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…
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…
Minecraft in Education? Oh- yeah! Minecraft at Porter-Gaud School? Of course! Minecraft for Education is a program that is widely used at Porter-Gaud School. If you walk in a middle school computer science class, you may see students on computers programming and designing their own Minecraft worlds. Lower school students have designed rainforests as collaborative…
Every Thursday morning at 8:00am, a group of fourth grade students at Porter-Gaud School in Charleston, SC get together to create The Cyclone Morning Show.The show is filmed and produced each Thursday with the airing happening on the following Monday and is shown for the entire next week. Consisting of prayer, pledge, weekly menu, weather, special…