This document provides suggestions for celebrating December holidays digitally with learners. It includes ideas such as hosting Hangouts on Air to sing carols or discuss traditions, telling stories on Storybird or making multimedia books with BookCreator, creating greeting cards, scrapbooks or videos with various apps, and playing educational games about winter holidays. Links are included to related websites and apps to engage students in digital holiday activities.

1. Celebrating
December
Holidays
Digitally
with
Learners
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2. As
we
work
to
create
light
for
others,
we
naturally
light
our
own
way.
~Mary
Anne
Radmacher

4. Education.skype.com

5. Hangouts on Air

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each
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songs,
carols,
finger
chants,
rhymes
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sessions
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about
tradi8ons
or
recipes
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• ave
an
author
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read
a
holiday
story

7. Kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/
peopleplaces/winter-celebrations/

10. Storytelling with Storybird

11. BookCreator Lite App
• asiest way to
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create multimedia
books & publish to
iBook store
• nclude audio,
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music, videos,
images
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/book-creator-free/id661166101?mt=8

12. Adopt a younger class &
create books for them!
Schooltechnology.org Elementary students using the iPad in school.Flickingerbrad, Flickr, CC 2.0

13. Alessi's turn on the iPad by Marcus Kwan, Flickr
An alphabet
book or joke
book

14. Never too young for an iPhone, Jessica Gurro, Flickr
Create a book
starring their
younger siblings

15. Make a game!
-drag & drop
- over 500 graphics,
music, sound effects,
particle effects
-import your own
pictures, graphics,
animations, sound
effects, music
- create sound &
special effects
- physics engine for real
world simulation

16. Tiny Tap Game Creation IOS App
http://www.tinytap.it/
Features:
• dd own images or
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from a web search
• ecord your own voice
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• ecord a question, an
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answer, a hint
• 0 different soundtracks
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• rack progress using
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the in-game scoring
system
• ersonalize pre-made
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games from the TinyTap
store with narration and
images

17. Send a
meaningful
message

19. Animoto IOS/Android/Web

20. Make a Holiday Video!

21. Holiday Music

25. • tudents send greeting
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cards to others
• llows them to email
A
the card, upload
images, include text &
has templates

26. A Card For That Android App
• end via Facebook, Twitter, e-mail
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27. Calendar
Newspaper
of
memories
Magazine of
memories
Photo story
reflecting on
the year

29. PicCollage App- Create a Scrapbook
©http://pic-collage.com/

30. Frame Artist IOS App

31. Recipe
book
Blessings
book
Goal book
with quotes
Journal
with
prompts
Digital
scrapbook

32. Buncee Web Tool & IOS App

33. Buncee.com

34. Buncee.com

35. Buncee Backgrounds, Stickers, Quotes

36. Buncee Backgrounds, Stickers, Quotes

37. Buncee Audio

38. • odernize the lyrics to the 12
M
days of Christmas or any
holiday song, then create a
video
• reate movements for
C
specific words or phrases
• lay in the background
P
• reate musical instruments
C
& play the song

39. Create a Holiday Music Video with Video Star IOS

41. • Holiday Piano Book: Jingle Bells by
A
StoryBoy (I-friendly)
• axi’s Holiday Piano (I-friendly)
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• iano Mi (I-friendly)
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• hristmas Piano (I-friendly)
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• y Baby Piano (Android)
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*To download these apps, search these specific names in the app store

42. More cool
sites!

45. • reate a story with the student as the star
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• hat with Santa’s elves
C
• end Santa a letter and he’ll write back
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• rint a Good Deeds Calendar
P
• rint stories & color the pages
P
• hristmas Countdown Calendar with fun
C
activities
• lay holiday games
P
• end holiday e-cards
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• ORAD’s Santa Tracker (Dec. 24th)
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