New One-Minute Spotlights Feature Barrington 220 Students and Teachers

The Department of Technology & Innovation releases a new episode of Learning NOW in Barrington 220 each week at www.youtube.com/learningnow220. One-Minute Spotlight videos are just (about) one minute long and highlight some of the teaching and learning in Barrington 220 classrooms.

Here are our newest episodes:

BMS Prairie - Ms. Kallenbach

Barrington Middle School—Prairie Campus teacher Mary Kallenbach uses iPad and Schoology to give real-time feedback to students in her history class.

Barrington High School – Mobile Apps Class

Students in Mr. Tom Bredemeier’s Mobile Apps class work with Student Teacher Ms. Emma Bradford to design and create an original iOS app that will run on iPhone and/or iPad. A few apps and platforms are used in the app development process including Apple’s Xcode programming environment with the Swift programming language; Trello, a project management system; and GitHub, a code and version management system. Student groups work both in-person and via distance learning to develop apps using the same tools and methods as professional app developers worldwide.

Hough Street Elementary - Ms. Parise

Librarian Taryn Parise asks Hough Street School entrepreneurs to use iPad and Canva to create business cards and social media ads for their businesses.