Suzanne's Ed Tech Reflections

The Museum of Modern Art ( http://www.moma.org/ ) in New York is a place that "fuels creativity, ignites minds, and provides inspiration." Their MoMa Art iPad app supports that mission. This app is designed to inspire the artist in each of us. Create art activities inspired by well-know artists or use the built in tools to create your own work of modern art. Click here to download a pdf version of the App of the Week.

Chicktionary is one of the apps that has been part of the iAchieve app list right from the beginning - that's 5 years now! We first used it with our iPod touches and now also include it on all of the iPads for both students and teachers. While it's classified as a game, it is a great learning tool. It's an engaging word work resource where students think about letter combinations and practice spelling skills. Previously there were separate apps for iPhone and iPad but now it is a universal app. They have really updated the user interface and it looks very modern and up to date. But the students still love it and are practicing those skills. Several of our teachers have created their own accountability worksheets for Chicktionary where  students keep a list of the words they have created and then use them in a sentence. Many of our teachers are using a Chicktionary recording sheet created by Laura Moore. It's a fun sheet with eggs w

Read*Write*Think ( http://www.readwritethink.org/ ) is a great website for ideas, resources, lesson plans, and tools to support reading and language arts. They have some useful online student interactives to support students in showing what they know. Over the past couple of years RWT has also been developing iPad apps aligned with a variety of their student interactives. The RWT Timeline app is a great tool for creating projects showing sequential order arranged by date, time, or event. Timelines can include both images and descriptive text. Click here to download the RWT Timeline pdf.