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interactivity

Using Google Earth in the Classroom

Posted in 8-12, Blog Posts | Tagged with Free, google, google earth, inquiry, interactivity, lesson planning, mapping, maps

Here are a few articles to give you some ideas on how Google Earth might impact your history classroom. History Today Teaching History – A Digital Classroom Using Google Earth in History https://sites.google.com/site/googclass/

Mystery Skype!

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, Blog Posts, K-3, Not Subject Specific, Paid, Post Secondary | Tagged with app, ets, interactivity, sandbox session, skype, Teacher Use, video conferencing

SandboxSkype_MysterySkype Handout On Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015, the Scarfe Digital Sandbox hosted a ‘Mystery Animal Skype Session’. We Skyped with a kindergarten class who are learning about animals and will participate in a “20 questions style” video conference where they try to guess our animal and we try to guess theirs. This is another version […]

Interactive WhiteBoards – Make some Magic

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, Blog Posts, K-3, Not Subject Specific, Paid | Tagged with ets, interactive whiteboards, interactivity, lesson planning, multimedia, sandbox session, scarfe sandbox, smartboard

I recently came across a rather fanciful marketing video about Smart Boards that kind of blew my mind and also challenged me to consider the potential and possibilities of this technology. There are many Smartboards sitting idly in classrooms or being used as expensive projection systems across our districts (and in our own building here […]