Students answer multiple choice and short answer questions. Teacher and students can view live results. Instruction can be modified on the spot based on results. Electronic exit tickets provide teacher with information on students perception of a lesson.
"This book is available for download with iBooks on your Mac or iPad, and with iTunes on your computer. Multi-touch books can be read with iBooks on your Mac or iPad. Books with interactive features may work best on an iPad. iBooks on your Mac requires OS X 10.9 or later.
Description
The iBooks Author Starter Kit is a beginners guide to creating Multi-Touch books for teaching and learning. It walks a user through a set of step-by-step activities, and provides all of the materials - an iBooks Author template, color palette, copy decks, images, videos, keynote presentation, and more - needed to create an interactive book titled "The World of Living Gardens".
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"Students coast to coast will answer the call to keep on reading about the world around them. Newsela's Summer Reading Challenge gives them the chance to earn badges, get newsroom promotions and climb in the standings, all while reading news and feature stories hot off the press."
A friend shared: "When some Kindergarten teachers at [his school] asked [me] to find a web tool to help their students create simple drawings and write sentences below them, I searched but found nothing. So, I asked ABCYa's Alan Tortolani (a friend of mine) if he could come up with something. Here's the result. Kids love it! Printed output looks great. Perfect for early writers and artists!
This is May 14, 2015 at 4:00pm PDT which translates to 7:00pm Eastern. "Find out what it takes to run a Minecraft server so that players can participate together.
Connected Camps staff will also talk about some useful tools and add-ons to help with server management."
This looks interesting. It is a summer online Minecraft camp for students (parents can join too). There is also a programming Minecraft camp. Take a look.
An interesting wheel that attempts to show Bloom's Taxonomy words with Action Verbs and technology activities with apps to support those actions and activities.
Sign up to be chosen as one of 1000 schools across the globe to participate in the Oracle Raspberry Pi Weather Station for schools with topics covering comping and weather - for ages 11 and up. Free!
You can sign up for a tour inside NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and meet the scientists and engineers working on some of our nation's space programs.