I am excited to share how to use the amazing TouchCast app to create a classroom broadcasting studio. Come join me and explore how to use this app in your classroom to enhance student creativity and make learning more visible.
TouchCast's easy-to-use free iPad app is a mobile recording studio with embedded pop-up documents and screen-casting whiteboard. A simple green background makes your students' learning visible and incredibly creative while building their speaking and presentation skills. Also, a great tool for principals to highlight their schools. Resources:
Thank you to everyone who joined me for my session on Creating Digitally Enhanced Book Clubs with Schoology at ISTE.
Learn how a literacy specialist, technology integration specialist, and middle school literacy literacy teachers used Schoology to create a digitally enhanced book club to share information about young adult books they were reading and how to grow their skills in using Schoology's multimedia features to make book clubs more engaging.
Resources: Schoology Schoology is available in Enterprise and Basic (free) versions. Schoology brings together the best K-12 learning management system with assessment management to improve student performance, foster collaboration, and personalize learning.
Flipgrid is the leading video discussion platform for millions of PreK to PhD educators, students, and families in 180+ countries. Flipgrid is free for educators.
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:
I am excited to share some awesome green screen apps for the iPad at the 2018 TIES Institute. 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. Green screen apps on the iPad can help make student thinking more visible by taking students to the depths of the ocean, into outer space, back in time, or anywhere they can imagine. Come play and explore four easy-to-use green screen apps and a variety of props that will have your students creating amazing videos in no time. Resources:
Making videos on an iPad has never been easier than with the iOgrapher mobile media filmmaking case. This great tool, especially when combined with a green screen and other gadgets, will help you and your students create fast and easy videos. You can make your K-12 newscasts beautiful and professional, whether you use iMovie or Animoto to produce your final product.
I am privileged to be co-presenting with Jenifer Shier, an elementary Library Media Specialist in my district. She will be sharing how the iOgrapher has been used in her library maker space this year to produce student newscasts. In addition to talking about the iOgrapher and low-cost gadgets and devices for student video production, I will be talking about two of my favorite apps - TouchCast and DoInk! Come learn more about how these powerful, yet simple-to-use iOS apps can enhance student creativity and make learning more visible. Resources: What Is TouchCast?
Student Biography Videos 
Student Book Buzz Videos 
