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My One Best Thing - Building Cultural Capacity at my Kura
The New Zealand curriculum has been undertaking a curriculum refresh - to give practical effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and to be inclusive, clear and easy to use. For the past year I have been buil…
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From Text to Tech: Lord of the Flies Character Transformation in GIFs
In this summative project over The Lord of the Flies, students put on their critical thinking caps to infer where characters from the book end up later in life, after the events in the book. Students…
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Course Review Books Using Pages
Prior to becoming an Instructional Technology Facilitator (EdTech coach), I taught AP Macro & Microeconomics to high school juniors and seniors (I know that sounds fascinating). These AP course a…
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Using Freeform and Pages for Creation
Many of our teachers feel like they are tied to our state-mandated curriculum in a way where they cannot veer away from the scripted lessons provided. As the Instructional Technology Facilitator in t…
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Who's going to SXSW EDU?
If you're headed to SXSW EDU this week, I'd love to connect! SXSW EDU is my favorite education conference, and I'm excited to be back. I'm presenting on a panel, have a mentor session, and a book si…
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Designing Culturally Responsive Assessments
As part of the Apple Distinguished Educator community, we have been asked to share our "One Best Thing." To that end, while I acknowledge I still have much to learn, I consider my one best thing is e…
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The Masked Reader
Inspired by the excitement of "The Masked Singer," our school presents "The Masked Reader"! In this engaging activity, teachers become mysterious masked readers, hiding their identities behind animat…
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More Than A Page: Tips for Publishing Class Books with Pages
Definitely my One Best Thing of last school year had to be our series of Aylesbury Talks books created in Pages. Wanting to push ourselves beyond just seeing Mirrors and Windows on our shelves, we wa…
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Memoji Book Projects with Keynote
As an English Language Arts teacher, I'm always looking for ways to make reading and book projects more engaging. After reading a self-selected novel, we used Keynote for their book projects. They …
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My Favorite Keynote Template Book
Most teachers are strapped for time. One of my favorite books for Keynote templates in iBooks is Let’s Make Stuff: 20 Keynote Creations by Garrett Derr, Wes Emlet, and Jessica Garrigan. It is FREE in…
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CBL: Creating Textbooks For Students With Students
OVERVIEW Students in my college Music Appreciation course provided a solution to the lack of textbooks by creating their own, publishing to the Apple Books Store. ENGAGE Big Idea: Equity - providing …
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My 100th Day of School Book
With this book students can add text boxes and pictures to complete this 100th Day of School activity.
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My book about authentic learning is now available
I'm excited to share that my first book in print is now available! I wrote it to help educators solve some of the biggest challenges in education today: low student engagement and artificial intell…
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Back to School: Create a class “All About Us” eBook
We all know how important it is for students to not just be seen and heard, but for them to feel connected. Here’s a fun and simple way to have your students to share their interests, passions and id…
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Uncheatable assessments and student engagement: Real-world examples
Classroom teachers are rightfully skeptical about new ideas: Will they work? Do they solve my problems? That’s why I included testimony from real life teachers in my new book about learning authentic…
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Join me at my book release party February 6 in Los Angeles
Southern California ADEs! I'm excited to release my first book in print, Storytelling With Purpose: Digital Projects to Ignite Student Curiosity on February 6 at 6:00pm. To celebrate the release, I'm…
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Book of Rhythms and Melodies (Vol. II)
We all know how costly textbooks have been and how the prices keep rising! It is my goal to support my students by creating FREE resources whenever possible. The next free textbook I have created for…
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From Farm to Plate! Interactive Books to help students understand where their food comes from!
After learning how to make gifs using Procreate at ADE, I came back excited to create resources for my students to allow them to access content that was suitable for what we were learning in Design-T…
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My new book, Storytelling With Purpose, arrives this week!
The wait for my book is over: The ebook version becomes available for purchase this week! It's been almost two years since I started writing this guide for educators, and I'm excited to finally share…
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ADE Book Talk - April 25, 2023 *Recording Available*
Hosted by Jessica Herring Watson Hear from the authors of innovative Apple Books showcasing new ways to use Apple technology in the classroom. In these hour-long sessions, ADEs will share their motiv…
