Daily Diigo 04/25/2015

• Engineering Design Challenges – STEM Curriculum Resources by Dr. Wesley Fryer

  Some wonderful Engineering Design Challenges from Dr. Wes Fryer!

  tags: engineering design challengebasedlearning

• 6 digital citizenship web tools that will help you stay safe(r) online – Daily Genius

  The digital footprint may not seem like something to worry about for many people- especially younger students who have never experienced a world without the internet. But whether you’re an adult and an educator or a kid who needs guidance, there are a number of resources out there.

  tags: digitalcitizenship

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Daily Diigo 04/24/2015

• Science Fair Central – Fun science activities for kids

  The Maker spirit is all about “learning-through-doing”. Infuse this spirit into your elementary classroom or science fair with fun, hands-on activites designed to encourage scientific exploration and spark curiosity in your K-5 students!

  tags: science activities maker

• Scratch Programming | Colleen M. Lewis

  scratch curriculum

  tags: programming scratch

• Parapara Animation

  easy, fun animation tool

  tags: animation tools

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InfoPics with Tony Vincent

I’ve been a fangirl of Tony Vincent since I saw his Keynote at the Powering Up With Technology conference in PGCounty, MD, several years ago.

 

I just watched his infopics video and my mind is blown with the TONS of apps that he presented.  So I wanted to list them all here so I can find them easily in one place.

 

First of all, an infopic is a picture that has text overlaid on top of it.  The text gives further information about the subject of the picture.  This would be a great activity for students!  Have them take a picture, or use a Creative Commons image, and then overlay some text to inform the viewer about a topic the class is studying.  This can be adapted to almost any content area.

 

Here is Tony Vincent’s video about infopics.

 

Next, here are the apps he mentioned in the video (I’m sure I missed a few):

http://www.mextures.com/

http://madewithover.com/

https://evernote.com/skitch/

http://pic-collage.com/

http://piclabapp.com/

http://www.phon.to/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/path-on-swipe-to-type/id596696015?mt=8

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/color-effects-splash-sketch/id409913910?mt=8

http://apps.pixlr.com/editor/

 

I’m setting a goal for myself:  I am going to meaningfully create and use at least two infopics by the end of next week.

 

What will you and your students do with infopics?

 

Daily Diigo 04/23/2015

• Personalized Learning Working Definition: NewSchools Venture Fund

  tags: personalized learning

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