Distraction is everywhere, and is especially heightened on the internet. I may jump on the computer to quickly check my bank balance and send and email, and before I know it I am scanning the latest articles on my Facebook feed and completely forgot the reason I powered up my computer in the first place. […]
Category: Wednesday Review
Wednesday Review — Book Reviews
July was a gut wrenching and hilarious reading month. Two books of each. Let’s go with the hilarious first. Phillip Done, Author of 32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny provides a side-splitting account of one of his many years as a third grade teacher. His writing style is easy to read, and his sense […]
Wednesday Review – iStopMotion for iPad
My kids and I are knee deep in a video project which includes green screen filming and animation. In my research to determine what our options are for animation, given the tools we already have (namely Mac gear) and given that I have absolutely no background in video or animation, I came across this program: iStopMotion […]
Wednesday Review – Move the Turtle
I am very fond of programming apps. I’ve mentioned before the benefits I see to learning the basic concepts of programming. There is a good chance that your child will work with a programmer in some capacity in the future; it is helpful to have a foundational understanding of that world. Programming forces you to […]
Wednesday Review – Quizlet
In the process of my 4th grader preparing for the National Geography Bee, our local Bee coordinator told us about this great website/app called Quizlet. This lady is a university professor who uses Quizlet for her classes and was finding it tremendously helpful for Geo Bee prep. You head to their website: Quizlet.com, and create […]
Wednesday Review – OverDrive
Last week I mentioned that one of the books I “read” in May was an audiobook via my library’s ebook/audiobook lending system. For those unaware, I thought it may be helpful to highlight that today. If you are a member of your local library, you have audiobooks and ebooks at your fingertips via an app […]
Wednesday Review – Coursera
Courses without the campus. We live in an incredible age. So much information is at our fingertips. I remember when floppy disks were all we had, and it took a stack of them to load a program onto the computer because each disk held a few megabytes of data. During the days of AOL I […]
Wednesday Review – Video fun with green screens
As I began to prepare for my video project, I was looking into video editing options. We would be working with a green screen and we wanted the ability to do animations. Who knew I would find the solution to both of those in this one company. Animation & Drawing by Do Ink AND Green […]
Wednesday Review – Programming Apps
Your child may or may not head into a field that involves computer programming, but it is very likely that having an understanding of programming will be helpful. Whether making a basic website, or designing a full-fledged system, programming is here to stay. I dabbled in coding; AP Computer Science in high school and some […]
Wednesday Review – Interactive History
Veritas Self-Paced Courses A good friend introduced me to Veritas Press self-paced courses about this time last year, and I am so glad she did. All four of my kids (with an age span of 5 – 10) eagerly tackle history with these wonderfully interactive lessons. The best way for you to see for yourself […]