sbisd early adopters

"In a unit on Transportation, our Kindergarteners read a large picture book "On the Move!" by Donna Latham Students got so interested into learning about different ways people around the globe got around. They were even ready to take a trip to Venice, Italy to ride in a Vaporetto. Since our 5 & 6 year olds have gotten pretty good at using PicCollage on the iPads, their teacher Arlene Yegelwel, wanted to personalize another collaborative classroom eBook. She took the time to find over 20 public domain images of transportation methods they had discussed in class on Wikimedia Commons and sent them in one email to each iPad. Student's workflow fluency looked like this: opened the PicCollage app chose one image of the different transportation methods decided how they could best place an image of themselves onto the picture asked a buddy to take an image of them acting out a particular position on the iPad edited the image by clipping the background resized the image to make it fit the ration of the transportation image rotated the image saved the image emailed the image to their teacher"

Seven-step process for planning problem-based learning experiences.

Blog post on using Mindmap for prewriting organization of blogs, essays, or any writing assignment.

Resources on digital citizenship.

Here is another post by Ms. Kirch sharing her classroom setup. boy, don't you wish your classroom were that big!

Here's a free ebook on how to get started on Twitter for PD! Download today!

This has nothing to do with technology (well, maybe the book trailers) but all about developing readers and a love of it! 

Great resources for education.

A teacher describes a teachable moment with her middle school students on appropriateness of sharing digital content. Have you had the opportunity to talk about this with your students?

this looks like a fabulous tool for creating lessons on the iPad. Take a look! It is free! I GUESS its limitations is that it is intended for teacher use? Need to read the Terms of Service...

Resources to create your own infographics

There are some great suggestions for consideration for flipping such as the use of guiding questions, advanced organizers, etc. Thoughtful article!

Short motivational videos to start a meeting

Assorted storybook creation tools and apps

"Mindmapping is a very serious and well researched subject, or art … or something . Whatever it is a map of the mind is definately something to be valued and this 'instructionalicious' guide is no exception. Allow this infographic to simultaneously blow and map your mind. "