Hi!  Welcome back, you rebels!!  This week I investigated several apps that I could use administratively or in the classroom.  Here we go:

App Uses List

·         Flickr is an amazing site!  I use this at the beginning of class before we start our lesson, or for a filler at the end of any lesson, as differentiated learning.  I pull up one picture, have the students look at it and then write down the first word that comes to their mind.  We share our words after to see how many views we have.  A picture is worth a thousand words…

·         Bighugelabs would be great to use with students at any grade level when they need to submit a project includes pictures.  It is easy to install and has everything including templates to display pictures, calendars and photo collages.

·         Timelines might work for the 4^th grade project on ancestry.  One parent has secured an account with Ancestry.com for our students to research their own heritage.  Could Timeline work by comparing other events that took place at the same time of the family’s immigration?

·         Gloster would be an app that could be used for any yearbook!  Setting up pages with pictures and text with their digital template. 

 

·         Zamzar would be used to convert music files to use in any presentation/project that music is wanted. 

·         SurveyMonkey is a great site for students in student council to use as a poll when other students need to vote for certain preferences.

·         Doodle is a brilliant app that lets me schedule district library meetings with everyone while polling for preferences of days and times.

·         BubblUs is a great app to share with teachers and use in the library when students have a report to do.  Mapping out where to start and building a graphic organizer to visualize the process.  

·         Voki would be a great way to have student’s log in to this website by using an avatar that they created of themselves, while still protecting their privacy.  Lessons and homework can be reviewed on Voki.

·         Jing would be a great way to share lessons with other librarians.  We can record what we are working on and then send it to other librarians.  They can see the lesson and all the steps through.

·         Animoto would be fun to use while taping the students talking about different parts of the library.  Then I could set it to music and we have a personal how-to use the library video! 

     

       Thanks for visiting, see you next week!

P.S.  Here's the link to my Flickr acct that I created: 

https://www.flickr.com/cameraroll