Children's Privacy Guide for Parents, Carers and Educators
Popular App Guide for Parents and Teachers
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Here are two great resources for protecting your child or student from the dangers of identity theft, cyber-bullying, and sexting. Please refer to these how-to guides for valuable information on managing apps, mobile devices, and having conversations with children about appropriate use.
Children's Privacy Guide for Parents, Carers and Educators Popular App Guide for Parents and Teachers
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Here is the K-5 iPad Apps presentation from the 2015 SESC Summer Workshop series.
Diane Darrow's Edutopia Post including extended explanation of each thinking skill associated with iPad apps.
Create and play quizzes, discussions or even surveys using any device with a web browser including a laptop, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Android, Chromebook, Windows Phone or PC. CREATE: Through a simple 'drag & drop' creator tool (using any device), build quizzes with embedded imagery and video, based on educational content. Or, find public content to play. LAUNCH: Engage the room and focus attention by projecting the quiz onto the screen at the front. Without needing an account, everyone in the room quickly joins through their personal device, seeing their name appear at the front. PLAY: Answering questions in real time through an easy-to-use interface, they play against each other aiming to top the on-screen leaderboard, whilst you facilitate and discuss the content. Join Kahoot! Here Epic! is the first "All-You-Can-Read" eBook service for kids. Epic provides reading experience by letting kids choose and instantly access the books they want to read, without the need to purchase and download them one-by-one. Epic! is the only kids eBook subscription service that offers thousands of high-quality books from well known publishers like HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, National Geographic and many others. Epic! for Educators Introducing "Epic! for Educators," an entirely free version of our award-winning eBook reading app for iOS devices. Now available to all U.S. and Canada-based elementary school teachers and librarians. Fill out the Epic! for Educators form here. Here are 19 simple tricks iPhone and iPad users Should Know. How many of these tricks did you know about? iPhone & iPad Tricks Have you ever considered purchasing Rosetta Stone but can't bring yourself to spend that kind of cash on something you are mildly curious about? Well try this free app duolingo! You can learn Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese through duolingo's app (found in Apple app store) or website at https://www.duolingo.com/. Below is a video explaining the process. What in the world is Augmented Reality?! Simply put, AR is the layering of digital information on top of the physical world. How does it work? When you hold a digital device running an AR app over an image or recognizable scene it triggers multimedia into action. The multimedia can be images, audio, and video. See how Spicewood Elementary School in Marble Falls, TX uses AR. http://www.dailytrib.com/2013/11/26/new-technology-opens-world-learning-marble-falls-isd-students/#ixzz2lmA752wa Aurasma is a free AR app and service used by over 20,000 partners including most major companies across the globe. The app and service is free to use just by signing up. http://www.aurasma.com
colAR App is a free and fun AR app that kids really enjoy. Download coloring pages (see below) and let your kids color them, when they are finished look at them through the colAR App viewer and they come to life with 3D digital images and music that take on the artists colors applied to the page. http://colarapp.com/ http://appitic.com/ is a directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) to help you transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings. I found this site that is developed by 'Lesley' (last name not given), but kudos to Lesley. This site has some of the best app reviews I have read. There is a star rating that evaluates Quality, Education, Entertainment, Value, and Child Friendly. You can search by grade level up to 5th grade and then Middle and High school. Check it out at: http://bestappsforkids.com/ Educators looking for digital creative solutions are often deterred by the costs of software packages. Thankfully there are free online photo editing solutions that range from simple and easy to use tools to advanced tools that include similar functionality as the leading software packages. Here are a few of my favorite sites that I like to use, and some of you may have seen me demo these at various education conferences. http://pixlr.com/ Pixlr is one of my favorite companies. They offer Pixlr Editor an advanced interface that looks and appears much like Photoshop. Pixlr Express an intermediate editor with a simple "icon" based interface. And lastly, Pixlr-o-matic, a simple kid-friendly filter tool that lets you click simple filter buttons to add emphasis to photos. http://www.sumo.fm/#create Sumo.fm or Sumo Paint is a great online photo editor that has the look and feel of Photoshop. it is a free site but you can create an account to have access to cloud storage and their social network community or upgrade for $9 a year for unlimited storage and Pro tools. http://ipiccy.com/ iPiccy's uninviting home page looks like a mess with ads and a huge malware download ad button right at the top, but look for the bright yellow Start Editing button and this is your entry to a really cool and comprehensive online photo editing site. iPiccy has developed a unique interface that allows for some very impressive editing functions. Play with the tools along the left side of the window along with the category options along the top of the window, and within minutes I'm sure you will be amazed. |
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ResourcesThis is a continuously growing list of teacher resources for you to use, such as links to Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Pioneer Library, Smart, UEN, USOE, and more. Check back often as this page is always changing. I Archives
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