Using ShowMe for Math Targets 3.NBT.2

By now many of you have heard about the iPad app called ShowMe. There are many of these types of show and tell screen recording apps available. Some other screen recording apps available include Explain Everything, Educreations, and ScreenChomp. Which app you choose isn't as important as, how you use the app. The common core math target being addressed in the video below is 3.NBT.2.  This target reads, (Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction). The lesson that you will see being conducted is differentiated by levels. There are 4 groups in the video rotating in stations. One of the stations is guided instruction (not in video) for differentiation purposes. For example the extension of this target is (Apply a mathematical algorithm to fluently add and subtract within 1000 in a new situation, providing an argument/justification for the application), which can also be demonstrated using ShowMe.  The station that accentuated independent work was the station using ShowMe. The teacher has a single account logged into ShowMe. The students were taught to open the app and work on 3.NBT.2 math problems on the iPad. The teacher can then check ShowMe later for mastery of the learning target. 

Bloom's & iPad

iPad apps that support Bloom's Taxonomy.

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iPad apps that support Bloom's Taxonomy.

21st Century Classroom

21st Century Classroom

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An infographic describing how classrooms have adapted.

30 Hands

30hands Mobile is a fun storytelling app that allows students, teachers and anyone with creativity to easily create stories or presentations based on photos, images or slides using a smartphone or tablet.

Digital Story Telling with Educreations

ActivInspire Beyond the Essentials

Flipped Materials

Skill Application:
- Using action objects
- Using containers
- Using grids
- Using dual-pen
- Applying actions
- Extracting text
- Using restrictors

Google Sites Intermediate Flipped Material

If you have already created a google site... this will help you do most everything else.

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Flipped Classroom

Created by Knewton and Column Five Media

Layering in ActivInspire

Layering ... Press Play

Getting Started With Wixie Projects

Modifying An Activity



Assigning An Activity

Lino: Sticky and Photo Sharing for You

Take a note right away wherever you are Access lino from your home, office, or even on the road and post a sticky note online whenever you need!

Reminders on your special days or deadlines Set due dates on your stickes, and you will receive an Email reminder on the morning of the due date.

Free layout of your pictures and videos You can arrange your pictures and videos as you like and share them with your friends.

Share your ideas with your group members By creating a group, lino becomes an ideal tool to share your ideas with your friends and colleagues. Share your ideas with your group members By creating a group, lino becomes an ideal tool to share your ideas with your friends and colleagues.

Use stickes to share files among friends and colleagus Attach your files to stickies, and share them with your friends and colleagues at home and office

Use from smartphones Take notes, post pictures and videos. Zoom in and out at will by pinch gesture.

What is Wixie?

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Turn Out the Lights

The entire page will be fading to dark, so you can watch the video as if you were in the cinema.

With one click on the lamp button, the page will be fading to dark. And automatic focus to the video. Click again, the page will return back as normal.

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Voki

Most of you have probably heard of Voki, but I thought I would throw up a post to try to stir up some interest in it.  This is a great alternative presentation and assessment tool.  Students can choose a character and record their voice or type the information in a text field for the character to communicate to the viewer.


http://voki.com/

Made a Wixie Launcher

I made a Wixie launcher.  I will attach it this post.  Feel free to download and use.

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Organizing Your Google Drive

The following is a screencast from Anson Alexander.  He can show you how to organize your google docs.  One thing that I have noticed happens in our district is shared documents disappear when people drag them into their collections.  Here is a good general rule of thumb, if you need to have a personal copy of a document that has been shared with you, make a copy of it and drag the COPY into your collections.  We have had some issue with shared documents disappearing at workshops because folks drag documents shared with them into their personal collections.  When they do this, the file has disappeared in the past.  Not sure if this is resolved or resolvable, but best not do it just to be safe.

Google Sites for Beginners

Let me start off by saying that this screencast is a bit of a rager, but it is solid.  The screencast will take you through step by step show you how to create a basic google site.  Remember I am only an email away ... rhanrahan@kcsd96.org ... If you have a question or something is not clear, I am happy to screencast your issue for you personally.

Planetarium

Extending a learning target for 3rd grade.  This sky map can be uses as a good inquiry based resource for students to explore stars and our solar system.


Explore the stars and planets!
Planetarium shows you over 1,500 stars - that's every star up to magnitude "+5". These stars are the brightest in the night sky, the ones you can see with your own naked eye on a good dark night away from city lights.
HOW TO USE:
Click and move your mouse to look around the sky. Click again to stop. Point at a star or planet to reveal its name, its constellation, its brightness (magnitude) and how far away it is in light years (LY) or astronomical units (AU). Also listed is the star or planet's Right Ascension (RA) and Declination (Dec) values - handy if you have a telescope!

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Sticky Notes in Chrome Browser

This solution will crash proof your sticky notes.  Mac's have stickies, but what if the hard drive fails?  Where are all your sticky note?  Put them on the cloud!

Tired of Post-It notes all over your desk? Have you got stickies cluttering your monitor? Clean it up by keeping them in your browser!

Sticky Notes is a Chrome app that locally stores all your notes in a single tab. It auto saves on every letter, so you don't have to worry about losing something because your computer crashed and you didn't click
Save - it's already done for you!

You can change the color of your notes, change the text color, font, and size, and edit the title, in addition to the notes themselves. You can also change the display: select free-floating or sortable grid view.

Creating a Google Chrome "App"

This might be the craziest way to create a hyperlink you have ever seen, but here it is... fair warning this is for the nerds... big time!