20 iPad Apps to Use with Project or Product Based Learning

Here are some of my favorite apps to use with Elementary students in the classroom.  These are apps that promote creativity and critical thi...

Chatterpix- Make It Talk!

Your students will enjoy creating with the Chatterpix app.  What does it do?  It makes things talk!  Add a student's voice to an image-...

Student Assessment with iPads and Mobile Devices

It's time to harness the power of your classroom devices!  Using your mobile devices for assessment will allow you to quickly access dat...

The Creatorverse App: Physics and Art Fun!

Creatorverse is an awesome new and FREE app available for your IOS or Android device.  You can make your creations come to life with this a...

Picturing a Great New Year!

Happy New Year!  I guess we are all thinking about how we are going to make this year a better one.  I am hoping to blog more and to take mo...

iPad: PicCollage and Frayer Model for Common Core Vocabulary

The Frayer Model is graphic organizer that helps students learn vocabulary, which is an important component of the Common Core Standards and...

iPad Lesson: Shadow Puppet Books

Shadow Puppet is an app that creates a slideshow with narration.  This is a great app for both students and teachers to use in the classroo...

iPad Lesson: WordFoto

Are you looking for a fun, creative way to integrate technology to teach language or vocabulary for your unit of study?  Try the Wordfoto (...

iPad Lesson: Educreations Math for Kindergarten

This week I worked with the Kindergarten classes to help the teachers integrate technology and math with their students.  In Kindergarten, t...

Klikaklu Pirate Math Treasure Hunt

Treasure hunts are a fun way for students to use problem solving skills, to work in teams, to practice comprehensions skills, and to use tec...

Start The New Year With Technology!

I was on Pinterest the other night just looking through classroom pins and, of course, many teachers were pinning ideas for the beginning o...

iPad Lesson: Sun and Moon with Tellagami

The first grade students had a blast recording their facts about the sun and moon with the FREE Tellagami app on the iPad.  Their teacher w...

iPad Lesson: PhotoCards for Reflection

The 5th grade classes had an amazing in-school field trip to be CSI Forensic Scientists for a day.  Luckily an amazing parent was on-hand to...

iPad Lesson: Story Retelling with the FaceTalker App

One of the Kindergarten teachers that I work with was looking for a fun way to retell the story of The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly using t...

iPad Lesson: Persuasive Writing with Puppet Pals App

One of my 2nd grade teachers asked me for a fun way to showcase her students' persuasive writing about trees and Arbor Day.  I showed he...

iPad Lesson: Water Features with Popplet Lite App

Popplet (which can be used online at www.popplet.com or as an App) has so many educational applications whether your students are brainstor...

iPad Lesson: Native American Video Reports with Videolicious

The fourth grade teachers wanted a unique way for their students to present what the students had learned about Native American tribes.  I s...

iPad Lesson: Animal Reports with FaceTalker

My students LOVE to make things talk with the FaceTalker App (FREE), so when I heard that 3rd grade was doing animal reports I knew that w...

iPad Lesson: Solids, Liquids, and Gasses with PicCollage

I used the PicCollage App (FREE) with my 2nd grade classes to assess the students' knowledge of  the states of matter: solids, liquids, ...

How to Connect Your iPad to Your SMARTboard

When you are teaching with iPads in the classroom you will want to share you iPad screen with the students to model apps and to share studen...