Technology and Learning

One More GEM!!!  Again, Mrs. Smith, had her photography class tell a story through photos.  They studied various famous essay photo art.  Students were then asked to come up with a topic, similar to when they would write an essay for English. They then had to come up with a storyboard that would tell their story through photos.  This was an excellent way for students to learn the power of expressive art forms.  AGAIN - LOVE LOVE THIS!!! Mrs. I:)

Mrs. Smith has a new art elective this year called Studio Art/ Mixed Media. Students have been making claymations using the Stop Motion Studio app . Using clay, they created an "object" and then snap a photo of it. The then "slightly" move the object and snap again. This process continues until the object has moved the way they want. Remember that some claymation projects take three years to complete!! WOW! Here are a few examples from her students.  THESE ARE CRAZY COOL- check it out:)! Happy Friday and Weekend all, Mrs. I:)

In August, our staff received this email from our technology coordinator:      " Gmail has changed what they allow educational users to use. If you have  youtube channels for school and you login to that channel with your school email, it might show that it's suspended. I'm applying for an extension, BUT gmail is officially deleting all of those sites in July of 2020 so you need to change how you have your sites setup." I don't know a TON about it other than we have a TON of teachers that have set up and used channels, watch later lists, etc... within YouTube through his/her school email account.  We are in the process of finding the BEST option for transferring, moving, etc.. videos from school accounts to personal accounts so teachers don't lose all of this and can still use all of these, as the time and effort they have spent is enormous as you can imagine!  So far, I have found only "download videos and then upload to other account" as the wa

I am always looking and searching for great podcasts and videos that not only speak to MY mind, but would be good ones for educators to use with students...Great Big Story might be just that.  Great Big Story is a cinema storytelling company based out of New York.  The video I watched calls it, "a video network dedicated to the untold, the overlooked and the flat-out amazing.  Humans are capable of incredible things and we're here to tell their stories."  Definitely something work checking out!! Give it a shot:   Great Big Story Website Happy Monday everyone - make it a great week! Mrs. I:)

Here we are!  Back at is and enjoying the start of our second week at BHS for the 2019-20 school year!  Last week FLEW by with so many questions and forgotten information - which is how the beginning of EVERY school year goes:)!!  This year I hope to accomplish a number of things and one is Blog related: 1.  I would like to "show case" ONE new teacher thing EACH WEEK!  Whether it's a teacher here that is doing something new that I haven't blogged about, or something I find that will be inviting for teachers, I will post one new a week! 2.  I will also try to post something FUN AND EXCITING that I have read about, discovered, stole from someone, etc.... Last week was busy finalizing all things JAMF, Schoology, Google Education, etc.  This week will tend to be some of the same, in addition to filing all iPad paperwork, wiping out last year's users, and getting the Kindergarten iPads ready for distribution and brought over to them! HAPPY BACK TO SCHOOL to eve