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"content": "\u003cp>Mention robots to many English teachers and they’ll immediately point down the hall to the science classroom or to the makerspace, if they have one. At many schools, if there’s a robot at all, it’s located in a science or math classroom or is being built by an after-school robotics club. It’s not usually a fixture in English classrooms. But as teachers continue to work at finding new entry points to old material for their students, \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/16/sphero-teaches-kids-to-code\" target=\"_blank\">robots are proving to be a great interdisciplinary tool\u003c/a> that builds collaboration and literacy skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For someone like me who teaches literature by lots of dead white guys, teaching programming adds relevance to my class,” said Jessica Herring, a high school English teacher at Benton High School in Arkansas. Herring first experimented using \u003ca href=\"http://www.sphero.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Sphero\u003c/a>, essentially a programmable ball, when her American literature class was studying the writing of early settlers. Herring pushed the desks back and drew a maze on the floor with tape representing the journey from Europe to the New World. Her students used class iPads and an introductory manually guided app to steer their Spheros through the maze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herring, like many English teachers, was skeptical about how the Sphero robot could be a useful teaching tool in her classroom. She thought that type of technology would distract students from the core skills of reading, writing and analyzing literature. But she decided to try it after hearing about the success of another English teacher across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_45836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-45836 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-1440x1440.jpg\" alt=\"Students experiment with the Spheros, learning how to manipulate them through a maze representing the journey from Europe to the New World.\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_6291-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students experiment with the Spheros, learning how to manipulate them through a maze representing the journey from Europe to the New World. \u003ccite>(Jessica Herring)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The conversation we had afterwards about those explorers coming to the New World was really amazing,” Herring said during a presentation on her experiences at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. Because students had struggled to keep their Spheros in the maze, they understood in a personal way how frustrating it must have been for early settlers who got lost, backtracked and eventually made it to a new land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They went from piloting these robots to talking about these bigger ideas and having this empathy for people in history,” Herring said. Students commented that they could understand why the Puritans had to believe in a higher power while making the journey, and expressed respect for their tenacity. Herring began to see how the Spheros could give students a more visceral point of connection to themes in the books they were studying, and began scheming more ways to connect programming to reflection and writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/AxsZouCwnPc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PROGRAMMING MIRRORS WRITING PROCESS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her students had that initial experience exploring with the Spheros, Herring decided to increase the complexity. For the next Spheros project, students chose a character from Mark Twain’s classic novel \u003cem>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c/em> and programmed their Spheros to represent the personality, emotions and journey of that character. To do this, students had to go back to the text and use close-reading strategies to find textual evidence that would back up their interpretation of the setting, motivations and feelings of the character. Then they had to decide how the Spheros, a simple round ball that can light up, could represent those qualities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, one group chose “drunk Pap” as their character. They programmed their Sphero to zigzag across the river (marked out on the floor with tape), stop at the house, and then shake and turn red. As students went through the process they soon realized their graphic organizers of ideas were more like hypotheses; they had to adjust and add detail as they tried things in the programming language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_45838\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45838\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/Sphero-17-of-60-e1469588894594-400x283.jpg\" alt=\"Students filled in graphic organizers to justify their programming choices with textual evidence.\" width=\"400\" height=\"283\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students filled in graphic organizers to justify their programming choices with textual evidence. \u003ccite>(Jessica Herring)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The programming process models the writing process,” Herring said. Many of her students struggle to see writing as an iterative process -- they prefer to dash something off and never look at it again. But as they collaboratively planned their storylines, tried programming different representations into the Spheros and modified their approaches, they began to see the importance of revision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they could make that connection between writing and programming, it really changed their approach to writing,” Herring said. “It made them more open to that process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her honors class, Herring used the Spheros for a project on \u003cem>Beowulf\u003c/em>. Together the class studied the three different battles between Beowulf and Grendel. Then students split into groups and chose different battles to represent. They had to code their Spheros to not only represent the actions of their character in the battle, but also collaborate with the group representing their opponent so that the interactions in the battle matched up. “The alignment of the two programs was really challenging and they liked it,” Herring said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herring tried the Spheros activities with both her honors British literature class and an on-level class. The two groups of students reacted differently to the assignment. The honors students were more reluctant to jump into the project, seeing it as “playing around,” not serious work. They wanted to continue doing what they were used to -- analyzing text and writing papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we think about higher-level kids, we think they’re really reflective and understand how they’re learning,” Herring said. “But sometimes they’re so overwhelmed by all these highly rigorous courses that demand a lot of them that they don’t have time to think.” As their teacher, she could see that they were digging into the text, closely reading, listening to one another, articulating their opinions and collaborating, but she had to actively point out these aspects to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, the on-level group was more engaged than Herring had ever seen them. “On-level kids were just so excited that someone let them get out of a desk,” Herring said. “They really saw it as impacting their understanding of the text. They saw this deep connection and change in their learning experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these students had struggled to care about English class, but when Herring let them show their thoughts in a different way and discuss before writing, their ideas flowed on paper more easily. And Herring is intentional about allowing students to revise work for a new grade to make sure her grading policies for writing mirror the kind of growth mindset she seeded with the Spheros programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herring admits that she likes to keep her assignments fairly open, and that lack of structure can fluster students who have been told exactly how to complete assignments in the past. But Herring tells them she’s giving them freedom because she believes in their ability to impress her, that they can come up with far more creative approaches if she doesn’t give them a framework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45839\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-1440x771.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7930\" width=\"640\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-1440x771.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-400x214.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-800x428.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-768x411.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-1180x632.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-960x514.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so incredible to see how that freed them up to see that ‘my brain has value. I’m a creative person,’ \" Herring said. She also found that when students got out of their desks and worked together, different students tended to shine. She saw leadership and innovative ideas out of students who previously seemed checked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it changed their perspective of themselves as learners,” Herring said. “They felt more confident. They were more willing to take risks.” Some of the students in her on-level class are now planning to take honors classes next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the year Herring experimented with different programming apps of various complexity to scaffold her students in their programming skills, as well as their literary analysis. She started them out on the manual app, which isn’t really programming, but gave students a chance to play with the technology and get over its novelty. For the next project she asked students to use \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=orbotix.draw&hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Sphero Drive N Draw\u003c/a>, an app that takes a step toward block-based programming by letting students draw the path the Sphero will follow. Most of Herrings projects used the free app \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sphero.sprk&hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">SPRK Lightning Lab\u003c/a>, a block-based coding app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For students who want more control over the code, \u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/sphero-macrolab/\" target=\"_blank\">Sphero Macrolab\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orbotix.orbbasic&hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">orbBasic for Sphero\u003c/a> require the user to actually write code. Herring didn’t use these two apps because she worried if the coding got too complicated and challenging, it would distract from the literature focus of the project. Herring herself had almost no experience with coding when she launched this project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really didn’t go in with me as an expert,” she said. “I think that might have ruined it.” When she was learning alongside her students it gave them a chance to become the experts, to show her things they had figured out, and to reinforce the playful nature of trying something, improving on the design and working toward an ultimate product that made them all proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LEARNING FROM OTHER EDUCATORS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Herring introduced the Spheros experiment it was her first year teaching high school after several years at the local middle school. She first learned about \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/robotic-adventures-in-english/id1053472110?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\">Spheros in the classroom\u003c/a> from another educator teaching in New York state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veteran teacher Richard Perry was frustrated that his upper-level AP English students weren’t connecting with the heart of John Steinbeck’s novel \u003cem>The Grapes of Wrath\u003c/em>. They weren’t having trouble analyzing text, but he could see that they didn’t seem to have much empathy for the experiences of the Joad family. He hypothesized that there was too much distance between students’ privileged socioeconomic backgrounds and the experience of the Joad family; instead of empathy for the characters, students felt annoyed that so many bad things happened to them throughout the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry decided to build a mountain and assign student groups a Sphero that represented their family traveling over the mountain. “The whole idea was to make sure the kids understood you can be a good, hard-working person and sometimes the situation is still going to be aligned against you,” Perry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/a0N7-lYW8Us?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry gave student groups a few class periods to get familiar with the Spheros, then he brought out the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0N7-lYW8Us\" target=\"_blank\">mountain he had made\u003c/a> out of cardboard and AstroTurf. Students got a few class periods to work on programming their Sphero to get over the mountain and were expected to document their successes and failures. Finally, each group got five minutes to try to navigate their “Joad family” over the mountain. Perry had built in traps and at times the Sphero would cut out, as the Joad family car had done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first year none of the families succeeded,” Perry said. But students had gained a lot of empathy for the Joad family, which showed up in their writing. The second year, Perry used the same activity, which was also an inclusion class. Perry said one of the students in that class was blind, and although incredibly bright, struggled with being seen as “disabled” by peers. He explored the mountain by touch and ended up identifying some of the tricks for his group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He became the hero for the entire unit,” Perry said. His group was the only one to successfully cross the mountain. Students saw the student’s blindness as an asset in this situation; he had the tools to understand the world around him in different and necessary ways. “That had an impact on me, too,” Perry said. “He beat me at this task because he had this ability that I don’t have, and it impressed the hell of me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry took the Spheros activity to the next level when his 10th-grade students were reading \u003cem>Lord of the Flies\u003c/em>. In discussions, it was clear that students were having a hard time connecting with the themes of the book. They didn’t believe humans would act the way the boys on the island did, and had no perception of what survival would have been like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry \u003ca href=\"https://padlet-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/118719535/459c2c745bb168359e3ea3300609925f37e1ddc7/f4effeb28c5c19fcab85b1b92e70c178.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">designed three challenges\u003c/a> to represent surviving on the island: a shelter challenge, fire challenge and a pig hunt. He then assigned each student a character and doled out \u003ca href=\"https://padlet-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/118719535/dbb1a3bb576a98e376edd51c4d50cc83154da6db/68a45f57179878ff1048b382e19a21ff.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">different abilities and resources\u003c/a> depending on the character’s personality. For example, the Sphero representing Piggy was programmed to go half as fast as the fastest boy’s Sphero, but because he is a resourceful, smart character he had more tools to complete the challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/KRYv0DW4rZU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We gave them the chance to really step into the shoes of those kids,” Perry said. And when it came to the pig hunt, a culminating scene in the book, the students “went all \u003cem>Lord of the Flies\u003c/em> on each other,” ganging up on the weakest among them in order to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had that moment when the light came on,” Perry said. Students had unwittingly acted exactly as the characters did in the book. Suddenly all the theoretical arguments they made before the activity fell flat. To improve the project next year, Perry plans to have students set the parameters for the different characters based on textual analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Herring and Perry are excited at how such a simple robot like the Sphero could activate student thinking, discussion, excitement and empathy in their classrooms. They’re thinking about how they might have their classes collaborate and learn from one another, especially because Herring’s students are more ethnically and socioeconomically diverse than Perry’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like what we’re doing is really transformative and can be applied to other classes that are not literacy,” Herring said. She sees history as a natural application, but also realizes her students were using geometry and physics, among other disciplines, when programming their Spheros. The interdisciplinary nature of the project is part of its strength in her mind. She hopes more teachers will be open-minded about letting students have a kinesthetic experience that gets them out of their desks to grow into more confident learners.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/AxsZouCwnPc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PROGRAMMING MIRRORS WRITING PROCESS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her students had that initial experience exploring with the Spheros, Herring decided to increase the complexity. For the next Spheros project, students chose a character from Mark Twain’s classic novel \u003cem>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c/em> and programmed their Spheros to represent the personality, emotions and journey of that character. To do this, students had to go back to the text and use close-reading strategies to find textual evidence that would back up their interpretation of the setting, motivations and feelings of the character. Then they had to decide how the Spheros, a simple round ball that can light up, could represent those qualities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, one group chose “drunk Pap” as their character. They programmed their Sphero to zigzag across the river (marked out on the floor with tape), stop at the house, and then shake and turn red. As students went through the process they soon realized their graphic organizers of ideas were more like hypotheses; they had to adjust and add detail as they tried things in the programming language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_45838\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45838\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/Sphero-17-of-60-e1469588894594-400x283.jpg\" alt=\"Students filled in graphic organizers to justify their programming choices with textual evidence.\" width=\"400\" height=\"283\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students filled in graphic organizers to justify their programming choices with textual evidence. \u003ccite>(Jessica Herring)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The programming process models the writing process,” Herring said. Many of her students struggle to see writing as an iterative process -- they prefer to dash something off and never look at it again. But as they collaboratively planned their storylines, tried programming different representations into the Spheros and modified their approaches, they began to see the importance of revision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they could make that connection between writing and programming, it really changed their approach to writing,” Herring said. “It made them more open to that process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her honors class, Herring used the Spheros for a project on \u003cem>Beowulf\u003c/em>. Together the class studied the three different battles between Beowulf and Grendel. Then students split into groups and chose different battles to represent. They had to code their Spheros to not only represent the actions of their character in the battle, but also collaborate with the group representing their opponent so that the interactions in the battle matched up. “The alignment of the two programs was really challenging and they liked it,” Herring said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herring tried the Spheros activities with both her honors British literature class and an on-level class. The two groups of students reacted differently to the assignment. The honors students were more reluctant to jump into the project, seeing it as “playing around,” not serious work. They wanted to continue doing what they were used to -- analyzing text and writing papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we think about higher-level kids, we think they’re really reflective and understand how they’re learning,” Herring said. “But sometimes they’re so overwhelmed by all these highly rigorous courses that demand a lot of them that they don’t have time to think.” As their teacher, she could see that they were digging into the text, closely reading, listening to one another, articulating their opinions and collaborating, but she had to actively point out these aspects to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, the on-level group was more engaged than Herring had ever seen them. “On-level kids were just so excited that someone let them get out of a desk,” Herring said. “They really saw it as impacting their understanding of the text. They saw this deep connection and change in their learning experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these students had struggled to care about English class, but when Herring let them show their thoughts in a different way and discuss before writing, their ideas flowed on paper more easily. And Herring is intentional about allowing students to revise work for a new grade to make sure her grading policies for writing mirror the kind of growth mindset she seeded with the Spheros programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herring admits that she likes to keep her assignments fairly open, and that lack of structure can fluster students who have been told exactly how to complete assignments in the past. But Herring tells them she’s giving them freedom because she believes in their ability to impress her, that they can come up with far more creative approaches if she doesn’t give them a framework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45839\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-1440x771.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7930\" width=\"640\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-1440x771.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-400x214.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-800x428.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-768x411.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-1180x632.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/IMG_7930-960x514.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so incredible to see how that freed them up to see that ‘my brain has value. I’m a creative person,’ \" Herring said. She also found that when students got out of their desks and worked together, different students tended to shine. She saw leadership and innovative ideas out of students who previously seemed checked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it changed their perspective of themselves as learners,” Herring said. “They felt more confident. They were more willing to take risks.” Some of the students in her on-level class are now planning to take honors classes next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the year Herring experimented with different programming apps of various complexity to scaffold her students in their programming skills, as well as their literary analysis. She started them out on the manual app, which isn’t really programming, but gave students a chance to play with the technology and get over its novelty. For the next project she asked students to use \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=orbotix.draw&hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Sphero Drive N Draw\u003c/a>, an app that takes a step toward block-based programming by letting students draw the path the Sphero will follow. Most of Herrings projects used the free app \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sphero.sprk&hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">SPRK Lightning Lab\u003c/a>, a block-based coding app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For students who want more control over the code, \u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/sphero-macrolab/\" target=\"_blank\">Sphero Macrolab\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orbotix.orbbasic&hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">orbBasic for Sphero\u003c/a> require the user to actually write code. Herring didn’t use these two apps because she worried if the coding got too complicated and challenging, it would distract from the literature focus of the project. Herring herself had almost no experience with coding when she launched this project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really didn’t go in with me as an expert,” she said. “I think that might have ruined it.” When she was learning alongside her students it gave them a chance to become the experts, to show her things they had figured out, and to reinforce the playful nature of trying something, improving on the design and working toward an ultimate product that made them all proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LEARNING FROM OTHER EDUCATORS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Herring introduced the Spheros experiment it was her first year teaching high school after several years at the local middle school. 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Students got a few class periods to work on programming their Sphero to get over the mountain and were expected to document their successes and failures. Finally, each group got five minutes to try to navigate their “Joad family” over the mountain. Perry had built in traps and at times the Sphero would cut out, as the Joad family car had done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first year none of the families succeeded,” Perry said. But students had gained a lot of empathy for the Joad family, which showed up in their writing. The second year, Perry used the same activity, which was also an inclusion class. Perry said one of the students in that class was blind, and although incredibly bright, struggled with being seen as “disabled” by peers. He explored the mountain by touch and ended up identifying some of the tricks for his group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He became the hero for the entire unit,” Perry said. His group was the only one to successfully cross the mountain. 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"content": "\u003cp>Teachers see first-hand how we grow and learn; each experience is as unique as the individual. And teachers have a trove of stories we don't ever get to hear for a multitude of reasons, like lack of time or interest in knowing what teachers experience first-hand. It's tough to hear the personal stories when so much attention is focused on test scores and standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At MindShift and KQED, we want to make space for real dialogue about teaching. So we created a podcast, \"Stories Teachers Share.\" Each episode features a teacher recalling a moment that defined his or her teaching experience. You'll also hear from the people in their lives who were affected by that individual's teaching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-teachers-share-mindshift/id1078765985\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43529\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/01/Teachers-compilation.jpg\" alt=\"Teachers-compilation\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/01/Teachers-compilation.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/01/Teachers-compilation-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/01/Teachers-compilation-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/01/Teachers-compilation-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/01/Teachers-compilation-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/01/Teachers-compilation-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/01/Teachers-compilation-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/01/25/wet-sundays/\"> Sadie, a special education teacher \u003c/a>who leaned on her mom (who also works with students who have disabilities) to get through her first year. You can also meet Alex and Al, who concocted an epic \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/03/15/the-epic-april-fools-day-prank/\">April Fool's Day\u003c/a> prank on their high school students, which resulted in handcuffs. English teacher Alexa made an incredible discovery in front of her class while reading a student's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/01/25/the-creative-writing-assignment/\">creative writing assignment\u003c/a> on a Chrome Book. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/01/26/the-puberty-lady/\">The Puberty Lady\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/02/02/questions-adolescent-boys-ask-about-puberty/\">Dr. Rob\u003c/a> teach parents, especially, about how to talk with their adolescent kids about puberty. Basketball \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/02/09/the-coach/\">coach Jim\u003c/a> guided one player with dreams of NCAA sports through a smaller college experience. We also helped a former student who had been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/02/23/what-makes-a-teacher-special-to-a-student/\">searching\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/02/23/what-makes-a-teacher-special-to-a-student/\"> for his middle school teacher\u003c/a> for decades to share his appreciation .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have an experience you’d like to share, email us at MindShiftStories@kqed.org. You can even record yourself on your smartphone and send the file to us. We’ll try to include these stories on an upcoming episode. You can also call us and leave a message at: 415-553-2200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The more we learn about the people impacted by teachers, the more we learn about what makes a great teacher. We invite you to take a \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-teachers-share-mindshift/id1078765985\">listen on iTunes\u003c/a> or wherever you get your podcasts and find out more about the stories teachers share with friends, students, parents, loved ones and us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>--Ki & Katrina\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/01/MindShift-graphic-e1453796424833.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1078765985\">Subscribe in iTunes\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don't miss an episode of \u003cem>Stories Teachers Share\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also available via \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/category/stories-teachers-share/feed/\">RSS\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Students can read or hear first-hand accounts of life on both sides of the border along with stories of crossing -- some successful, others not. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/website/american-panorama\">\u003cb>American Panorama\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With American Panorama’s foreign-born population map, students can analyze migration patterns for the whole country over time as well as zoom in on a specific year or location to see detailed data on countries of origin. This unique interactive resource can be a valuable supplement to a lesson or unit about U.S. immigration.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://apps.npr.org/borderland/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45825\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/NPR.png\" alt=\"NPR\" width=\"1300\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/NPR.png 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/NPR-400x195.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/NPR-800x390.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/NPR-768x375.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/NPR-1180x575.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/NPR-960x468.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/website/npr-borderland\">\u003cb>NPR: Borderland\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This collection of 12 multimedia stories as well as 22 podcasts offers an illuminating, intimate visit to the U.S.-Mexico border. Students can read or hear first-hand accounts of life on both sides of the border along with stories of crossing -- some successful, others not. Teachers can use Borderland for whole-class discussion and exploration, or give students time to experience these powerful stories on their own.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/game/papers-please\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45824\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/Papers-Please.png\" alt=\"Papers Please\" width=\"1288\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/Papers-Please.png 1288w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/Papers-Please-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/Papers-Please-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/Papers-Please-768x432.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/Papers-Please-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/07/Papers-Please-960x540.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1288px) 100vw, 1288px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/game/papers-please\">\u003cb>Papers, Please\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Put students in the role of an immigration officer in this mature simulation game that forces tough ethical choices and explores the grim systems underpinning border control. Players approve or deny someone entry to a fictional country, basing their decisions on an ever-increasing number of virtual documents they must read and analyze. Teachers can help students contextualize their experiences with the game by facilitating extension activities, class discussion, research projects, and writing assignments focused on real-world border and immigration issues.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Erin Wilkey Oh is executive editor of \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators\" target=\"_blank\">Common Sense Education\u003c/a>, which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Go to \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators\" target=\"_blank\">Common Sense Education\u003c/a> for free resources, including full reviews of digital tools.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Eric Langhorst teaches the Civil War to his eighth-graders at Discovery Middle School in Liberty, Missouri, he likes to give his students a taste of what Missouri was like in that era. In addition to teaching about the big events found in any Civil War curriculum, like the battles of Gettysburg and Antietam, Langhorst incorporates materials he has created about the guerrilla-style warfare more common in his region at that time. He wouldn’t be able to localize his curriculum that way if he taught only out of a textbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the limitations of textbooks are they tend to be very non-interactive, kind of impersonal, and they’re not very flexible in terms of regional differences,” Langhorst said. For all these reasons, he doesn’t use them anymore. Instead, he creates his own curriculum, in collaboration with the other eighth-grade social studies teacher at his school, out of materials he has found on the internet and adapted to the needs of his classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Some of the limitations of textbooks are they tend to be very non-interactive, kind of impersonal, and they're not very flexible in terms of regional differences.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Langhorst didn’t always feel comfortable playing the role of curriculum creator, alongside his primary role as teacher. He started teaching in an analog-era, when finding and sharing materials was much more difficult. Teachers relied on textbooks as the primary resource because that’s all there was. And, as a new teacher juggling classes that spanned sixth through 12th grade, Langhorst didn’t feel confident enough to build his own curriculum. But now, 22 years into his career, he says he would never teach with a textbook again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Liberty Public Schools district sees Langhorst and his colleague as front-runners in an important shift toward open educational resources (OER). The district has joined the \u003ca href=\"http://tech.ed.gov/open-education/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#GoOpen movement\u003c/a> -- a Department of Education campaign to raise awareness about OER -- and has \u003ca href=\"http://tech.ed.gov/stories/liberty/?back=%2Fstories%2Fstate%2Fmissouri%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">committed to ditching the textbook for at least one class\u003c/a>, using open and adaptable online resources instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/QqaPWn6QPxM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keeping information fresh and up to date in a quickly moving world is one of the biggest reasons districts are starting to get more serious about the power of teacher-created open resources. Districts typically adopt new textbooks on a five-year cycle. At that point, some of the information is outdated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason teachers like Langhorst are excited about this movement is the ability to adapt resources for their own use. If a teacher believes a lesson plan found online isn’t completely aligned with the standards taught in his state, he can modify it until he’s comfortable with it. And, textbook companies often tailor their content to the legislative priorities of big states like Texas and California -- where there are lots of schools -- essentially forcing teachers in other states to accept language around some ideas, like climate change and the characterization of different ethnic groups, that were approved by those state legislatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many teachers still have big questions about OER that will determine how many of them choose to adopt this approach to teaching and curriculum. Teachers are familiar with the amount of time and energy it takes to create good learning materials because many already curate and remix lessons. As the infrastructure to search and share those lesson plans becomes more robust, some teachers wonder whether they should share lessons they created with the world when they were never compensated for the time they put into making them. Others worry about issues of intellectual copyright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got this potentially great lesson that you’ve created and you want to share it, but it’s not a book or a song, something that traditionally has an author,” Langhorst said. Instead, lesson plans are often mashups of articles, videos, photos and other media. Teachers are hesitant to share those lessons with their names attached because they know they don’t actually own all the elements within it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t think of many things I do in the classroom that I can solely say I created or that I thought of,” Langhorst said. He’s also worried that some districts will pull back from textbooks as a way to save money (a lot of money), but won’t reinvest those savings into the teachers creating curriculum or into professional development to help them use the new resources well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GOING OPEN BY FOCUSING ON PROJECTS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vista Unified School District, just north of San Diego, has been quietly transitioning to open educational resources through its \u003ca href=\"http://tech.ed.gov/stories/vista/?back=%2Fstories%2Fstate%2Fcalifornia%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">focus on providing alternative paths \u003c/a>to learning for students. For example, \u003ca href=\"http://vva.vistausd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vista Visions Academy\u003c/a> allows K-12 students to attend school only half the time, while pursuing independent study at home through online programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In middle school, students come to a school building only three days a week. They get help from their teacher or peers, have advisory and complete lab classes. The other two days a week are done online. High school students take 90 percent of their classes online. Because of the unique structure at Vista Visions, teachers there have been using digital resources they curated for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District leaders are also trying to support teachers to move more toward a project-based learning approach to teaching and away from traditional, textbook-bound instruction. As part of the process they are training teachers to curate and remix engaging lessons, paying them for their time while they’re doing it. “We’re trying to teach teachers to be discerning about what they’re bringing to kids,” said Erin English, Vista’s director of blended and online learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says this shift in professional development has translated to a change of instruction. A few years ago most teachers in a typical Vista Unified classroom were following a textbook, assigning a worksheet to practice a skill, and then doing an activity or writing assignment based on that lesson. Now, teachers who have had extra training are asking students to find their own information and use it to display their knowledge of the subject. Sometimes teachers will tell students where to find that information, but they are also trying to help students analyze their sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s getting teachers to understand that all students learn differently,” English said. “We’ve been standardizing our instruction for years, but we haven’t been very successful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>English said one big point of pushback from her teachers revolves around the time it takes to create materials this way. She understands it’s a huge workload, which is why she’s committed to paying teachers in her district who are working to create open educational resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about giving kids current, relevant and timely material,” English said. She contends that teachers can’t teach their students to think critically about the world and the information presented to them if they learn from only one source while in school. Open educational resources can help drive home the point that there’s always another opinion or a different perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to give [students] problems for them to solve themselves,” English said. That’s why she’s so excited about a collaborative project Vista teachers created \u003ca href=\"http://thevistapress.com/working-with-students-from-other-states-a-win-for-vista-schools/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with teachers in Ohio and Wisconsin\u003c/a> about how the earth affects people and how people affect the earth. The seventh-grade teachers at middle schools in all three states collaborated to build a unit of study that students in each class would do over three months. Students also collaborated with one another across state lines to give feedback, eventually presenting their final projects to one another through Google Hangouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students chose how they were going to display how they were going to master those standards through projects,” English said. In the final products, students demonstrated their learning with everything from coding to making videos. One girl built her own smoke machine to simulate smog. English said the cross-state collaboration was particularly fun because students in different parts of the country had a lot of misconceptions about one another. Connecting over their projects helped them learn about different regions of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have not done competency-based education, nor have we done a lot of open materials in our classrooms in a typical school,” English said. Teachers involved in the collaboration were dipping their toes into a lot of new areas, but they felt safe doing so because the teachers in Ohio had much more experience with both project-based learning and competency-based education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For our teachers it was enlightening,” English said. While the collaboration impacted relatively few teachers and students, the exhibition of the projects sparked excitement in other teachers to try something similar. The use of open resources trickled down into other classes that are now trying to use digital content they’ve curated as supplements to textbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most teachers have been doing this for a really long time without publicizing it,” English said. California teachers often feel particularly hamstrung by textbooks because of a court ruling in the Williams case that every child must have access to a textbook. The law came out of a class-action lawsuit meant to ensure equal access to clean and safe facilities and up-to-date learning materials for all California students. Practically, that means many district leaders feel they must spend huge portions of slim budgets on textbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Very few people haven’t realized the gold mine of the internet,” English said. That’s why she’s grateful the Office of Educational Technology at the Department of Education has been supportive of open educational resources through its #GoOpen push.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of Ed Tech is supporting districts to #GoOpen in a few ways. First, staff members are trying to ensure that there is infrastructure in place to make teacher-created materials more discoverable. Amazon has brought its recommending and search prowess to the project with Inspire, a platform where teachers can upload their lessons, tag them and make them freely available to other teachers around the country. \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazoninspire.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inspire is still in beta\u003c/a>, with several district around the country testing its functionality. The plan is for the Inspire platform to be compatible with third-party learning management systems that many schools already use, so teachers can search the \u003ca href=\"http://learningregistry.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">learning registry\u003c/a> from within their school’s platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another part of the #GoOpen initiative is to \u003ca href=\"http://tech.ed.gov/open-education/go-open-districts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">connect districts doing this work\u003c/a> and encourage more to join. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Eric Langhorst teaches the Civil War to his eighth-graders at Discovery Middle School in Liberty, Missouri, he likes to give his students a taste of what Missouri was like in that era. In addition to teaching about the big events found in any Civil War curriculum, like the battles of Gettysburg and Antietam, Langhorst incorporates materials he has created about the guerrilla-style warfare more common in his region at that time. He wouldn’t be able to localize his curriculum that way if he taught only out of a textbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the limitations of textbooks are they tend to be very non-interactive, kind of impersonal, and they’re not very flexible in terms of regional differences,” Langhorst said. For all these reasons, he doesn’t use them anymore. Instead, he creates his own curriculum, in collaboration with the other eighth-grade social studies teacher at his school, out of materials he has found on the internet and adapted to the needs of his classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Some of the limitations of textbooks are they tend to be very non-interactive, kind of impersonal, and they're not very flexible in terms of regional differences.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Langhorst didn’t always feel comfortable playing the role of curriculum creator, alongside his primary role as teacher. He started teaching in an analog-era, when finding and sharing materials was much more difficult. Teachers relied on textbooks as the primary resource because that’s all there was. And, as a new teacher juggling classes that spanned sixth through 12th grade, Langhorst didn’t feel confident enough to build his own curriculum. But now, 22 years into his career, he says he would never teach with a textbook again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Liberty Public Schools district sees Langhorst and his colleague as front-runners in an important shift toward open educational resources (OER). The district has joined the \u003ca href=\"http://tech.ed.gov/open-education/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#GoOpen movement\u003c/a> -- a Department of Education campaign to raise awareness about OER -- and has \u003ca href=\"http://tech.ed.gov/stories/liberty/?back=%2Fstories%2Fstate%2Fmissouri%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">committed to ditching the textbook for at least one class\u003c/a>, using open and adaptable online resources instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/QqaPWn6QPxM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And, textbook companies often tailor their content to the legislative priorities of big states like Texas and California -- where there are lots of schools -- essentially forcing teachers in other states to accept language around some ideas, like climate change and the characterization of different ethnic groups, that were approved by those state legislatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many teachers still have big questions about OER that will determine how many of them choose to adopt this approach to teaching and curriculum. Teachers are familiar with the amount of time and energy it takes to create good learning materials because many already curate and remix lessons. As the infrastructure to search and share those lesson plans becomes more robust, some teachers wonder whether they should share lessons they created with the world when they were never compensated for the time they put into making them. Others worry about issues of intellectual copyright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got this potentially great lesson that you’ve created and you want to share it, but it’s not a book or a song, something that traditionally has an author,” Langhorst said. Instead, lesson plans are often mashups of articles, videos, photos and other media. Teachers are hesitant to share those lessons with their names attached because they know they don’t actually own all the elements within it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t think of many things I do in the classroom that I can solely say I created or that I thought of,” Langhorst said. He’s also worried that some districts will pull back from textbooks as a way to save money (a lot of money), but won’t reinvest those savings into the teachers creating curriculum or into professional development to help them use the new resources well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GOING OPEN BY FOCUSING ON PROJECTS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vista Unified School District, just north of San Diego, has been quietly transitioning to open educational resources through its \u003ca href=\"http://tech.ed.gov/stories/vista/?back=%2Fstories%2Fstate%2Fcalifornia%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">focus on providing alternative paths \u003c/a>to learning for students. For example, \u003ca href=\"http://vva.vistausd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vista Visions Academy\u003c/a> allows K-12 students to attend school only half the time, while pursuing independent study at home through online programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In middle school, students come to a school building only three days a week. They get help from their teacher or peers, have advisory and complete lab classes. The other two days a week are done online. High school students take 90 percent of their classes online. Because of the unique structure at Vista Visions, teachers there have been using digital resources they curated for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District leaders are also trying to support teachers to move more toward a project-based learning approach to teaching and away from traditional, textbook-bound instruction. As part of the process they are training teachers to curate and remix engaging lessons, paying them for their time while they’re doing it. “We’re trying to teach teachers to be discerning about what they’re bringing to kids,” said Erin English, Vista’s director of blended and online learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says this shift in professional development has translated to a change of instruction. A few years ago most teachers in a typical Vista Unified classroom were following a textbook, assigning a worksheet to practice a skill, and then doing an activity or writing assignment based on that lesson. Now, teachers who have had extra training are asking students to find their own information and use it to display their knowledge of the subject. Sometimes teachers will tell students where to find that information, but they are also trying to help students analyze their sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s getting teachers to understand that all students learn differently,” English said. “We’ve been standardizing our instruction for years, but we haven’t been very successful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>English said one big point of pushback from her teachers revolves around the time it takes to create materials this way. She understands it’s a huge workload, which is why she’s committed to paying teachers in her district who are working to create open educational resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about giving kids current, relevant and timely material,” English said. She contends that teachers can’t teach their students to think critically about the world and the information presented to them if they learn from only one source while in school. Open educational resources can help drive home the point that there’s always another opinion or a different perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to give [students] problems for them to solve themselves,” English said. That’s why she’s so excited about a collaborative project Vista teachers created \u003ca href=\"http://thevistapress.com/working-with-students-from-other-states-a-win-for-vista-schools/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with teachers in Ohio and Wisconsin\u003c/a> about how the earth affects people and how people affect the earth. The seventh-grade teachers at middle schools in all three states collaborated to build a unit of study that students in each class would do over three months. Students also collaborated with one another across state lines to give feedback, eventually presenting their final projects to one another through Google Hangouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students chose how they were going to display how they were going to master those standards through projects,” English said. In the final products, students demonstrated their learning with everything from coding to making videos. One girl built her own smoke machine to simulate smog. English said the cross-state collaboration was particularly fun because students in different parts of the country had a lot of misconceptions about one another. Connecting over their projects helped them learn about different regions of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have not done competency-based education, nor have we done a lot of open materials in our classrooms in a typical school,” English said. Teachers involved in the collaboration were dipping their toes into a lot of new areas, but they felt safe doing so because the teachers in Ohio had much more experience with both project-based learning and competency-based education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For our teachers it was enlightening,” English said. While the collaboration impacted relatively few teachers and students, the exhibition of the projects sparked excitement in other teachers to try something similar. The use of open resources trickled down into other classes that are now trying to use digital content they’ve curated as supplements to textbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most teachers have been doing this for a really long time without publicizing it,” English said. California teachers often feel particularly hamstrung by textbooks because of a court ruling in the Williams case that every child must have access to a textbook. The law came out of a class-action lawsuit meant to ensure equal access to clean and safe facilities and up-to-date learning materials for all California students. Practically, that means many district leaders feel they must spend huge portions of slim budgets on textbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Very few people haven’t realized the gold mine of the internet,” English said. That’s why she’s grateful the Office of Educational Technology at the Department of Education has been supportive of open educational resources through its #GoOpen push.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of Ed Tech is supporting districts to #GoOpen in a few ways. First, staff members are trying to ensure that there is infrastructure in place to make teacher-created materials more discoverable. Amazon has brought its recommending and search prowess to the project with Inspire, a platform where teachers can upload their lessons, tag them and make them freely available to other teachers around the country. \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazoninspire.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inspire is still in beta\u003c/a>, with several district around the country testing its functionality. The plan is for the Inspire platform to be compatible with third-party learning management systems that many schools already use, so teachers can search the \u003ca href=\"http://learningregistry.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">learning registry\u003c/a> from within their school’s platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another part of the #GoOpen initiative is to \u003ca href=\"http://tech.ed.gov/open-education/go-open-districts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">connect districts doing this work\u003c/a> and encourage more to join. 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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://conference.iste.org/2017/\" target=\"_blank\">International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)\u003c/a> conference brings together a huge cross section of educators who share a common belief that technology in the classroom can make learning more relevant, engaging and fun for kids. Among the 20,000 or so conference-goers are ed-tech evangelists, teachers new to technology, passionate makers and many others. Educators at the conference are looking for new ideas and tools to bring back to their districts and classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edtechteam.com/team/monicamartinez/\" target=\"_blank\">Monica Martinez\u003c/a> creates professional development for the EdTechTeam, a partner of Google For Education. She has tried and vetted many of the apps available to teachers on many different platforms and has compiled an in-depth\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/site/monicassites101/google-a---z\" target=\"_blank\"> list of resources\u003c/a> that can help educators find what they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an ISTE session, Martinez highlighted several of her favorite tech tools that often get overlooked by both savvy ed-tech teachers and those newer to the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.street&hl=en&gl=us\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45669\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.40.35-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2016-06-30 at 2.40.35 PM\" width=\"205\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.40.35-PM.png 205w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.40.35-PM-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.40.35-PM-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.40.35-PM-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.40.35-PM-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.40.35-PM-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.40.35-PM-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.vr.expeditions\" target=\"_blank\">Google Expeditions\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>This virtual reality field trip tool works in conjunction with Google Cardboard and has just been officially released. The app allows teachers to guide students through an exploration of 200 (and growing) historical sites and natural resources in an immersive, three-dimensional experience. The app only works on Android devices and is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>App users can also apply \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.street&hl=en&gl=us\" target=\"_blank\">Google Street View\u003c/a> by taking a picture in 3D and pushing that experience to virtual reality. “You and your students can create your own content,” Martinez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://flippity.net/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45671\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/flippity.png\" alt=\"flippity\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/flippity.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/flippity-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/flippity-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/flippity-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/flippity-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/flippity-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/flippity-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://flippity.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Flippity\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>This app works in conjunction with Google Sheets and allows teachers to easily make a Jeopardy-style game. Martinez has created a template of what this could look like and invites educators to copy her Google document and tinker with it for their own purposes. She finds it particularly useful for review and trivia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.forscience.whistlepunk\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45672\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.49.44-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2016-06-30 at 2.49.44 PM\" width=\"203\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.49.44-PM.png 203w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.49.44-PM-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.49.44-PM-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.49.44-PM-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.49.44-PM-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.49.44-PM-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.49.44-PM-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.forscience.whistlepunk\" target=\"_blank\">Google Science Journal\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>This Android app allows users to do science experiments with mobile phones. Students can use sensors in the phone or connect external sensors to collect data, but can also take notes on observations, analyze and annotate within the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/cast/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45674\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.53.48-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2016-06-30 at 2.53.48 PM\" width=\"203\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.53.48-PM.png 203w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.53.48-PM-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.53.48-PM-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.53.48-PM-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.53.48-PM-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.53.48-PM-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.53.48-PM-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/cast/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Cast\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>This simple app solves issues of disparate devices in the classroom. When students download the app, they can project from their devices onto the screen at the front of the room easily. “You don’t have to have specific hardware, you just have to have Wi-Fi,” Martinez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/project/art-project\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45675\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.58.48-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2016-06-30 at 2.58.48 PM\" width=\"205\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.58.48-PM.png 205w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.58.48-PM-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.58.48-PM-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.58.48-PM-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.58.48-PM-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.58.48-PM-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.58.48-PM-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/project/art-project\" target=\"_blank\">Google Art Project\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>Field trips to museums are becoming increasingly rare in public school classrooms. This part of Google Arts and Culture gives students that chance when it isn’t in the budget. The Google team took professional photographs of artwork in museums all over the world, including close-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can zoom in really close, the kind of close you can’t get when you’re at the museum,” Martinez said. The app allows users to see brush strokes in detail, as well as some of the aspects of older art that aren’t always visible to the naked eye, like elements that have been painted over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If students click on the little yellow figure at the bottom (known as Pegman) they can dive into the 3D world of the museum space, affording them a view of other paintings on display in the same gallery. If a user is logged into a Google account, she can also create a gallery of art and even arrange works on a timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/project/world-wonders\" target=\"_blank\">World Wonders Project\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>This app is also part of Google Arts and Culture. Similar to Art Project, it lets students explore famous sites around the world like the Great Barrier Reef or Pompeii. Each site has videos, but also allows the user to dive into a 3D view when she clicks on Pegman. Students can zoom out to see a world map and pick locations all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.constituteproject.org/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45676\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/constitute-e1467324158504.jpeg\" alt=\"constitute\" width=\"205\" height=\"205\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.constituteproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Constitute\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>“Not a lot of people know about this,” Martinez said. This site hosts a database of constitutions from around the world. Anything digitally available has been aggregated here. It is searchable by topic and will pull out specific excerpts related to search terms like “freedom of speech.” It also has a compare function so students can look at one aspect of citizens’ rights across various constitutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45677\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/youtube-e1467324287203.jpg\" alt=\"youtube\" width=\"205\" height=\"205\">\u003cstrong>YouTube\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>There are tons of powerful YouTube videos for learning available now, but it can be a giant task to search through everything to find the best clips. Martinez has started to compile a \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jqRf5BQ2nZ-Og12jTfxPIxtr9pDohckx38wXfhhi_Xs/edit#gid=0\" target=\"_blank\">database of YouTube Channels\u003c/a> by subject to help educators with discoverability (hint subjects are by tab along the bottom of the document).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://safeshare.tv/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45678\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/safeshare.png\" alt=\"safeshare\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/safeshare.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/safeshare-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/safeshare-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/safeshare-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/safeshare-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/safeshare-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/safeshare-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://safeshare.tv/\" target=\"_blank\">SafeShare.tv\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>This tool is great for educators worried about what kind of ad might pop up on a YouTube video played in class, or the comments at the bottom. To generate a safe view, Martinez says it’s as easy as copying the YouTube link into this website. The site strips everything away and leaves just the video. The site also has a share button, which allows teachers to send colleagues the clean video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If teachers have streaming problems in their schools, or filters that block YouTube, they can download the video from SafeShare.tv and upload to Google Drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://yttm.tv/\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube Time Machine\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>This simple tool allows users to search and filter by time period. Unfortunately it depends on users who uploaded videos to accurately tag content. But it can be a useful tool for finding footage from historical moments relevant to class discussions and it’s also possible to filter by subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://zygotebody.com/#nav=3.25,81.5,250\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45679\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/zygotebody-e1467325271777.jpg\" alt=\"zygotebody\" width=\"205\" height=\"205\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://zygotebody.com/#nav=3.25,81.5,250\" target=\"_blank\">Zygote Body\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>This freemium tool has a lot of functionality in the free version, allowing students to view different parts of human anatomy and dig into how various body systems work. Students can search for very specific body parts, or look at how everything works together. Martinez cautions that the site can take awhile to load because of the detailed graphics, so it’s a good idea to preload the page before using it in a lesson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://pixlr.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45680\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/pixlr-e1467325400531.png\" alt=\"pixlr\" width=\"205\" height=\"205\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://pixlr.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Pixlr\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>This app has less power than Photoshop, but is free and fairly sophisticated. It works directly with Google accounts, so students can store files there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.buildwithchrome.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45681\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/build-e1467325720664.jpeg\" alt=\"build\" width=\"205\" height=\"162\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.buildwithchrome.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Build With Chrome\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>This extension to the Chrome browser lets kids play with digital blocks like Legos. Based on the computer’s IP address, the software assigns users a plot of land on which to build nearby. There’s a Build Academy to learn how to use the various tools within the program, but then students can make whatever they want. Martinez says she’s seen younger kids use the extension for work on shapes and colors. This only works on desktops, laptops and Chromebooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cs-first.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Google CS First\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>Built on Scratch’s programming language, this easy tool gives step-by-step instructions to get started and is great for the hesitant teacher who is just beginning to dip a toe into coding. Martinez estimates this works for grades 5th and up because the reading level of the instructions is more advanced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.androidify.com/en/#/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45682\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-3.59.49-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2016-06-30 at 3.59.49 PM\" width=\"205\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-3.59.49-PM.png 205w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-3.59.49-PM-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-3.59.49-PM-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-3.59.49-PM-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-3.59.49-PM-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-3.59.49-PM-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-3.59.49-PM-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.androidify.com/en/#/\" target=\"_blank\">Androidify\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nStudents can create Android avatars with this app. Not only can they play with how their avatar will look, but they can also pick a signature move that the avatar will make. If students download the avatar to the desktop it becomes an animated GIF and will stay animated if uploaded into another Google document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez has also created several \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BzgdYCCzI3LLY2JFYm1ZRUw1cW8&usp=sharing\">posters about Google Apps For Education\u003c/a> that are available to anyone for free. They can be a helpful reminder of different apps for different uses. She recommends adding the folder to a Google Drive account, which will automatically populate with any new posters that she adds.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://conference.iste.org/2017/\" target=\"_blank\">International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)\u003c/a> conference brings together a huge cross section of educators who share a common belief that technology in the classroom can make learning more relevant, engaging and fun for kids. Among the 20,000 or so conference-goers are ed-tech evangelists, teachers new to technology, passionate makers and many others. Educators at the conference are looking for new ideas and tools to bring back to their districts and classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edtechteam.com/team/monicamartinez/\" target=\"_blank\">Monica Martinez\u003c/a> creates professional development for the EdTechTeam, a partner of Google For Education. She has tried and vetted many of the apps available to teachers on many different platforms and has compiled an in-depth\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/site/monicassites101/google-a---z\" target=\"_blank\"> list of resources\u003c/a> that can help educators find what they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an ISTE session, Martinez highlighted several of her favorite tech tools that often get overlooked by both savvy ed-tech teachers and those newer to the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.street&hl=en&gl=us\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45669\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.40.35-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2016-06-30 at 2.40.35 PM\" width=\"205\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.40.35-PM.png 205w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.40.35-PM-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.40.35-PM-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.40.35-PM-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.40.35-PM-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.40.35-PM-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.40.35-PM-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.vr.expeditions\" target=\"_blank\">Google Expeditions\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>This virtual reality field trip tool works in conjunction with Google Cardboard and has just been officially released. The app allows teachers to guide students through an exploration of 200 (and growing) historical sites and natural resources in an immersive, three-dimensional experience. The app only works on Android devices and is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>App users can also apply \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.street&hl=en&gl=us\" target=\"_blank\">Google Street View\u003c/a> by taking a picture in 3D and pushing that experience to virtual reality. “You and your students can create your own content,” Martinez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://flippity.net/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45671\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/flippity.png\" alt=\"flippity\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/flippity.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/flippity-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/flippity-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/flippity-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/flippity-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/flippity-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/flippity-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://flippity.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Flippity\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>This app works in conjunction with Google Sheets and allows teachers to easily make a Jeopardy-style game. Martinez has created a template of what this could look like and invites educators to copy her Google document and tinker with it for their own purposes. She finds it particularly useful for review and trivia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.forscience.whistlepunk\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45672\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.49.44-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2016-06-30 at 2.49.44 PM\" width=\"203\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.49.44-PM.png 203w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.49.44-PM-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.49.44-PM-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.49.44-PM-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.49.44-PM-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.49.44-PM-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.49.44-PM-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.forscience.whistlepunk\" target=\"_blank\">Google Science Journal\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>This Android app allows users to do science experiments with mobile phones. Students can use sensors in the phone or connect external sensors to collect data, but can also take notes on observations, analyze and annotate within the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/cast/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45674\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.53.48-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2016-06-30 at 2.53.48 PM\" width=\"203\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.53.48-PM.png 203w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.53.48-PM-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.53.48-PM-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.53.48-PM-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.53.48-PM-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.53.48-PM-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.53.48-PM-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/cast/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Cast\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>This simple app solves issues of disparate devices in the classroom. When students download the app, they can project from their devices onto the screen at the front of the room easily. “You don’t have to have specific hardware, you just have to have Wi-Fi,” Martinez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/project/art-project\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45675\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.58.48-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2016-06-30 at 2.58.48 PM\" width=\"205\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.58.48-PM.png 205w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.58.48-PM-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.58.48-PM-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.58.48-PM-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.58.48-PM-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.58.48-PM-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Screen-shot-2016-06-30-at-2.58.48-PM-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/project/art-project\" target=\"_blank\">Google Art Project\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>Field trips to museums are becoming increasingly rare in public school classrooms. This part of Google Arts and Culture gives students that chance when it isn’t in the budget. The Google team took professional photographs of artwork in museums all over the world, including close-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can zoom in really close, the kind of close you can’t get when you’re at the museum,” Martinez said. The app allows users to see brush strokes in detail, as well as some of the aspects of older art that aren’t always visible to the naked eye, like elements that have been painted over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If students click on the little yellow figure at the bottom (known as Pegman) they can dive into the 3D world of the museum space, affording them a view of other paintings on display in the same gallery. If a user is logged into a Google account, she can also create a gallery of art and even arrange works on a timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/project/world-wonders\" target=\"_blank\">World Wonders Project\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>This app is also part of Google Arts and Culture. Similar to Art Project, it lets students explore famous sites around the world like the Great Barrier Reef or Pompeii. Each site has videos, but also allows the user to dive into a 3D view when she clicks on Pegman. Students can zoom out to see a world map and pick locations all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.constituteproject.org/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45676\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/constitute-e1467324158504.jpeg\" alt=\"constitute\" width=\"205\" height=\"205\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.constituteproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Constitute\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>“Not a lot of people know about this,” Martinez said. This site hosts a database of constitutions from around the world. Anything digitally available has been aggregated here. It is searchable by topic and will pull out specific excerpts related to search terms like “freedom of speech.” It also has a compare function so students can look at one aspect of citizens’ rights across various constitutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45677\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/youtube-e1467324287203.jpg\" alt=\"youtube\" width=\"205\" height=\"205\">\u003cstrong>YouTube\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>There are tons of powerful YouTube videos for learning available now, but it can be a giant task to search through everything to find the best clips. Martinez has started to compile a \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jqRf5BQ2nZ-Og12jTfxPIxtr9pDohckx38wXfhhi_Xs/edit#gid=0\" target=\"_blank\">database of YouTube Channels\u003c/a> by subject to help educators with discoverability (hint subjects are by tab along the bottom of the document).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://safeshare.tv/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45678\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/safeshare.png\" alt=\"safeshare\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/safeshare.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/safeshare-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/safeshare-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/safeshare-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/safeshare-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/safeshare-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/safeshare-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://safeshare.tv/\" target=\"_blank\">SafeShare.tv\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>This tool is great for educators worried about what kind of ad might pop up on a YouTube video played in class, or the comments at the bottom. To generate a safe view, Martinez says it’s as easy as copying the YouTube link into this website. The site strips everything away and leaves just the video. The site also has a share button, which allows teachers to send colleagues the clean video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If teachers have streaming problems in their schools, or filters that block YouTube, they can download the video from SafeShare.tv and upload to Google Drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://yttm.tv/\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube Time Machine\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>This simple tool allows users to search and filter by time period. Unfortunately it depends on users who uploaded videos to accurately tag content. But it can be a useful tool for finding footage from historical moments relevant to class discussions and it’s also possible to filter by subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://zygotebody.com/#nav=3.25,81.5,250\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45679\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/zygotebody-e1467325271777.jpg\" alt=\"zygotebody\" width=\"205\" height=\"205\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://zygotebody.com/#nav=3.25,81.5,250\" target=\"_blank\">Zygote Body\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>This freemium tool has a lot of functionality in the free version, allowing students to view different parts of human anatomy and dig into how various body systems work. Students can search for very specific body parts, or look at how everything works together. Martinez cautions that the site can take awhile to load because of the detailed graphics, so it’s a good idea to preload the page before using it in a lesson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://pixlr.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45680\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/pixlr-e1467325400531.png\" alt=\"pixlr\" width=\"205\" height=\"205\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://pixlr.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Pixlr\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>This app has less power than Photoshop, but is free and fairly sophisticated. It works directly with Google accounts, so students can store files there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.buildwithchrome.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45681\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/build-e1467325720664.jpeg\" alt=\"build\" width=\"205\" height=\"162\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.buildwithchrome.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Build With Chrome\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>This extension to the Chrome browser lets kids play with digital blocks like Legos. Based on the computer’s IP address, the software assigns users a plot of land on which to build nearby. There’s a Build Academy to learn how to use the various tools within the program, but then students can make whatever they want. Martinez says she’s seen younger kids use the extension for work on shapes and colors. This only works on desktops, laptops and Chromebooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cs-first.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Google CS First\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>Built on Scratch’s programming language, this easy tool gives step-by-step instructions to get started and is great for the hesitant teacher who is just beginning to dip a toe into coding. 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"content": "\u003cp>Tool discovery is often a challenge for teachers interested in finding ways to use technology that will change the way they and their students work. With so much going on in the classroom, many teachers don’t have the time to test out various apps and find the perfect tool to meet their needs. Luckily, several tech-savvy librarians have been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/07/29/teacher-recommended-50-favorite-teaching-apps/\" target=\"_blank\">curating the apps\u003c/a> their colleagues find useful and sharing the all-stars with one another through personal learning communities (PLC) and \u003ca href=\"http://www.edweb.net/emergingtech\">edWeb webinars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These educators are paying attention to their own working habits, as well as those of students, to figure out which technology products and trends are here to stay. \u003ca href=\"http://mluhtala.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Luhtala\u003c/a>, a school librarian in New Canaan, Connecticut, has noticed that much of her own work has transitioned from the computer to her smartphone. She sees the same trend in students, but also recognizes many schools have policies against phones because they can be distractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luhtala sees school policies banning phones as a disconnect between school and the real world, where mobile devices are aiding productivity more than ever. She often hears from teachers and other colleagues that mobile devices aren’t useful because it’s hard for students to read and type on small screens. But Luhtala wonders if the conversation is too focused are on using new devices in old ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this is what’s the big deal about mobile learning, then maybe mobile learning does not always require typing and reading,” Luhtala said in an \u003ca href=\"http://home.edweb.net/\" target=\"_blank\">edWeb\u003c/a> webinar. “We don’t want to use technology to replace or substitute what we’re doing and have it be the same thing we’ve been doing,” Luhtala said. The real promise of education technology is to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/08/06/what-are-the-most-powerful-uses-of-tech-for-learning/\" target=\"_blank\">redefine how students learn\u003c/a>. That doesn’t mean reading and writing won’t be an important part of education, but it could mean that educators need to continue thinking creatively about the best use for powerful and ubiquitous tools like smartphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her own productivity, Luhtala likes the changes \u003ca href=\"http://www.audible.com/mt/Apps/\" target=\"_blank\">Audible\u003c/a> has made to its app, which now allows her to put different news sources into channels, that can be read aloud to her while she’s getting ready in the morning or commuting to work. “It is transformational for me to be able to have my newspaper read to me through an app,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s also pleased that \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/slides/about/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Slides\u003c/a> now allows users to insert charts, which she says has been long overdue, and adds more functionality. In addition to highlighting some of her favorite digital learning tools, Luhtala called on her professional learning community to recommend their favorite learning apps. Together, they offer this list to overburdened educators looking to hone in on just the right tech tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>30 APPS LIBRARIANS RECOMMEND\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.adobe.com/products/capture.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45561\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Capture.png\" alt=\"Adobe Capture\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Capture.png 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Capture-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Capture-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Capture-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Capture-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Capture-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Capture-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">Adobe Capture\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: “This is one of my two favorite new things,” Luhtala said. The app lets users take a photo of something and then trace the outline. A student can then erase parts, color it in, or enhance areas, all based on the initial sketch provided by the photo. “This has been my dream app because I don’t draw well, but I do art well,” Luhtala said. “It is super rich.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://spark.adobe.com/about/video\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45562\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Voice.png\" alt=\"Adobe Voice\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Voice.png 340w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Voice-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Voice-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Voice-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Voice-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Voice-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Voice-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Adobe Voice (now called \u003ca href=\"https://spark.adobe.com/about/video\" target=\"_blank\">Adobe Spark\u003c/a>):\u003c/strong> Librarians recommend this app because it’s an easy way of kids to attach a voice memo over an image. It can be a good presentation tool. “You have to have a subscription, but you don’t have to pay for your subscription,”Luhtala said, so don’t be put off by a sign up process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.aviary.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45580\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Photo-Editor.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo Editor\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Photo-Editor.jpeg 225w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Photo-Editor-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Photo-Editor-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Photo-Editor-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Photo-Editor-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Photo-Editor-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Photo-Editor-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Photo Editor by Aviary:\u003c/strong> This powerful photo editing app allows students to make all the tweaks they need to produce a stellar photo. Luhtala said it reminds her of Photoshop, but for a phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bloxelsbuilder.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45563\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Bloxels.png\" alt=\"Bloxels\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Bloxels.png 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Bloxels-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Bloxels-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Bloxels-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Bloxels-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Bloxels-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Bloxels-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bloxelsbuilder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bloxels\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This new game creation app is made by the same company that makes Pixel Floor Press and the two products are compatible. It allows a user to create the characters that will populate their game. “I’m using it right now to re-tell a nursery rhyme with fifth graders,” said \u003ca href=\"http://vanmeterlibraryvoice.blogspot.com/\">Shannon Miller\u003c/a>, who co-presented the webinar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.redjumper.net/bookcreator/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.redjumper.net/bookcreator/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45564\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Book-editor.png\" alt=\"Book editor\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Book-editor.png 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Book-editor-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Book-editor-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Book-editor-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Book-editor-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Book-editor-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Book-editor-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.redjumper.net/bookcreator/\" target=\"_blank\">Book Creator\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> The app works best on Apple products, but allows kids to make their own books. “It’s a little tricky, but not really for kids and not once you use it a couple of times,” Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edu.buncee.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45565\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/buncee.png\" alt=\"buncee\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/buncee.png 510w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/buncee-400x400.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/buncee-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/buncee-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/buncee-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/buncee-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/buncee-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/buncee-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edu.buncee.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Buncee\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This app allows users to add images, text, video and interactive stickers to an existing product. “I love uploading student work and adding interactive things on top,” Miller said. Her college-aged daughter, meanwhile, uses it for presentations because it’s a good storytelling tool. Students can also work on individual Buncees and then stitch them together into a collaborative project. The end result doesn’t print well, but it is possible to create a QR code for the Buncee and view it on the app or website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theeasyappcompany.com/app/easy-blogger-jr/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theeasyappcompany.com/app/easy-blogger-jr/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45566\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger.png\" alt=\"easy Blogger\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger.png 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-400x400.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-800x800.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-768x768.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-1180x1180.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-960x960.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theeasyappcompany.com/app/easy-blogger-jr/\" target=\"_blank\">Easy Blogger Jr\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> There are many blogging sites for students that work well, but Miller recommends this one because \u003ca href=\"http://mscassidysclass.edublogs.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Kathy Cassidy uses it with first graders\u003c/a>. “I’ve always loved using \u003ca href=\"http://kidblog.org/home/\" target=\"_blank\">Kidblog\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.edmodo.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Edmodo\u003c/a>, but this is spot-on the easiest things I’ve seen, especially for younger learners,” Miller said. Rather than asking five- and six-year olds to remember usernames and passwords, students can login with their photos. The app version costs $5.99 but the web-based version is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://edpuzzle.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edpuzzle.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45567\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Edpuzzle.png\" alt=\"Edpuzzle\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Edpuzzle.png 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Edpuzzle-400x400.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Edpuzzle-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Edpuzzle-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Edpuzzle-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Edpuzzle-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Edpuzzle-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Edpuzzle-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edpuzzle.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Edpuzzle\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Recommended by Jay Salerno, this app is a great tool for teachers who are flipping instruction. “You can embed interactive elements to video instruction,” Luhtala said. One of the hazards of flipping is that lecture will remain supreme, but in a different form. Adding interactive elements is a good way to force students to interact with the material, and when they are more engaged they will hopefully grow curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://flipster.ebsco.com/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://flipster.ebsco.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45568\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Flipster.png\" alt=\"Flipster\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Flipster.png 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Flipster-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Flipster-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Flipster-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Flipster-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Flipster-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Flipster-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://flipster.ebsco.com/\">Flipster\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This digital magazine app is more easily discoverable for students. Luhtala has found that often students forget that digital magazines are a resource for them, so in her library she makes Flipster search results show up as part of any Google search a student conducts. “If you are going to introduce a new electronic platform, it can take three years to really take hold,” Luhtala cautioned. Flipster is trying to make the digital magazine reading experience more seamless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gboard-search.-gifs.-emojis/id1091700242?mt=8\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gboard-search.-gifs.-emojis/id1091700242?mt=8\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45569\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gboard.jpg\" alt=\"Gboard\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gboard.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gboard-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gboard-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gboard-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gboard-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gboard-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gboard-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gboard-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gboard-search.-gifs.-emojis/id1091700242?mt=8\">GBoard\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> “This is one of the buzz things,” Miller said. The free app allows a user to search Google while typing out a message on a phone. For example, if a teacher is texting a parent about an upcoming event, she can search the event page and link to it within the text message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45570\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Goodreads.png\" alt=\"Goodreads\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Goodreads.png 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Goodreads-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Goodreads-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Goodreads-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Goodreads-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Goodreads-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Goodreads-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/\">Goodreads\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Luhtala appreciates Goodreads because it helps make reading social. Students can easily search each other’s reading lists for ideas. As a librarian, she also finds it to be a huge timesaver when teachers are coming up with their summer reading lists. She can scan the books’ barcodes and easily add 50 to 100 books, order them in lists and embed them on the library site or in emails to students. Miller recommends \u003ca href=\"https://www.biblionasium.com/#tab/content-spring-mix\">Biblionasium\u003c/a> as a good alternative for younger learners, especially because students can recommend books to one another. If a library uses \u003ca href=\"http://www.follettlearning.com/technology/products/library-management-system\">Follett Destiny\u003c/a>, sharing functions are integrated there too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://justgum.it/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://justgum.it/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45571\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gum.png\" alt=\"Gum\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gum.png 175w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gum-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gum-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gum-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gum-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gum-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gum-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://justgum.it/\">GUM\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This app was not specifically designed for the education space, but Miller says she has seen teachers use what is essentially a free social pinboard in interesting ways. The app allows users to scan ISBN codes on books or barcodes on products and then add comments. This could be useful in a health class about the ingredients in food products or in an English class where students can add a book review or other thoughts about something they’ve read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://en.kiosko.net/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://en.kiosko.net/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45572\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Kiosko.png\" alt=\"Kiosko\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Kiosko.png 512w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Kiosko-400x400.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Kiosko-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Kiosko-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Kiosko-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Kiosko-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Kiosko-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Kiosko-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://en.kiosko.net/\">Kiosko\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This app offers an international news database that goes back to 1945. ”Kiosko will give you the front page news from around the world,” Luhtala said. This is a powerful tool for students looking to gather different perspectives on historical events. Students can read Soviet newspapers from the Soviet era, for example, although it might take a little help from a translation app to understand the Russian. “Our curriculum is really world history centric,” Luhtala said. “They have to examine history through other people’s eyes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://storybird.com/lark/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://storybird.com/lark/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45573\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lark-by-Storybird.jpg\" alt=\"Lark by Storybird\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lark-by-Storybird.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lark-by-Storybird-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lark-by-Storybird-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lark-by-Storybird-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lark-by-Storybird-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lark-by-Storybird-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lark-by-Storybird-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://storybird.com/lark/\">Lark by Storybird\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This digital storytelling tool is especially good for poetry. It’s available free on both mobile devices and on a web-based platform and allows kids to embellish their poetry with illustrations and text that capture their emotions. Creations can be kept private or published and they also print well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lego-movie-maker/id516001587?mt=8\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lego-movie-maker/id516001587?mt=8\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45574\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lego-Movie-Maker.jpg\" alt=\"Lego-Movie-Maker\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lego-Movie-Maker.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lego-Movie-Maker-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lego-Movie-Maker-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lego-Movie-Maker-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lego-Movie-Maker-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lego-Movie-Maker-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lego-Movie-Maker-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lego-Movie-Maker-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lego-movie-maker/id516001587?mt=8\">LEGO Movie Maker\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Although made by Lego, this free stop motion app is an easy-to-use solution for any kind of video creation, Miller said. She likes it because it’s easy to add titles, slow the animation down, or speed it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/b/home_page_ghost?utm_expid=11945330-439.K7oaBLbBQdiJDp9cWp4yRA.1&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/b/examples?utm_expid=11945330-447._VgdAoteTpStHrSIOFnBOg.1&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fww2.kqed.org%2Fmindshift%2F%3Fp%3D45197%26preview%3Dtrue\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45575\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/LucidChart.png\" alt=\"LucidChart\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/LucidChart.png 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/LucidChart-400x400.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/LucidChart-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/LucidChart-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/LucidChart-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/LucidChart-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/LucidChart-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/LucidChart-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lucidchart.com/\">Lucidchart\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Luhtala likes to offer students lots of app choices when it comes to mind mapping because she wants them to find the right tool that lets them think and express in their own way. She likes Lucidchart personally because she can easily turn a spreadsheet into a flowchart. “It’s really well organized and it’s pretty robust in terms of the kind of manipulation you can do,” Luhtala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://nearpod.com/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://nearpod.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45578\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Nearpod.png\" alt=\"Nearpod\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Nearpod.png 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Nearpod-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Nearpod-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Nearpod-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Nearpod-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Nearpod-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Nearpod-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://nearpod.com/\">Nearpod\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> “It’s been really transformational,” Luhtala said of this app. She often makes lessons in Google Slides, which eventually end up in video form. But both of those options leave out student interactivity. Now she puts her slideshows in Nearpod and can easily embed questions and quizzes or ask students to share links and images. If every student has a device, teachers can also ask all students the same question and then push out the answer. For example, Luhtala asked students if they needed to cite something that was not a direct quote. Half the class responded “no,” a misperception Luhtala wanted to quickly correct. When she pushed those results to the whole class, it sent a powerful message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2015/nytvr/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/marketing/nytvr/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45579\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/NYTVR.png\" alt=\"NYTVR\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/NYTVR.png 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/NYTVR-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/NYTVR-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/NYTVR-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/NYTVR-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/NYTVR-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/NYTVR-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2015/nytvr/\">New York Times VR\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> One of several new virtual reality travel apps that can give students a window into places and lives they’d might never otherwise have the chance to visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixel-press-floors-draw-your/id847758409?mt=8\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45581\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress.jpg\" alt=\"pixelpress\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.projectpixelpress.com/floors/\">Pixel Press Floors\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This game creation app is a favorite of librarian \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/\">Joyce Valenza\u003c/a>. Students can create their own video games by arranging tiles in different patterns. Created by the same company that makes Bloxel, kids can use characters created there in their Pixel Press Floor games. The app is only available on iOS devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://quizlet.com/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://quizlet.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45582\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Quizlet.png\" alt=\"Quizlet\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Quizlet.png 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Quizlet-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Quizlet-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Quizlet-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Quizlet-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Quizlet-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Quizlet-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://quizlet.com/\">Quizlet\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This study guide creation tool has taken off at New Canaan High School. “It has gained huge traction not among teachers, but among students,” Luhtala said. Her students use Quizlet for almost everything, divvying up the work of making flashcards amongst themselves. Interestingly, \u003ca href=\"https://kahoot.it/#/\">Kahoot\u003c/a> has also become a student favorite, but not necessarily for studying. Luhtala has noticed students using it for social activities like organizing prom. “These tools were designed for education, but the kids are using them in completely different ways,” Luhtala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://get-puppet.co/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://get-puppet.co/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45584\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Shadow-Puppet.jpeg\" alt=\"Shadow Puppet\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Shadow-Puppet.jpeg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Shadow-Puppet-400x400.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Shadow-Puppet-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Shadow-Puppet-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Shadow-Puppet-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Shadow-Puppet-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Shadow-Puppet-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Shadow-Puppet-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://get-puppet.co/\">Shadow Puppet\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A favorite of \u003ca href=\"http://www.janelofton.com/\">Jane Lofton\u003c/a>, this easy-to-use app allows students as young as five to create videos. They can add their voice over the images and explain their thinking or their story. This app is only for iOS devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://evernote.com/skitch/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45585\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Skitch.png\" alt=\"Skitch\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Skitch.png 256w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Skitch-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Skitch-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Skitch-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Skitch-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Skitch-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Skitch-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://evernote.com/skitch/\">Skitch\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A long time image manipulation app favorite of Miller’s, this free tool has seamless integration with Evernote, which owns it. The app allows users to annotate over anything, circling errors, adding text or arrows, etc. “I use it a ton on my phone,” Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mindmup-free-mind-map-web/dnenaecjcgeppfpaokiifokeieopppej?hl=en\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mindmup-free-mind-map-web/dnenaecjcgeppfpaokiifokeieopppej?hl=en\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45577\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/MindMup.png\" alt=\"MindMup\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/MindMup.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/MindMup-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/MindMup-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/MindMup-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/MindMup-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/MindMup-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/MindMup-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mindmup-free-mind-map-web/dnenaecjcgeppfpaokiifokeieopppej?hl=en\">Mindmup\u003c/a>: This is Jay Salerno’s favorite mind mapping tool. It is a Chrome extension, so it integrates well with other Google products.“I just think it’s really great to give kids lots of options when you’re asking them to diagram their thinking,” Luhtala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.playosmo.com/en/masterpiece/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.playosmo.com/en/masterpiece/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45576\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Masterpiece-by-Osmo.jpg\" alt=\"Masterpiece by Osmo\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Masterpiece-by-Osmo.jpg 256w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Masterpiece-by-Osmo-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Masterpiece-by-Osmo-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Masterpiece-by-Osmo-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Masterpiece-by-Osmo-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Masterpiece-by-Osmo-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Masterpiece-by-Osmo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.playosmo.com/en/masterpiece/\">Masterpiece by Osmo\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This drawing app could be a solution to some of the copyright infringement students engage in unwittingly. “Our students are asked to do digital storytelling all the time and they often turn to digital images for that,” Luhtala said. She always explains how to find copyright friendly material, but students don’t always follow instructions. Osmo gives them an opportunity to create their own images, while teaching them the value of intellectual property. Once they understand how challenging it is to create a beautiful image they may be less likely to swipe someone else’s without giving appropriate credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45231\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/coding-amalgam.jpg\" alt=\"coding-amalgam\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/coding-amalgam.jpg 190w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/coding-amalgam-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/coding-amalgam-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/coding-amalgam-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/coding-amalgam-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/coding-amalgam-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/coding-amalgam-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">Scratch and more:\u003c/strong> All the librarians that contributed to this list acknowledge that it’s a great idea to get students started coding early. Some well-liked apps include \u003ca href=\"https://scratch.mit.edu/\">Scratch\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.scratchjr.org/\">Scratch Jr\u003c/a>, and\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hopscotch-make-games!-learn/id617098629?mt=8\"> Hopscotch\u003c/a>. For younger students Miller recommends \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kodable-k-5-coding-curriculum/id577673067?mt=8\">Kodable\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/daisy-the-dinosaur/id490514278?mt=8\">Daisy the Dinosaur \u003c/a>as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://web.seesaw.me/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://web.seesaw.me/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45583\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Seesaw.png\" alt=\"Seesaw\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Seesaw.png 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Seesaw-400x400.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Seesaw-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Seesaw-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Seesaw-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Seesaw-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Seesaw-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Seesaw-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://web.seesaw.me/\">Seesaw\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Digital portfolio apps like this one are becoming increasingly useful as educators and parents recognize the usefulness of a well-kept record of work. Miller worked at a standards-based, project-based learning school, where it was crucial the students be able to document their learning growth over the year. “The kids love using Seesaw because they can keep track of all their things in a digital portfolio,” Miller said. It keeps kids organized and can be a powerful curation tool too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://blog.spiderscribe.net/2014/09/spiderscribe-jr-for-ipad-is-out/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45232\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/spiderscribe.png\" alt=\"spiderscribe\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/spiderscribe.png 175w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/spiderscribe-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/spiderscribe-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/spiderscribe-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/spiderscribe-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/spiderscribe-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/spiderscribe-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://blog.spiderscribe.net/2014/09/spiderscribe-jr-for-ipad-is-out/\">SpiderScribe Jr\u003c/a>.:\u003c/strong> This app was selected by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ala.org/aasl/standards/best/apps\">American Association of School Librarians\u003c/a> ( AASL) as their favorite mind mapping app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.storyboardthat.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45233\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/storyboard-e1464133272127.png\" alt=\"storyboard\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.storyboardthat.com/\">Storyboard That\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Librarians have noticed that increasingly teachers are asking students to storyboard before writing. This Chrome app is great for that, according to Jay Salerno. \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/celtx-shots/id467370902?mt=8\">Celtx Shots\u003c/a> is another recommended option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/techsmith-fuse/id725534683?mt=8\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45234\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/fuse-e1464133422700.png\" alt=\"fuse\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/techsmith-fuse/id725534683?mt=8\">TechSmith Fuse\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> The app offers an easy way to move images from a phone to a computer, although Miller cautions it may not be free for much longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://terraria.org/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45235\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/terraria-e1464133555110.jpeg\" alt=\"terraria\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://terraria.org/\">Terraria\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Recommend by Miller’s son who is in fifth grade, this game rivals Minecraft in his mind. He likes it because it’s easier to create things than in Minecraft. The game costs $4.99. “I like how they can add words and the characters look a bit more realistic than they do in Minecraft,” Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.whatwasthere.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45589\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/What-was-there.png\" alt=\"What was there\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/What-was-there.png 175w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/What-was-there-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/What-was-there-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/What-was-there-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/What-was-there-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/What-was-there-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/What-was-there-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.whatwasthere.com/\">What Was There\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> “You stand in a spot, particularly in a city, and it finds you on the map and tells you about the history of what was there,” Luhtala said. “It’s very powerful.” The app shows the Google Maps street view with a historical overlay. Kids can also add their own content, which could make for a fun digital storytelling tool or examination of primary sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yakit-make-any-photo-talk/id634537542?mt=8\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.freakngenius.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45588\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Yakit.jpeg\" alt=\"Yakit\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Yakit.jpeg 175w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Yakit-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Yakit-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Yakit-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Yakit-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Yakit-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Yakit-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yakit-make-any-photo-talk/id634537542?mt=8\">YAKit\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This image manipulation tool adds some fun to digital storytelling by allowing students to animate mouths or eyeballs. “I really loved this one because there were a few more features that were a bit richer for older kids,”Miller said. She sometimes uses \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chatterpix-kids-by-duck-duck/id734046126?mt=8\">Chatterpix \u003c/a>as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out previous years favorites \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/06/11/apps-that-rise-to-the-top-tested-and-approved-by-teachers/\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/07/29/teacher-recommended-50-favorite-teaching-apps/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s also pleased that \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/slides/about/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Slides\u003c/a> now allows users to insert charts, which she says has been long overdue, and adds more functionality. In addition to highlighting some of her favorite digital learning tools, Luhtala called on her professional learning community to recommend their favorite learning apps. Together, they offer this list to overburdened educators looking to hone in on just the right tech tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>30 APPS LIBRARIANS RECOMMEND\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.adobe.com/products/capture.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45561\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Capture.png\" alt=\"Adobe Capture\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Capture.png 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Capture-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Capture-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Capture-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Capture-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Capture-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Capture-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">Adobe Capture\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: “This is one of my two favorite new things,” Luhtala said. The app lets users take a photo of something and then trace the outline. A student can then erase parts, color it in, or enhance areas, all based on the initial sketch provided by the photo. “This has been my dream app because I don’t draw well, but I do art well,” Luhtala said. “It is super rich.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://spark.adobe.com/about/video\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45562\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Voice.png\" alt=\"Adobe Voice\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Voice.png 340w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Voice-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Voice-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Voice-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Voice-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Voice-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Adobe-Voice-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Adobe Voice (now called \u003ca href=\"https://spark.adobe.com/about/video\" target=\"_blank\">Adobe Spark\u003c/a>):\u003c/strong> Librarians recommend this app because it’s an easy way of kids to attach a voice memo over an image. It can be a good presentation tool. “You have to have a subscription, but you don’t have to pay for your subscription,”Luhtala said, so don’t be put off by a sign up process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.aviary.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45580\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Photo-Editor.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo Editor\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Photo-Editor.jpeg 225w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Photo-Editor-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Photo-Editor-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Photo-Editor-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Photo-Editor-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Photo-Editor-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Photo-Editor-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Photo Editor by Aviary:\u003c/strong> This powerful photo editing app allows students to make all the tweaks they need to produce a stellar photo. Luhtala said it reminds her of Photoshop, but for a phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bloxelsbuilder.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45563\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Bloxels.png\" alt=\"Bloxels\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Bloxels.png 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Bloxels-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Bloxels-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Bloxels-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Bloxels-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Bloxels-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Bloxels-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bloxelsbuilder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bloxels\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This new game creation app is made by the same company that makes Pixel Floor Press and the two products are compatible. It allows a user to create the characters that will populate their game. “I’m using it right now to re-tell a nursery rhyme with fifth graders,” said \u003ca href=\"http://vanmeterlibraryvoice.blogspot.com/\">Shannon Miller\u003c/a>, who co-presented the webinar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.redjumper.net/bookcreator/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.redjumper.net/bookcreator/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45564\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Book-editor.png\" alt=\"Book editor\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Book-editor.png 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Book-editor-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Book-editor-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Book-editor-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Book-editor-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Book-editor-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Book-editor-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.redjumper.net/bookcreator/\" target=\"_blank\">Book Creator\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> The app works best on Apple products, but allows kids to make their own books. “It’s a little tricky, but not really for kids and not once you use it a couple of times,” Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edu.buncee.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45565\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/buncee.png\" alt=\"buncee\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/buncee.png 510w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/buncee-400x400.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/buncee-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/buncee-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/buncee-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/buncee-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/buncee-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/buncee-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edu.buncee.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Buncee\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This app allows users to add images, text, video and interactive stickers to an existing product. “I love uploading student work and adding interactive things on top,” Miller said. Her college-aged daughter, meanwhile, uses it for presentations because it’s a good storytelling tool. Students can also work on individual Buncees and then stitch them together into a collaborative project. The end result doesn’t print well, but it is possible to create a QR code for the Buncee and view it on the app or website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theeasyappcompany.com/app/easy-blogger-jr/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theeasyappcompany.com/app/easy-blogger-jr/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45566\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger.png\" alt=\"easy Blogger\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger.png 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-400x400.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-800x800.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-768x768.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-1180x1180.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-960x960.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/easy-Blogger-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theeasyappcompany.com/app/easy-blogger-jr/\" target=\"_blank\">Easy Blogger Jr\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> There are many blogging sites for students that work well, but Miller recommends this one because \u003ca href=\"http://mscassidysclass.edublogs.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Kathy Cassidy uses it with first graders\u003c/a>. “I’ve always loved using \u003ca href=\"http://kidblog.org/home/\" target=\"_blank\">Kidblog\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.edmodo.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Edmodo\u003c/a>, but this is spot-on the easiest things I’ve seen, especially for younger learners,” Miller said. Rather than asking five- and six-year olds to remember usernames and passwords, students can login with their photos. The app version costs $5.99 but the web-based version is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://edpuzzle.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edpuzzle.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45567\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Edpuzzle.png\" alt=\"Edpuzzle\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Edpuzzle.png 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Edpuzzle-400x400.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Edpuzzle-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Edpuzzle-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Edpuzzle-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Edpuzzle-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Edpuzzle-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Edpuzzle-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edpuzzle.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Edpuzzle\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Recommended by Jay Salerno, this app is a great tool for teachers who are flipping instruction. “You can embed interactive elements to video instruction,” Luhtala said. One of the hazards of flipping is that lecture will remain supreme, but in a different form. Adding interactive elements is a good way to force students to interact with the material, and when they are more engaged they will hopefully grow curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://flipster.ebsco.com/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://flipster.ebsco.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45568\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Flipster.png\" alt=\"Flipster\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Flipster.png 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Flipster-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Flipster-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Flipster-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Flipster-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Flipster-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Flipster-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://flipster.ebsco.com/\">Flipster\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This digital magazine app is more easily discoverable for students. Luhtala has found that often students forget that digital magazines are a resource for them, so in her library she makes Flipster search results show up as part of any Google search a student conducts. “If you are going to introduce a new electronic platform, it can take three years to really take hold,” Luhtala cautioned. Flipster is trying to make the digital magazine reading experience more seamless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gboard-search.-gifs.-emojis/id1091700242?mt=8\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gboard-search.-gifs.-emojis/id1091700242?mt=8\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45569\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gboard.jpg\" alt=\"Gboard\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gboard.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gboard-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gboard-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gboard-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gboard-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gboard-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gboard-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gboard-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gboard-search.-gifs.-emojis/id1091700242?mt=8\">GBoard\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> “This is one of the buzz things,” Miller said. The free app allows a user to search Google while typing out a message on a phone. For example, if a teacher is texting a parent about an upcoming event, she can search the event page and link to it within the text message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45570\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Goodreads.png\" alt=\"Goodreads\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Goodreads.png 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Goodreads-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Goodreads-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Goodreads-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Goodreads-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Goodreads-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Goodreads-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/\">Goodreads\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Luhtala appreciates Goodreads because it helps make reading social. Students can easily search each other’s reading lists for ideas. As a librarian, she also finds it to be a huge timesaver when teachers are coming up with their summer reading lists. She can scan the books’ barcodes and easily add 50 to 100 books, order them in lists and embed them on the library site or in emails to students. Miller recommends \u003ca href=\"https://www.biblionasium.com/#tab/content-spring-mix\">Biblionasium\u003c/a> as a good alternative for younger learners, especially because students can recommend books to one another. If a library uses \u003ca href=\"http://www.follettlearning.com/technology/products/library-management-system\">Follett Destiny\u003c/a>, sharing functions are integrated there too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://justgum.it/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://justgum.it/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45571\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gum.png\" alt=\"Gum\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gum.png 175w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gum-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gum-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gum-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gum-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gum-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Gum-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://justgum.it/\">GUM\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This app was not specifically designed for the education space, but Miller says she has seen teachers use what is essentially a free social pinboard in interesting ways. The app allows users to scan ISBN codes on books or barcodes on products and then add comments. This could be useful in a health class about the ingredients in food products or in an English class where students can add a book review or other thoughts about something they’ve read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://en.kiosko.net/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://en.kiosko.net/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45572\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Kiosko.png\" alt=\"Kiosko\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Kiosko.png 512w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Kiosko-400x400.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Kiosko-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Kiosko-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Kiosko-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Kiosko-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Kiosko-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Kiosko-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://en.kiosko.net/\">Kiosko\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This app offers an international news database that goes back to 1945. ”Kiosko will give you the front page news from around the world,” Luhtala said. This is a powerful tool for students looking to gather different perspectives on historical events. Students can read Soviet newspapers from the Soviet era, for example, although it might take a little help from a translation app to understand the Russian. “Our curriculum is really world history centric,” Luhtala said. “They have to examine history through other people’s eyes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://storybird.com/lark/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://storybird.com/lark/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45573\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lark-by-Storybird.jpg\" alt=\"Lark by Storybird\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lark-by-Storybird.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lark-by-Storybird-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lark-by-Storybird-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lark-by-Storybird-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lark-by-Storybird-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lark-by-Storybird-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lark-by-Storybird-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://storybird.com/lark/\">Lark by Storybird\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This digital storytelling tool is especially good for poetry. It’s available free on both mobile devices and on a web-based platform and allows kids to embellish their poetry with illustrations and text that capture their emotions. Creations can be kept private or published and they also print well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lego-movie-maker/id516001587?mt=8\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lego-movie-maker/id516001587?mt=8\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45574\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lego-Movie-Maker.jpg\" alt=\"Lego-Movie-Maker\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lego-Movie-Maker.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lego-Movie-Maker-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lego-Movie-Maker-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lego-Movie-Maker-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lego-Movie-Maker-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lego-Movie-Maker-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lego-Movie-Maker-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Lego-Movie-Maker-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lego-movie-maker/id516001587?mt=8\">LEGO Movie Maker\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Although made by Lego, this free stop motion app is an easy-to-use solution for any kind of video creation, Miller said. She likes it because it’s easy to add titles, slow the animation down, or speed it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/b/home_page_ghost?utm_expid=11945330-439.K7oaBLbBQdiJDp9cWp4yRA.1&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/b/examples?utm_expid=11945330-447._VgdAoteTpStHrSIOFnBOg.1&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fww2.kqed.org%2Fmindshift%2F%3Fp%3D45197%26preview%3Dtrue\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45575\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/LucidChart.png\" alt=\"LucidChart\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/LucidChart.png 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/LucidChart-400x400.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/LucidChart-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/LucidChart-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/LucidChart-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/LucidChart-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/LucidChart-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/LucidChart-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lucidchart.com/\">Lucidchart\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Luhtala likes to offer students lots of app choices when it comes to mind mapping because she wants them to find the right tool that lets them think and express in their own way. She likes Lucidchart personally because she can easily turn a spreadsheet into a flowchart. “It’s really well organized and it’s pretty robust in terms of the kind of manipulation you can do,” Luhtala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://nearpod.com/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://nearpod.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45578\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Nearpod.png\" alt=\"Nearpod\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Nearpod.png 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Nearpod-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Nearpod-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Nearpod-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Nearpod-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Nearpod-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Nearpod-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://nearpod.com/\">Nearpod\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> “It’s been really transformational,” Luhtala said of this app. She often makes lessons in Google Slides, which eventually end up in video form. But both of those options leave out student interactivity. Now she puts her slideshows in Nearpod and can easily embed questions and quizzes or ask students to share links and images. If every student has a device, teachers can also ask all students the same question and then push out the answer. For example, Luhtala asked students if they needed to cite something that was not a direct quote. Half the class responded “no,” a misperception Luhtala wanted to quickly correct. When she pushed those results to the whole class, it sent a powerful message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2015/nytvr/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/marketing/nytvr/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45579\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/NYTVR.png\" alt=\"NYTVR\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/NYTVR.png 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/NYTVR-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/NYTVR-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/NYTVR-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/NYTVR-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/NYTVR-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/NYTVR-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2015/nytvr/\">New York Times VR\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> One of several new virtual reality travel apps that can give students a window into places and lives they’d might never otherwise have the chance to visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixel-press-floors-draw-your/id847758409?mt=8\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45581\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress.jpg\" alt=\"pixelpress\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/pixelpress-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.projectpixelpress.com/floors/\">Pixel Press Floors\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This game creation app is a favorite of librarian \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/\">Joyce Valenza\u003c/a>. Students can create their own video games by arranging tiles in different patterns. Created by the same company that makes Bloxel, kids can use characters created there in their Pixel Press Floor games. The app is only available on iOS devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://quizlet.com/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://quizlet.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45582\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Quizlet.png\" alt=\"Quizlet\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Quizlet.png 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Quizlet-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Quizlet-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Quizlet-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Quizlet-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Quizlet-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Quizlet-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://quizlet.com/\">Quizlet\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This study guide creation tool has taken off at New Canaan High School. “It has gained huge traction not among teachers, but among students,” Luhtala said. Her students use Quizlet for almost everything, divvying up the work of making flashcards amongst themselves. Interestingly, \u003ca href=\"https://kahoot.it/#/\">Kahoot\u003c/a> has also become a student favorite, but not necessarily for studying. Luhtala has noticed students using it for social activities like organizing prom. “These tools were designed for education, but the kids are using them in completely different ways,” Luhtala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://get-puppet.co/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://get-puppet.co/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45584\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Shadow-Puppet.jpeg\" alt=\"Shadow Puppet\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Shadow-Puppet.jpeg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Shadow-Puppet-400x400.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Shadow-Puppet-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Shadow-Puppet-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Shadow-Puppet-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Shadow-Puppet-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Shadow-Puppet-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Shadow-Puppet-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://get-puppet.co/\">Shadow Puppet\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A favorite of \u003ca href=\"http://www.janelofton.com/\">Jane Lofton\u003c/a>, this easy-to-use app allows students as young as five to create videos. They can add their voice over the images and explain their thinking or their story. This app is only for iOS devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://evernote.com/skitch/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45585\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Skitch.png\" alt=\"Skitch\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Skitch.png 256w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Skitch-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Skitch-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Skitch-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Skitch-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Skitch-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Skitch-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://evernote.com/skitch/\">Skitch\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A long time image manipulation app favorite of Miller’s, this free tool has seamless integration with Evernote, which owns it. The app allows users to annotate over anything, circling errors, adding text or arrows, etc. “I use it a ton on my phone,” Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mindmup-free-mind-map-web/dnenaecjcgeppfpaokiifokeieopppej?hl=en\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mindmup-free-mind-map-web/dnenaecjcgeppfpaokiifokeieopppej?hl=en\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45577\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/MindMup.png\" alt=\"MindMup\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/MindMup.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/MindMup-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/MindMup-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/MindMup-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/MindMup-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/MindMup-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/MindMup-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mindmup-free-mind-map-web/dnenaecjcgeppfpaokiifokeieopppej?hl=en\">Mindmup\u003c/a>: This is Jay Salerno’s favorite mind mapping tool. It is a Chrome extension, so it integrates well with other Google products.“I just think it’s really great to give kids lots of options when you’re asking them to diagram their thinking,” Luhtala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.playosmo.com/en/masterpiece/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.playosmo.com/en/masterpiece/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45576\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Masterpiece-by-Osmo.jpg\" alt=\"Masterpiece by Osmo\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Masterpiece-by-Osmo.jpg 256w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Masterpiece-by-Osmo-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Masterpiece-by-Osmo-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Masterpiece-by-Osmo-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Masterpiece-by-Osmo-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Masterpiece-by-Osmo-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Masterpiece-by-Osmo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.playosmo.com/en/masterpiece/\">Masterpiece by Osmo\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This drawing app could be a solution to some of the copyright infringement students engage in unwittingly. “Our students are asked to do digital storytelling all the time and they often turn to digital images for that,” Luhtala said. She always explains how to find copyright friendly material, but students don’t always follow instructions. Osmo gives them an opportunity to create their own images, while teaching them the value of intellectual property. Once they understand how challenging it is to create a beautiful image they may be less likely to swipe someone else’s without giving appropriate credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45231\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/coding-amalgam.jpg\" alt=\"coding-amalgam\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/coding-amalgam.jpg 190w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/coding-amalgam-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/coding-amalgam-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/coding-amalgam-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/coding-amalgam-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/coding-amalgam-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/coding-amalgam-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">Scratch and more:\u003c/strong> All the librarians that contributed to this list acknowledge that it’s a great idea to get students started coding early. Some well-liked apps include \u003ca href=\"https://scratch.mit.edu/\">Scratch\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.scratchjr.org/\">Scratch Jr\u003c/a>, and\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hopscotch-make-games!-learn/id617098629?mt=8\"> Hopscotch\u003c/a>. For younger students Miller recommends \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kodable-k-5-coding-curriculum/id577673067?mt=8\">Kodable\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/daisy-the-dinosaur/id490514278?mt=8\">Daisy the Dinosaur \u003c/a>as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://web.seesaw.me/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://web.seesaw.me/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45583\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Seesaw.png\" alt=\"Seesaw\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Seesaw.png 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Seesaw-400x400.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Seesaw-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Seesaw-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Seesaw-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Seesaw-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Seesaw-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/Seesaw-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://web.seesaw.me/\">Seesaw\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Digital portfolio apps like this one are becoming increasingly useful as educators and parents recognize the usefulness of a well-kept record of work. Miller worked at a standards-based, project-based learning school, where it was crucial the students be able to document their learning growth over the year. “The kids love using Seesaw because they can keep track of all their things in a digital portfolio,” Miller said. It keeps kids organized and can be a powerful curation tool too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://blog.spiderscribe.net/2014/09/spiderscribe-jr-for-ipad-is-out/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45232\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/spiderscribe.png\" alt=\"spiderscribe\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/spiderscribe.png 175w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/spiderscribe-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/spiderscribe-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/spiderscribe-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/spiderscribe-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/spiderscribe-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/spiderscribe-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://blog.spiderscribe.net/2014/09/spiderscribe-jr-for-ipad-is-out/\">SpiderScribe Jr\u003c/a>.:\u003c/strong> This app was selected by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ala.org/aasl/standards/best/apps\">American Association of School Librarians\u003c/a> ( AASL) as their favorite mind mapping app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.storyboardthat.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-45233\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/05/storyboard-e1464133272127.png\" alt=\"storyboard\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.storyboardthat.com/\">Storyboard That\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Librarians have noticed that increasingly teachers are asking students to storyboard before writing. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Georgia Gootee examines the journals she wrote as a 15-year-old, she sympathizes with her younger flailing self. “You can read through these journals and tell that at some points I'm just so terrified that it'll never come together, I'll never find my place in the world, I'll never feel loved or love anyone myself,” the 26-year-old teacher told me. At the same time, Gootee can chuckle at the overwrought nature of her youthful preoccupations. “It’s a weird duality,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gootee knows this material is funny because she heard the audience laugh when she read excerpts from her teenage journal at a Mortified performance in Portland last year. Mortified shows, as they’re called, feature adults reading aloud and on stage from their adolescent diaries. Like Gootee, readers typically share their most embarrassing and wrenching youthful stories on a variety of subjects: crushes, body image, self-esteem, divorce. Sharing these intensely private excerpts provokes laughter and connection between the audience and reader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mortified is the brainchild of self-described “angstologist” David Nadelberg, a writer and storyteller who stumbled on the idea of adults reading aloud from their adolescent journals after he shared a hilariously passionate and juvenile love letter with friends, and witnessed their positive reaction. Mortified was launched in Los Angeles 14 years ago, and now 20 cities around the world host their own live shows. The Mortified “movement” has grown to include \u003ca href=\"http://getmortified.com/podcast/\">podcasts\u003c/a>, the film \u003ca href=\"http://getmortified.com/film/\">Mortified Nation\u003c/a>, a couple of \u003ca href=\"http://getmortified.com/beyond-the-stage-2/books/\">anthologies\u003c/a> of stories and a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sundance.tv/series/the-mortified-sessions\">Sundance TV series\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mortified in Schools\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Mortified fans, Gootee included, have found another medium for these deeply personal stories: the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gootee teaches teenagers at the\u003ca href=\"http://youthprogress.org/\"> Youth Progress Learning Center\u003c/a> in Portland, which provides services for kids who have experienced abandonment, delinquency, and other serious challenges. She began to use podcasts of Mortified shows with students as a way to offer them perspective on their own difficult lives. “These kids really struggle with empathy sometimes, and they think no one could ever understand how they’re feeling right now,” Gootee said. In her sessions on mindfulness, she invites kids to bring their pillows and blankets into class and to spread out around (and under) the long conference table, while she tunes in to a Mortified podcast. The first story students heard, told by an older woman about her quaint-seeming struggles with a long-ago high school boyfriend, enchanted the students. Gootee selected the podcast—called \u003ca href=\"http://getmortified.com/podcast/\">Why Do I Date A**holes\u003c/a>?—because she knew the girls would be able to relate to young love. Not only did they chortle over the woman’s familiar mishaps, they also opened up about their own romantic challenges. “It started a casual discussion about what in their lives they could look back at and smile or laugh, despite it hurting originally,” Gootee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_45478\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-45478\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Gootee-Journal-Collection.jpg\" alt=\"Childhood journals\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Gootee-Journal-Collection.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Gootee-Journal-Collection-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Gootee-Journal-Collection-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Gootee-Journal-Collection-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Gootee-Journal-Collection-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Gootee-Journal-Collection-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Gootee-Journal-Collection-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teenage journals \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Georgia Gootee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Frank Mathews, a veteran social studies teacher at Wilson High School in Portland, also includes Mortified in the classroom. A part-time producer for Mortified, he has intimate knowledge of the show’s content, as well as access to the scripts. Mathews often summarizes the stories he’s heard, and shares excerpts from the readings with the juniors and seniors in his psychology class. Students pounced when he began to talk about his part-time work. “They were obsessed with wanting to know more,” he said. Mathews recently shared parts of #4 \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/themortifiedpodcast/04-jimmy-throw-in-the-towel/sets\">Jimmy: Throw in the Towel\u003c/a> about a boy’s coming out experience. “The 'coming out' ones always seem very relatable in Psychology because it deals so directly with their identity,” Mathews explained. Another podcast that works with kids is \u003ca href=\"http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/get-mortified/e/54-dont-fck-with-emiko-43270300\">#54 Don’t F*ck with Emiko\u003c/a>, he added, because it grapples with addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Benefits of Journal Writing \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Mathews and Gootee also draw on Mortified to encourage journal-writing among their students. Having endured adolescence with the help of her private diary, Gootee teaches her students to write as an emotional outlet. Mathews, who laments his own failure to record his teenage worries, tells his students that keeping a journal will allow them to write their own history and document their life. “This is a unique moment of your life, and you’ll appreciate the document,” Mathews tells his high school students. Plus, he says, in ten years they can do their own Mortified show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarabeth Leitch, a writing teacher in Portland, says that Mortified has inspired her to assign more personal writing with her freshmen and sophomores. While she hasn’t played a Mortified podcast to her students, she talks about the show and reminds them to hold on to their journals so they can observe, at some later date, their personal growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://soundcloud.com/themortifiedpodcast/15-tynan-peace-one-luv\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mortified podcast \u003ca href=\"http://mortified.prx.org/2015/05/15-tynan-peace-one-luv/\">15 Tynan: Peace! One Luv,\u003c/a>” is especially powerful, Leitch said. “It has really mixed up the way I think about writing prompts, and it reminds me what sorts of things are most important to youth: their style, their joys, their voice,” she said. Once relying just on literature as a writing prompt, she now assigns more personal narratives; for example, she asks students to write about their personal experiences as a way to clear their minds. At the end of the school year, Leitch will return the assignments so students can read their earlier writings and perhaps gain a little perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For college professor Alina Miller-Padilla, Mortified provides a wholly different learning opportunity. Miller-Padilla taught a class at Oregon State University on Writing for the Media Professional, and used the Mortified documentary and podcasts as illustrations of superior storytelling. “We focused on how they were saying what they were saying, and on the connection between the storyteller and the audience,” Miller-Padilla said. College students enjoy studying it, she said, because of the human experience it captures. “It’s funny, heartbreaking, and light-hearted, it runs the gamut, and we can all relate to it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some Words of Caution \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Mortified narratives dwell on provocative subjects that some schools and parents might consider indelicate for teenagers. Also challenging, and what keeps podcast enthusiast \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/03/18/why-listening-to-podcasts-helps-kids-improve-reading-skills/\">Michael Godsey \u003c/a>from teaching with Mortified, is the fear that teenagers might interpret adults laughing at distant adolescent pain as trivializing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla-Miller believes that even the more salacious Mortified stories can work with high school kids if teachers prepare their students ahead of time. Classes on cultural studies, social studies, media and culture are natural audiences for the stories. “It can be a powerful tool if you lay down the foundation to talk about race, class, sexuality and storytelling,” Padilla-Miller said. And screening what students hear, as Mathews does, sidesteps the problem. Though the racy nature of the stories initially attracts students, Mathews said, it’s the poignancy of the narratives that keeps kids engaged. As well, the stories reinforce to young adults that revealing vulnerability is a mark of courage, not weakness. “The heart of Mortified is vulnerability, which is also the heart of relating to people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mathews believes that exposure to Mortified, even in expurgated form, helps kids develop some perspective on their own outsized worries. Rather than minimize teenage misery, Mortified reveals its universality—and survivability. “Learning that other people go through this difficult phase,” he said, “is the biggest gift of the Mortified podcasts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Teachers Gain\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers who endeavor to use these podcasts in class learn a bit themselves. Just listening to Mortified helps ground teachers in the reality of teenage life. While adults might be ruminating about common core requirements and testing schedules, teenagers fixate on petty slights and fears of social isolation. Hearing Mortified podcasts reminds teachers that “kids aren’t thinking about the curriculum,” Mathews said. When teachers show some awareness of teenage worries, he added, students engage more in class. For her part, Sarabeth Leitch listens to Mortified to immerse herself in the high school mentality, and trains teachers using Mortified methods. All teachers should listen to an occasional podcast, she said. “Attending Mortified and hearing story after story truly reminded me of that coming-of-age experience,” she said. “It’s such a call to action to remember the human experience.” This summer, she intends to share original, embarrassing memorabilia from her youth with incoming teachers, and invite them to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoxKZhmWLrw&app=desktop\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gootee pored through old journals to prepare for her Mortified show, some of it still felt raw. As a teenager, she considered herself desperately unappealing, a total loser, a girl without confidantes—and bound to fail. But when grown-up Georgia got on stage and shared her ancient worries with the audience, she felt healed by the crowd’s bellowing support. “I was gloriously wrong—and I hope to prove myself wrong for decades to come,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How did Gootee’s students, who recently watched a video of her performance, react to the \u003ca href=\"https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QoxKZhmWLrw\">show\u003c/a>? “While watching they tried very hard to not laugh, but I managed to get a few giggles out of them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mortified at Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_45476\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-45476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Jolivet-1-e1465972881332.jpeg\" alt=\"Pages of Dana Jolivet's teenage journal read on stage at a Mortified show. \" width=\"240\" height=\"320\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pages of Dana Jolivet's teenage journal read on stage at a Mortified show. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dana Jolivet)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dana Jolivet, a recruiter and mother of two who lives in Portland, listened to Mortified podcasts with her teenage daughter Dora on the drives to and from school. Jolivet thought the stories might ease the strain her family was under. “It was cathartic for both of us,” she said. A dutiful diarist when she was a teenager, Jolivet read from her own youthful journals at a Mortified show in May, while her daughter sat in the audience. Jolivet and two others that evening shared their teenage wish to kill themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I was alone,” Jolivet said about her long-ago suicidal thinking. Hearing other adults share the same story from their youth “lit a lightbulb for me,” she said. “We were all going through the same thing,” she added. Jolivet wanted her daughter to understand that\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_45476\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-45476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Jolivet-1-e1465972881332.jpeg\" alt=\"Pages of Dana Jolivet's teenage journal read on stage at a Mortified show. \" width=\"240\" height=\"320\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pages of Dana Jolivet's teenage journal read on stage at a Mortified show. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dana Jolivet)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>the agonies of growing up are often fleeting, and that what seems overwhelming and tragic when you’re young can be transcended with time. “It was good for her to hear, and for her to hear other people talk about the exact same stuff,” Jolivet said. “It hits home that things aren’t as serious as you think they are just then,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dora seemed to agree. “I went through a really hard time when I was 13,” she said. Now 15, she understands that she’s not freakish or alone with her troubles. It helps “to not have to learn that at 46, but when you’re going through it,” she added. Dora is close to her mother, and able to talk openly about her worries. But for kids who lack that kind of intimacy with a parent, they might find an outlet in Mortified, she added. “The podcasts are great,” she said. “It’s not exactly a conversation, but you can definitely find someone going through the exact same thing as you are,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_45480\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-45480\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Dana-and-Dora-e1465973021568.jpeg\" alt=\"Dora and Dana Jolivet.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Dana-and-Dora-e1465973021568.jpeg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Dana-and-Dora-e1465973021568-400x300.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Dana-and-Dora-e1465973021568-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Dana-and-Dora-e1465973021568-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Dana-and-Dora-e1465973021568-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Dana-and-Dora-e1465973021568-960x720.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dora and Dana Jolivet \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dana Jolivet)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gootee teaches teenagers at the\u003ca href=\"http://youthprogress.org/\"> Youth Progress Learning Center\u003c/a> in Portland, which provides services for kids who have experienced abandonment, delinquency, and other serious challenges. She began to use podcasts of Mortified shows with students as a way to offer them perspective on their own difficult lives. “These kids really struggle with empathy sometimes, and they think no one could ever understand how they’re feeling right now,” Gootee said. In her sessions on mindfulness, she invites kids to bring their pillows and blankets into class and to spread out around (and under) the long conference table, while she tunes in to a Mortified podcast. The first story students heard, told by an older woman about her quaint-seeming struggles with a long-ago high school boyfriend, enchanted the students. Gootee selected the podcast—called \u003ca href=\"http://getmortified.com/podcast/\">Why Do I Date A**holes\u003c/a>?—because she knew the girls would be able to relate to young love. Not only did they chortle over the woman’s familiar mishaps, they also opened up about their own romantic challenges. “It started a casual discussion about what in their lives they could look back at and smile or laugh, despite it hurting originally,” Gootee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_45478\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-45478\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Gootee-Journal-Collection.jpg\" alt=\"Childhood journals\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Gootee-Journal-Collection.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Gootee-Journal-Collection-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Gootee-Journal-Collection-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Gootee-Journal-Collection-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Gootee-Journal-Collection-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Gootee-Journal-Collection-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Gootee-Journal-Collection-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teenage journals \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Georgia Gootee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Frank Mathews, a veteran social studies teacher at Wilson High School in Portland, also includes Mortified in the classroom. A part-time producer for Mortified, he has intimate knowledge of the show’s content, as well as access to the scripts. Mathews often summarizes the stories he’s heard, and shares excerpts from the readings with the juniors and seniors in his psychology class. Students pounced when he began to talk about his part-time work. “They were obsessed with wanting to know more,” he said. Mathews recently shared parts of #4 \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/themortifiedpodcast/04-jimmy-throw-in-the-towel/sets\">Jimmy: Throw in the Towel\u003c/a> about a boy’s coming out experience. “The 'coming out' ones always seem very relatable in Psychology because it deals so directly with their identity,” Mathews explained. Another podcast that works with kids is \u003ca href=\"http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/get-mortified/e/54-dont-fck-with-emiko-43270300\">#54 Don’t F*ck with Emiko\u003c/a>, he added, because it grapples with addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Benefits of Journal Writing \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Mathews and Gootee also draw on Mortified to encourage journal-writing among their students. Having endured adolescence with the help of her private diary, Gootee teaches her students to write as an emotional outlet. Mathews, who laments his own failure to record his teenage worries, tells his students that keeping a journal will allow them to write their own history and document their life. “This is a unique moment of your life, and you’ll appreciate the document,” Mathews tells his high school students. Plus, he says, in ten years they can do their own Mortified show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarabeth Leitch, a writing teacher in Portland, says that Mortified has inspired her to assign more personal writing with her freshmen and sophomores. While she hasn’t played a Mortified podcast to her students, she talks about the show and reminds them to hold on to their journals so they can observe, at some later date, their personal growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://soundcloud.com/themortifiedpodcast/15-tynan-peace-one-luv\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mortified podcast \u003ca href=\"http://mortified.prx.org/2015/05/15-tynan-peace-one-luv/\">15 Tynan: Peace! One Luv,\u003c/a>” is especially powerful, Leitch said. “It has really mixed up the way I think about writing prompts, and it reminds me what sorts of things are most important to youth: their style, their joys, their voice,” she said. Once relying just on literature as a writing prompt, she now assigns more personal narratives; for example, she asks students to write about their personal experiences as a way to clear their minds. At the end of the school year, Leitch will return the assignments so students can read their earlier writings and perhaps gain a little perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For college professor Alina Miller-Padilla, Mortified provides a wholly different learning opportunity. Miller-Padilla taught a class at Oregon State University on Writing for the Media Professional, and used the Mortified documentary and podcasts as illustrations of superior storytelling. “We focused on how they were saying what they were saying, and on the connection between the storyteller and the audience,” Miller-Padilla said. College students enjoy studying it, she said, because of the human experience it captures. “It’s funny, heartbreaking, and light-hearted, it runs the gamut, and we can all relate to it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some Words of Caution \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Mortified narratives dwell on provocative subjects that some schools and parents might consider indelicate for teenagers. Also challenging, and what keeps podcast enthusiast \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/03/18/why-listening-to-podcasts-helps-kids-improve-reading-skills/\">Michael Godsey \u003c/a>from teaching with Mortified, is the fear that teenagers might interpret adults laughing at distant adolescent pain as trivializing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla-Miller believes that even the more salacious Mortified stories can work with high school kids if teachers prepare their students ahead of time. Classes on cultural studies, social studies, media and culture are natural audiences for the stories. “It can be a powerful tool if you lay down the foundation to talk about race, class, sexuality and storytelling,” Padilla-Miller said. And screening what students hear, as Mathews does, sidesteps the problem. Though the racy nature of the stories initially attracts students, Mathews said, it’s the poignancy of the narratives that keeps kids engaged. As well, the stories reinforce to young adults that revealing vulnerability is a mark of courage, not weakness. “The heart of Mortified is vulnerability, which is also the heart of relating to people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mathews believes that exposure to Mortified, even in expurgated form, helps kids develop some perspective on their own outsized worries. Rather than minimize teenage misery, Mortified reveals its universality—and survivability. “Learning that other people go through this difficult phase,” he said, “is the biggest gift of the Mortified podcasts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Teachers Gain\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers who endeavor to use these podcasts in class learn a bit themselves. Just listening to Mortified helps ground teachers in the reality of teenage life. While adults might be ruminating about common core requirements and testing schedules, teenagers fixate on petty slights and fears of social isolation. Hearing Mortified podcasts reminds teachers that “kids aren’t thinking about the curriculum,” Mathews said. When teachers show some awareness of teenage worries, he added, students engage more in class. For her part, Sarabeth Leitch listens to Mortified to immerse herself in the high school mentality, and trains teachers using Mortified methods. All teachers should listen to an occasional podcast, she said. “Attending Mortified and hearing story after story truly reminded me of that coming-of-age experience,” she said. “It’s such a call to action to remember the human experience.” This summer, she intends to share original, embarrassing memorabilia from her youth with incoming teachers, and invite them to do the same.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/QoxKZhmWLrw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/QoxKZhmWLrw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>When Gootee pored through old journals to prepare for her Mortified show, some of it still felt raw. As a teenager, she considered herself desperately unappealing, a total loser, a girl without confidantes—and bound to fail. But when grown-up Georgia got on stage and shared her ancient worries with the audience, she felt healed by the crowd’s bellowing support. “I was gloriously wrong—and I hope to prove myself wrong for decades to come,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How did Gootee’s students, who recently watched a video of her performance, react to the \u003ca href=\"https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QoxKZhmWLrw\">show\u003c/a>? “While watching they tried very hard to not laugh, but I managed to get a few giggles out of them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mortified at Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_45476\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-45476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/06/Jolivet-1-e1465972881332.jpeg\" alt=\"Pages of Dana Jolivet's teenage journal read on stage at a Mortified show. \" width=\"240\" height=\"320\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pages of Dana Jolivet's teenage journal read on stage at a Mortified show. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dana Jolivet)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dana Jolivet, a recruiter and mother of two who lives in Portland, listened to Mortified podcasts with her teenage daughter Dora on the drives to and from school. Jolivet thought the stories might ease the strain her family was under. “It was cathartic for both of us,” she said. A dutiful diarist when she was a teenager, Jolivet read from her own youthful journals at a Mortified show in May, while her daughter sat in the audience. Jolivet and two others that evening shared their teenage wish to kill themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I was alone,” Jolivet said about her long-ago suicidal thinking. Hearing other adults share the same story from their youth “lit a lightbulb for me,” she said. “We were all going through the same thing,” she added. 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"content": "\u003cp>Have you ever seen a school data wall?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a struggling Newark, N.J., public school, I've seen bulletin boards showing the test scores of each grade compared with state averages. And in one in affluent Silicon Valley, I've seen smartboards that track individual students' math responses in real time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These kinds of public displays send a message: This school cares about student performance by the numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You've probably heard about the positive side of all that data gathering and sharing. Like this story we ran just last week about \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/05/30/477506418/what-one-districts-data-mining-did-for-chronic-absence\">a district that used data as the catalyst to conquer chronic absences\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as \"data-driven\" education becomes more popular, critics are also raising a range of concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Education has increasingly encouraged and funded states to collect and analyze information about students: grades, state test scores, attendance, behavior, lateness, graduation rates and school climate measures like surveys of student engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its recent announcement of new regulations, the department emphasizes \"\u003ca href=\"http://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/essa/nprmaccountabilitychart52016.pdf\">ensuring the use of multiple measures of school success based on academic outcomes, student progress, and school quality\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The education technology industry, meanwhile, keeps making it easier for teachers to record and share information on students. Check out the \"dashboards\" inside programs like Google Apps for Education, or freestanding gradebook apps like JumpRope, or ClassDojo, focused on behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Software also collects information on students all by itself. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/10/13/437265231/meet-the-mind-reading-robo-tutor-in-the-sky\">Jose Ferreira, CEO of Knewton\u003c/a>, said in a 2012 speech that his \"adaptive learning\" platform, used by 10 million students globally, collects 5 to 10 million data points per student per day — down to how many seconds it takes you to answer that algebra problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We literally have more data about our students than any company has about anybody else about anything,\" Ferreira said. \u003ca href=\"http://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/schoolhouse-commercialism-2015\">\"And it's not even close.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The argument in favor of all this is that the more we know about how students are doing, the better we can target instruction and other interventions. And sharing that information with parents and the community at large is crucial. It can motivate big changes. It's to serve equity and uphold civil rights, say the latest Ed Department regulations, that states must \"provide clear and transparent information on critical measures of school quality and equity to parents and community members.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we're also starting to hear more about what might be lost when schools focus too much on data. Here are five arguments against the excesses of data-driven instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1) Motivation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A body of psychology research shows that merely being reminded of one's group identity, or that a certain test has shown differences in performance between, say, women and men, can be enough to depress outcomes on that test for the affected group. This is known as \u003ca href=\"http://www.apa.org/research/action/stereotype.aspx\">stereotype threat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a highly data-driven classroom, students who struggle may be made acutely aware, to the percentile, of how far behind the average they are. This could be enough to trigger stereotype threat, depressing performance still more. Or, it could create negative feelings about school, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/05/24/478239416/helping-children-succeed-starts-at-birth-heres-how-to-do-it\">threatening students' sense of belonging, which is key to academic motivation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what about the students who are leading the dashboard, collecting badges, prizes or virtual stickers? These kinds of extrinsic rewards could depress their interest in an activity for its own sake, \u003ca href=\"http://selfdeterminationtheory.org/SDT/documents/2001_DeciKoestnerRyan.pdf\">researchers have found\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> 2) Helicoptering\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the '80s, my parents dropped me off at school and hoped for the best. They may have gotten a call from the teacher if something was wrong; otherwise, no news was good news until the first report card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, parents increasingly are receiving \u003ca href=\"https://www.classdojo.com/#LearnMore\">daily text messages\u003c/a> with photos and videos from the classroom. And some software systems let them log on and see exactly how Jasper or Alaia are performing, assignment by assignment, even down to the number of minutes spent reading or practicing Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this info could be a great way for parents to partner in their kids' education. It could also enable or even encourage a new level of educational helicopter parenting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A style of overly involved \"intrusive parenting\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/07/helicopter_parenting_is_increasingly_correlated_with_college_age_depression.html\">has been associated in studies with increased levels of anxiety and depression when students reach college\u003c/a>. \"Parent portals as utilized in K-12 education are doing significant harm to student development,\" argues college instructor John Warner in a recent piece for \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/shut-down-parent-portals-dangers-real-time-data#_ftnref\">Inside Higher Ed\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3) Commercial Monitoring and Marketing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Have you ever been served an ad in the middle of your English homework? The \u003ca href=\"http://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/schoolhouse-commercialism-2015\">National Education Policy Center\u003c/a> releases annual reports on commercialization and marketing in public schools. In its most recent report in May, researchers there raised concerns about targeted marketing to students using computers for schoolwork and homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.siia.net/blog/index/Post/66600/Myths-in-Student-Privacy-and-Advertising\">Companies like Google pledge not to track\u003c/a> the content of schoolwork for the purposes of advertising. But in reality these boundaries can be a lot more porous. For example, a high school student profiled in the NEPC report often consulted commercial programs like \u003ca href=\"http://www.dictionary.com/\">dictionary.com\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sparknotes.com/\">Sparknotes\u003c/a>: \"Once when she had been looking at shoes, she mentioned, an ad for shoes appeared in the middle of a Sparknotes chapter summary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The authors of the NEPC report observed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Schools have proven to be a soft target for data gathering and marketing. Not only are they eager to adopt technology that promises better learning, but their lack of resources makes them susceptible to offers of free technology, free programs and activities, free educational materials, and help with fundraising.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4) Missing What Data Can't Capture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Computer systems are most comfortable recording and analyzing quantifiable, structured data. The number of absences in a semester, say; or a three-digit score on a multiple-choice test that can be graded by machine, where every question has just one right answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what about a semester-long group project where one student overcame her natural tendency to procrastinate, excelled in the design and construction of Odysseus's ship out of cardboard, but then plagiarized part of the explanatory text? What about a student who manages \"only\" 10 absences despite changing living situations three times during the semester? Can dashboards reflect these complexities?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5) Exposing Students' \"Permanent Records\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past few years \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/financial-services-and-commerce/use-of-credit-info-in-employ-2013-legis.aspx\">several states have passed laws\u003c/a> banning employers from looking at the credit reports of job applicants. 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For example, a high school student profiled in the NEPC report often consulted commercial programs like \u003ca href=\"http://www.dictionary.com/\">dictionary.com\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sparknotes.com/\">Sparknotes\u003c/a>: \"Once when she had been looking at shoes, she mentioned, an ad for shoes appeared in the middle of a Sparknotes chapter summary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The authors of the NEPC report observed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Schools have proven to be a soft target for data gathering and marketing. Not only are they eager to adopt technology that promises better learning, but their lack of resources makes them susceptible to offers of free technology, free programs and activities, free educational materials, and help with fundraising.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4) Missing What Data Can't Capture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Computer systems are most comfortable recording and analyzing quantifiable, structured data. 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"content": "\u003cp>The classics may seem like an endangered species in K-12 curriculums as they become increasingly incompatible with a wired generation accustomed to novelty, online interaction and instant gratification. Teens who now spend up to \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/about-us/news/press-releases/landmark-report-us-teens-use-an-average-of-nine-hours-of-media-per-day\">nine hours a day\u003c/a> consuming digital media prize all things “epic,” except an epic itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who has time for Homer and Virgil’s dusty old words when the siren song of notifications beckon? A modern tragedy? Drama teacher and theater director Eddie Kim proves that it doesn’t have to be an either/or proposition. Kim and his students at the Pierrepont School in Connecticut marry the classical past and the digital now with mesmerizing performances that combine traditional literature, experimental theater and video games. Welcome to the world of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ektheater.com/#/grand-theft-ovid-2/\">\u003cem>Grand Theft Ovid\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim knew he was onto something when a noisy and restless high school audience was reduced to rapt silence by his company’s performance of the myth of Niobe from Ovid’s \u003cem>Metamorphoses\u003c/em>. The tragic tale of a mother whose children are murdered by vengeful gods is certainly Netflix-worthy material, but what really struck a chord with the students was that it was staged on \u003cem>Halo: Reach\u003c/em>, part of the blockbuster sci-fi video game franchise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students narrate dialogue from classic works to scenes of video games as avatars move through the action. The director decides which game scene will project on the main screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the action takes place on a large screen, the flesh and blood performers and technical crew are also part of the show. Digital puppeteers, voice actors and technicians sit below the screen in a highly visible row of glowing computer terminals and game consoles, speaking lines, moving characters and managing the sounds and transitions. Kim’s decision to keep the performers and their computers exposed to the audience is a deliberate nod to traditional Japanese Bunraku puppetry and the writings of Bertolt Brecht.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experiencing a classical myth expressed as a video game resonated with the youthful audience, underscoring the value of articulating the past in a relevant and contemporary format, according to Kim. “[Students] did not seem interested in us, in what we were doing, or in Ovid,\" he said. As the story unfolded, the audience became more interested. \"The mood changed dramatically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obh5IMU6euY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim and his students formed the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ektheater.com/\">EK Theater\u003c/a> company, whose tagline compactly sums their vision: \u003cem>retelling classical stories through video games\u003c/em>. Although based out of a school, EK Theater operates like a professional company. Kim and his students build the productions from the ground up, tour and perform in venues like the \u003ca href=\"http://bricktheater.com/\">Brick Theater\u003c/a> in Brooklyn and Harvard’s \u003ca href=\"http://americanrepertorytheater.org/\">American Repertory Theater (ART)\u003c/a>. The company’s eclectic repertoire includes Poe’s \u003cem>The Tell-Tale Heart\u003c/em>, Shakespeare’s \u003cem>Romeo and Juliet\u003c/em>, an ancient Arabic fairytale and stories from Livy’s \u003cem>Ab Urbe Condita\u003c/em>, which depicts the mythical founding of Rome. Middle and high school students in the company must meet the technical, artistic and logistical demands of a seasoned theater crowd. “My experiences taught me that you actually can take an idea, make it real and see people respond to it, ” said Connor Sedlacek, an alumnus of Kim’s troupe and the Pierrepont School, who now studies Classics at NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Studies and produces his own video game theater productions. He said the production helps underscore the importance of including hands-on, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/03/07/the-value-of-interships-a-dose-of-the-real-world-in-high-school/\">experiential learning opportunities\u003c/a> in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shows are praised for their fidelity to the classical source texts, which is in part a credit to the students who translated many of the works from the original Latin. “For \u003cem>Grand Theft Ovid 2\u003c/em>, some Pierrepont students and I worked as a committee to produce our own Latin-to-English translation of the relevant parts of \u003cem>The Metamorphoses\u003c/em>,” remembers Sedlacek. “Translating by committee is actually a very effective method, but things did get very heated about certain word-choices. Making a translation intended for an audience is very different from making one for your Latin class: you become a lot more invested in your choices, because you really want it to interest people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where adults might see our work as being innovative and technical, kids see it quite differently,” Kim said. “They see it as being an accessible art form. They have their own stories to tell, and they can see themselves doing what we do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part theater, part machinima, part puppet show, Kim first conceived the hybrid art form in 2007 for The Tiny Theater Festival, where participants were restricted to perform 10-minute segments in 6-foot cubes. “It was while trying to figure out how I could present a piece in such a small space that the idea of using video games first occurred to me,” says Kim. “By projecting the MMORPG [massive multiplayer online role-playing game], \u003cem>World of Warcraft\u003c/em>, to a screen mounted at the back of the cube, I could present an entire world for the audience.” He enlisted two students to help him and successfully produced W.B. Yeats’ \u003cem>Cathleen ni Houlihan\u003c/em> on the ultra-popular online game. And in that 6-foot cube, a new art form was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvard University comparative literature professor David Damrosch believes that new media, like video games, are the “new material conditions” by which stories are being told, and warrant the same degree of serious critical consideration as their print-based predecessors. “The study of classic literary texts is [not] fated to whither away,” writes Damrosch in \u003cem>Geopoetics: World Literature and the Global Mediascape\u003c/em>. “Literary studies can thrive in the newly expansive media environment, bringing new audiences to our favorite authors.” Rather than resist or compete with new media, Kim’s approach reconciles past and present. It’s worth remembering that many of the stories from antiquity were originally transmitted orally, and were only later committed to the new technology of writing. Similarly, these enduring narratives can now be communicated through video games, a central (perhaps \u003cem>the\u003c/em> central) source of storytelling in contemporary culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYmTTOVBWLQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his devotion to the classics, Sedlacek emphasizes the importance in letting them find new forms. “I don’t think it helps to act as if the classics occupy a sacred space isolated from the rest of culture. It’s better to allow these texts to be played with, to put them into conversation with the other media that make up our world.” He describes video game puppetry as a “postmodern mashup of old and new, high and low. Video games lend flair and fun, the stories lend wisdom and gravity. Together, they give the audience a chance to appreciate both for the unique feelings and thoughts they can evoke in us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what is lost? Is acting by means of an avatar really acting? Does a repurposed video game lend the same gravity as a traditional stage performance? Sedlacek sees it as a series of trade-offs. “When we do theater in the game, we are acting in the same way that flesh-and-blood thespians do. We gesture, we pause dramatically, we try to elicit a response using our digital bodies. Each game offers its own possibilities for representation, possibilities that are very different from that which reality offers us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the epilogue of his bestselling \u003cem>The Game Believes in You\u003c/em>, USA Today reporter Greg Toppo also attests to the power of this type of hybrid performance. He praises \u003cem>The Surface: The World Above\u003c/em>, a Mozart inspired opera produced entirely on \u003cem>Minecraf\u003c/em>t, the popular world building video game. Toppo was moved by the piece and described this fusion of high art and video games as “the most promising application of games and learning that I’ve seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim’s work is a model of how educators can creatively blend the traditional and progressive, past and future, digital and analog to produce a meaningful and persistent learning experience. Most importantly, this type of synthesis empowers students to articulate their condition by leveraging their passions and interests. As Toppo notes, it is critical for teachers to understand the real world their students live in, and bring that world to the classroom. “This is cutting-edge technology applied to something totally new and strange and beautiful,” writes Toppo. “It offers kids a chance to create something no one has ever seen, something keyed to their passions but with an eye towards broadening them. 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Kim and his students build the productions from the ground up, tour and perform in venues like the \u003ca href=\"http://bricktheater.com/\">Brick Theater\u003c/a> in Brooklyn and Harvard’s \u003ca href=\"http://americanrepertorytheater.org/\">American Repertory Theater (ART)\u003c/a>. The company’s eclectic repertoire includes Poe’s \u003cem>The Tell-Tale Heart\u003c/em>, Shakespeare’s \u003cem>Romeo and Juliet\u003c/em>, an ancient Arabic fairytale and stories from Livy’s \u003cem>Ab Urbe Condita\u003c/em>, which depicts the mythical founding of Rome. 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He said the production helps underscore the importance of including hands-on, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/03/07/the-value-of-interships-a-dose-of-the-real-world-in-high-school/\">experiential learning opportunities\u003c/a> in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shows are praised for their fidelity to the classical source texts, which is in part a credit to the students who translated many of the works from the original Latin. “For \u003cem>Grand Theft Ovid 2\u003c/em>, some Pierrepont students and I worked as a committee to produce our own Latin-to-English translation of the relevant parts of \u003cem>The Metamorphoses\u003c/em>,” remembers Sedlacek. “Translating by committee is actually a very effective method, but things did get very heated about certain word-choices. 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