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TED-Ed In The Classroom

Have you used Ted Talks or Ted-Ed Talks in your classroom?

 

TED Talks

 

 

Ted Talks give students a different perspective on a topic. The talks are devoted to spreading ideas with a short, but powerful message.

TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages.

TED Talks Instructional ideas: Experts in their field, Entrepreneurs, New Technologies

 

TED-Ed

 

 

 

TED-Ed Talks mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world. TED-Ed has grown from an idea worth spreading into an award-winning education platform that serves millions of teachers and students around the world every week

 

TED-Ed has a database of lessons for all curricular areas and grade levels.

Lessons Worth Sharing

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Book Creator App

Book Creator App

Book Creator is the simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks, right on your iPad.

FEATURES

* Add text, choosing from over 50 fonts
* Add photos and images from your iPad’s photo library, from the web, or use the iPad’s Camera
* Resize, rotate and position content as you like with guidelines and snap positioning
* Add video and music, and even record your voice
* Use the pen tool to draw and annotate your book
* Choose from portrait, landscape or square book sizes
* Add super powers to your books with comic templates, stickers and styles
* A quick tap and you’re reading your book in iBooks!

 

 

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Super Duper Story Maker App

Super Duper Story Maker App!

With Super Duper StoryMaker, you can create all the picture and photo stories you want and tell them over and over — plus, you can make your own photo albums, special occasion cards, comic books, etc. Educators and parents will love StoryMaker because it helps children practice learning skills, such as reading, sequencing, vocabulary and sentence building, following directions, grammar, storytelling and retelling, interacting with others, and more.

 

 

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WWF Together App

WWF Together App!

WWF Together brings you closer to amazing and endangered species than you ever could have imagined, letting you discover their lives and the work WWF does for them. Try out “tiger vision,” flap your wings like a migrating butterfly, and chop the panda’s bamboo. As part of each story, you’ll get to bring an animal into your world by taking a selfie with its origami or placing it in a scene.

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NASA App

NASA App!

 

Come explore with NASA and discover the latest images, videos, mission information, news, feature stories, tweets, NASA TV and featured content with the NASA App.

 

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Post It Note App

Post It Note App!

The Post-it® Plus App takes the momentum from your collaboration sessions and keeps it rolling. Simply capture your notes, organize and share with everyone. That way your great ideas don’t stop when the meeting ends.

 

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STEAM Pilot – Educators Exploring the Possibilities!

During the 2015-2016 school year educators have explored STEAM Technologies such as Hummingbird Robotics, Scratch and Snap Coding, and littleBits Robotics through a 5 week pilot. During the pilot theory, integration, lessons, and hands on experiences allowed for participants to fully understand how STEAM can fit in any learning environment and truly engage students.

After their participation in the STEAM Pilots many have taking what they have learned and brought it to the library and classroom.

 

STEAM Bootcamps will held this summer at Monroe #1 BOCES Technology Services.

 

Highlight Videos!

 

Take a look at the awesome examples!

Hummingbird Robotics Video – Sherman Coding Club

littleBits Library Club

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