If you have an old smartphone (android or iphone) that you are no longer in need of and you don’t know what to do with it, have we got use for them!
Bowling Green Elementary is collecting old smartphones for student use. We would like to outfit as many classrooms as we can with a one-to-one mobile wireless device to use throughout the year for interactive activities, informal assessments, and collaboration with peers. Donations can be sent to the main office and labeled for SANDERSON. Phones will be reset to factory default and joined to the guest network for student use. Thank you.
Fisheye and Macro Lenses for iPhones
I attended a session at a technology conference last year that was given by Bea Leiderman from Goochland County Schools. She experimented with Ollo Lenses for her iPhone which lead her to write a couple of ebooks on insects. Photography has always been of interest to me so I decided to give it try. These are my fisheye examples. Click on them to see the raw image in full size view.
This is an example of my macro.
![IMG_2328](http://sanderson.blogs.ccps.us/files/2015/04/IMG_2328-300x225.jpg)
Although I was excited about my pictures, I felt the quality could be much better. I researched lenses and learned that iPro leads the industry for having the best quality lens. They use a German made lens which explains it. Following in second place is the Ollo brand lens. I went back to Bea Leiderman’s website to find out what she used for her ebook photos because the quality of her macros was amazing. She used the Ollo lens for its affordability compared to the iPro. The brand I bought without really knowing about quality at the time was something generic by CamKix.
Anyone interested in photography using their iPhones should really consider quality, then price. Take a look at Bea’s close-up pictures and compare them to mine if you want to see the difference for yourself.
AR Widget for the iPhone
Get your FREE K-12 Accelerated Reader App for the iPhone here.
Download K12 Activity from the App StoreSM or from your iPhone or iPod touch.
What are Widgets?
A widget is a small chunk of HTML code you can add to a website to display student’s Renaissance Place data.
Widgets are a fun, visual way to display up-to-date information.