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Awesome Apps For K-5 Classrooms Presented by J. Alfonso Champion

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Awesome AppsFor K-5 Classrooms

Presented by J. Alfonso Champion

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Awesome Apps Covered Today

• BrainPop• ClassDojo• Reflector• Nearpod• Fotopedia• Mad Libs• iMovie

• Sushi Monster• Wet Dry Try• Educreations• Dropbox• CloudOn• Google Translate

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BrainPop & BrainPop Jr.

• Animated, curricular content.• Supports traditional, blended, and

"flipped" learning settings. • Supports individual, team, and

whole-class learning. • Characters help introduce new topics

and illustrate complex concepts.

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• Helps teachers improve behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily.

• Captures and generates data on behavior that teachers can share with parents and administrators.

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Reflector• Replacement for Apple TV mirroring.• Project your iPad onto any Mac or PC.• Frees teacher from tethering.• Allows iPad camera app to become a

document camera.• https://www.reflectorapp.com/ 

o App located on your desktop

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• Launch interactive presentations to engage students.

• Students receive curricular content and submit responses on their devices.

• Monitor classroom activity and measure students’ results.

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• Collaborative effort to create a photo encyclopedia.

• Apps cover various topics, themes and locations.

• Gives students an opportunity to learn about unfamiliar places

• Exposes students to images from different cultures.

• Great way to introduce units or topics.

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• Fun way for students to review/apply parts of speech.

• Use camera to add your own photo or image to a story.

• One free Mad Libs collection book (21 stories).

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iMovie

• Use the camera and microphone to record student work and performances.

• Teacher/students can create movies using text, transitions, visuals and music.

• Great tool for peer feedback and self-reflection.

• Create instructional videos.

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Sushi Monster• Keep the monster

happy by making target sums and products.

• Helps students strengthen reasoning strategies for whole number addition and multiplication facts.

• Gives students experience avoiding distractions and extraneous info.

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Wet Dry Try• Students master one

letter formation before moving on to the next.

• It prevents and eliminates reversals.

• It helps teach older children size and placement of lowercase letters.

• Provides a multisensory experience.

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• Recordable interactive whiteboard that captures your voice and handwriting.

• Produces video lessons that you can share online.

• Students and colleagues can replay your lessons in any web browser, or from within the app on their iPads.

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Productivity Google Translate, Dropbox, and CloudOn

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