Book Creator App

Book Creator is a one of the most popular iPad apps in schools. It is a fantastic app for creating multimedia stories. Now that platform is available in a web version too. We have this app on our shared ipads and the lab ones.

What can you do with Book Creator? Book Creator's web version supports creating multimedia books containing videos, images, drawings, and text. To create a book on Book Creator's web app just sign and choose a layout for your book. There are comic book layouts as well as traditional book layouts. After you have selected a layout for your book's pages you can add pictures and videos by either uploading them or by using your webcam. You can add text and drawings by using the drawing and typing tools built into Book Creator. Your completed book can be saved as a ePub or published online with a private Book Creator link.

Integrating Engineering and Literacy

 

Integrating Engineering and Literacy

Are you a K-8 teacher interested in integrating engineering and literacy?  How can your students learn to design for characters in fictional and non-fictional texts?  How can you address literacy and engineering design goals in an integrated project? 

Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach is offering an online graduate level course  during Spring 2018.  Running 14 weeks (January - May), this completely asynchronous online class helps educators learn how these two areas of learning can work together to help students address skills in both domains.  

Cost: $1000
Credit Hours: 4 credit hours

 

Beyond an Hour of Code

Build on the excitement you had during our Hour of Code PD session and provide more opportunities for your students to learn. Code.org offers teachers in grades K-5, a FREE high-quality, 1-day workshops. Explore their curriculum offerings and professional learning opportunities in your area. 

In addition please reach to me and way to integrated Coding into different areas of your existing curriculum.

Creative Coding Rotation Stations for K-5 Classrooms

Thursday, January 11, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm EST

Looking for some hands-on collaborative activities that meet computer science and digital fluency learning outcomes? Want ways to appeal to various learning styles and skill levels? In this edWebinar, you will learn about ways to create coding “rotation stations” in your K-5 classroom! From classroom environment to instructional design, you’ll hear about the ways to implement this flexible classroom practice, whether on a daily or weekly basis.

You will develop effective models of collaborative group work with these positive classroom management strategies. You’ll also learn ways to engage your students in no-tech, low-tech, and high-tech K-5 computational thinking activities, which they can cycle through in small groups, working at their own pace.