Ideas, Activities and Resources for Bend-La Pine Schools
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
Ben’s Guide to the US Government is a fabulous resource designed to inform students, parents, and educators about the Federal Government. It’s leveled for ages: 4-8, 9-13, and 14 +. Check it out and see how much you know!
There are times when you have a PDF that you need to share, but the problem is that you only want to share one page of the PDF instead of all 16 pages. I’m sure there are many ways to Continue reading Extracting a Page from a PDF
It’s incredible how a simple use of technology can completely change the way we’ve always done a lesson. A fine example is in Fred Kent’s biology class. Kent had his students take pictures of lab slides by holding their iPad Continue reading Technology Revolutionizing Biology Labs
Quizalize is a new team game similar to Kahoot with a few different features. In Quizalize, students are randomly put into 2 teams. The names of students on teams are projected during the quiz so that everyone can see which Continue reading Quizalize – A Fun and Exciting Way to Quiz
This is a special alert for teachers using Turnitin.com. Please post the instructions linked here that explain how students should access turnitin.com from their iPad. Special thanks to Mary Falkenstein, Jeremy Rubenstein and the rest of the Mt. View Continue reading Student access to Turnitin.com