Innovation Lab | Students
Current Projects
There are a lot of innovative activities you can do at home. Here are a few suggestions:
Challenge Yourself
These are ideas to use technology in your work. Don"t limit yourself to these - think of more.
If you"re not sure how to do something, see Mr. Brazile for help. If you"re not challenging yourself, you"re not getting better!
- Animated Stories Bring your story or report to life by making it an animated story.
- Photostory This is a lot like an animated story. There are programs and apps for this.
- Movies Take your presentation to the next level by making a movie! We have iPads or video cameras in the lab. We also have a green screen and software to make your movie special!!
- Aurasma Imagine having a picture come to life! An Aurasma does this. This is augmented reality and it"s awesome! Ask Mr. Brazile how.
- 3d Printing Need to build something? Create something great, then print it out. See Mr. Brazile about how you can do this. Check out TinkerCad and start creating!
- Skype in the classroom Find an expert in something you"re studying and we can Skype to give you firsthand information.
- Website Why make a poster when you can make a website! Software in the Innovation Lab helps you start from scratch. There are also sites that help. Adobe Spark is a new favorite for creating cool sites (or presentations).
- Glogster Want to make a digital poster? This is the way to go. Put video, pictures, words, and more into your Glog!
- Anything Let"s brainstorm and figure out something new to energize your project.
Use these resources to discover information, discern what is important, and create solutions.
- PacDV Music: Find background music or sound effects here.
- Adobe Spark: Create animated videos quickly!
- GoAnimate: Online animation. Make a short cartoon here.
- Muvizu - Free animation software. So good, I can"t believe it"s free.
- Prezi - Make incredible presentations online.
- Tiki-Toki - Make timelines online.
- Freeplay Music - Just what it says - free background music.
- GR Sites - Free sound effects for videos.
- Toon Doo - "Fastest way to create cartoons!"
- NVu - Free web authoring software. Easy to use and make your own website.
- Voice Thread - Podcasting online.
- Penzu - Free online journal
- Voxopop - Free online audio discussions
- Dvolver Moviemaker - Cartoon animator
- National Archives - Digital vault of pictures, etc.
- Historical Photos - Free historical photos
- QR Stuff - Generate your own QR codes
- Project Guttenburg - Free ebooks
- Quizlet - Make online quizzes and flashcards to study
- Slide Rocket - New presentation tool (costs, but there is a free trial)
- Groupboard - Free online interactive whiteboard
- Web Poster Wizard - Web poster maker
- Issuu - Make your own free online magazine or convert PowerPoints into a magazine
- Brazile Education - Mr. Brazile"s education website. Check out the "Resources" pages.
Innovation
- Coding with Spheros
- Coding mBots to complete mazes
- 3d Printing
- Creating Battle Bots for the Spheros
- Creating informational websites
- Creating instructional videos
- Researching for projects
- Virtual Field Trips around the world
- Live Stream conferencing with Field Experts
- Escape Rooms
- Snap Circuits
- Creating our own circuits
- MakerSpace creations with cardboard
- Created Aurasmas (augmented reality)
- EcoStem kits
- Designed solar powered watering systems for the garden
And there"s much more to come!
iPads
Create awesomeness with your apps.
Reading Apps
- Epic! This is like Netflix for kids" books. Cool reading app.
- Grammaropolis Guess what this works on? Grammar!
- Phonics Genius Another shocker here - Phonics!
- Quizlet This is perfect for making spelling or vocab digital flashcards. Great for any subject. (It has a website too!)
Math Apps
- Math Slide This math app is cool. Compete against your friends with this cool app on the iPad! Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner!
- Thinking Blocks Math There are a bunch of Thinking Blocks math apps. Master this and you become a math beast!
- Quizlet Use Quizlet for math practice too!
Project Apps
- MackinVIA Research is the thing here! Log in (username: kempes password: read). Great tool!
- Quark DesignPad Make all sorts of presentations with pictures and different layouts. One of my favorites. Save it as a picture and you can send it digitally!
- Adobe Voice Make super cool, professional presentations here!
Do you have a cool app idea?
Let Mr. Brazile know and I'll post it here!
Supplies
- Amazon Wish List: Things we need. Things we want.
- Makerspace Materials: We need items kids can use to build creations.
- Cardboard squares
- Wooden Dowels
- Cloth scraps
- Glue
- Tape
- Scissors
- Anything kids can use to build
- Computers: If it works, we could use it. If it can be upgarded to Windows 10, we absolutely could use it (and it"s a write-off).
- If you think we could use it, ask and we might be able to make it work.