Special Project

In Ed. Tech class we made picture boxes. I thought that this was a very cute idea and it was pretty easy to make because we had templates to trace. Inside the box once you had it all folded up you could put pictures on all the sides and on the second layer. I think this is such a cute craft and would make a cute gift for a parents or grandparents. 

The outside of the box

One of the inside layers

Second inside layer

Favorite Teacher Blogs

I love looking on pinterest for all kinds of ideas and one of my favorite things to look at are teachers blogs. I love looking at things that they have done in their classroom and worksheets or activities that they have done. I have found so many good ideas from just going on pinterest.

One blog that I really liked was a first grade teacher named Kathy. I really liked looking at her blog because she had a lot of great ideas and information on there.

Favorite Teacher Blog

QR Codes

QR Codes can be a fun a creative way to use the iPads for different lesson plans you teach. The kids will be learning the lesson as well as using technology while they do it. You can create worksheets and have the answers be the QR codes so the students can look up and see if they got the answer right. Helpful Websites to Create your own: - - My Instructions for my QR Code Game:

ipad rules

I think that having iPads in the classroom is a great idea, but you should start off by either coming up with rules together as a class or coming up with rules on your own for them. 

Magazine Cover and iSpy Page

Magazine Cover

Making my magazine was a lot of fun because we got to design it ourselves. I liked this project because it gave me more experience working with Photoshop. There are so many different things you can do in Photoshop. I learned how to cut around pictures so you don't get the white background behind the picture, which I think will be useful to me. 

iSpy Page

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I think this was a fun activity and it was really easy to make. I think this is a good project to do with elementary school students. I think you could do this project in any grade but for the younger grades you might have to assist them more then the older grades.

Germ Cover

In Photoshop we designed our own germ cover to put on our hand sanitizer spray. I was surprised how easy it was to make and a lot of fun. I think this was a great idea to do and it made hand sanitizer spray look a lot more appealing and fun. 

Before

After

Form--All About Me

I found this form to be very easy and fun to create. I didn't know that in powerpoint you can make your own forms. All you do it select a blank page and then change the size and orientation of the paper to what you want. After that you just use the shapes and text boxes to create what you want your form to look like and it's nice that you can drag pictures anywhere you want them to be. 

Word Cloud

I found word cloud to be very user friendly all you have to do is hit create and then type in what words you want on it. The more times a word is on there the bigger the word will be. This is the word cloud that I created. I think this would be a fun activity to have your students do or for you to do.

Poster's For Classrooms

Making posters for your classroom is actually a lot easier then I thought. I just went to the website and picked a background and typed in what I wanted it to say and then added some pictures to it. I think the kids would also really enjoy making their own posters for some kind of project or something. 

Poster of the Solar System that I made at How To Make A Poster

Forms

Picture Cubes

Things to use to the picture cube for in the classroom:
-Making them into a dice.
-Putting math problems onto the cube and having them roll it and solving the problem they land on.
-roll multiple cubes and use the pictures they land on to make up a story or sentence.
-Putting the students pictures on it and using for pairing students up or playing get to know you games.
-You can have each student make one by putting their favorite photos on it and then have them tell a story. 

The Template we used

What mine looked like with the pictures on it

What the cube looked like all done and folded up