Lego Portrait 148:2011 #365project

As I was clearing out the photos on our iPod Touches for the summer, I ran across this fabulous portrait taken by one of our students. We have the Lego Photo app on our Touches and kids enjoy it a lot. I love the composition and colors in this picture. - Posted using BlogPress

Hands On 147:2011 Photo Friday #365project

I found this photo on one of our iPod Touches and just had to snag it for a Photo Friday post. One of our kindergarteners took the picture, and I love how her classmate's little hands are holding the Touch. I boosted the contrast of this photo using the PhotoShop Express app on my iPad.

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QR Codes for Kindergarten 112:2011 Photo Friday

 Our kindergartners are using iPod Touches to scan QR codes in their literacy centers! Our kindergarten teachers have worked together on a center activity where kids write a word that ends in silent E. 

After they have used their new skills to write the word pictured on their paper, they check their results by scanning the QR code next to the same picture on a set of laminated cards. The QR code leads to a text message with the spelling of that word. We use the free app i-Inigma on our 4th generation iPod Touches. 

If you thought QR codes and scanning apps were too much for you, or your kids, to handle, think again! Miss Harrison, our first-year kindergarten teacher, spearheaded this activity and showed the other two K teachers how to make QR codes for this and other center activities. They used a QR code generator such as Kaywa to produce the codes and then saved them as .jpg image files.

Needless to say, the kids thought it was pretty cool to scan QR codes to check their work independently!

These Photo Friday pictures were taken by Miss Harrison on one of our school's new Canon A495 cameras.

A Comic Life Thank You 27:365:2011

This afternoon, we had a super visit with our OETT grant foundation donors. They visited six of our classrooms in which students were using the iPod Touches for learning. I made this souvenir for the foundation folks using Comic Life and pictures of our students using the new technology. This was my first real Comic Life project. I'm sold!

Photo Friday 14:365:2011

Today is my first Photo Friday, when I invite teachers and students to take pictures on the iPod Touch and bump them to me. Our 5th grade math teacher Mrs. Neal took this pic of a boy using the app Long Division. I love the bright colors in this photo and the student's total concentration. Oh, and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid book on the table!