Digital Playground ~ Creation Apps

The iTeachers at Powdersville Elementary and I have decided to host a Digital Playground session with a different theme for each month. Our goal for these sessions is to provide teachers with a fun way to explore new apps for the classroom and to encourage collaboration & sharing between grade levels.

For this month, each of us selected a creation app and created a station activity for the teachers. I chose to share Tellagami and My Talking Avatar, which can both be used by students to create a talking avatar to describe an image of something they've created or learned about. Book Creator, Puppet Edu, Popplet, and Thinglink were the other app selections for this month.

Teacher feedback from this session was excellent. They liked that the session was "self-paced," allowing them to move from station to station at any time. One of the teachers commented, "I enjoyed the opportunity to talk with other teachers about these apps as we were exploring." Several others made comments about the session being "informative" and "fun."

Thank you so much to Melissa Wilcox, Brenna Wilkie, Rachel Wayne, and Melissa Tollison for working together to make this a great learning opportunity for our teachers! Thanks also to Principal Brad Moore for supporting this event and providing drinks & snacks.

Thanks, #iTeachers! Always fun @pvespride #digitalplayground #a1digitalinnovation pic.twitter.com/1n5pYhrQQO

— Jessica D. Preisig (@PreisigJessica) September 15, 2015

Ts are playing with a variety of creation apps @pvespride #digitalplayground #a1digitalinnovation #blessedinpville pic.twitter.com/4YxNGulXFX

— Jessica D. Preisig (@PreisigJessica) September 15, 2015