eSchool News

MAY 24, 2016

Today, our library makerspace has developed into a 21st century learning laboratory, with funding from grants and through the generosity of individuals and organizations that support our DonorsChoose projects. But it wasn’t always this way. Then I began raiding my own craft supplies. I had a makerspace. I had a makerspace.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Other interesting features provided by Simply Piano include: courses to help you learn piano, a library full of fun songs for practice, feedback on your playing, learn the basics step-by-step from reading sheet music to playing with both hands, personalized 5-min workouts, 3D touch, and many more.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Compatibility: iPhone/iPad and Android / Price: Free, offers in-app purchases / Age: 4+ 2. Fender's library embeds tons of songs that you can pick and play at your own pace. Compatibility: iPhone/iPad and Android / Price: Free, offers in-app purchases / Age: 4+ 3. sign up for a $9.99 USD per month subscription.'

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

Libraries are temporarily closing their doors due to coronavirus—like so many other institutions in the wake of a growing pandemic. But what does it mean for librarians to serve patrons without a library ? But what does it mean for librarians to serve patrons without a library ?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2021

But one change has revolutionized their use: They can now be projected from your iPad. It’s similar to web-based options like Miro with two dramatic differences: It works through a iPad and can be mirrored to a computer (and from there, the class screen). This untethers teachers from their desk. Free to try. Need more options?

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Vizor

JANUARY 31, 2023

However, managing and tracking these devices can be a significant challenge for school libraries. Traditionally, libraries have used library management systems to track and manage their resources. In conclusion, an IT asset management system is a more effective solution for managing and tracking 1:1 devices in school libraries.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2022

Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. International Children’s Digital Library. Books are made available from a variety of sources including the Library of Congress. Open Library. This includes not only public libraries but colleges and universities.

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MAY 22, 2023

This doesn’t require a library. Any age: Explore the night sky using an iPad app like GoSkyWatch. These aren’t print–these are digital, on an iPad, a desktop, or a mobile device. Science Any age: Investigate something scientific that intrigues you.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A few years ago, while working as a teacher librarian at Templeton Elementary School in Oregon, I had the opportunity to redesign the school’s library website to include digital resources for the students to use as part of a shift to 1:1 iPad learning. Identify the content needs of the district.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2022

the digital devices–computer or Chromebooks or iPads–won’t work on the Big Day. Luckily, Common Core–and many State standards–provide an excellent starter list of seven ways to blend technology into your everyday teaching: have digital ebooks included in your class library. Let me break this down for you.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 15, 2019

The free comic creation tools below are easy to use and allow learners to choose from a library of characters, props, scenes, and templates to visualize a word problem, retell a moment in history, illustrate science, explain a theory, or make up their own story. Make Beliefs Comix – Web tool and iPad app. Comic Creation Tools. ?

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SpeechTechie

DECEMBER 6, 2019

A quick search on Boston Public Library's website revealed that the book was right at my fingertips, free, via their connection to Hoopla , an electronic media service. Hoopla allows you to view books on a laptop or your iPad after signing in through your public library, if this service is offered to you locally.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2023

Your school passed iPads out to all classes. Then, see how to fix them: Only use iPads in place of books or game-play? Sending kids to the computer lab to do work rather than using the class computer or the library computers? Take pictures with iPads. Which of these nine mistakes do you make? For example, to time a test.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

I’ll display it below but click the link for an updated library: Occupational Therapy –a long list of great apps including stress, social skills building, and more. IPad Apps for Special Needs. Here’s a great list of Special Needs websites. Signed Stories –beautiful stories in sign language. Vimium – Chrome extension link.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2023

eSchool News is celebrating 25 years in 2023, and during a March contest, 25 winners took home Amazon gift cards, with one additional grand prize winner receiving an Apple iPad. contest included curriculum coordinators, school office managers, classroom teachers, principals, technology directors, and school library professionals.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. International Children’s Digital Library. Books are made available from a variety of sources including the Library of Congress. Open Library. This includes not only public libraries but colleges and universities.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Access a library of shapes, containers, stylized fonts and more. Popplet is a mind mapping app on the iPad to get students creating digital mind maps with links, videos, and images. Students can add their own drawings and pictures from the iPad. Check out how people are using Milanote here. Brainstorming Canvases.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

September 17, 2015 Looking for some good library apps other than Kindle and Kobo? Below is a collection of some iPad apps you might want to try. Some of these apps provide access to free eBooks and.read more.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2017

[ Editor’s note: This piece is the first in our new monthly series focusing on Innovative School Libraries and Librarians. Be sure to keep checking back during the month of August for new library-focused articles!]. Our students mostly use iPads in kindergarten and 1 st grade, so this is their first use of a laptop for a project.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 2, 2022

A School License is a multi-user PDF of most books (or videos where available) we offer–textbooks, curricula, lesson plans, student workbooks, and more–that can be used on every digital device in your school–iPads, Macs, PCs, Chromebooks, laptops, netbooks, smartphones, iPods. As many as the school wants.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 9, 2023

You can then use the app's library to choose among tons of assets and design elements to add to your avatar. Age: 4+ Compatibility: iOS (iPhone, iPad, Mac) and Android. Age: 4+ Compatibility: iOS (iPhone, iPad, Mac) and Android alternative. Age: 12+ Compatibility: iOS (iPhone, iPad, Mac). Price: Free.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2017

The University of Texas at San Antonio has more than 2 million titles in its library system, and lately it’s been building a collection that most students—and future teachers—might not even know exists yet. Using an app on an iPad or other tablets, readers hover over a book to see and interact with images that appear in 3D.

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SpeechTechie

JANUARY 19, 2024

At the start of each semester, I encourage each of them to make sure they get a library card and visit the local library to practice identifying actual books they can use in therapy sessions. A library card is also essential for the resource I want to highlight here: hoopla!

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You can also customize any lesson from the Nearpod Lesson Library, including hundreds of already made slide-based lessons. Pear Deck offers a library of templates from which teachers can choose to support the learning objectives. Teachers can add a quiz, a poll, and open-ended questions to any slide-based lesson. Haiku Deck.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 1, 2022

Compatibility: iPhone/iPad and Android / Price: Free, offers in-app purchases / Age: 4+ 2. Compatibility: iPhone/iPad and Android / Price: Free, offers in-app purchases / Age: 4+ 3. Comics created through ComicBook can be saved to photo library or as editable PDF files. adjust the solid density of the image), tone setting (e.g.,

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2018

These are some popular iPad apps featured in iTunes App Store that provide you with a diverse.read more Looking for some good storybooks and audiobooks to read with your kids? The list below has you covered.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

The free comic creation tools below are easy to use and allow learners to choose from a library of characters, props, scenes, and templates to visualize a word problem, retell a moment in history, illustrate science, explain a theory, or make up their own story. Make Beliefs Comix – Web tool and iPad app. Comic Creation Tools. ?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 1, 2019

Here are seventeen online libraries with a wide variety of free/fee books: Actively Learn –add PDFs of your choice to a library that can be annotated, read, and shared. International Library. Open Library. And finally, try these 5 apps for iPads: Action Words– learn action words with amazing pictures.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

In my case, I used Ctrl+Alt+S to invoke the Windows Snipping Tool Save IPads call these hotkeys. If you have IPads, try Stick Nodes. Users create a recipe by choosing a trigger channel from IFTTT’s library, then a trigger, and finally an action channel. It uses a simple statement—IF THIS THEN THAT.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 4, 2019

Libby is an excellent app that allows you to access your local library and borrow ebooks and audiobooks. The way Libby works is very simple: open the app, find your local library, use your library.read more.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Somehow, as lives for both the adults and children have gotten busier, as digital devices have taken over, as parents turned to TVs or iPads to babysit kids while they do something else, we’ve gotten away from this most companionable of activities. Have a library of books intended to be read aloud. Importance of reading aloud.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2022

You can have your entire library in your own pocket to take anywhere you go. There are several websites and online libraries that offer access to free ebooks and audiobooks. Besides books, Internet Archive also offers access to a large library of multimedia resources including movies, websites, music, audio, and many more.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 25, 2017

With an extensive library of expeditions , Google Expeditions offers classroom teachers a reliable pre-packaged virtual reality experience designed for the classroom. This update allows students to publish via their classroom teacher to a broader audience without the need for the end user to have Book Creator or even an iPad.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Here are seventeen online libraries with a wide variety of free/fee books: Actively Learn –add PDFs of your choice to a library that can be annotated, read, and shared. International Library. Open Library. And finally, try these 25 apps for iPads: Action Words– learn action words with amazing pictures.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Also, access a library of free clipart, fonts, graphics and backgrounds. Canva is a web tool and iPad app with infographic templates and lesson plans. Infogr.am is an infographic creator with graphs and templates. Venngage is an easy to use infographic maker and graphic design software with drag and drop.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2018

To get started, a student will just scan the room using his or her digital device (like an iPad, iPhone, or Droid) before starting. I’ve found it works better if you have some flat surfaces around, but it will work anywhere Start designing Inside 3D bear are a variety of libraries that you can use. Got a smartphone or tablet?

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2022

Students who want to use the restroom or visit the library or other office now pull up an app on their iPad and bring it to the teacher, who keys in his or her access code to grant permission. Every student in the school already has a school-issued iPad, so it’s just another option on those student devices. “We

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