TCEA 2015

How do we harness the educational power of augmented reality and virtual worlds? Great resources on using AR in writing projects.

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Bootstrap, a sleek, intuitive, and powerful mobile first front-end framework for faster and easier web development.

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Note: Lessons include complete teacher editions, student worksheets, and any applicable Python programs. Examples include short exercises from core subjects with key CT concepts to consider. Programs include Python examples and exercises for teachers to enhance their existing lessons.

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Coding resources for iPad

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Smarty Pins is a Google Maps based geography and trivia game.

Google Apps for Education: A suite of free productivity tools for classroom collaboration

Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.

Engage your students in online literacy learning with these interactive tools that help them accomplish a variety of goals-from organizing their thoughts to learning about language-all while having fun.

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Summarizing information is an important postreading and prewriting activity that helps students synthesize what they have learned. The interactive Cube Creator offers four options: Bio Cube: This option allows students to develop an outline of a person whose biography or autobiography they have just read; it can also be used before students write their own autobiography.

I have been in education for 18 years and specialize in helping teachers develop 1:1 classrooms as well as create teaching materials for K-5 teachers. I have been an instructional technology specialist, a K-5 literacy coach and a first grade classroom teacher. I have a master's degree in Early Childhood Education and a specialist degree in Reading.

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PhotoMath is the world's smartest camera calculator! Just point your camera to a Math expression, and PhotoMath will instantly display the answer. Use it to get help when you're stuck with a Math problem. Hit the steps button, and see a full step-by-step solution! Check below to see the full list of supported Math problems. Students can use it as a tool to learn Math, while parents can use it to quickly check their kid’s homework. With PhotoMath, you can have a Math teacher in your pocket! :) PhotoMath currently supports basic arithmetic, fractions, decimal numbers, linear equations and several functions like logarithms. Support for new Math is constantly added in new releases as we aim to make the entire Math easy to learn. Handwritten text is not supported, only printed problems from Math textbooks.

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TCEA exhibits opened today! If you are in Austin attending TCEA be sure to stop by my booth to grab some freebies. My booth number is #334. Thanks to everyone who came by today. I had so much fun meeting so many educators from across Texas.

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore [William Joyce, Joe Bluhm] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. The book that inspired the Academy Award - winning short film, from New York Times bestselling author and beloved visionary William Joyce. Morris Lessmore loved words. He loved stories. He loved books.

The award-winning short film is now an interactive narrative experience. William Joyce's "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore", blurs the line between picture books and animated film.
Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, “Morris Lessmore” is a story of people who devote their lives to books and books who return the favor. Morris Lessmore is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story. Using a variety of techniques (miniatures, computer animation, 2D animation) award winning author/ illustrator William Joyce and Co-director Brandon Oldenburg present a new narrative experience that harkens back to silent films and M-G-M Technicolor musicals. “Morris Lessmore” is old fashioned and cutting edge at the same time.

nce upon a time there was no alphabet, only numbers…

Life was…fine. Orderly. Dull as gray paint. Very…numberly. But our five jaunty heroes weren’t willing to accept that this was all there could be. They knew there had to be more.

So they broke out hard hats and welders, hammers and glue guns, and they started knocking some numbers together. Removing a piece here. Adding a piece there. At first, it was awful. But the five kept at it, and soon it was…artful! One letter after another emerged, until there were twenty-six. Twenty-six letters—and they were beautiful. All colorful, shiny, and new. Exactly what our heroes didn’t even know they were missing. And when the letters entered the world, something truly wondrous began to happen…Pizza! Jelly beans! Color! Books!Based on the award-winning app, this is William Joyce and Moonbot’s Metropolis-inspired homage to everyone who knows there is more to life than shades of black and gray.

Numberlys presents a fanciful depiction of the origins of the alphabet and is the newest interactive epic from Moonbot Studios, creators of The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. Numberlys is a story App celebration of the early fantasy epics King Kong, Metropolis and Flash Gordon with a dollop of the Marx Brothers, a splash of the Fleischer Studios technicolor Superman and a little bit of the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Numberlys is huge in scope. It's an adventure! A mystery! A game! And a story! It's a new way to entertain, learn and rediscover our storytelling "golden age".