Innovating ways to integrate technology into education
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…
FLIPGRID is one of the coolest programs in education today! If you have not used it, stop reading this right now and go to flipgrid.com! Sign up and join the community! The program can be used on all types of devices, so anyone with access to the internet can use Flipgrid. The program gives students…
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…