15+ Fun back-to-school icebreakers for the first day of school
New school, new opportunity. New class, new kids, new friends. Every student is a little bit scared and excited for their first day of school....
BookWidgets Teacher Blog
Spot the difference
Remember the frustration of hunting down that last difference in a spot-the-difference drawing while you were a kid? These days, children get their...
Embedding interactive widgets in Kotobee books
BookWidgets widgets are mostly shared within an LMS. However, we sometimes get the question whether widgets can also be embedded in e-books. That is...
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...
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: ...
