Lauren Montgomery

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CKV: The Family Farm

I had my first try at iMovie for iPad with this Kansas project. I actually really like the video I made, and I enjoyed using the iMovie app, which is about $5 on the App Store. It’s a lot easier… Continue Reading →

Inspiring Ideas for Teachers, iTunes U Courses

Similar to the using apps in the classroom post, Inspiring Ideas for Teachers on iTunes U is also very helpful. I chose the “Of Mice and Men” collection, which is full of ideas for teaching the book to students. It… Continue Reading →

Using Apps in the Classroom, iTunes U Courses

The iTunesU course that I chose was the “Stop Motion Studio Lesson Ideas“. It’s about using the Stop Motion Studio app in the classroom. It includes lessons for almost every subject and gave examples of what type of activity could… Continue Reading →

Digital Storytelling With Slate

I chose to use Slate for my digital storytelling project. I really like Adobe, and it seemed to be the easiest to use out of all the other apps I tried. It was very smooth and user friendly, and I… Continue Reading →

One Best Thing: APPlied Poetry

I downloaded Karen Bosch’s One Best Thing iBook; “APPlied Poetry: Creating and Publishing Multimedia Poetry“. I really like the idea of students being able to get more creative with poetry writing, especially since most students hate it. Karen’s book is… Continue Reading →

Week 7 Blog Reflection: Dan McCabe

This week I snooped around on Dan McCabe’s blog. As always, there’s a lot of helpful information for teachers to go through. One post that stuck out for me was about discipline, which is a touchy subject for many. Everyone… Continue Reading →

Week 6 Reflection: Technology Pursuit

For week 6 I found a blog that fits my needs almost perfectly! Melissa Pilakowski’s Technology Pursuit is a blog about integrating technology into the Language Arts classroom, though her posts are helpful for all subjects as well. I was… Continue Reading →

Interactive Whiteboards and Screencasting; My First Screencast

I’m pretty upset because I went through two different ‘free’ apps and COMPLETED two different projects, but then when I went to export it, they said I would have to pay for a monthly subscription in order to just export… Continue Reading →

Week 10 Reflection: Tech Edge in the Classroom

This week I’ll be focusing on Tech Edge in the Classroom for Language Arts. The first video I watched talked about poetry and rhyming apps. A rhyming app that was discovered is called Rhymer’s Block. I like this app for… Continue Reading →

iMovie Trailer

I had always worked with iMovies in school on MacBooks, but I’ve never played with it on the iPad. The $4.99 iMovie app for iPad was pretty easy to use, but I got a little frustrated because I wasn’t able to tweak… Continue Reading →

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