Teacher Spotlight – Rachel Whitten
I always enjoy walking down the halls of my schools and seeing technology projects displayed on the walls. One project really caught my eye this week… actually two! Rachel Whitten, fifth grade teacher at Holladay, had a great idea for spicing up algebra (SOL 5.21 & 5.22). Her students created ComicLife word problems with variables. Click here to see them. Use the arrows to look through the examples. You can create your own navigation arrows and buttons like that with any Keynote. Just go to the Inspector, click the Hyperlinks tab and make any shape a link to another slide or even a website! As I was going through the student folders gathering the examples to share with you, I noticed another cool project Rachel had done. They made Function Machines in Keynote. Each student came up with their own rule, edited the template (which you can download here), and got a friend to solve it. You can see an example by clicking here. I added the soundtrack. I thought “Fembot” by Robyn was appropriate “Once you gone tech, you ain’t never goin’ back!“