*Scoodle Jam - Best New Apps for iPad in the App Store**
Designed for K8 learners, Scoodle Jam empowers teachers with CCSS-aligned content, collaboration, and creation tools to:
* enhance common core instruction
* develop student innovation and learning skills
* kickstart project based learning (PBL)
* engage students across the curriculum
Using a combination of the teacher's own lessons and Scoodle Jam's built-in graphic organizers, templates, and projects, students write, draw, type, and add photos to explore concepts, illustrate and share their learning. Via Edmodo Connect, students turn in and share Scoodle Jam-created assignments, sync canvases to collaborate with a partner on the same page, and work remotely with optional video chat.
"It’s a space that explicitly, elegantly supports student learning and imagination." - 4 Stars, Common Sense's Graphite Media
Watch an overview video: http://youtu.be/Lm4BM7TXttE
***WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING***
“Having a tool like this where students can work together and explain themselves is really valuable in getting them ready for Common Core.” - Amy J., 3rd grade teacher, Los Angeles
“I love that students were able to collaborate and make the ideas they were discussing in real time come to life. It's an incredibly engaging tool.” - Jamie G., 4th grade teacher, Kansas City
“The versatility of this product is key for me. I'm able to use it across curriculum areas and with all of my various learners.”-- Melissa K., elementary school media specialist and librarian, Monroe, NC
***BUILT-IN LESSONS, PROJECTS, & TEMPLATES***
Scoodle Jam’s class-ready content is developed with curriculum specialists and educators.
Built-in content includes:
- 9 Graphic Organizers
- 9 types of papers like graph, lined, and blank
- 3 Integrated Unit Projects:
Mobile Feast: Create a thriving food truck business.
Wild Things: Create a new animal species.
Green Giants: Create a sustainable community garden.
- 27 Starter Activities
***POWERFUL CREATION TOOLS***
- Digital Manipulatives & Sticker sets: Use stickers and digital manipulatives to easily explore concepts and illustrate your thinking. Includes base10 blocks, money, stickmen, animals, foods, talk bubbles.
- Photos: Import images from the web and the world around you to personalize creations and create custom content and stickers.
- Text Tool: Type unlimited lines of text for labeling, writing out math equations, and storytelling.
- Drawing Tools: Various colors, brush and eraser sizes to write and express ideas with visuals.
- Collaborative Whiteboard: Sync whiteboards and work together 1:1 with a classmate, teacher, friend, tutor, parent in real-time.*
- Video Chat: Optional, face-to-face video calls. Great for working remotely together.*
*WIFI and Edmodo or Facebook accounts required to use this feature.
***IDEAS TO GET STARTED WITH SCOODLE JAM IN THE CLASSROOM***
- Re-create stories in history using photos, drawings, and text. Present and explain what you've learned.
- Demonstrate understanding of math concepts, like area and perimeter, by designing the ultimate bedroom.
- Write persuasive opinions, compare and contrast points of view, mindmap ideas with graphic organizers.
From the makers of the popular, award-winning app Scoot & Doodle on Hangouts. (5-star rating Common Sense Media, 2012 Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice Award, Parents’ Choice Silver Award)
**50% Discount for Educational Institutions**
Check for details - http://www.apple.com/itunes/education/
The App Store Volume Purchase Program allows educational institutions to purchase iOS apps in volume - Scoodle Jam is available under this program - please search for "scoodle jam".
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Contact [email protected] for extra support and technical issues.
Login with Edmodo Connect!
-Students and teachers can now log-in, sync canvases, turn in, and post Scoodle Jam-created assignments directly from the app.
New user settings:
In iPad settings for Scoodle Jam, users can now enable/disable:
* Facebook: Sync canvases and collaborate 1:1 with Facebook friends
* Videochat: See and talk in real time. Great for students, teachers, and tutors working together remotely.
New Service PBL Project:
*Green Giants: Create a sustainable community garden.
New Starter Activity:
*Who Am I? - Share what makes you happy, grumpy, what you hope to accomplish one day, and more.
Updated Sticker and Template menus