Ideas, Activities and Resources for Bend-La Pine Schools
You may have heard of the term makerspace. This is a popular movement happening in K-12 schools, universities, and public libraries. Basically, a makerspace is where students can invent, build, create, and learn. Yes, libraries have always been a place Continue reading Makerspaces at Juniper
As an educator working with students and staff, there are times when you want to quickly share something from Google Drive to your staff or students. There are a variety of ways you can do this, such as through a Continue reading Creating an email list in Google Drive
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
All Bend-La Pine classrooms need to cover Digital Citizenship each and every year with students. THIS LINK will direct you to ALL the necessary resources you need to complete the task. Before you click on the link, some background information: Continue reading Link to YOUR Digital Citizenship Resources
At Tech Tuesday this week, Ponderosa teacher Kristen Shaw shared how much fun her kids were having with GONOODLE. She is currently in the middle of her performance task with her 5th-grade class, and GONOODLE has been the perfect Continue reading Take a brain break with GONOODLE
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
PicCollage has always been a favorite app for merging photos with text on the iPad. We have recently added the app PicCollage Kids to our app catalog for elementary and middle school students. Consider using the creative work that Continue reading PicCollage Kids
It’s time for Hour of Code during computer science week – December 7-13, 2015. Many of our teachers and students are participating in the Hour of Code as a classroom and even as a whole school. In fact, we already Continue reading Hour of Code is Upon Us