Are you looking for a way to keep all of your kids artwork and school work organized without taking over your refrigerator? Artkive is an app that helps busy parents treasure all their kids' creations.
ArtKive is a personal preservation app that lets you photograph and store your child's artwork right in the app, and share with family members and friends. You can also also create different profiles for different kids to keep their masterpieces separate, while tagging and organizing the artwork by date and grade really easily with drop down menus. It's not complex, and it is a step above simply photographing the artwork and keeping in your photo library.
Another great feature is that we can also earn some money for our school at the end of the year if you end up purchasing a book or other products! Simply follow the directions below and Roosevelt will get 10% of your purchase back! I hope you find this as a useful tool for treasuring and keeping your children's work without cluttering up space!
Currently, many teachers are working on building up these routines in their classrooms and getting in the groove of these activities while the teacher works with small groups or conferences with individual students. I've been lucky enough to plan some lessons with teachers to help infuse technology in the Daily Five. I've been training classrooms and working with individual students on Podcasting as a part of the "Listening to Reading" component. How this activity works is a student goes to the "Listening to Reading" Center where there are headphones with a microphone and a laptop that has the program Garage Band. Students then record themselves reading a passage or poem selected by their teacher. Once they record themselves reading, they then can listen to their recording and make notes on the page of what they've read. Students then save their Podcast, then fill out a self evaluation about their reading. By making this a regular part of the reading block, students will be able to go back and listen to themselves read and track improvement over time. Teachers can also go and listen to what the student records and have the ability to conference with their students with their Oral Reading Fluency progress. Students can then set their own goals for improvement. Technology is changing how students learn in this activity as it is giving them the opportunity to go back and hear themselves read. We used to accomplish this task with whisper phones or PVC pipes where they could read to themselves but offered little opportunity for reflection. Everyone benefits from this use of technology!
