Rockin' Teacher Materials: technology

Turn Your Teachers Pay Teachers PDFs into Digital Resources

2:42 PM

Some stores on Teachers Pay Teachers now have the option to turn the regular PDF resources you have bought, DIGITAL! It's easy to do and you can delete the pages you don't want to send to your students. You can send them one page or 10. It's pretty neat.

You also can:

add text boxes for students to write answers
add extra instructions for students
highlight areas that need student attention

Students can:

highlight answers
type answers in various colors
circle answers with a pen or highlighter

If a store has this capability, you will see this:

Watch this video to see how you can begin making student resources digital.

Here are some free resources you can try it on. Pretty exciting!

Thanks for stopping by!

Simple Technology for Engaged Learning

3:18 PM

You know it is sometimes overwhelming with all the apps out there, but sometimes all you need is a camera on a device.

In math, we are learning about lines, line segments, parallel, intersecting...the whole bit. Our Everyday Math workbook wanted the kids to look around the room for examples of those terms. So, instead, we grabbed our devices and started snapping pictures. The kids then gathered back together to share the real-life items they found that had parallel line segments. Even if we had stopped there, it would've been a good learning experience.

However, we went further with the Seesaw Learning Journal app.