Ideas, Activities and Resources for Bend-La Pine Schools
Have your students deleted old Notability files only to have them appear again? Know of any students with over 300 Notability files, and most of them are now irrelevant? If you answered yes to either or both of those questions, Continue reading Notability Clean Up
Have you seen Indiana Jones or National Treasure and found yourself caught up in trying to solve the mystery before Harrison Ford or Nicholas Cage do? Both are clever movie series that engage the audience with mysteries and clues that Continue reading Breaking Things Up With BreakoutEDU
Book Creator has an update that allows users to create comics! Like everything else in Book Creator, it is simple to work with-for both teacher and student. Options available are: Panels, background colors/patterns, speech bubbles, thought bubbles, comic text (captions, titles) Continue reading Create Comics Using Book Creator
Don’t judge this app by it’s title or icon! It’s not used for shadow (or any type of) puppetry. This app is a powerful, all-inclusive presentation tool that even includes safe image searching within the tool. Students, and teachers, are Continue reading Shadow Puppets: Presentation Tool
This blog post was inspired by two teachers working on a road-trip-themed storyline. It started by using the Instant Alpha tool in Keynote to show students in front of landmarks. It got me thinking…and the video here shows how the Continue reading Using Magic Move in Keynote
Have you ever tried to create an instructional Keynote on your iPad? I have and my gorilla-like fingers don’t work as well on an iPad as they do on my laptop. Plus, my laptop has more storage to hold these Keynote Continue reading Using Your iPad as a Keynote Remote
Do you ever worry about your students image searching on their own for school projects? Yes, we have web filters that block most of the inappropriate images, but what about the rights to use the images? Use this document as Continue reading Image Searching
Remember the days before GPS/smartphones and you gave directions to your house (or were given directions to someone else’s house)? Neither of you had paper, so the directions were just verbalized to you. How many wrong turns were taken? I Continue reading Getting a Pointer on Your iPad