Dear colleagues,
Thank you to the many colleagues who came to the Library TGIF to meet and greet the new collection; to discuss the Mindset book; to share their apps, but mainly to socialise with their colleagues.
From the Appy Hour activity, here are five excellent app recommendations which are very useful in the classroom. Some of them require a tablet or smartphone, but others work on more devices. If you'd like to see more, the demonstrators would be happy to show you.
MYSCRIPT CALCULATOR
As a Physics teacher, I dreamed of being able instantly to get answers to my hand-written calculations. And since I discovered this free app, I can. Please talk to me if you would like to see a demonstration.
MOBILE MOUSE
Tony Barnes showed us how he uses the Mobile Mouse on his iPad (could also be a smartphone) to move the mouse on his computer which was at the other side of the room. It frees the teacher to be anywhere in the room. It is also the couch potato's dream, since you can use it to control your TV from the comfort of your armchair if your TV programme is streaming from the computer.
Here is the website.
This app is available for Mac, Windows, iOS and Android.
Zak Lawrence showed us this one. Newsela is a great website which publishes new news stories every day. The cool thing is that each story exists in different reading age versions. Grade 6 already uses Newsela, and there are also very many possibilities throughout the school and subjects.
Bruce Duxbury presented Evernote, of which he is probably the school's most powerful user. It is a very well used service which exists as a website, as well as apps on all platforms. Evernote is a place where you can store all of the things you come across online, as well as notes you write yourself, audio, video or photos. You can organise your notes, but the most powerful function is the search with which will find keywords across all the media (yes, it even reads the writing in photos of handwritten notes).
DEVOLVE ME
Have you ever wondered what your ancestor looked like 100 000 generations ago? Devolve me allows you to transform your selfie into that of your hominid ancestor. On the left is my Australopithecus forebear.
Tess Charnaud demonstrated the Open University's Devolve Me app and showed how students can learn about human evolution while having fun. The app contains information about the diet and habitat of different hominid species and allows the students to understand why species adapt the way they do. They don't even realise they are learning.
Thanks to all of our presenters.
Thank you to the many colleagues who came to the Library TGIF to meet and greet the new collection; to discuss the Mindset book; to share their apps, but mainly to socialise with their colleagues.
From the Appy Hour activity, here are five excellent app recommendations which are very useful in the classroom. Some of them require a tablet or smartphone, but others work on more devices. If you'd like to see more, the demonstrators would be happy to show you.
MYSCRIPT CALCULATOR
As a Physics teacher, I dreamed of being able instantly to get answers to my hand-written calculations. And since I discovered this free app, I can. Please talk to me if you would like to see a demonstration.
MOBILE MOUSE
Tony Barnes showed us how he uses the Mobile Mouse on his iPad (could also be a smartphone) to move the mouse on his computer which was at the other side of the room. It frees the teacher to be anywhere in the room. It is also the couch potato's dream, since you can use it to control your TV from the comfort of your armchair if your TV programme is streaming from the computer.
Here is the website.
This app is available for Mac, Windows, iOS and Android.
Zak Lawrence showed us this one. Newsela is a great website which publishes new news stories every day. The cool thing is that each story exists in different reading age versions. Grade 6 already uses Newsela, and there are also very many possibilities throughout the school and subjects.
Bruce Duxbury presented Evernote, of which he is probably the school's most powerful user. It is a very well used service which exists as a website, as well as apps on all platforms. Evernote is a place where you can store all of the things you come across online, as well as notes you write yourself, audio, video or photos. You can organise your notes, but the most powerful function is the search with which will find keywords across all the media (yes, it even reads the writing in photos of handwritten notes).
DEVOLVE ME
Tess Charnaud demonstrated the Open University's Devolve Me app and showed how students can learn about human evolution while having fun. The app contains information about the diet and habitat of different hominid species and allows the students to understand why species adapt the way they do. They don't even realise they are learning.
Thanks to all of our presenters.
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