Discovering Apps, Websites and Tech

High tech does not matter

if teacher is "low tech".

The teacher is the most

important!

- deceptively simple yet

packs a lot of possibilities

- can be used for different abilities and levels of questioning

let's bake!

sample use:

available on TDSB imaged computers

and from

elearning@tdsb.on.ca

- can be used for different levels of thinking

- sample of a grade 3 lesson (Health and Media Literacy)

Take pictures and then upload to a cloud service

Comic making to the next level?

Try BITSTRIP or POWTOON

make your free account or

login to Powtoon!

Pic Collage

(iPad and Android)

make posters, collages, sequencing tasks

Sample: cut out and put self in picture for drama and creative writing

basic functions

Give it a go!

Scavenger Hunt:

1.) Take a picture of a friend.

2.) Put a text telling us who your friend is.

BONUS LEVEL:

Change the background into something different from the original.

Public Service Announcements

virtual manipulatives

(your turn!)

Discovering GAFE, Websites

and Apps for Classroom Use

Erich Shih

Apps, Websites and Hardware:

Document Cam

Library Websites

Show Me

Mathletics

Cupcake Maker

Comic Life

Pic Collage

Number Pieces

Ten Frame Fill

Powtoon & Bitstrip

“There’s an assumption because students are using this technology, they have the knowledge to build this technology, and they don’t. We’re creating consumers of technology rather than builders of technology.”

- Chris Stephenson, CSTA

Signup for cloud service:

Apps

Other tech and sites:

Goal:

Library Websites

To identify various apps and resources for

various platforms (e.g., tablet, web, desktop)

that can be used in teaching numeracy and literacy in the classroom.

Presentation available at:

Mathletics

Number Pieces and 10 Frame Fill

(iPad)

Document Cam

Ten Frame Fill

Number Pieces