On Monday Shanel and I ran a PD on integrating technology in Elementary Classrooms. We had Chris Betcher as our guest speaker, he shared the ICT integration in his school. After that we covered the IT’/Library standards in YIS and the ICT in PYP. 8 teachers from different grade levels shared their experience in ICT integration in their classrooms in a speed geeking session. In the afternoon we talked about the upcoming Digital Citizenship week in April. Grade levels gathered up in groups and designed a ICT integration lesson with the tools that they have learned today for an upcoming UOI. In our last session Chris showed us how to use Scratch. It was a great day! Thank you ES teachers for your valuable sharing and Chris for your presentations.

PD with Elif & Shanel on PhotoPeach

I am a big fan of stop motion animation. Last year I worked with three kindergarten classes on animation projects. Hopefully this year we will have more.

This is my latest inspiration: The worlds largest stop motion animation

And here is how they shot it: