Flippity for Building Educational Games and Other Classroom Tools

Wicked AWESOME tool/interactive game building site including spelling games, bingo cards, matching games and much more! That about sums it up, but I will go on to share more information. All of the options can be customized to the content you are using with your students. Lindsey Cawood and I presented a session on Flippity at MassCUE recently, a technology focused educational conference. Lindsay made some really good examples for a couple of the options. Click Here for pre-made bingo cards and spelling games. Click Here to go to the presentation Slide Deck to check out what we presented. Also I recently made a connection with Kevin Spencer via Twitter and check out his superb resources for Flippity!


Wowser! Scroll down to be amazed with all of the things you can make and many of them are interactive for students on their own device. Bonus: Flippity works on any device! I personally love the Bingo Cards, Matching Game, Snowman (Hangman), and Spelling Games.

 

Pics of the fun we had! I highly recommend attending MassCUE!

 

Read With Me Blogs for Literacy Centers

Before summer break I had created a Read With Me blog for each school for summer reading. Miss Drew and I were chatting recently because she was looking for safe places to send students for more reading material beyond Epic! and Vooks on iPads. We decided the blog that is already created for each school would be a great resource. Students can scan a QR code (printable QR flyer below) and then have access to all of the on-line stories that have been posted/vetted without having to actually go to YouTube. More stories can be added at any time. Just let me know what you want on your school's blog. [Read with Me HBE - Read with me Edna - Read with Me Steep Falls]

Here is a video of students sharing how to use the blog...

Print out these QR posters for students to easily access the blog from their iPads.
(Click your school flyer below to print.)

 

ChatterPix Kids for Literacy

ChatterPix Kids is an extremely engaging, adding voice to a pic, App that can be used in any grade level (K-5). It is an especially useful tool for literacy because students can record themselves reading their work or someone else's work. Students can listen to their recording and evaluate their fluency. It is also an awesome tool to bring photographs of projects to life. ChatterPix projects can be downloaded to the iPad Photo Library and then uploaded to other Apps like Seesaw to share with family and classmates. I hope that you unlock the power of ChatterPix Kids with your students! Below are examples of students projects.



K students in Mrs. Turgeon's class created snowmen using Google Slides, wrote stories about their snowmen, and then recorded themselves reading their story in ChatterPix Kids.

1st Grade students during a Digital Citizenship lesson by Common Sense Media followed up with summarizing what they learned in the lesson using ChatterPix Kids.

3rd Grade students in Ms. Nason's class drew Christmas art characters and then wrote a quick character voice story.

4th Grade students during a Digital Citizenship lesson with me wrote a pledge to conclude our lesson and used ChatterPix Kids to record themselves reading the pledge and bring a social media icon to life.

3rd Grade students in Mr. Hulit and Ms. Nason's classes created area/perimeter robots. They finished their project by recording themselves in ChatterPix Kids. This activity gives you an idea how any student project can be brought to life.

Printer Settings for Using Our New Printer System

Directions for Printer Settings for Using Our New Printer System 

Go to the Apple on the upper left of your laptop screen and choose System Preferences. Then choose Printers and Scanners. Check to make sure that your Default printer is either Last Printer Used or MSAD6 Printers. Also make sure that your Default paper size is US Letter. If you get a pop up when you print asking for a user name and password, use your email address for the user name and your email password is the password to use.Once you have set the defaults you should be good unless Paul E runs an update. In this instance your defaults may reset. If they do, just go back into system preferences and adjust your defaults again.

Apple Classroom for Monitoring Student iPads

  

Adding students to Apple Classroom is done by the classroom teacher this year. This will allow you to add students that are in your flex groups from other grade levels. Having teachers add students themselves, rather than Ryan making the groups, is the only way to make this flexibility happen. Good news is... you can also monitor/control student iPads from your laptop this year.

Here is a link to instructions created by Apple and another article for using the app on a teacher iPad. You will need to download the Apple Classroom app from the Apple App Store on your iPad, not Self Service. If you need a user name and password, shoot me an email. The App is already loaded on your laptop. Guide for Laptop Use See below for a tutorial video for using it on an iPad and your Mac.

Skip Step #1