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5th graders, In the last blog post you were working on creating a script for your Ignite. This post deals with creating the slides. Keep in mind, Ignite Talks are not a special software. Ignite Talks are a style of presenting information. Instead of using a slide show with bullet points you read off of,…
When creating a movie, video, PSA, or any visual project using a non-linear editor like WeVideo you need to keep a few standard rules in mind: Start with 2 seconds of black End with 2 seconds of black Images should be between 4-6 seconds, no longer Titles – you need to be able to…
5th graders, As we discussed during our live Zoom, infographics are ways of conveying information visually. Literally, information graphics. A few key points to remember as you create your infographics… Infographics contain… quality information/data are well organized a balance of text and images/graphics plenty of negative space a simple main idea or takeaway the reader…
5th graders, We have officially kicked off our blogging for the year. Here is a tutorial with everything you’ll need. To begin, use the tutorial to join your teacher’s class blog make sure you have the proper Categories created publish your first post based on your teacher’s assignment using Categories and Tags A few sections…
The Responsible Use Policy is a document that outlines, for all Scarsdale Schools users (teachers and staff alike) appropriate use guidelines for using district devices, accounts, and services. Every year I do this lesson with the students, usually in big grade-level groups, where we can talk about it, ask questions, and have a general back…
Once again the 5th graders were amazing and rocked the CapCon! Capstone event. And CapCon! 2020 was like no other… at home, virtual school, fully remote due to the Covid-19 pandemic… and they still created amazing stories of their learning. Check out all of their speeches and movies here: CapCon! a capstone learning conference…
3rd and 4th graders now have access to their @scarsdaleschools.org GMail inboxes. 5th graders were given access at the start of 2020. Email in 3rd through 5th grade is designed to streamline communication. Teachers and students will still use Drive, Docs, Classroom, Kami, etc to leave each other comments on specifics pieces of work, but…
Once again the 5th graders were amazing and rocked the CapCon! Capstone event. The students documented the process on their own blogs. The blogs can be accessed via the classroom teacher’s blogs (look for the “My class” menu on the sidebar). Ms. Boyer Ms Cooper Ms. Edwards Ms. Robert Check out all of…
Adobe Spark is a great platform we’ve been experimenting with this year. Adobe Spark has a few great benefits including being cloud based so students can use any connected device and access their work anywhere, and it gives you 3 options; Spark Post, Spark Page, and Spark Video. We used Spark Post earlier this year…
For many years now students have been creating, collaboration, and communication using Google Drive. They’ve been making documents and slide shows, sharing files with each other, leaving comments with feedback and notes. The one thing they haven’t been doing, is communicating officially. What that means is all of the communicating has been done using workarounds;…