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February 23, 2015
An interactive, multi-media, encyclopedia-like app all about robots.
This is a great reading resource for students. Overall, I liked how it was organized, and I noticed how it engaged my students to want to learn and discover more information. It is also more on their level rather than some of the websites out there that are often too technical. The only challenge was cost, therefore I would not use it for a 1:1 app, but rather have it on my iPad and share with the students. I did like that it incorporated a fair amount of multi-media, which is helpful for integration of ELA CCS.
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December 29, 2014
Robots Are Cool!
This isn't really a teaching tool, but rather a tool for teaching. I am so excited to add it to the curriculum. I am going to show one robot a day as a bell starter and have students write what they think the robot does and then show them what it does. I will edit this review after I use it.
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