Category: Drones

3D Printing, Build like a Pirate, Coding, Donations, Donors Choose, Drones, Lego Classroom, STEAM, Teach Like a Pirate, Tickle App, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Dash and Dot for Kinders

mrread7

screen-shot-2015-05-14-at-20-57-15

Image from http://www.tech-fairy.com

Hello Everyone,

Last week, I had such an amazing thing happen. Both my Donors Choose projects were fully funded. Bringing Ozobots, LEGOs and a 3D Printer (still waiting on it) to be brought to my students for STEAM. In the last couple of days, I have seen my students come to life with our new tools and having them bring new innovation to their learning and understanding. Well, I was working with my Kinders and something very interesting happened. They had a problem with coding with their Spheros and Ozobots. Not because of the ability to code, but due to the size. That’s when I had to jump into action to bring coding and robotics to my Kinders with their new LEGOs.

Continue reading “Dash and Dot for Kinders”

3D Printing, Coding, Dice UP the Classroom, Ditch the Textbook, Donors Choose, Drones, Explore Like a Pirate, Gaming Education, Makerspace, ozobot, Ryan Read, Sphero, STEAM, STEM, STREAM, Teach Like a Pirate, Tickle App, UncategorizedLeave a comment

My Black Friday Tech Wish List

mrread7

christmaswishlist

I know, you are probably reading the headline and saying: “Don’t you mean Christmas Wish List”? Kind of, but for the last few years, I have always seen great sales for items I would love to have for my students and classroom and eventually, they find themselves to my students (sadly not by Christmas). So, being the #STEAM teacher and trying to transition my students to STREAM (science, technology, reading, engineering, art and mathematics). I came up with a great wish list this year.

Continue reading “My Black Friday Tech Wish List”

3D Printing, App Cards, App Catcher, App Curation, App Dice, App Dice Games, App Dice Pirates, Appification, Appy the App Dice, Augmented Reality, Battle App, Be Thankful, Breakout Edu, Build like a Pirate, Chatterpix, Chromebooks, Classroom Chef, Classrooms, Clip Art, Coffee Edu, Comics in the Classroom, Craft Hook, Desktop, Dice UP the Classroom, Ditch the Textbook, DIY, Dream Big, Drones, Edcamp, Edpuzzle, Educlipper, Emoji Classroom, Empathy, Explore Like a Pirate, FAIL, Flip, Gaming Education, Genius Hour, Get Outside EDU, Google Classroom, Green Screen, Inspiration, IOS, iPad, Journaling, K-12 Artroom, Learn Like a Pirate, Lego Classroom, Little Free Tech Box, Love your Room, Makerspace, Music, My Life as a Comic Book Reader, Never Give UP, One Device Classroom, One Screen, Outside EDU, ozobot, Paperless, PBL, PC, Perler Beads, Play like a Pirate, Post-it, Professional Development, Pure Genius, QR Codes, Reading with Pictures, Resources, Review, Ryan Read, schology, Seesaw, Selfies in the Classroom, Shout Out, Sketchnotes, Small Hope, Smashbook, Social Networks, Sphero, Star Wars, STEAM, STEM, Stick Around, STREAM, Teach Like a Pirate, Tech like a Pirate, Tech Smash, Technology Integration, UncategorizedLeave a comment

The Office Remodel Part 1

mrread7

IMG_0191

The other day I said I was going to start remodeling my office to be more inviting to students and staff alike. While I planned on doing this slowly over the next few weeks. As they say, time waits for no man and I ended up getting an earlier start due to an accident occurring during some regular checks, such as my entire shelf collapsing (don’t worry, I’m OK). So, after a few hours of moving, cataloging, archiving and a few other things here is the start to my remodel.

Continue reading “The Office Remodel Part 1”

3D Printing, Coding, Dice UP the Classroom, Donors Choose, Drones, K-12 Artroom, Sphero, STEAM, STEM, STREAM, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Getting our STEAM Art room ready

mrread7

    While it has almost been a week since our Donors Choose ended we are already hard at work getting everything prepared for our students and starting our new STEAM art curriculum. Currently dubbed: “The Coding Garage”. We are excited to announce that we are getting two 3D printers on loan for the next few months. A Solidoodle 2 and 4 to bring even more innovation and creativity to our students. While I will be posting updates and awesome lessons and projects as our new STEAM art room unfolds, I wanted to share a personal letter from Mr. Smetana … Continue reading Getting our STEAM Art room ready

3D Printing, App STEAMers, Appification, Augmented Reality, Build like a Pirate, Chromebooks, Coding, Craft Hook, Dice UP the Classroom, Ditch the Textbook, DIY, Donations, Donors Choose, Dream Big, Drones, Gaming Education, Genius Hour, IFTTT, Infopics, Inspiration, IOS, iPad, K-12 Artroom, Kickstarter, Learn Like a Pirate, Maker Space, Makerspace, Never Give UP, One Device Classroom, ozobot, Play like a Pirate, Professional Development, Resources, Ryan Read, SAMR, Shout Out, Sphero, STEAM, STEM, STREAM, Teach Like a Pirate, Tech like a Pirate, Tech Smash, Technology IntegrationLeave a comment

Coming to an Art Room Near you!

mrread7

    Happy Monday Everyone! I am pleased to announce that this past Saturday afternoon, while on a quest to find some Star Wars The Force Awakens action figures at a Super Target, my iPhone went off. I looked at the notification and it told me that our Donors Choose had been funded. Extremely ironic since I walked down an aisle that had both Sphero SPRK and Ollies on the shelf as I read the notification. As I smiled like I had found a BB-8 marked down to $2, I immediately sent a Snapchat to my fellow teachers and they … Continue reading Coming to an Art Room Near you!

3D Printing, Adobe Apps, Android, App Curation, App Dice, App Dice Games, App Smash, Appification, Arduino, Book Review, Build like a Pirate, Chrome Add-ons, Chromebooks, Classrooms, Coding, Dice UP the Classroom, Ditch the Textbook, DIY, Donations, Donors Choose, Dream Big, Drones, Explain Everything, Explore Like a Pirate, Gaming Education, Genius Hour, Google Apps, Infopics, Inspiration, IOS, iPad, K-12 Artroom, Learn Like a Pirate, Lego Classroom, Maker Space, One Device Classroom, Play like a Pirate, Pure Genius, Rollout, Ryan Read, Sphero, STEAM, STEM, STREAM, Teach Like a Pirate, Tech like a Pirate, Tech Smash, Technology Integration, Twitter, UncategorizedLeave a comment

March Madness Bracket Coding

mrread7

Tournament-Bracket

March Madness is here again and so are everyone’s favorite brackets. Now, everyone knows that brackets are set up to show what teams are playing who and the winner of each round will go to face off the team that advances. Well, being in the spirit of March Madness and of course Teach like a Pirate (you knew it was coming). I have decided to create a type of Bracket set for coding. As many know, I am trying to get our Donors Choose funded by next Wednesday and the clock is ticking. I wanted to show everyone how you could integrate brackets into your Sphero Edu or Coding classroom. Continue reading “March Madness Bracket Coding”

Coding, Donors Choose, Drones, ozobot, Sphero, STEAM, STEM, STREAM, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Only 7 Days left on our Donors Choose

mrread7

Everyone knows that for the last few months, I have been promoting and pushing our Donors Choose to get funded. We now only have 7 Days left to get funded and are currently $346 short. Just yesterday, I was hanging with our local Tech Wizards Group and they were asking: “Mr. Read, are we getting our Spheros and Drones?” I had to tell them that we weren’t funded and if we don’t in a week it won’t be happening. I had a lot of sad faces after I gave them the answer. I know that $346 is a hard goal … Continue reading Only 7 Days left on our Donors Choose

Build like a Pirate, Coding, Donors Choose, Drones, Sphero, STEAM, STEM, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Please help our Donors Choose be funded by March 23

mrread7

I have talked about it since November, but in just over two weeks, our Donors Choose to bring STEAM to our art room will end and we are $416 short of our goal. It has become imperative that we make our funding goal. This June, we will be hosting our End of the School Year Block Party and we want to do a complete use of Spheroes, Drones and Ollies as a type of Tech Block. If we can’t get funded, we will not be able to do the Tech Block and would have a lot of disappointed students and … Continue reading Please help our Donors Choose be funded by March 23

3D Printing, Appification, Arduino, Augmented Reality, Classrooms, Coding, Coffee Edu, Comics in the Classroom, Craft Hook, Dice UP the Classroom, Ditch the Textbook, DIY, Donations, Donors Choose, Dream Big, Drones, Explore Like a Pirate, FAIL, Flip, Gaming Education, Genius Hour, Google Classroom, Google Drive, IOS, iPad, K-12 Artroom, Learn Like a Pirate, Maker Space, Makerspace, Makey Makey, Never Give UP, One Device Classroom, Periscope, Perler Beads, Podcast, Professional Development, Resources, Review, Ryan Read, Shout Out, STEAM, STEM, STREAM, Teach Like a Pirate, Tech like a Pirate, Tech Smash, Technology Integration, Tony Vincent, Twitter, Uncategorized, Youtube ChannelLeave a comment

Innovative Tools in the Classroom

mrread7

As we wrap up, I is for Innovation, I thought I would leave things with some innovative tools you can get for your classroom and some ways you can use them. Perler Beads: We know this would be my first pick. I have really gotten into using Perler Beads with my teachers and students as our way of having our own 3D Printer. We currently do not have the funds to get the emerging technology in schools. While my nieces and peers have access to one at their schools. I stumbled on using Perler Beads due to health advice from … Continue reading Innovative Tools in the Classroom

App Dice, App Smash, Classrooms, Coding, Dice UP the Classroom, Drones, Emoji Classroom, Periscope, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Creating Bee-bot Coding Dice

mrread7

Hello Everyone, As promised during this week of Hour of Code, I have created a set of Coding Dice for your  Bee-bot classroom. Above are the templates you can use in your classroom with your students to start rolling and start coding your lessons. Below is the Periscope Edu video on how I created these Coding Dice and how you can use them with your classroom. Enjoy.     Continue reading Creating Bee-bot Coding Dice