iMovie Appreciation Gift

One of my students was working so hard on the iPad today during centers.  He had told me he was making me a surprise.  He turned in his project just as the bell was ringing to go home and this is the sweet gift he left me today.

He used some of his nonfiction reading research work, center work, and made some new items just for his project.  I'm totally amazed at his work in the iMovie app, on which I hadn't even given any previous instructions.  He told me he was teaching himself all about it today.  He asked me very few questions about the buttons within the app today as he worked.  His video shows me how easy this app can be for even the youngest students to use.  I'll definitely be adding this app to a whole class lesson soon.  I think I know who my iPad expert will be for this lesson.  I'm totally amazed!  This was the best teacher appreciation gift ever!

Nearpod

I have presented about using the Nearpod app in the classroom with the teachers at my school.  I thought I would share some of the resources I gathered with you guys as well.  This is a great free app to use in your classroom.  They even have some free lessons available on their website to get you started with this app in your classroom.  Click the ThingLink below to learn more about nearpod.

ChatterPix Kids App

My students have a new favorite app, the ChatterPix Kids App.  This is a great, easy to use, free app where you can take any photo and make it talk.

We had concluded our first round of nonfiction research and were ready to teach each other what we had learned about our topic.  I had my students create an image in the ChatterPix Kids app to teach each other about their topics.  The students selected an image from the website www.Pics4Learning.com.  This site has safe, free, copyright friendly images for students to use in creating projects in the classroom.  Students scanned the QR code below with the iPads to get to the website to find a photo that correlated to their topic.

Click the image to save a copy to use in your classroom.

Here are screenshot directions to get you started with this app.  Click the image below to save a copy for yourself.

Need some ideas for using ChatterPix Kids or Padlet in your classroom?  Here is the Padlet wall our school created with some ideas to get you started. 

Created with Padlet

ThingLink App

I presented a technology staff development for my school this week on the ThingLink app.  This is a free app where you can make your images come alive.  I thought I would share a few resources here about this great tech tool for you guys as well.  Below is my ThingLink about ThingLink for our faculty which gathered resources and ideas to help with this tool.  Click the image below to learn more about ThingLink.

I also created a few screenshot directions to help.  Click the picture below to save a copy for yourself.