Post #13 Adobe Voice • Buzz Monster • Factual Research "All About Explorers"

Adobe Voice in Action!
I was privileged this week to see seniors in Cloudcroft this week using Adobe Voice deliver amazing presentations from their iPads thru the Apple TV using adobe voice regarding the Judicial Branch of government.  Congratulations Mrs. Kelly Goss for your innovative work with technology in our schools.

10 Seniors & Mrs. Goss displaying their Adobe Voice presentations on their ipads

App of the week - Buzz Monster

Are you a teacher looking to promote good fun academic competition in your classroom? Now you can create your own Jeopardy style games and share them from 1-to-many iPads with Buzz Monster, an outrageously fun quiz game for 2-3 players.

Buzz Monster is a multiplayer game that allows up to 3 students to learn with a single iPad. When a game begins players take it turn picking questions from the various categories available. After the question is shown, the first player to “Buzz in” has the opportunity to answer the question. Points are awarded for correct answers, and if a player gets 4-in-a-row on the game board they can earn bonus points.

Play continues until all tiles on the board have been attempted and at the end of the game the player with the most points is declared as the winner.

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Here is a Web Resource You should be using.

All about Explorers

Since this site was developed as a teaching tool for educating students about how to search better on the Internet (see About This Site for more details), we have published on this page a list of the lessons, handouts, and other tools that we have used with our own students.

We encourage you to send us your own ideas. If you have created other lessons using our site, or you have suggestions or comments to make about the plans and materials included here, we would love to hear from you. Write to us atteachers@allaboutexplorers.com.

One note about the Treasure Hunts we have included here. On the main page you will see a list of links to the individual hunt pages. These are differentiated so that you may assign different hunts to students with different ability levels. Next to each is a colored dot which indicates the level of challenge:

	Basic level	These hunts contain fact-oriented questions. The answers are relatively easy to locate on the page.
	Moderate level	These hunts contain fact-oriented questions which will take some additional searching or deeper reading to answer.
	Advanced level	Advanced hunts are more challenging and may require students to use inference and logic to determine answers.