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Clips Forces Dictionary
Next Term I am supporting our ESOL ākonga to have a better understanding of vocabulary for our Senior Conceptual Curriculum Inquiries into Forces. I have made a 'base' Forces Clips Dictionary for my …
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Stage 1 Structured Literacy VC and CVC Words Slide
As an ESOL and Tier 2 Reading Teacher I am always problem solving to find effective and engaging ways to support my students and their teachers to reinforce and practice learning. Typically, the five…
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Writing with Augmented Reality
Looking forward to sharing my Journey as an author when writing my book entitled 'Writing with Augmented Reality'. This book explores a range of different ways to use Augmented Reality in writing. To…
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Main Idea/Story Theme Lesson
Read aloud A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon Students will be able to identify the theme of the story and discuss a class. Individually they will create their own "bad case of stripes and the “c…
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Animated Storybooks
Hey everyone, I spent some time playing the other night in preparation for a reading event and have discovered the joy of exporting a Pages with animated GIFs as an ePub to created story books with m…
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Blackout Recording with GarageBand for iPad
Inspired by Blackout Poetry and Newspaper Blackout (Austin Kleon), this is Blackout Recording. Create and record a unique poem as you learn how to edit audio with GarageBand for iPad. You can choo…
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Accessibility Features: Staying Persistent with Learners
In coaching work, I've seen many learners resist or outright reject accessibility features that would make their lives easier, or provide more opportunity to access content. I have my own theories ab…
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Developing Early Literacy Scaffolds on iPad
Bring out the creative in you by designing engaging learning activities specifically designed for all learners in your class. As an Apple Professional Learning Specialist, I have the opportunity to w…
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Let's Create a Stoplight Story Using Graphic Organizers
Help students create stories with a Stoplight story. Students can identify transition words to help their story have smoother transitions between characters and information. Students will identify tr…
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Digital Genre Book Tasting
As a campus librarian, I enjoyed hosting a book tasting each year in my library. When students participate in the book tasting I liked to have students make notes or take record of which books they w…
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Reading Log Tracker
Use one of the attached reading log trackers to have students track their reading throughout the year. The genre table on the right hand side can be adjusted to add or remove genre types. In addition…
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Realistic Fiction Unit in Writer's Workshop for 4th Graders
In the realistic fiction unit, my students in 4th grade make videos in Keynote about their life in 30 years. They use texts to write about their story, then add up emojis, pictures, tracing, recordin…
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30 Days of Drawing and Doodling
When we play, no matter our age, we engage our imaginations, build creative confidence, and increase the neural connections in our brains. Moreover, play can reduce stress, ease anxiety, and boost jo…
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Country Research in Numbers
This is a Numbers document that provides a workflow for a country research project. This will lead students through the research process beginning from choosing a topic, brainstorming questions, tak…
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Animated Visual Vocabulary
Animated visual vocabulary is my go to way of sharing Keynote with teachers and students. This is a great way for students to synthesize their understanding of a vocabulary word. This activity can be…
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Volcanoes: Good Grief!
During my teaching practice as part of my teacher training (a long time ago now!), I designed my first creative teaching and learning activity: To illustrate the life cycle of a volcano, students had…
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Creating workbook templates in Pages to support Digital fluency growth in your students
Though my work as Apple Professional Learning Specialist, I have been working with a Primary School to streamline their Digital Progressions. This means I am designing new organisation and tasks for …
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Keynote: using animations to go deeper (into space)
It's April 12th, 1961 and a ten year old called Sylvia is sitting watching Yuri Gagarin become the first man in space. In my first teaching job Sylvia was the school secretary and became a great frie…
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Thanksgiving Feast Writing
I decided to create a lesson for students on what their Thanksgiving Feasts look like. I wanted to create a graphic organizer that they could use to pave their writing. What I did was shared a mind m…
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Animated Earth
I love Geography. I had a wonderful Geography teacher who instilled in me a love for the subject and a curiosity about our physical landscape. But, it is often difficult for learners to visualise the…
