Welcome!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

This blog is designed to share your ideas and work from the session. Here's how it works...

1. Make something using one of the tools in the session. Make sure you have a way to share what you've made. Don't forget about screencasts and screenshots! Screencastify will work with Google Drive to help you share your learning! If you'd like to learn more about teaching kids to comment, check this out!

2. Consider how you might use the tool or resource in your own life or class.

3. Consider how your students might use the tool.

4. Write a comment on each post which explains your thinking about the experience. Make sure to include a link to the work you created with the tool!

Thanks in advance for really pushing your thinking, and for being willing to share!

~ Chris

 PS - As we go along, please feel free to add your creations, links to your creations, and your thinking about these tools and ideas to the Padlet below.  https://padlet.com/cmoor4/vb3xfspesagx
 

Digital Art

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Please write a comment on this post in which you share the art you made and write about the process of making the art.

As you consider what you will write, think about the following questions...

1. What is the very best thing about this tool or the way in which you use the tool?

2. What might be improved - on your part, or the part of the tool? How easy is it to find helpful tutorials on the site/tool or on YouTube?

3. What are some of the potential risks and benefits for teachers and students using this tool?

4. How easy is it to keep your work and make use of it with other tools?

5. How might students represent their learning (in your actual content area) using this tool?

Thanks in advance for your great thinking.


Some tools you might consider...

Google Drawings: My "go to."

Sketchpad.io: Kids love using this one, especially with drawing tablets.

Youidraw: Fun to play with logos and vector art.

Piktochart: Make information fun.

Canva: Lots of great options, use image search. Freemium.

Pixton: Comics. Freemium.

Easel.ly: Infographics, timelines, process charts...

Piskel: Free online image editor for animated sprites and pixel art


~ Chris

Coding

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Please share a comment on this post in which you defend your choice for the best coding tool/resource.

As you consider what you will write, think about the following questions...

1. What is the very best thing about this tool or the way in which you use the tool?

2. What might be improved?

3. What are the drawbacks and benefits for teachers and students using this tool?

4. How easy is it to keep your work and make use of it with other tools?

5. How might students represent their learning (in your actual content area) using this tool?

Thanks in advance for your great thinking.

Some tools you might consider...

code.org

code combat

Google CS First and Scratch

Code Academy

Khan Academy

BrainPop Coding




~ Chris

Music Creation

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Please write a comment on this post in which you share the music you made and write about the process of making the music.

As you consider what you will write, think about the following questions...

1. What is the very best thing about this tool or the way in which you use the tool?

2. What might be improved - on your part, or the part of the tool? How easy is it to find helpful tutorials on the site/tool or on YouTube?

3. What are some of the potential risks and benefits for teachers and students using this tool?

4. How easy is it to keep your work and make use of it with other tools?

5. How might students represent their learning (in your actual content area) using this tool?

Thanks in advance for your great thinking!


Some tools you might consider...

SoundTrap: Create and record songs and podcasts. If Google Drive and GarageBand had a child...

Flat.io: If Google Docs and Finale/Sibelius had a child... This is music notation on the web.

Incredibox: Fun digital beatbox(ish), you can control quite a bit and record your work.

Twisted Wave: You can record and edit audio, and it plays nice with Drive!

Soundation: Online audio creation/editing studio...

Quaver Music: All sorts of fun music education tools, especially great for music beginners

UJAM: Create, remix, share...

NoteFlight: Web based - create, view, print, hear and share professional quality music notation

Vocaroo: Simple voice recording, easy to embed

AudioTool: Super fun mix of audio recording tools in the cloud with Google sign in!

~Chris

3D Design and Printing

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Please share a comment on this post in which you defend your choice for the best 3D Design and Printing tool/resource.

As you consider what you will write, think about the following questions...

1. What is the very best thing about this tool or the way in which you use the tool?

2. What might be improved?

3. What are the potential drawbacks and benefits for teachers and students using this tool?

4. How easy is it to keep your work and make use of it with other tools?

5. How might students represent their learning (in your actual content area) using this tool?

Thanks in advance for your great thinking.

Some tools you might consider...

Tynker
3DTin
Tinkercad
BlocksCAD
Build with Chrome


~ Chris