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30 Days of Animation - Remix the Ordinary
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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#MayThe4thBeWithYou - Pages opening crawl!
Hey folks, I'm sure most of you will be familiar with this but any time I use Presenter Mode in Pages it reminds me of the Star Wars crawl (and often when learners see it for the first time they say …
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Teach coding concepts on iPad with animated Memoji
Learn about key concepts in coding using Memoji stickers and animation with Keynote for iPad. Learning Objectives for this lesson: Demonstrate understanding of commands, functions and loops Create…
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Supporting Early Literacy with Numbers Templates.
Throughout the many years of my early childhood teaching career, one thing has been constant, children need to know the names of the letters of the alphabet. Knowing the name of each individual lette…
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What's Worth Fighting For? A Short Clips Inquiry Provocation
In Term 2 I will be supporting my year 4-5 ESOL ākonga with their Inquiry and Literacy Learning. I decided to use an over arching big question: 'What's Worth Fighting For?' Often our children can no…
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Aylesbury Talks LOVE: Tips for Designing in Pages
One of my favourite projects this year has been our Aylesbury Talks Love book. We are working through an inquiry focused on creating photographic texts with digital layers. At this phase of the proje…
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Hear Me Grow: Fluency Portfolio
Fluency is key in learning to read and so hard to track and show growth. Using the record audio feature in Keynote, I created a digital portfolio for students to record themselves reading in order to…
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Live Loops Poetry: a GarageBand project for early learners
Here in the US, April is National Poetry Month, a time where educators and learners can celebrate the important place poetry has in our lives. As a former elementary music teacher and tech coach, I s…
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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…
