Tag: holidays
6 Ways to Brighten Your Holidays with TinyTap
By Ellen Weber Whether you are looking for a different kind of gift, a way to express your own passions, a new interactive lesson for your class, or a unique way to impress someone, TinyTap can fit the bill! Here are six ways TinyTap can fulfill some of your holiday needs. 1. Collect favorite holiday recipes from friends, family, or co-workers, and create a holiday cookbook to share with everyone on your gift list. 2. Gather old family … Read More
Read MoreCreation Inspiration: Family Tree
Make the most of family time this holiday season and create a TinyTap game about your family tree. Research your roots, create a digital family tree, and share it with your family for everyone to cherish. Holidays are the perfect opportunities to record interviews with relatives, scan those old photos you’ve been meaning to digitize, and preserve your family’s history. Pro tip: Help your ancestors jump off the proverbial page by using TinyTap’s “jump feature” – link each name or photo … Read More
Read MoreNational Make a Difference Day
In honor of National Make a Difference Day, Ellen Weber, EdS, CCC-SLP, shares how TinyTap has made a difference in her students’ lives. As a Speech-Language Pathologist, I work with special needs students who struggle daily to make even minimal progress learning. They often feel like they are failures at everything, and more often than not will eventually quit trying. They are teased and called “stupid” by their peers, and often go home to a family who considers them just “lazy”. Because of … Read More
Read MoreWeekly Creation Theme: Halloween
Few holidays are as exciting for kids as Halloween! The costumes, decorations – and the sugar – give them such a rush! Use this time of year to your advantage and engage your students by creating TinyTap games about Halloween. Here are a few ideas: Take your players through a haunted house, where each tap on the soundboard will lead them into a different spooky room, dark hallway, or creaky staircase Review safety tips for trick-or-treating Make a math … Read More
Read MoreWeekly Creation Theme: Father’s Day
This week, create a TinyTap game inspired by the theme “Father’s Day.” You can make a personalized e-card, an interactive acrostic poem, a montage of family photos … let your awesome Dad be your muse! Pro tip: create a personalized video for your dad on JibJab, download the finished product to your computer, upload it to YouTube, and add it to your TinyTap Father’s Day card! Be sure to save your game publicly and write the theme #fathersday … Read More
Read MoreWeekly Creation Theme: Earth Day
This week, create a TinyTap game inspired by the theme “Earth Day.” Your game can be about anything: a lesson on pollution or environmental legislation; a quiz about which waste items can be recycled and composted; a soundboard of a house with tips for conserving energy (e.g. tap on the window and see a tip about closing windows while using air conditioning, or opening blinds to use daylight instead of artificial light) … take the theme in whatever direction suits … Read More
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