Monthly Archives: May 2015

iBooks Author

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Hebron Tech

iBooks Author is a free app for the Mac that let’s you (or your students as a classroom project using the iMacs in the library) create professional and interactive ebooks that can be read on the both the iPad and Mac … Continue reading →

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Flipped Classroom Workflows

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Hebron Tech

According to Wikipedia: “Flipped classroom is an instructional strategy and a type of blended learning that reverses the traditional educational arrangement by delivering instructional content, often online, outside of the classroom and moves activities, including those that may have traditionally … Continue reading →

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Grade 6/7 French – Radio Shows in GarageBand

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Hebron Tech

Following up from this project during French Flex, grade 6/7 students worked with a partner to record themselves in GarageBand reading their storybooks. They then edited these recordings together into one track, added a brief welcome introduction, sounds effects and a … Continue reading →

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Grade 7 English – Storyboarding & Green Screen

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Hebron Tech

Grade 7 English students have been studying a student version of The Odyssey, and their final project was to choose a story from the book and then film themselves acting out the story. The first step in creating their re-telling of the … Continue reading →

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Websites and Blogs

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Hebron Tech

If you would like to create a website or blog, either as a separate class project or more as a way for students to create an online portfolio, there are a number of options available: WordPress As part of myHebron, … Continue reading →

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Grade 6/7 French – Children’s Storybooks

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Hebron Tech

Grade 6/7 students have been learning French vocabulary for different animals, items of clothing and colors. Based around these sets of words they each created a children’s storybook in which an animal visits a famous place and then puts on ten different … Continue reading →

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Grade 6/7 – Digital Landscapes

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Hebron Tech

For the past few weeks the grade 6/7 art class has been working on a digital landscape art project using the desktop version of Sketchbook. This is a great app that tries to mirror paint and paint brush effects in software, … Continue reading →

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Grade 7 Math – Surveys & Data Analysis

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Hebron Tech

Grade 7 Math students spent the past two weeks working on a survey project, with each student picking a topic of interest, creating a survey based around this topic, collecting data from the school community and then analyzing and reporting … Continue reading →

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MacBook Audio & Video Basics

Posted on May 7, 2015 by Hebron Tech

Working with both audio and video in the classroom is a great way to integrate technology. You can use it to simply record student presentations and performances, either for practice or self and peer evaluation, or create a multimedia project such a … Continue reading →

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