Test Prep Movies

My students are taking the SBAC (Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium) Math test soon, and to prep them I took screenshots on my iPad of the released practice questions. Then I put these pictures in the educreations app, and made movies for my students explaining each question and answer.  I made five movies this way. Because I have an app called Education Galaxy with common core questions in it, I used these questions to make more math practice movies. Feeling like, my work is done here, and hopefully all the effort will pay off for my students! 

Sharing BYOD

Today we had an observer in our classroom; a 4th grade teacher from a neighboring school. My students were so excited to share what we know about utilizing 1:1 iPads in our BYOD classroom. First, four students stood in front of the room, talking about apps, independent learning, working at their own pace (differentiated instruction), being more organized, and coding on Khanacademy. Then a few students plugged in to the projector with their iPads, giving presentations about Edmodo(our class page online), PlanBook.com(teacher-made lesson plans and homework plans posted weekly on Edmodo), Educreations(a movie making app that looks like a whiteboard), Notability(for doing any writing assignment which includes typing, annotating, and voice-over), Minecraft(for making CA Mission Projects...or any academic worlds).

Lastly, the whole class participated in a wonderful Nearpod lesson on Ecosystems: Tropical Forests. All students signed in, read information, answered quizzes for all to see, watched videos, viewed slideshows, took polls, and stood in a rainforest on 360cities. So much enthusiasm!

After school I met with our observer and discussed iPads and BYOD until 5:00 p.m.

Looks like we will have a second BYOD at the elementary level in our district very soon!

I was thrilled to spread the info! 😃