Innovating ways to integrate technology into education
FLIPGRID is the ultimate tool for blended learning! By incorporating FLIPGRID within classrooms, students can integrate both technology as well as face-to-face interaction. The students have a voice- let’s celebrate that voice! Teachers give assignments and then the students sometimes use technology as part of the activity. FLIPGRID is a program that makes this integration…
Have you ever really read the Terms of Service for a program that you are using? I can honestly say that until writing this blog post, I have not. I have skimmed or read sections, but never have read any terms of service in their entirety. I definitely have not read any legal terms or…
There is nothing like an actual experience to enhance a classroom lesson! Can you imagine learning about space travel while being on the international space station? What about feeling as if you are floating underwater in the Galapagos Islands or numerous other underwater locations to study coral? Did you want to stand at the base…
Kids love building with Legos! By adding coding and robotics to Legos, imagination is truly brought to life. The Lego WEDO 2.0 program is the perfect blend between building, coding and robotics. Lessons range from kindergarten to middle school levels. Students will need an iPad with the WEDO app in order to be able to…
Awesome Apps for Music Class! Our Middle School music teacher, Andrea White, finds amazing ways to teach our students about music theory and composition. These are two of the apps that she uses in her class. She also has shared a lesson for each. Be sure to check these out! The students love them and…
I wish Minecraft was around when I was in school because I would have definitely enjoyed having the opportunity to create projects like this! Sandy Cipriani, the 6th grade Spanish teacher at Porter-Gaud, likes to give her students different options when completing projects for Spanish class. This project included either an option to use Minecraft…
Prodigy: “Prodigy is a curriculum-aligned math platform, used by 800,000 teachers and 30 million students, that allows admins to quantify student achievement with ease.” A main goal of this program is to help students love learning math. We have used Prodigy in grades 1-4 at Porter-Gaud School for a few years. We have teachers that…
What’s more fun than making an iMovie? How about adding photo editing special effects by using a green screen? What about app smashing? Can you incorporate all of these things? We can! Yup- that’s what we did in our iMovie enrichment class called Porter-Gaud Productions. Porter-Gaud Productions description for students and parents: Did you ever…
Coding in Kindergarten? Introducing coding to kindergarteners can be a challenge! Do you have devices such as iPads or computer for the students? Do you want kindergarteners to have extensive screen time? Can the students read the commands needed to learn to code? These are just a few of the issues that I had to…
New Graphics Art Space! Who doesn’t want to have a Graphics-Design Lab in their school? Porter-Gaud School recently redesigned their Fine Arts Department. One of the goals during the redesign was to integrate technology into the Arts. This meant creating a space for graphics and design. Currently in the new space, the students have access…