Techie in Primary

Pic Collage This week I downloaded and investigated a "new to me" digital tool. I decided to explore the PicCollage app because I was so inspired by it's use in the active learning lessons I looked at a couple weeks ago! Image from  PicCollage.com Pros:  The app is free!  This is a fun and easy to use app that would give students the opportunity to make picture collages.  This is a very flexible digital tool. Students from kindergarten to high school could use PicCollage to create projects.  The ability to add text allows us to differentiate projects.  Students can be creative with various backgrounds, fonts, stickers, using the drawing tool, etc. What could be a boring picture collage is now more creative and engaging for students.  There are school settings in the app settings to disable social media icons and web images.  Cons: One negative to the app are all of the pop up messages to download additional items. I think th...

This week in Edu 776, I learned about Genius Hour. Please check out the Adobe Spark presentation I created below, and then explore the resources that are linked below that! Resources: "What is Genius Hour? - Introduction to Genius Hour in the Classroom" Youtube Video   This is an overview of Genius Hour  Genius Hour  This website has some great resources for teachers, including a list of book recommendations. "You Get to Have Your Own Genius Hour (A Video for Students)"  This is a great video about Genius Hour that you can share with your students to get them excited about having Genius Hour time in their classroom.  THE CULT OF PEDAGOGY PODCAST, EPISODE 55  This episode of the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast is titled "Your Top 10 Genius Hour Questions Answered." Follow #geniushour on Twitter  This link will take you to #geniushour on Twitter. There are a lot of creative teachers that share so many ideas and resources on Twitter.  "Wh...