmates. Check out the work of our elementary Genius Squads & resources that helped them level up their skills & created an interest in computer science careers.
For anyone who wants to follow along with our elementary Genius Squad program, click the links below for each challenge to see the details and resources for each iPad challenge if you want to share these resources with your students to do in class or independently.
I will continue to expand these challenge resources over the summer and throughout next fall so please keep checking back if you are interested in more resources similar to these.
Students watched Oliver Jeffers for Apple Education video about drawing the world the way that you want to see it for Earth Day and then created their own enhanced photos of the environment around them with the aid of Markup on their iPads.
Join me at the ISTELive 22 Conference for my session on Level Up Technology Skills With Student Tech Leaders to learn more about how to empower students to teach others new technology skills!
Need to teach your students technology skills for in-person classroom, distance, hybrid, or online learning? Let them teach each other!
Our student Genius Squad tech teams learned new tech skills, leveled up and earned badges as they moved through synchronous and asynchronous course resources, and put their skills to work through service learning to support their teachers & classmates. Check out the work of our elementary Genius Squads & resources that helped them level up their skills & created an interest in computer science careers.
Presentation slides, tutorial videos, and iPad challenges will be available on this blog page closer to June 29, so please check back toward the end of the month.
Do you have some great tutorials or iPad challenges to share? Please add them in the comments.
I will be presenting a session on a great topic for anyone in a in-person, distance learning or virtual learning, or online school situation who wants to build students' technology skills.
I am looking forward to sharing some great resources for teachers and students and a model of how to make technology leadership experiences available to students even during distance learning and online school situations.
I hope that you are able to join me for my session on Leveling Up With Student Tech Leaders.
I am excited to share that I will be presenting at the ISTELive 22 Conference in June!
Image Source - ISTE Presenter
I will be presenting a session on a great topic for any teacher who has students with access to digital learning devices:
Level Up Tech Skills With Student Technology Leaders
I am looking forward to sharing some great technology integration resources on a variety of apps and digital tools for teachers and students and a model of how to make technology leadership experiences available to students in the classroom or virtually during distance learning situations.
For anyone following along with our elementary Genius Squad program, here are the details of our third iPad challenge if you want to share these resources with your students.
This week students are exploring how to create a digital thank you card with the Camera app, the Photos app, and the Pages app on the iPad.
Challenge #3
Watch the video below to hear about this week's iPad challenge.
Story about something good, fun, or funny that you remember from this school year.
Explore The Pages Templates
Watch the video below to learn about the templates available in the Pages app.
Want To Know More About Lorem Ipsum?
Were you wondering what lorem ipsum meant when you were looking through the templates?
Lorem ipsum is placeholder text used in templates to allow users to keep formatting like spacing, fonts, colors, and styles but change out the words.
Read more about the history of lorem ipsum in this blog article. It is actually based on Latin.
How To Create A Digital Thank You Card
Watch the series of videos below to learn how to create a digital Thank A Teacher card with the Pages app on your iPad. You can pause after each video to try out what was shown as you create your own card. Make sure to check out the challenge page to find out what is required for this challenge.
Select The Photo Card Template
Add And Format Text
Customize And Format Shapes
Add Photo And Format Message Page
Add Message And Sign Thank You Card With Digital Ink
Export Thank You Card As PDF
Digital Thank A Teacher Card Challenge
If you didn't know how to find and customize the template documents in the Pages app before, you do now! Good job!
Ready for the Digital Thank A Teacher Card challenge?
Think of a fun, funny, or good memory of lesson or activity one of your teachers did with you this year.
This could be a story about something you enjoyed, learned about, didn't know before.
You could write a thank you card to your classroom teacher, a specialist teacher, your principal, or someone else at your school.
Make a list of some good memories.
After you have a list of story ideas, tap on the Pages app and find the Photo Card templates in the Stationery section.
Open the template and create a customized thank you card for one of your teachers.
Submit your finished thank you card in the assignment.
Email your card to the teacher using your email app on your iPad. This will make their day!
Create more cards for other teachers if you have time.
I can't wait to see what you create!
Email Your Thank You Card
Don't forget to export your thank you card as a PDF and email it to the person you wrote it for.
They will really appreciate getting a thank you card from you.
Resources:
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For anyone following along with our elementary Genius Squad program, here are the details of our second iPad challenge if you want to share these resources with your students.
This week students are exploring how to create Photo Words with the Camera app, Keynote, and the Photos app.
Challenge #2
Watch the video below to hear about this week's iPad challenge.
Objects in your classroom, your home, or outside that are interesting colors or have a lot of texture that feel like they represent your word(s).
How To Create A Photo Word Image
Watch the video to learn how to create an awesome Photo Words image with the Keynote app on your iPad.
Photo Words Challenge
If you didn't know how to fill text with an image instead of an ink color in the Keynote app before, you do now! Good job!
Ready for the Photo Words Image challenge?
Think of a word that you can take a photo to use to fill the letters with to represent that word.
Look around your classroom or home and find things that would make a good image fill for that word or that have a lot of texture.
If you cannot find something in your classroom or home, check with your parents or teacher to see if you can take your iPad outside at school or at home to take a photo.
Remember to keep yourself safe when using the iPad outside.
Ask your parents to help you find some things to take pictures of.
After you have some photos, pick one and use it to fill the letters in your word in Keynote.
Try a different photo if you did not get the effect that you want.
Share your finished photo in the next media album.
I can't wait to see what you create!
How To Upload Photo Word Image To A Media Album
Watch the video below to learn how to upload a photo to a media album in Schoology if you don't remember how from the last challenge.
Photo Word Image
Resources:
Check back for future blog posts on new tutorials and challenges for elementary Genius Squad students.