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A power point Christmas? No thank you…an alternative!

December 11, 2013 by Amber 2 Comments

I am in charge of our campus Christmnas card each year. I consider it my badge of honor (albeit, a badge  made up in my head) that I’ve not done the same style of card in 4 years. (It’s the little things.)

When I started thinking about something for this year, I remembered a tool that I had heard of from my favorite lil’ol podcast, Techlandia.

Jon, Curt, & Allison had talked about VideoScribe HD a few weeks ago and it was the perfect solution! The app was less than $5, even when I paid a little bit more to get the branding removed when it was rendered.

 

The result? A unique greeting that looks like it took me forever…but didn’t.

Clever, eh? Also appreciate @ipadsammy being at my beck and literal, call! 🙂 This is an easy tool that turns any presentation into something fancy…and we all know power point is very 1997. (**quote from Grey’s Anatomy**)

If you don’t listen to Techlandia, I highly suggest you do so, it genuinely provides me so many resources that benefit me, my campus, and ultimately, our students.

Jingle bellN,

Amber

 

Filed Under: Classroom Integration, Other, Social Media Tagged With: #admin, #apps, #cpchat, #students, #teachers, #tichat, #txed, technology

Appy-tizing chat

March 7, 2013 by Amber Leave a Comment

There’s just no end to the great jokes I could make using the word “app”, is there?? 🙂

Last night’s #tichat was a fast and furious hour detailing some of the favorite apps that we’ve seen used in the classroom. One of the hardest thing with using the iPad/iTouch/iPhone in the classroom is finding the time to go through all of the apps in the iTunes Store listed under the education banner. From @matt_gomez’s fave “toontastic” (with great examples provided” to @plnaugle’s contribution of Apps in Education: Discovery Learning: Games Designed to Let you Fail http://t.co/iIVRqeXW which FASCINATED me…we had some great sharing going on!

Sites galore, so make sure you have plenty of open tabs and free time to sort through your faves.

When you have time, check out the archive of tweets…there’s something for high school science , middle school math…and kinder treats galore!

Final bonus? Your appy hour treat for reading this post? This site.

You? are welcome.

Apptastically,
Amber

Filed Under: Classroom Integration, Social Media Tagged With: #apps, #twitter

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