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Canva for Education is a powerful design tool, allowing you and your students to create visually stunning designs for any subject or age level. You and your students can create your own designs from scratch, or choose from our library of over 60,000 high quality, educational templates. The best part of all, it's absolutely FREE! So, how does this translate into the classroom? Here are 20 different ways that your students can use Canva in the classroom.

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Students can quickly and easily create videos in Canva that can be shared out beyond the platform. There are tons of templates that allow you to drag and drop media right into the video. Students can use elements right from Canva or upload their own.

Canva images can be downloaded, then uploaded into other platforms such as Flipgrid. This means students can create and design their own backdrop on Flipgrid! Backdrops act as virtual wallpaper. When students upload a backdrop on their Flipgrid video, they place themselves on top of the image. Students can move themselves around the video to place them in the proper spot. The recorded outcome will be them in front of the backdrop explaining their thinking!

A great way for students to show their thinking is by explaining their work. Have your students create a presentation that covers what your class is learning. Once they have their presentation ready to share, have them click on "Present and Record," located on the top right, then click "Go to recording studio." They will need to provide permission to use the device's camera and microphone. Now, click "Start recording!" This will give students a three second countdown before the recording process begins. Your students can now work through their presentation. One thing to note: while recording, Canva remains in presentation mode. This means the person presenting can see what slides come next, notes attached to the slides and more. The recording will only capture the Canva slides and a circle shaped webcam video of the presenter.

Once the student is ready to stop the recording, all they need to do is click "Stop Recording" from the top right side of the screen. One thing to note, students can always pause the recordings by clicking "Pause" next to the "End recording" button. Now that the student has clicked "Stop recording," the video will be uploaded to Canva's servers. Once it has been processed, students can either share the direct video link, save it for later or download the video to their device. In order to get the video over to Flipgrid, we will select "Download." The download may take a few minutes and will be saved to your downloads folder. You can find it in your downloads folder under the name of the presentation. Now it's time to head over to Flipgrid!

Log onto the Flipgrid Topic, then launch the Flipgrid Shorts Camera. Once the camera opens, click "Options" to the left of the record button. Now, click "Upload clip." Upload your downloaded Canva presentation and then click "Next," followed by "Confirm." This will share your Canva presentation on Flipgrid for others to see and comment on!

Inferencing skills require complex and critical thinking. These tasks can be daunting for students, but with the help of Canva this can be turned into a highly engaging and fun task! To help take inferencing to the next level, we created "Character Bulletin Boards." This template was designed to look like a bulletin board where characters from a story might post things that happened from a story, or memories from a chapter that the character recalled. Students use the template to add elements, text, or photos that represent what happened in the story. You can even create a template that has multiple slides for multiple characters.

When your students are ready to share their work with you, they can do so in just several clicks. First, they will need to click "Send to teacher." Next, your student(s) will need to select you (or they can select multiple teachers if you co-teach), and then click "Send." This will share the work right into your teacher dashboard.

Interested in giving this activity a try? Click here or the image to download and copy the template!

Canva is a well-known creation tool, but it can also help your students become more accountable. Student Learning Portfolios allow your students to maintain academic goals and curate learning artifacts that can be shared with their families and friends. To get started with Student Learning Portfolios on Canva, have your students select a template (like the one below). We recommend building the portfolios by months or subjects. Your first slide in the portfolio should resemble a table-of-contents. Students can hyperlink the text to different slides within the Canva presentation. This will allow them to maintain a running log of their work, but more importantly - share with others!

Similar to Student Learning Portfolios, student created websites are an easy way for your students to share (and show off!) their hard work. Have your students pick from the website templates on Canva. When they're ready to publish the site, click on "Publish as Website." This will provide the student with a shareable link. Fun fact: this URL will never change, even if your student(s) decide to edit it. If you're looking to take things to the next level, you can have several students collaborate on the same Canva file. Then, the duo / team will have a published website for the group. Want a fast / easy start to this? Use our template below! Click here or the image to get started building your own student website today!

Science Fair Projects are always exciting, but Canva can put a "new school" spin on them. Your students can design a trifold, add elements, text and even QR codes right into their Science Fair Projects. These can be shared publicly or right to the teacher. To generate a public share link, click on the three dots on the top right, then click "Share Link." Click on "Copy" to share your URL. Now students can share this link with others! Tip: you can take this link into a URL shortener (like Bit.ly) and paste it to generate a shorter URL address (which will still point to the original link). To share directly with the teacher, click "Share," then select the teacher(s) you wish to share with. This will send the Canva file to the teacher for review! Need some easy inspiration? Check out our template below! Click here or the image to get started!

One of our favorite Canva activities is "Book Bumper Stickers!" For this activity, students design a bumper sticker based on the book, character / individual, subject, etc. The design can even be downloaded and shared onto places like Flipgrid or Seesaw. Check out our template below! Click here or the image below to download it and get started!

Whether you're explaining historical events, the sequential order of a story, or important character accomplishments, timelines are a great way to show thinking. Canva has easy-to-use timelines that are simple to edit to fit your next assignment. To view Canva's timeline templates, just search: "Timelines" in the search box.

Design thinking provides students with a creative outlet where they can tie in their learning. Infographics are a great way to show this level of thinking and Canva makes it easy! There are many Canva infographic templates that students can choose from. These templates are fully editable - everything from the text to the colors. To find infographic templates on Canva, just type "infographic" into the search bar. Here's a template that we found to help you get started! Click here or the image above to download it and get started!

This is a great way to kick off the new school year or returning from a break. Plus, it teaches your students how to use all of Canva's features! Student created classroom badges can be designed for any types of rewards that your students feel as though should be given out throughout the year. Have students use Canva's features to design their badge. Remind them that it needs to have text / what the badge is for. Some good examples include: "Tech Trainer or "CANva" (students who can teach others about Canva). Check out our template by clicking here or the image! Looking for some easy inspiration? We've got you covered! You can download our template for free! Click hereor the image above to download it!

Canva users now have the ability to draw on their slides. To start drawing, follow these steps:

1. Click on "More" from the left side panel

2. In the search bar, type "Draw". Or, you can scroll down to the bottom where you will see the Draw icon. Click it to open the next window.

3. One the next window, click "Use" to launch the draw feature.

4. Select a brush and color to start drawing!

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CVC Sounding Out and Spelling for Kindergarten

ABC Book

Learning letters and sounds in Kindergarten is one of the first skills to help building knowledge of reading and writing. I created a template in Pages for students to practice writing their letters and then on the next page they can write the letter, record the sound, and take a picture of something that begins with that letter sound. Students are able to work on this independently during literacy stations or right along with the teacher as she introduces the letters each week. Students could later use this same book template and make a book of numbers, words, or even word families.

Letter of the Week: A Multimodal Literacy Guide

This book is designed to support teachers of early learners in creating engaging literacy lessons with the iPad. Teaching templates, ideas and resources are provided for educators to build multimodal literacy tasks that integrate technology skills and literacy standards for students to use in the creation of personalized products. The Letter of the Week Pages template demonstrates how students can learn literacy skills and show what they know using the language domains of reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Within the template early learners use iPad tools and features to complete interactive alphabet activities for both at-home and in-person learning. Available on Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id1536700094

Multimodal Literacy Assessments in Keynote

Alphabet sounds - Structured Literacy Resource

The first consonant sounds with all the vowels. Interactive resource says the letter name and sound, shows a video of how to write the letter (using moves from Casey Caterpillar). Students can then practice writing each letter and reord themselves practicing the name and sound

Garageband and Early Literacy

My early learner multilingual students love boppin to the beat in this interactive Keynote and Garageband activity to practice phonics and phoneme segmentation skills. Here's how it works: students stand behind a green, yellow, and red sticker dot on their desk with an iPad, pencil, and paper. Once the Keynote slide deck begins students see a CVC picture chosen from the shapes image bank. They hear the beat sequencer audio recording from Garageband to guide them in identifying, isolating and tapping out the beginning, middle, and ending sounds. As they blend the letter sounds together they hear the percussion prompting them to say the whole word. After listening to the beat and tapping and blending the sounds, students write the word on their paper. They then tap the screen to see the word appear and self assess their writing. I love seeing students of all learning stages successfully interacting and completing the activity thanks to the musical support! I have attached the Keynote file to try with students or change it up to personalize to your learners' needs.

Ending Sounds for Kindergarten

Stage 1 Structured Literacy VC and CVC Words Slide

Sounds, Snakes & Ladders Keynote Game

Proud to release the Sounds, Snakes, and Ladders Keynote Template. Perfect for Early Childhood classrooms around the world! How do you play? Well, it's the same as normal snakes and ladders BUT the student has to go and find an object in the classroom containing the sound that they land on. For example, if you land on the sound 't' the students might photograph a table. The Keynote file includes: Custom sound image placeholder (works on iPad only) Game board Link to AR Dice (that's right Augmented Reality Dice) - a simple tap on the dice and it jumps into the air and rolls! (works on iPad only) Three keynote shape player characters (or why not add your own) Tips: View the Keynote slide without the navigator on the side so it's 100% view and the student can see the full sound letters on the placeholder. Enjoy everyone! Paul

Phonics Photography: Photo Text Art

Today I spent some time working with a small group online to explore the Everyone Can Create Projects. Our group took some time to explore the Photo Text Art Project - linked here. I thought I would share a fun activity I've done with the idea, that might spark some more ideas about using Photo Text Art with all ages of children. Phonics Photography is an idea I had to give young learners the opportunity to use text, photography and animation to create Photo Text Art illustrations using the phonic letter sounds they are learning in Literacy. Children can practise their phonic sounds in this project by combining text and photography to help them visualise the words they are learning. Using Keynote, they can collaborate on a document to create their word list, filling each word with a photograph of the word and using Animate to spell out each word. The Keynote deck can then be shared as a video or animated GIF for pupils to review at home when learning their sounds. I chose this project specifically as we spend a lot of time learning digraphs and the concept of 'two letters, one sound' can be tricky for some pupils to understand. The aim of this activity is to improve the Literacy skills of my pupils through a clear focus on their digraph spellings. Through taking ownership of the creation of each word, pupils will learn the words with greater ease as they are invested in the project and are exploring the words in a multimodal way. Learning Intentions: Take photographs with some control, thinking about framing and focus. Use Photos app to review their own photographs and edit these using editing tools. Use Keynote to create their own digital artwork using control and a wide range of tools such as fill, shape, border and shadow. Begin to consider elements of art such as colour, line, shape, form, space and texture or pattern. Share and review their work, talk about what they did and any improvements they could make. The Process Before assigning this project to my pupils, I created a simple Keynote template containing learning intentions and individual coloured, blank slides for the pupils to work on. Since I am teaching very young learners, I colour coded each slide and added a key to the beginning of the Keynote deck. This key consisted of a photograph of each child in the group, bordered in the colour of the slide they were to work on. This helped to ensure that they didn't accidentally delete the work of another pupil while exploring the early stages of collaborating. I added collaborators to each Keynote deck based on ability groups. I wanted to ensure that pupils were all working with peers of similar ability so that they could focus specifically on a set of words that were differentiated for their ability. Pupils began the activity by listing the possible words they could spell using the digraph (in this case, the sound /oo/). Each pupil then chose a word to illustrate. Each pupil typed, formatted and sized the word on their individual Keynote slide. They used their iPad to change the fill of the text by taking a photograph of a related item. This gave them opportunities to learn about photography, especially the skills of framing, focus and reviewing a shot. Once they were happy with their photo, they used it to the fill the text. The final step involved editing the text to add borders, shadow and animation. Pupils chose the animation they wanted to use to present their word. Extension Activities: Pupils take an individual photograph for each letter of the word, animating each letter in turn to spell the word. Pupils slow the animation of the word and ask peers to guess which word is appearing. Older pupils create a definition of the word to appear alongside the spelling. Older pupils export their Keynote deck as images and use them as assets in an Augmented Reality app to share their words with their classmates. Accessibility and Inclusion In order to make this activity inclusive and accessible, I focused carefully on the groupings of children I placed in each collaborative group. I was keen to ensure that the project was not dominated by any particular children, or that others felt they couldn't contribute due to a lack of knowledge about the Literacy element of the task. I therefore had some groups in the class working on digraphs, some on CVC words and other children working on single initial letter sounds. This enabled all children to access the curriculum at a level that suited them. I was also careful about using certain colours, to benefit those children who are colourblind (this is always on my mind as one of my sons is colourblind!). Assessment In assessing this task, I was keen to evaluate both the digital skills and the Literacy element. I found that digitally, pupils were a lot more capable of transferring the skills learnt to other activities, such as short stories and talking books. Their photography skills improved, which was observed in an activity later that month involving close photography of things we found in nature. When writing independently, I found that pupils recalled the digraph sounds much more quickly if they were sounds that we had explored using Keynote Word Art. I hope this gives you a little idea of how you can apply the Everyone Can Create Projects to the area of Literacy and with all different ages of pupils.

Beginning Sounds in Kindergarten

Lesson Students are given 4 pictures and will need to determine the picture and then write the beginning sound. They will then record themselves saying the word for the picture. This allows for you to see students thinking if they choose a word that is not typically chosen for a certain picture (ex. Student says bug instead of spider and writes the letter b). Students are then given 4 more slides. They are given a letter and they have to produce a picture for each beginning sound. They will record themselves saying the word in their picture that matches their beginning sound. Impact/Relevance Ohio State Learning Standard RF.K.2 Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final phonemes ( sounds) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. This lesson is the first step in sounding out and blending sounds to create CVC words. #Kindergarten #BridgeportBulldogs

Digital Student Data Notebooks

My Kindergarten English as a Second language students are analyzing, tracking, and reflecting upon their reading data from our state reading assessments in a digital data notebook. My students complete a statewide reading assesment called MClass reading 3D, TRC and Dibels. They are asked to identify sounds in words, letter naming fluency, sight words, and read leveled texts. I created a personalized digital student data notebook using one of the Pages book templates. I shared the individual books to students with Apple Classroom and personalize them with students' pictures on the cover of each book. After conferencing with each student they used an Apple Pencils to annotate and color on the bar graphs according to their assessment scores. Students used the same color coding system from MClass when annotating their data. Ex. Green - I know it! Red - I need a lot of practice! The meaning of each color can be seen on the second page of the book. Students also tracked the sight words they knew by reading them aloud and circling them with a red or green color. Students used the audio feature to make goals in the scores or reading levels they would like to achieve for the second quarter. As well as a strategy they would use to improve their scores. Ex. "I will practice my letters and letter sounds." I am excited to see students track their 2nd quarter data and understand areas of improvement. These personalized data notebooks will also be shared with parents during parent-teacher conferences. The majority of my Kinder ESL students enter our school year with little academic background knowledge and it's usually their first time away from home. Before tracking our data we discussed how even if you are using red or have a score of 0 it's ok! We are working hard practicing and using our personal goals to grow. I hope that by allowing students to track and monitor their data they will understand the importance of practicing these new skills and creating/reaching goals. I have also created a WIDA (World-class Instructional Design and Assessment) digital data notebook. Educators who use this English language proficiency assessment may ask students to track their WIDA assessment scores within each domain as well as their composite score. Students identify their highest and lowest language domains and create an audio recording with a growth goal of how they plan to improve.

Making Sound Visible

Sound is usually heard. Sound can be felt, but it can also be visible. To help young learners see sound waves we used Apple Voice Memos to quickly capture sound and see the waves created. We used markup to annotate a screenshot to label where students thought it was the loudest, quietest and compare and contrast the sound waves they saw/ heard. Students then had a chance to record their own voices using the alphabet, counting or a sentence of their choice in various voice volumes. Teachers were able to check for understanding by having the students annotate their own screenshot or discussion. #OPSProud #OPS_Kennedy

Freeform Sound Board

I teach a few classes and lessons through the online synchronous modality and have found the use of my Stream Deck very handy for many tasks, one of them being a sound board. When students answer a question correctly, the receive a random positive sound effect that reinforces their response and encourages others to respond as well. Likewise, incorrect responses receive a humorous selection of negative sounds or phrases, again keeping everything light and encouraging participation. Additionally, I like to use the sounds of crickets or snoring when students aren't responding to questions in a timely manner. I have often thought it would be handy to have a sound board like this in my face-to-face courses and have instinctively reached for the sound board that I do not have at certain points in my classes. Now, thanks to Freeform, I have created my own. Yes, this resource could have also been created with any of the iWork applications, but brainstorming innovative methods of incorporating Freeflow into my workflow spurred this idea. I am unable to share the Freeform document in its interactive state, but I hope that by sharing the story and a short video, you might also be inspired to create and use your own sound board in classes. I simply used the Insert from... option to select all these sound effects that I had placed in one folder. A little time adding some shapes and tidying up the placement and voila! All sound clips were either composed/created by me or were downloaded from https://pixabay.com/.

Bring literacy to life through sound.

Audiobooks are a great way to introduce students to new authors and genres, help develop their critical listening skills, and provide a model for reading aloud. Hearing immersive and compelling stories can stir students' imaginations, bring learning to life, and inspire new ideas. Inspire your students to create their own audiobooks and podcasts in GarageBand using Everyone Can Create Projects. Help students capture their stories by learning to record and edit their voices using the Record A Podcast project. They'll discover how to add music, atmosphere, and sound effects to their stories by downloading and adding audio loops in GarageBand. They can also score their own soundtracks using the Write Your First Song project - even if they're brand-new to making music. Explore Everyone Can Create Projects to learn how students can bring their creativity to literacy by animating a classic tale with motion graphics, capturing poetry using green screen effects, or creating compelling stories through sound. Learn how, and explore more Everyone Can Create Projects >

Supporting First Nations Languages with iPad - Apple ANZ Back to School 2024 Series - 1 of 3

Initial Sounds Pt. 1 / 3

Practice identifying initial sounds with Tayasui Sketches School! Lesson plan attached. App: Tayasui Sketches School *This is part 1 of a 3 part project resulting in an alphabet book.

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Initial Sounds Pt. 2 / 3

Extend the previous exercise (see post Initial Sounds Pt. 1) by uploading your saved image into Keynote. Label the items in the image with text boxes and hand written labels using the Drawing tool. Non-readers are able to fill in the text boxes with voice-to-text. Lesson Plan and example attached. App used: Keynote (Pt. 1 utilized Tayasui Sketches School)

Early Learners Pages Alphabet Book

In this simple Alphabet Book created in Pages my Early Learners practice the ABC's using their reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. On each page of the book students create an audio recording saying the letter name and sound and search for a shape / images that begins with the letter. They then trace over the yellow text to practice fine motor and writing skills. I modeled and guided students on how to select the yellow text once they have finished their letter tracing and lower the opacity. This allows for the yellow supportive text to magically disappear, showcasing their writing independently. I have a attached a copy of the book as well as a short How To video.

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Sharing a Created Keynote as a Theme with Students

After you have created your template that you want to share with your students via Apple Classroom:

1. Open Apple Classroom

2. Start a class

3. Open Keynote

4. Open your Presentation

5. Tap “sharrow” button

6. Tap Export and Send

7. Tap Keynote Theme

8. Tap Send Theme

9. Tap Airdrop

10. Tap your Class

11. Students will have to Accept the Presentation and tap “add to theme chooser”

Once these steps are completed, there is no need to share with the students again. Each time they open it from “My Themes” it will open a fresh copy.

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Students Editing a Keynote Theme

Choosing & Renaming a Theme:

1. Tap Choose a theme

2. Tap Spelling Words Theme at the bottom (under My Themes)

3. Change the title by tapping presentation

4. Tap rename

5. Rename to spelling list (ex. Oa ow)

6. Tap done

Duplicating Slides:

1. Tap + on bottom left

2. Add 12 slides (or how many spelling words there are)

Edit Slides:

1. Go back to slide 1

2. Tap on the moon and mountain

3. Tap drawing

4. Write spelling words two times at top

5. Tap on the moon and mountain and draw picture with drawing tools

6. Tap done in top left corner

Record a Sentence:

1. Tap moon and mountain

2. Tap record audio

3. Be sure to allow microphone (if not already)

4. Tap record and record audio

5. Preview recording if you like it

6. Tap Insert in top right corner

7. Position audio where you would like to

Helpful Hints:

Pinch in and out to make drawing space smaller or bigger

You can minimize and move the drawing tools to the side by placing your finger on the tools and dragging it to the side. Drag back to the middle when you want them to expand again.

If you make a mistake, you can always hit the undo button.

Using the paint tube: Click the paint tube, choose the color, make an outline of what you want to draw and the paint tube will automatically fill in the shape you outlined.

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with special needs can sometimes face challenging problems that disrupt their learning process which is why, as teachers and parents, we need to make sure we are equipped with the right pedagogical tools and strategies to help this group of learners thrive and shine.

In today's post I am sharing with you this collection of helpful resources that you can use to this very purpose: help kids and students with special needs overcome learning challenges and remove obstacles that might stand in their learning path.

This collection is a work in progress and I will be adding more resources and updating it regularly (last update was in July 6, 2022).

The initial version of this post contained a chart but I removed it because of the complaints I received from readers complaining that the chart does not render well on their mobile devices.

Currently, the list contains three main categories: Dyslexia apps, Autism apps, and apps for students who are blind or with low vision. If you have other suggestions to add to this list, share with us on social media.

1. Apps to help with dyslexia

These dyslexia apps offers different services including scanning tests to identify reading challenges for kids, interactive reading materials designed specifically for students with dyslexia and struggling readers, activities and games to help children with dyslexia develop key literacy skills, fun quizzes and exercises, and many more.

2. Apps to help with autism

These apps can help kids with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental challenges (e.g., Apraxia, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, etc) develop a number of key skills that cover areas related to communication, decision making, problem solving, emotional management, social interaction, language learning, logical and abstract thinking, creativity, hand-eye coordination, self-confidence, color and shape recognition, attentiveness and alertness, and many more.

3. Apps for The Visually Impaired

Here are some of the popular apps to use with kids and students (and anyone else for that matter) who are blind or with low vision.

The apps will not only enable them to navigate the world in a much more accessible way but will also provide them with extra pair of eyes to use to improve their learning.

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Best iPad Apps for Students with Special Needs - Educators Technology

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Students with special needs can sometimes face challenging problems that disrupt their learning process which is why, as teachers and parents, we need to make sure we are equipped with the right pedagogical tools and strategies to help this group of learners thrive and shine.

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Changing Passwords in NCEdCloud:

1. Teachers have the ability to change NCEDCloud passwords:

In your NCEDCloud account just to the left of the “Global Search box”, there is a red Application box with a dropdown menu

Select People from the menu

Select My Students Tab on the left

Find the student you are looking for or enter their last name or Powerschool # in the “Search My Students” box

Select “Change Password at the bottom and click yes when it asks

Enter the new password 2x and click Save and Close

DO NOT CLICK SAVE ON UPDATE MY PASSWORD OR IT WILL CHANGE YOURS!

If you change the password for NCEDCloud just be mindful that it probably will not accept the student’s previous password and it must contain at least 8 characters with at least 1 upper, 1 lower,and 1 number> Do not end with ! and it will not take student names as part of the password for this.

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Authentic Learning Experiences That Successfully Integrate Technology

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Authentic Learning Experiences That Successfully Integrate Technology

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1. Virtual Science Labs:

Students conduct experiments using virtual lab simulations (e.g., Labster) that allow them to explore complex scientific concepts without the limitations of physical lab resources. They can manipulate variables and analyze results in a safe environment.

2. Digital Storytelling:

Students create multimedia stories using tools like Adobe Spark or WeVideo. They research a historical event or personal experience, then produce a video or digital presentation that incorporates images, narration, and interactive elements, allowing them to engage deeply with the content.

3. Global Collaborations:

Classes partner with schools from different countries using platforms like ePals or Global Schools, engaging in joint projects (e.g., environmental studies) that require students to communicate across cultures and work together to solve real-world problems.

4. Problem-Based Learning (PBL):

Students tackle real-world problems, such as designing a sustainable community project. They use technology to conduct research, create presentations, and develop prototypes or models, documenting their process through tools like Google Docs or Padlet.

5. Interactive Simulations and Games:

Students engage with educational games or simulations like Minecraft: Education Edition or SimCity, where they must apply their knowledge in areas such as urban planning or ecology, fostering creativity and critical thinking.

6. Online Portfolios:

Students create digital portfolios (e.g., using Seesaw or Google Sites) to showcase their work and reflect on their learning journey. This ongoing process encourages them to take ownership of their learning and demonstrate their skills to peers and educators.

7. Augmented Reality (AR) Experiences:

Using AR apps (like Merge Cube), students explore complex subjects (e.g., anatomy or astronomy) in an interactive way, allowing them to visualize and manipulate 3D models as part of their learning.

8. Social Media Campaigns:

Students create awareness campaigns around social issues (e.g., climate change, health awareness) using social media platforms. They research, design content, and engage with communities to promote their cause, learning about digital citizenship in the process.

9. Coding and Robotics Projects:

Students design and program robots (using tools like LEGO Mindstorms or Scratch) to solve specific challenges. This hands-on experience fosters problem-solving skills and encourages collaboration as they work in teams to complete their projects.

10. Community Service Projects:

Students collaborate with local organizations to identify community needs. They use technology to gather data, create surveys, and present their findings to stakeholders, allowing them to apply their learning in meaningful ways.

Each of these experiences not only engages students with the material but also develops essential skills like collaboration, critical thinking, and technology literacy, making learning more relevant and impactful.

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Using the CAMERA APP

1. Take a picture your document

2. Long hold and Highlight the text you want to translate

3. Once you highlight, it will give you the option to translate

4. Tap Translate

5. You can then play the translation out loud as well

Translate text using the camera view using the TRANSLATE APP

1. Open the Translate app  on your iPad, then tap Camera.

2. Choose the language you want to translate your selected text into.

3. Position iPad so the rear camera can translate text around you.

Note: As you move the rear camera, text is translated in real time.

4. Tap  to pause the view.

You can zoom in to get a closer look at the overlaid translations.

5. Tap an overlaid translation to show the translation card, then do any of the following:

Copy Translation: Copy the translated text.

Add to Favorites: Add the translation to a list of favorites.

Listen to Original Text: Tap more, then tap play to listen to the original text.

Listen to Translated Text: Tap play to listen to the translated text.

6. When you’re finished, tap x.

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