Office Lens

An app for iOS, Windows, and Droid that enhances and makes pictures of whiteboards and documents readable. Office Lens can convert images to editable Word and PowerPoint files too.  It works well with One Note as well.

Office Lens is like having a scanner in your pocket. Like magic, it will digitalize notes on whiteboards or blackboards. Always find important documents or business cards. Sketch your ideas and snap a picture for later.

Scenarios:

  • Capture and crop a picture of a whiteboard or blackboard and share your meeting notes with co-workers.
  • Make digital copies of your printed documents, business cards or posters and trim them precisely.
  • Printed text will be automatically recognized (using OCR) so you can search for words in images and copy and edit them.

Features:

  • With Whiteboard mode, Office Lens trims and cleans up glare and shadows.
  • With Document mode, Office Lens trims and colors images perfectly.
  • Pictures can be saved to OneNote, OneDrive or other cloud storage.
  • Business Card mode can extract contact information and save it into your address book and OneNote. This feature works best with English, German and Spanish business cards. Support for more languages is coming soon.
  • Choose to convert images to Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx) or PDF (.pdf) files that are automatically saved to OneDrive.

 

Can You Be “Sway”ed?

Sway is a digital storytelling app that helps you create professional, interactive designs in minutes for your images, text, videos and other media.

  • Sway your ideas in minutes
  • Combine photos, video, audio, and more
  • Build great e-portfolios
  • Share success with parents
It’s free for individuals and it’s also included with Office 365.
How To video to get you familiar.
Sample Sways – Flat Stanley, Blizzard of 2016

Hour of Code

The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries. Anyone, anywhere can organize an Hour of Code event. One-hour tutorials are available in over 40 languages. No experience needed. Ages 4 to 104.

  1. Is Computer Programming Hard To Learn? (9:14)
  2. Hour of Code Worldwide (2:04)
  3. Star Wars – Hour of Code: Introduction (2:39)

Let’s Begin

Global Involvement

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Bowling Green Elementary – registered and on the map!

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Elements 4D

Element Blocks I Made Out of 2×2 Wooden Blocks

Bring this set of six beautifully designed wooden blocks to life through augmented reality with the Elements 4D app.

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A whole new way of learning.

 

Part toy.

Part chemistry experiment.

Lesson plans available K-12.

Download your app today!

Works best on Android.  Currently there are a few bugs to work out on Apple devices.   🙁

Classkick – Learn Together

Classkick is interactive, engaging, collaborative, and makes learning fun.  As students work on a teacher-made Classkick assignment from their iPads, teachers see every students’ work progressing all at once. Students can privately raise hands, teachers give individualized, real-time student feedback, and may even interact with their peers about the subject assigned.

Create your account today.  Classkick is free.  An app is also available at the app store.  Check out the tutorial videos below.