Give Me Some Smore!

Ms. Kristine Griffin's students at Joe P. Eblen Intermediate School recently learned about Greek gods and goddesses. Instead of asking students to present their new learning on a traditional poster board-they went digital! Check out their Smore digital posters.

Smore posters are dynamic and changeable. You can embed videos, photos, and link with social media. If you can drag and drop, you can create a Smore!

Here's a quick tutorial on how to use Smore in your classroom.

Student: Zachary




Student: Avery

WBES ESL News Report

ESL teachers Karie Gregory and Tsianina Tovar at West Buncombe Elementary created a news broadcast to showcase their students research on poverty around the world. The project included many standards including speaking, listening, reading, and writing. All students at WBES will view the newscast after morning announcements.

Click here to see their video.
WBES ESL News Report

New Tech Tools to Try as the School Year Comes to a Close

As the school year comes to a close, teachers are scrambling to review this concept and that concept. Test review can get a little tedious at times for both students and teachers. Here are some tech tools to spice it up!

Timer Tab- We all use timers to keep ourselves and our students on task. When I was in the classroom and reviewing for the end of grade test, I promised my students that if they worked really hard for me for 20 minutes we would take a brain break. Sometimes my brain break was playing a quick game of Simon Says or an impromptu dance party. To change it up I would sometimes show a short America's Funniest Home Video from YouTube. You know what they say about how laughter helps reduce stress! This Timer Tab allows you to set your time and when it goes off your YouTube Video will play right in your timer window.


Quizizz-This tool turns learning into a fun, competitive, interactive game. It is much like Kahoot, except Quizizz is different because the questions and possible answers are displayed individually on student devices. Quizizz works on all devices with a browser, including computers, tablets & smartphones.




Quizlet Live-Many of us love Quizlet for vocabulary review and have been using it for years. Have you tried Quizlet Live? It's Quizlet's way of gaming up the classroom. It's an online, question-and-answer matching game for small teams to play face-to-face in the same room. You can read more information here.


Spiral-This tool works on mobile devices and laptops. It's a unique way to engage your students with content and has three different applications to use. Quickfire enhances question and answer activities, enabling you to get the responses of the entire class in real-time. Discuss is powerful tool for creativity, exploration and deeper learning and encourages students to share ideas with each other. Team Up allows you to facilitate group work - with students sharing ideas and building team presentations.

 

BMP students do BEE-Bots

Lila Downs, media coordinator at BMP, started introductory lessons to Bee-Bots with Kindergarten this week.  Students get practice with coding and sequencing. 

Spring into Kindergarten!

Sally Jordan, kindergarten teacher at Woodfin Elementary, has each student share their work using Padlet. You can scan the QR "flower" of a student to see their work from the year. The interactive bulletin board is in the hall for parents and teachers to see.