Play+to+Learn

Professionals from Microsoft will be on hand to give you a tour of many the great products included with Windows 8 and show you how to utilize these tools in your classroom with your students. Please sign up for one of four 55-mintue timeslots scattered throughout the day. || Tired of Bristol board presentations? At this table you will play with some engaging digital tools, such as Bitstrips, Comic Life and Glogster, that your students can utilize to showcase their learning. || Explore how Photo Story, Frames 4, and Pixie 3 and allow your students to tell their stories through photos, stop motion animations, digital stories, and claymation videos. || Experiment with taking classroom communication to a whole new level! With Windows Movie Maker, student photos and videos can be transformed into polished movies. Through the use of Voki, users can create their own **talking** character such as an historical figure, an animal, a character from their favourite novel or even their own personal avatar! || BookFlix and Trueflix are both online whiteboard resources, designed to enhance your literacy program. BookFlix pairs fiction and non-fiction resources while Trueflix focuses on science and social studies content for students. || Specifically for Grade 4 teachers, Pearson Literacy in Action 4 is designed to provide an electronic version of the Literacy in Action printed texts. Spend a few moments exploring its digital content and supportive resources. || This web-based literacy resource helps build vocabulary, reading comprehension and fluency at levels ranging from Grade 1 to Grade 8. ||
 * __ Play to Learn Session - Elementary __**
 * || **__Windows in the Classroom__**
 * || **__Presenting in the Classroom__**
 * || **__Digital Storytelling in the Classroom__**
 * || **__Communicating in the Classroom__**
 * ** Literacy in the Classroom Series ** ||
 * || **__Scholastic__**
 * || __Pearson__
 * || __IBM: Destination Reading__