3 ways to use virtual bulletin boards
Padlet, Google Keep and Corkulous — oh my! 1.Padlet Padlet’s been a go-to for a number of our educators for
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4 Earth Day lesson ideas with iPads
Study the Earth’s ecology with deep-digging tech tools Earth Day is April 22, and if you’re looking for some ideas
Read moreThe Weather and Vermont
In Vermont, in the winter, we talk about the weather. A lot. Perhaps this is due to our agrarian roots
Read moreTaking the lid off technology
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The unintended consequences of branded tech in the classroom In this episode of The 21st Century Classroom, Tarrant Institute graduate
Read more4 ways to use Flipboard in your flipped classroom
We’re flipping for Flipboard — and your students will too! Flipboard is a free mobile app for the iOS, Android and
Read moreWhat We’re Reading: 1:1 rollout tools
A parent presentation video, visit a model Chromebook school, and 1:1 consulting options With Fair Haven Union High School, the
Read morePainless printing from your iPad
(without calling tech support) Despite Apple releasing AirPrint waaaay back in the heady days of iOS4, printing has long been
Read moreCreate community in your classroom with ShadowPuppet
Free app for students to make quick and easy back-to-school slideshows
Read moreWhat you should know about iPad cases
Getting mobile devices into the hands of educators and students is the name of the game, but what happens after to
Read moreHow to import videos from your device directly to Camtasia
Get videos off your device with this easy app Attention screencasters! This could save you a ton of time. For all
Read moreTuesday Links Round-up
What We’re Reading A ton of things, that’s what! Because we’re participating in the 3rd annual #summerthrowdown reading challenge! How
Read moreBuild a custom iPad charging tray
If you build it, they will charge Not all of our iPads get checked out at once, and, as a
Read moreGet out! 4 ideas for using iPads outside (and away from Wifi)
Get out there! It’s spring (unless you’re in the Antipodes) and IT HAS FINALLY STOPPED SNOWING. Yes, all those capital
Read moreBuild your own iPad charging cart out of office supplies
Sixty dollars, a dremel and a dream It all started with a post on the iPad Ed Google+ community. Wait,
Read moreEssays on Rube Goldberg: capturing the scientific process with iPads
How one class of 8th grade scientists at Harwood Union Middle School used Google Docs, Schoology, and iPads to capture
Read moreUse Image Capture to harvest videos off iOS devices
Has this ever happened to you? You’ve captured some amazing in-classroom video footage with your trusty iPad — a compelling
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Authentic cell biology with Notability on the iPad
This spring, Nancy Spencer and her class discovered something amazing about their cheek cells. The students discovered that by placing
Read moreiPad management in the classroom: Did this educator do the right thing?
From our tumblr, an unusual iPad management situation with one educator who confiscated a student’s iPad during class and added
Read moreARIS @ Echo
When last we left our trusty Edmunds Explorers, they had just defeated a horde of geometry-loving aliens who’d invaded the
Read moreThe Parable of the Puppet Pals: integrating technology in religion class
Julia Melloni, the Middle School Religion teacher at Mater Christi School in Burlington, worked with her students on “blending ancient
Read moreA Google Drive lesson for iPads + iPad skill checklist
Meet Theresa White. She teaches 4th and 5th grade at Roxbury Village School, and this past summer, in preparation for
Read more23 ways to use the iPad in a PBL classroom
Via TeachThought, here are 23 ways you can integrate an iPad (and its apps) into a classroom focused on project-based
Read moreFrom PAML’s 1:1 Toolkit: dotepub
Our partners at Peoples Academy Middle Level are going 1:1 with iPads, and the educators have put together a Google
Read moreHaving an augmented reality kind of morning
Okay, so I’m a few months early but oy, this weather, #btv. Brought to you by AR DinoPark, a free
Read moreHow students are using Touchcast: welcome videos!
As a follow-up to our post on how teachers are using Touchcast, here’s an example of how students are using
Read moreExplain Everything, um, explained.
A middle-schooler from Harwood explains how they’re using Explain Everything for a class project to capture stills and videos.
Read moreiPads in VT: we came, we saw, we apped
Over on Storify, a brief recap of how our first annual iPad play-day went this past weekend. With more than
Read more“The students showed me how it was done”: Students and colleagues as educator resources
A guest post by one of our partner educators, Jacki McCarty. McCarty is an educator at Harwood Union Middle School,
Read moreiPad Apps We Like: Germ Blaster
A one-minute screencast of actual game-play from the free iPad app Germ Blaster, by the Rice University Center for Technology
Read moreRob Gervais on going 1:1 with iPads
Going 1:1 with iPads: lessons learned In this 40 minute webinar, Rob Gervais, director of technology for Enosburg Town Schools, goes
Read moreHow to: create your own iPad stylus
Professional development coordinator Meredith Swallow demonstrates a quick and cheap way to create your own iPad stylus.
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