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10 Reasons to Screencast in Your Class and 7 Best-in-class Tools

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Share the screencast where students will find it — YouTube, class blog, class website, or another location. I’ve started for you by noting cost, what digital devices they work best on, and suggested age group: Educreations . Educreations is best suited for any age group and is designed for iPads. Screencast-o-matic.

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iPad Basic Training for Teachers

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This is why we had been reading everything we could via Twitter and blogs and attending every session we could at professional events about mobile learning and iPads for the past three years. Additionally, a principal at one of our elementaries had secured funding to purchase an iPad for each of his teachers. Unported License.

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How to Craft a Learner-Centered Classroom – Guest Post from Ann Feldmann

EdTechTeacher

One area where I have focused over the past few months is integrating technology and math in the primary classroom with my colleague, Meagan Cinfel ( @mcinfel ), a first grade #iPadAcademy teacher at Central Elementary in Bellevue Public Schools. Educreations. Here are four ideas for you based on our work. Apps: iTunes U. Screenchomp.

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Escape Summer Slump with the 4 Cs

Graphite Blog

Shadow Puppet Edu : Resource-rich video slide show creator a gem for elementary classrooms. Educreations : Enliven lessons and presentations with easy-to-use tool. Toontastic : Writer, actor, director: Kids play all parts in riveting storytelling tool. Explain Everything : Powerhouse tool for creating stellar multimedia presentations.

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Escape Summer Slump with the 4 Cs

Graphite Blog

Shadow Puppet Edu : Resource-rich video slide show creator a gem for elementary classrooms. Educreations : Enliven lessons and presentations with easy-to-use tool. Toontastic : Writer, actor, director: Kids play all parts in riveting storytelling tool. Explain Everything : Powerhouse tool for creating stellar multimedia presentations.

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Tips for iPads in Classroom

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We are starting our second year of having iPads in our elementary classrooms, our Title I CCJH classrooms, and some of our AJHS classrooms. Here''s a tutorial for using DropBox on Kathleen Morris '' Teaching Generation Now blog. We''ve created a list of tips for managing the equipment in our classrooms.

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Make Reading Relevant with Thematic Units

Graphite Blog

Units for younger students might include more read-aloud content while units for upper elementary or middle school students might focus more heavily on articles or reading parts of nonfiction texts. For elementary school-age students, I recommend looking for ebooks at Epic! -- Unlimited Books for Kids and Zing!, created by Schoolwide.

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