I stumbled upon Epic! when I read about their free activity calendars. Although the service has a price for families, it is free to use in your classroom.
Their quickstart guide is available as a Google Presentation:
You can see everything that Epic! has to offer. If you are an elementary reading teacher, this site could be very useful!
Internet Travels Of bits and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week Apps I’ve been on a wait and see approach to what I’m going to do with Twitter, and in the mean time I’ve set up…
A flexible icon family for interfaces, diagrams, presentations — whatever, really. — Read on phosphoricons.com/ There is a never ending supply of graphics you can use in your multimedia projects, and here is another. Phosphor Icons is directed toward developers, but you can download the icons as PNGs and use them in your own creations.
Internet Travels Of bits and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week Apps Over 50% of students user Snapchat weekly, and that percentage goes up to 84% when you look at how many use it at least…
Source: Social Media Time Alternatives – Omni Calculator I view social media the same as candy. It’s nice to have as a treat, but if it is all you do, then your going to have negative consequences. Here is a calculator that shows what you could accomplish if you weren’t mindlessly scrolling through your feeds….
Internet Travels Edcerpts are my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week Apps Tony Vincent posted a toot about The Achievery (via a blogpost by Shannon Miller), a free digital learning platform for distance learning. The site is a collaboration…
Last week I attened the ITIP Ohio Google Summit. One of the sessions I attended was Getting Google-y in K-2 Reading presented by Jazmine Monroe and Becky McDonald. One of their examples was a Google Sheet that was formatting for Word Mapping, using conditional formatting to reflect correct and incorrect answers. I thought this was…