As a media specialist, Mary’s found some creative ways to teach poetry and help make it exciting for students while inspiring each of them to create technology projects based on that inspiration. Through her efforts, she’s seen students respond enthusiastically, get excited about sharing their ideas with classmates, and look for opportunities to collaborate!
While it’s not quite the same as the world-renowned TikTok app, Tiki-Toki, of course, shares a similar name. It’s free to sign up and it takes just a moment for students and teachers to get started. Using its desktop platform, students can create interactive timelines and personalized multimedia content to show their knowledge on key classroom topics.
The Meeting Owl Pro packs plenty of versatility in its compact form. Though under 11 inches in height, it helps educators create enhanced inclusion, drive engagement, and ensure everyone’s voice is heard. It’s actually a three-in-one camera, microphone, and speaker that helps educators unlock active learning in any environment.
Over the last couple months, we’ve teamed up with professionals from some of our top partners to bring educators a webinar series focused on addressing social-emotional learning and STEAM education. Throughout this time, we’ve worked with some great colleagues and, now that it’s wrapped up, we wanted to put all the resources in one place.
Valerie is an author, educator, and huge proponent for STEM education. She’s helped lead hands-on STEM experiences for students and helped expand their minds with some of her favorite STEM-related books. Whether it’s hands-on coding or stimulating creative thoughts, Valerie definitely believes in the power of collaboration and community.
To wrap up our back-to-school STEAM and SEL webinar series, we partnered with our friends from the Ozobot Education team. Led by Melissa Toohey and Tara Reynen, we discussed the importance of CS education, creating SEL connections with the Ozobot Evo, and how the Ozobot Classroom LMS helps simplify coding instruction and prep work.
Once you get the Skoog powered on, it’s easy to pair it with a device and get started trying the various sounds. The Skoog 2.0 is incredibly unique, offering students the chance to create musical sounds with tactile touch and even try coding and mixing with different mobile apps. Plus, each of its different colored surfaces allow students to create
With DroneBlocks, STEM educators can build on student interest in flying drones and take it further with drones they can program! DroneBlocks is a free app that is compatible with Chrome, iPad, and Android devices and provides educators with great professional development tools and resources for helping them maximize their drone and coding instruction.
Teaching students about drones, their uses, and how to pilot them is amazing in its own right. When you incorporate the fact that some drones, like the Tello EDU, are programmable, then it takes drone education to a whole new level and the DroneBlocks professional learning content is a great way to get started.
DJI’s drones are great for teaching coding and piloting basics. Having long been a staple of our STEM education offerings, these drones offer unprecedented levels of excitement and a ton of educational value for students. They can literally use one tool to learn about piloting, shooting video, and coding, making the Tello EDU a great value.
