I'm really looking forward to this opportunity and will share more details later! I remember what a great opportunity it was to speak at TEDx Burnsville and how the process of preparing improved my speaking skills.
"Coding as a Playground is the first book to focus on how young children (ages 7 and under) can engage in computational thinking and be taught to become computer programmers, a process that can increase both their cognitive and social-emotional skills. Readers will learn how coding can engage children as producers―and not merely consumers―of technology in a playful way." ~ Routledge - An Eye On Education Book
I'm looking forward to reading this book and learning more about coding and how it fits in the early childhood classroom.
Recently I had the opportunity to share the idea of using BookSnaps as an alternative to traditional reading logs for independent reading books.
*Image from Mosquitoland
BookSnaps allow students to quickly create shareable visual artifacts of applying close reading strategies while reading their independent reading books, make connections to the text, and share text snippets with classmates like a mini book talk by digitally annotating the text and saving the result as an image. Resources:
The steps for creating BookSnaps with the Markup extension in the Photos app on the iPad are listed below. You can also grab a PDF of these steps here.
I'm always looking for more great examples of student-created BookSnaps. If you would like to share some great examples of your students' work, please send them my way.
I received notification today that I have been selected to present 3 sessions for the 2019 ISTE Conference in Philadelphia!
My sessions will be on Personalizing Your Professional Development with the iPad, Telling Your Story With the Amazing Free TouchCast Classroom Studio, and Creating Digitally Enhanced Book Clubs with Schoology.
I'm looking forward to connecting with other educators at ISTE next summer and sharing tips, tricks, resources, and information about these topics. I hope some of you can join me at this great edtech event.
I am excited to share some awesome green screen apps for the iPad at the 2018 TIES Conference. Come join me and explore four great apps for green screening.
I will be talking about two of my favorite apps - TouchCast and Green Screen by DoInk! Come explore and learn more about how these powerful, yet simple-to-use iOS apps can enhance student creativity and make learning more visible. Resources:
My preconference workshop will be about digitally enhanced literacy classrooms.
I'm hoping that some of you will join me for this professional development opportunity to explore a variety of iPad apps that can make your literacy instruction and students' experiences more engaging and impactful.
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