Kyle Pace is an District Instructional Technology Specialist for a school district near Kansas City, Missouri. Kyle has worked with K-12 teachers in his district to provide instructional technology professional development for the last 9 years. Kyle speaks at education conferences such as Learning Forward, ISTE, FETC, Educon, and various Edcamps. Kyle also has presented virtually for the Simple K12 Teacher Learning Community, The Reform Symposium online conference, and Education Week.
In January 2009, Kyle co-authored a book titled Integrating Technology With Music Instruction. In April 2010, Kyle participated on a panel about Education And The Real-Time Web at the 140 Conference in New York City. Kyle has organized all three annual EdCampKC unconferences in 2010, 2011, and 2012 respectively.
In July 2011, Kyle was one of 50 educators chosen to participate in the Google Teacher Academy in Seattle, Washington to become a Google Certified Teacher. In September 2012, Kyle was an honoree at the 1st annual Bammy Awards and recognized as one of the top 100 educational bloggers/tweeters in the country. Find Kyle on Twitter at http://twitter.com/kylepace Find. out more about Kyle by visiting his website and blog at http://www.kylepace.com.
Last month Google announced a new, handy little tool called Google Keep. First of all, I really like the simplicity of this app. Like the other Google Apps, it's tied to your Google account. More specifically it's connected to Google Drive. You can head here to download Google Keep from Google Play. Once you've created notes, you can view them by going to drive.google... More →
PicsArts for Kids (free in the Google Play store), has features that will appeal to all aspiring young artists. Students can draw freely on a blank canvas (which supports multi-finger touch), color a variety of different pre-made pages (your tablet can also be your coloring book!), and students can learn to draw more complex figures by combining different shapes. For a free app, it has a lot of nice... More →
I recently came across a handy app on the Sony Xperia that was already there right out of the box. The app is called Scrapbook. If you don’t already see the Scrapbook app on your home screen, press Apps & Widgets in the top right corner to locate the Scrapbook app. To add an app to your home screen, just press and hold on it until you are... More →
Students love to tell stories. Students love to create stories. There are loads of great Android apps that allow students to capture images and video and do things like make movies, annotate what they capture, and add in their voice. Check out these great apps that allow students to create stories on the go: Skitch With the built-in front facing and rear facing cameras on your Xperia tablet,... More →
The Google Play Store on your Android tablet offers a wide range of educational apps that are great for not only younger writers but writers of all ages as well. There’s likely an app that will help your students with their mobile writing endeavors! Here are some of my favorite writing apps that are great for your Android tablet. All of these apps are free and all are... More →
Google Apps for Education is Google’s suite of web-based tools that help the busy teacher work more efficiently and effectively for working with students, collaborating with colleagues, and communicating with parents. Here are some of the most popular Google Apps for Education: Google Drive: Teachers are using Google Drive to store all of their important documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and forms. Google Docs is now part of Google Drive.... More →
