Blip Your Badge

I visited Kelsey O'Neil's room (Grade 1) yesterday and I noticed an awesome flowchart for SeeSaw on her wall. We started talking about how we all have such wonderful tools in our classroom, but with such a large district it is hard to share. The tech coaches are hoping to make that easier for all of you. I recently emailed you all about a resource called Blip Your Badge that the tech coaches created, however links work just as well to access the resource boards. (Bookmark them.) Below you will find the links to several tech topics. Each topic is loaded with links to video tutorials for teachers and students, flowcharts, and printable instructions. Please make use of this valuable resource and if you have something in your classroom that other teachers could use, please email it to me. We will update this resource frequently.

Apps Worth Learning About

Everything Google

NWEA

Amazing Features of iPads

MacBook

Hour of Code

More Technology

Also Suzanna Stevens (Grade 2) is creating a resource for teachers as a project for her master program.

Student Apps

Best,

Nicole Gleason
Technology Coach SAD#6

Blog, Website, and Wiki

George E Jack, Steep Falls, and Edna Libby

In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but
what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings. 
Ann Landers

Breakout EDU in the Elementary Classroom

Have you heard of an Escape Room? If not, it is a room where you have to solve riddles, puzzles, and mysteries in order to "break" out of the room. Breakout EDU has brought a similar scenario to classrooms. The classroom teacher uses a kit with a variety of locks to create a similar situation for their students, except the students are trying to "break" into a box. The website has a bunch of team building mysteries or classroom teachers can create their own. The clues can be related to content that has been taught in class as well as the team building experience. Breakout EDU also has a digital version available.

Here is a video of some of my students "breaking out".