Interview with Cathy Hunt: Power of the camera
Extract from the BookWidgets interview series This is an interview with Cathy Hunt on how to use a camera in your lessons. It comes from a series of...
BookWidgets Teacher Blog
Flipping the Classroom: Using BookWidgets to Set Up a Flipped Classroom
Unless you're living under a rock, you are probably au fait with flipped classrooms and using iPad for flipped classroom. The internet is rife...
The Exit Slip Widget
Exit slips are a quick and easy way for teachers to see if students have a good understanding of the lesson. At the end of the lesson, the teacher...
The Piano Widget: Teach simple tunes with the iPad
As we wrote about in a previous post, we recently developed a custom widget for teaching kids reading notes and playing the piano. This widget was...
The Jigsaw Puzzle Widget: Make your own puzzles in 1 simple step
Because of the high demand, we created a widget for one of the most classic games out there: the jigsaw puzzle. Jigsaw puzzles are not only exciting...
Valentine Math(ness)
With Valentine's Day coming up, our BookWidgets team is in a romantic mood. Combined with us being engineers this can give surprising results: ...
Fun Classroom Activities: Randomness
Bringing fun to the classroom is a key element of being a teacher. You need your kids looking forward everyday to come back to school. It’s not...
7 mistakes to avoid when introducing iPads into the classroom
Introducing iPads into the classroom is a significant undertaking and requires a mental shift across the school. Most teachers have not been trained...
25 Fun classroom activities with an exciting bingo game
“Bingo!” Who doesn’t like the thrill of finding the last item on your list, jumping out of your chair, and shouting you won? Bingo is an incredibly...
