Take Time to Shake It Up

I'd like for you, dear reader, to visit Shake Up Learning. I read through about fifteen different tech-based educator blogs until I found this one.  Kasey Bell's approach to education is one I can identify- shake it up and make it better!  I am all about keeping things new and interesting, so Bell's site fit my interests to a T!  It also doesn't hurt that Bell has just about every Google certification they hand out to educators. 

This specific post that I linked you to on creating "apps" with Google slides covers something I'd never attempted before reading this post.  This particular posting is from a guest author- Micah Shippee.  As soon as I read through all the steps, I began thinking of the different collaborative projects that could come as a direct result of being able to teach students how to do this during library time!  With Google Classroom becoming such a staple in many of today's schools, being able to add one more "tool to the tool belt" for student AND faculty use is critical.  Specifically, sharing with teachers how to do this with students in their own classrooms could allow integration far beyond what most classrooms are accomplishing now while allowing students to feel like they're doing something different from the typical slideshow or file sharing.  Finally, an extremely important piece to picking THIS post as a tool to share with teachers is brought to us by the number TEN.  It is all done in only ten steps.  That's it!  That means that it's broken down into the basics, which is perfect for elementary patrons and less-than-tech-savvy-teachers alike.  Icing on the cake- it just sounds cool to say you're creating your own app.

Once you have finished learning how to do this yourself, I highly recommend you peruse through more of Kasey Bell's posts (and those of her guests). She has a world of knowledge to share and truly wants to help create integrated classrooms.  I will continue to follow her and I hope you will as well.