Follow @ed_apps   When I found out our school was going 1:1, I was very excited.  I felt ready to ntegrate technology due to coursework I had taken through our local writing project, Prairie Lands Writing Project.  This learning track is structured around 21st Century learning.  We experienced many technology integrated writing assignments to better engage students in the writing process.  One of my favorites was creating Book Trailers.  The Book Trailer was introduced as an alternative to the traditional book report. We all know how traditional book reports work: ...

Follow @ed_apps On Monday past, I emcee’d a Film Festival for students in Junior and Senior High. The festival was a huge hit thanks to my amazing team of colleagues and dozens of talented teens. But my proudest moment of the evening was one video in particular – created by a kindergarten class. Before you watch this inspiring video, let me tell you a little bit about it. This was a 2 month process, from start to finish. Kids making a volcano – it was huge – and amazingly executed...

Follow @ed_apps   A staple of web2.0 in the classroom is using a variety of online comic creation websites for students to write fiction, re-imagine historical events or re-tell personal experiences. With the iPad, creating comics is even faster and easier, without the headache and worries of student accounts. The only struggle sometimes is getting content off of the iPad, but for that, check out our post on iTunes File Sharing Strip design is a great tool to use your pictures and graphics (or some you find online) to tell...

Follow @ed_apps I’ve been using an app called book creator recently. It allows you to make your own books and publish them to your ibooks library or share them as e-pub files. The unique part of it is that you have a completely blank canvas, to add pictures and text as you see fit, almost like scrap booking. Change font type, colour and size, background colours, insert photos. The really unique part is that you can even record your voice, and insert an audio button. For classroom use, this features...