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Storyboarding and Silent Films
Welcome to the first part of our three-part journey into the world of silent films! In this lesson, students will dive into the concepts and importance of silent film while mastering the basics of s…
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Creating Fun Maths Tasks
One of the things that helps promote student agency, and also contributes to productive workflows, is creating learning tasks that give students instant feedback. The students know straight away if t…
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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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Ensuring Equity of Access - Back to School Session
Ensuring Equity of Access In our Back to School session featuring Tim from Wonga Park School, we talked about several tools that can make use of the iPad more inclusive in the way it is used. We look…
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January Imaginarium: Prompts to Build Creative Confidence
“Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn’t work.” — Bob Dylan, 2011 Imaginariums are collections of learning …
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Keynote: Engineering Design Process
Students can share their progress through Engineering Design Process using Keynote multimedia. #whywefly
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Developing Early Literacy Skills: Meaningful Practices With the iPad
As educators of young children, we are often "cooking from scratch" and this presents difficulties in a microwave world. We easily provide manipulatives in mathematics to help children move from the …
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Fraction Fun in 3rd Grade
This template was made to support a third grade classroom represent fractions with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 using concrete objects and pictorial models including a strip model and number line…
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Exploring Author's Purpose
Author's Purpose seems to be a trouble spot for many students at my schools. I have designed a template that has been incredibly popular. The first slide I do not typically show the students. I have…
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Create Dialogue in "Messages"
I used Keynote to create an animated Gif to capture part of a conversation two fictional characters were having for part of an activity. With Magic Move and other animation effects, this type of acti…
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One Best Thing: Everyone Can Create Music With iPad Curriculum Guide
For my One Best Thing, I created the Everyone Can Create Music With iPad Curriculum Guide, providing insight into the course I developed at The University of Virginia’s College at Wise. This introduc…
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Getting out of your (curriculum) box
I am a rule follower. I don't like to stir the pot and I am always trying to make sure I am doing the right thing, crossing my t's and dotting my i's. So I try to follow the curriculum to the best of…
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Back to School - 1st Day Ideas
I love the first day of school, the excitement and newness of it all is my favorite.The first week of school, our campus focuses on relationships. I want students to feel welcomed and excited about m…
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Graphic Organizers for any Content
This Keynote includes over twenty different graphic organizers and media placeholder pages to help students organize their thoughts, questions, information, etc. Click on the + button to add a slide …
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Letter of the Week: A Multimodal Literacy Guide
This book is designed to support teachers of early learners in creating engaging literacy lessons with the iPad. Teaching templates, ideas and resources are provided for educators to build multimodal…
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Book: Storytelling With Purpose: Digital Projects To Ignite Student Curiosity
I'm excited to announce that my new book, Storytelling With Purpose: Digital Projects To Ignite Student Curiosity, is available for pre-order! This book is the culmination of 24 years of teaching in …
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How to take great photographs - student workbook
Kia ora! I have always loved teaching my students how to take great photographs, it always amazes me what they can create. Photography is a skill that can be used across the curriculum, and once the …
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Study Abroad Opportunity in Northern Ireland
Hi, everyone, We just wanted to share a study abroad opportunity from our university to travel to Belfast and other locations to experience first-hand how culture and technology influence learning en…
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Creative Confessionals: Getting to Know What Your Students Need
I try so hard to eliminate the damaging power structures in place between teachers and students and part of that requires the students to engage in some risk-taking. Many times, though, students feel…
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Using Numbers as a packet for students - Work and Energy
Sharing materials on a LMS is fine, but for students with executive functioning struggles, or really any student that just can't find things in the sea of digital things, I have found that using Numb…
