Our First #eduphotoaday Challenge!

Here it is... Our first #eduphotoaday challenge! Join us!

Remember to hashtag your photos with the word of the day and the #eduphotoadaymay tags so that other people can find them!

Thank you ManACE!

Our class won a grant, but it was unexpected because Mr. H. had a sad face when he told us at first, and we fell for it. Then he said we won, and it was pretty awesome! - Kurt

Mr. H. told us we won iPod Touches, and we did this thing about what we like about snow and what we don't like. Our table group almost got a whole page of it. - Kyra

Mr. H. told us that received an email saying if we won the grant we applied for, and lots of people thought it was a 'no' because he was doing a sad face. But then he said that we won. - Mikayla

Our teacher Mr. H. told us we won the prize from all the pictures we sent in to ManACE, and we won $450 so that we could buy iPod Touches for our class to use to work on our assignments. - Joey

As we told you about in an earlier post, our two classes had applied to ManACE (Manitoba Association of Computing Educators) for a technology seed grant, in order to purchase a couple of Ipod Touch devices for each of our classes to use for the project. Well, we found out on the weekend that our grant application was successful, so when I told my class, they erupted with cheers (and I know there was a lot of cheering in Erin's Grade 1/2 class as well!)! A big thank you to ManACE for considering our application, and granting us the money to purchase the devices for the class. We can hardly wait to get them, and to start using them ASAP on our #eduphotoaday project!

ManACE Seed Grant

In order to get our project started, we've applied for a ManACE (Manitoba Association of Computer Educators) Seed Grant in order to purchase a couple of iPods for our students to use to take their Instagram photos. Here is the Haiku Deck we created for our proposal:
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app for iPad
We haven't heard whether we will receive the grant or not yet... fingers crossed!

How to Play Along...

If you're planning on joining us in the #eduphotoaday challenge, please let us know! Send a tweet @erinbrie or @bluebomber6 using the hashtag #eduphotoaday and #eduphotoadaymay. We would love to connect with you, and connect you with other teachers around the city, province, country and world! I will try and keep an updated list of participants here on the blog. We already have participants from Kindergarten to Grade 12. So exciting... in the best, nerdiest way!

Almost ready...

Our first photo challenge is almost ready! The children in our classrooms have been busy creating the list for #eduphotoadaymay.

Keep watching this blog, and Instagram, to see it. Toward the end of April the first challenge will be posted!