Our Last Day: Makey Makey Time and Blog Addresses

Today is our last day of Digic@mp!  We have been working on using Makey Makey devices to play music and use as a game control.  We used bananas, carrots, and other stuff to play music! We used playdough to create large buttons to tap on to play a PacMan game.  We made sure we posted videos and pictures of what we did, and Mr. McAdams, a reporter from the EastTex Advocate, came to take pictures and interview students!

Dancing Robots

On Wednesday we experimented with using Blockly, a coding app, to code Dash robots to play the xylophone.  Then we created a dance routine with our Dash robot and performed.  We also built our presentations showing our field trip to the Health Museum, published them to the web, and then used html code to put them on our blogs!

Trip to Houston

Our group at the Houston Health Museum

Thanks for the help!

Digic@mp 2018 Begins Today!

I just have a few more days in Coldspring-Oakhurst CISD, so I want to make sure the 5th annual Digic@mp is in the memory book/blog.  It's a tech camp for students finishing 3rd-5th grade.  Our theme this week is Music and Sound.  So...today's first job was to form groups and create musical instruments! I took some pictures and then shared with students from my Google Drive.  The students created blogs, and their first post included pictures from creating the instruments.  I love giving students the tools to create!  It got really quiet at times in the hallway because they were working so hard at their tasks.  Check out a few below!

Matchbox Guitar!

Following directions to make a Matchbox Guitar can be difficult!

Finishing up painting a Shoebox Banjo! 

Dinasaur Call

We love painting and cutting and gluing!

Shoebox Banjo!

How to Move the Contents of Your Google Drive to Another Gmail Account

It's that time of the year when teachers and staff begin to make changes for the next school year.  It's especially important in these digital times that you prepare and pack up your digital content as well as all the books, supplies,gadgets, decorations, and those precious notes and pictures.
If you are leaving your school district, follow these three steps to take your Google Drive files with you to your next district.

Follow these steps to make the transition as smooth as possible!

Any files in your Google Drive that you created, you own.  That also means that if a Google doc (sheet, preso, etc.) is owned by you, and you want someone in your school or district to be able to keep using that doc, you need to transfer ownership.  You can also transfer ownership of folders.
Watch this video to see how to complete this step.

If you want to keep any files that someone shared with you, you should make sure you have chosen the icon "Add to My Drive" near the top of the doc.  You can only move Google Docs that are actually in your Google Drive, not just shared with you.
Watch this video to see how to complete this step.

When you are ready (Step 1 and 2: You've cleaned out the docs you don't want, you've transferred ownership of docs to other people, and you've added docs to your Drive that people have shared with you.)

 Follow the directions located here, in the section called "Copy and Transfer Your Files."  If you don't have a Gmail account, you need to make one so you can complete the transfer.  If you are going to work at a district that has G-Suite for Education, and you already have a district email, you can transfer from your current district Google Drive to the Google Drive associated with your new district.
Click here for step by step instructions for completing this task.

Instructional Tech Presentation to COCISD Board at Meeting