Nearpod Field Trips, Global Read Aloud, Guided Access on iPads

Global Collaboration

For the month of October, we will focus on the "Global Collaborator" and we will focus on tools that provide students with the opportunity to engage with people and places outside of their own community. 

1.  Nearpod Virtual Field Trip

Chris and I have used a few Virtual trips in Nearpod already with students this school year, and they LOVE it!  It's so simple to add a virtual field trip to an already existing Nearpod presentation, or to simply create a quick field trip within Nearpod.  There are no special Virtual Reality Glasses or anything else needed!  Maybe you'll take a trip to the setting of a book your class is reading, or perhaps to a place where a music composer or Olympic athlete grew up, a board a ship in Ketchikan, Alaska, Glacier Creek in the Rocky Mountains, or the Botanical Gardens in Florida?   The opportunities are endless and can fit into all curricular areas!

1. Log-in to Nearpod
2. Select Create
3. Choose Add Content and Select Virtual Field Trip
4. Use the Search feature to find most any location you'd like!

That's it!!!


For all other features of Nearpod, please review "Nearpod in a Nutshell" that Erin created (previously posted in September).  Log in using the code APMCT.

Week 3's Book - You Hold Me Up

2.  Global Read Aloud

If you didn't read this week's book You Hold Me Up yet, we highly recommend it, as it fits nicely into our SEL curriculum, and can easily be found on EPIC! books, too.

Please know that you can participate as much or as little as you would like, and to contact Chris or Erin if you would like to be partnered up with another classroom at Pennridge to talk about the book.  Remember to share you pictures and/or stories in this Google Drive folder!

Week 4's Book - A Day with Yayah and
Week 5's Book When we Were Alone

Next week's book is A Day with Yayah by Nicola I. Campbell, followed by the final book in the read aloud When we Were Alone by David Robertson.  It doesn't appear there are tons of resources out there for this book, but we did see one in the Seesaw Activities Library if you're interested.  

3.  Guided Access on iPads

Do you have a student or group of students that can easily get side-tracked when using the iPads?  You might want to give Guided Access a try!  Guided Access limits your iOS device to a single app and lets you control which features are available.  Follow the quick steps in Erin's tutorial here, set a passcode and time limit, and you're ready to go!