Software in schools

Öflugt námsforrit fyrir listnám, en einnig fyrir nánari sýn á líkamann. Það gerir nemendum kleift að skoða mannslíkamann í þrívídd, snúa líkönum og einangra hluta til að skilja form og hlutföll. 

• 3D Anatomy for the Artist - leiðbeiningar um notkun

Forritið hefur farið í gegnum áhættumat varðandi persónuvernd hjá Reykjavíkurborg, sjá nánar um persónuvernd og stafrænt skólastarf, og er nú aðgengilegt í iPad-námstækjum fyrir nemendur borgarinnar.

Check out instructions for using essential Apple apps at SFS workplaces:

• Apple Classroom - for teachers to manage iPad activities
• Clips - short videos, super easy-to-use app
• GarageBand - audio recordings, music composition
• iMovie - video production
• Keynote - presentations, e-books, apps
• Notes - for note-taking and reminders
• Numbers
• Pages - word processing, posters, brochures
• Safari web browser - built into all Apple devices
• Shortcuts
• Swift Playground - teaches coding in a fun and accessible way
• Voice Memos - audio recordings, simple and easy to use

Reykjavík City has conducted a privacy risk assessment for Graphogame. Learn more about privacy and digital schooling.

Teikniforrit sem brúar bilið á milli hefðbundinnar myndlistar og tækni. Námsforritið er hannað til að líkja eftir raunverulegum efnum – olíumálningu sem blandast, vatnslitum sem renna og striga sem hefur áferð.

• Art Set 4 teikniforrit - leiðbeiningar um notkun

Forritið hefur farið í gegnum áhættumat varðandi persónuvernd hjá Reykjavíkurborg, sjá nánar um persónuvernd og stafrænt skólastarf, og er nú aðgengilegt í iPad-námstækjum fyrir nemendur borgarinnar.

Bitsboard is a memory and learning game. Students work with concepts organized by themes or main topics, including pictures of the concept, written text and spoken pronunciation.

We download boards (concept lists) for students that offer practice through 26 different activities: word cards, matching games, word writing, drag-to-letter exercises and more.

Good for: Language development, concept learning and practice, word associations, reading, listening, Icelandic learning, language learning, spelling and more.

• Instructions for use at SFS workplaces

BlazePods are small touch sensors with lights that turn off when tapped. The sensors connect to the BlazePod app on a tablet via Bluetooth. The app offers various exercises and games, and users can create their own games. Sensors have a range of about 20 meters and are waterproof. Each rental box contains 6 sensors, but up to 12 sensors can connect to one tablet.

The lights can be used in various movement games to improve endurance, agility, and cooperation, as well as to incorporate play and movement into vocabulary training and storytelling.

Examples of games with BlazePod:

• Plank between two people with four lights in a row between them. A taps the red lights and B taps the green ones for a set time. The person who taps more lights wins.
• Scatter the lights around the space as "flies". Children are "frogs" and hop around "eating the flies".
• Instructions for use

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User-friendly software that makes it easy for students to create digital books with text, images, illustrations, videos, sound, and other media. Can be shared as an e-book, PDF, or video.

• Instructions for use at SFS workplaces

Reykjavík City has conducted a privacy risk assessment for Graphogame. Learn more about privacy and digital schooling.

The Cricut cutter is easy to use. It cuts a variety of materials precisely. These include paper, cardboard, vinyl, textiles and felt. The machine can also use special pens to draw and write from digital files.

Cutting requires Cricut Design Space software. This allows uploading SVG (vector) and JPG files. Creating custom designs and cut patterns takes just a few clicks.

The user-friendly software works on computers and tablets. It offers good options for creative work.

• Instructions for use at SFS workplaces

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Wonder is a collection of apps specifically designed to work with the Dash and Dot robots from Wonder Workshop.

Students program the robots using a simple, visual approach through icons and block-based programming in a creative and interactive way.

With Wonder, students can create complex behavior patterns for the robots, make them move, produce sounds, flash lights and respond to their environment using sensors. The app also offers puzzles and challenges that teach coding through gameplay and enhance problem-solving thinking. It is widely used in STEAM education to introduce students to fundamental concepts in coding and technology.

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The Evolytes learning system offers an engaging way to learn and practice mathematics. The educational materials consist of textbooks, an educational game, and an information system that work together as a unified whole through data-driven personalized software. The software reads student abilities and adjusts the difficulty level of educational content to each individual's capabilities in real time.

Teachers gain comprehensive oversight of learning progress in real time within the information system, allowing them to immediately support each child throughout the process. The educational game focuses on training students in mathematics and maximizing their achievement through individualized learning.

Students receive problems/examples to solve, with the difficulty level of each subsequent problem based on the results of the previous one.

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Reykjavík City has conducted a privacy risk assessment for Graphogame. Learn more about privacy and digital schooling.

Gamla teygjuborðið á stafrænu formi. Styður við skilning í rúmfræði; ummál og flatarmál, horn og samhverfu, hlutföll og brot.

• Geoboard - teygjuborð, yfirlitsmynd
   

Forritið hefur farið í gegnum áhættumat varðandi persónuvernd hjá Reykjavíkurborg, sjá nánar um persónuvernd og stafrænt skólastarf, og er nú aðgengilegt í iPad-námstækjum fyrir nemendur borgarinnar.

• Brochure for Google Workspace for Education: Overview, Chrome browser, Drive, Classroom, Calendar, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Drawings, Sites, Forms, Keep, and Meet.
• Google Workspace employee instructions, a website with guides for each program.
• Reykjavík City handbook for Google Workspace for Education Plus

Processing of personal data in Google Workspace for Education

Reykjavík City primary schools have decided to manage certain personal information of students in the Google Workspace for Education Plus learning environment as part of the schools' teaching methods.

• More about Processing personal information in Google Workspace for Education Plus (IS)
• Processing Personal Information in Chromebook (EN) 
• Przetwarzanie danych osobowych na Chromebook (POL)

Graphogame is an app that helps children and adults learn basic reading skills in Icelandic. Finnish literacy experts originally designed the game with dyslexic people in mind. It has been translated and adapted for Icelandic.

Graphogame is well-suited for teaching and training reading beginners. Children need to hear letter sounds repeatedly to master them and learn to combine them into words. Repetition is crucial in becoming a proficient reader. The game provides this training, adapting tasks to each user's ability. Students also learn correct letter formation and can't progress without doing it correctly. 15 minutes of daily use is recommended.

Graphogame is one of the most researched educational apps in Europe. Older students with slow reading or reading difficulties have shown significant improvement, especially those with phonological processing issues or students learning Icelandic alphabet sounds.

• Starting to use Graphogame, overview and instruction manual

• Handbook for teachers from the Center for Education and School Service

• Instructions for use at SFS workplaces

Reykjavík City has conducted a privacy risk assessment for the program. Learn more about privacy and digital schooling. The app is now available on City-issued iPad learning devices for students.

Helperbird is a browser extension that offers various types of reading assistance for PDF books and websites. Various settings allow students to personalize their reading experience, such as adjusting font size, changing font type, and having text read aloud.

The extension is available for Chrome browsers on Chromebooks and computers, and for Safari browsers on iPads. You can try the free version to test it out.

• Instructions for use at SFS workplaces

Reykjavík City has conducted a privacy risk assessment for the program. Learn more about privacy and digital schooling. The app is now available on City-issued iPad learning devices for students.

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Reading faster is an educational program from Betra nám. You can use the letter section of the app, where students practice saying letter sounds and reading small words.

• Instructions for use at SFS workplaces

Reykjavík City has conducted a privacy risk assessment for the program. Learn more about privacy and digital schooling.

Námsforrit til að kynna forritunarhugsun/reiknihugsun, (e. computational thinking) fyrir byrjendum, án þess að þau þurfi að nota flókinn texta eða kóða. 

• Lightbot: Code Hour - forritun, yfirlitsmynd

Forritið hefur farið í gegnum áhættumat varðandi persónuvernd hjá Reykjavíkurborg, sjá nánar um persónuvernd og stafrænt skólastarf, og er nú aðgengilegt í iPad-námstækjum fyrir nemendur borgarinnar.

A simple and fun educational program from Kunnátta for working with words and word parts. Students try to find as many words as they can from a single word. The program includes the Icelandic dictionary from the Árni Magnússon Institute, which compares the words students find and shows whether they appear in the dictionary.

• Keywords - overview

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An app designed to help children learn and develop understanding of language sounds. It offers diverse training aimed at strengthening phonological awareness, which is fundamental for literacy development. Children can practice identifying and forming sounds in words in a fun and interactive way. The app uses images, sounds, and games to make learning engaging and accessible for children.

• Instructions for use at SFS workplaces

Reykjavík City has conducted a privacy risk assessment for Graphogame. Learn more about privacy and digital schooling.

Námsforritið er ókeypis útgáfa af AB Maths sem býður upp á gagnvirka stærðfræðileiki fyrir börn á yngsta stigi. Það er hannað til að styrkja grunn reikningsaðgerðir og talnaskilning á skemmtilegan hátt.

• Maths games for kids – lite, leiðbeiningar um notkun

Forritið hefur farið í gegnum áhættumat varðandi persónuvernd hjá Reykjavíkurborg, sjá nánar um persónuvernd og stafrænt skólastarf, og er nú aðgengilegt í iPad-námstækjum fyrir nemendur borgarinnar.

Orðalykill is a reading and language development program that teaches fundamental language and literacy skills through vocabulary training. There are 22 vocabulary themes, including school, kitchen and camping. Within each vocabulary theme, there are three types of training exercises.

• Instructions for use at SFS workplaces

Reykjavík City has conducted a privacy risk assessment for Graphogame. Learn more about privacy and digital schooling.

Multiple Osmo apps and accessories combine hands-on activities with digital technology to create an interactive and game-based learning experience for children.

By using an iPad and a special mirror placed over the camera, the app reflects physical game pieces such as number and letter blocks, tangram pieces, and pencil and paper. This creates the interactive experience and gives students immediate feedback.

• Instructions for use at SFS workplaces

Reykjavík City has conducted a privacy risk assessment for Graphogame. Learn more about privacy and digital schooling.

A creative iPad app that allows students to create their own short films and stories by controlling digital puppets on a stage.

Students select characters, backgrounds and record their own voices to tell the story. Students can also use their own backgrounds, such as the school cafeteria, and their own characters.

The app is user-friendly and particularly suitable for younger students and those who enjoy adding playfulness to their work, encouraging dramatic expression and creativity.

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Reykjavík City has conducted a privacy risk assessment for Graphogame. Learn more about privacy and digital schooling.

An encouraging educational game from Kunnátta for students who want to practice basic math: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

• Calculate! - math game, overview

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Sphero Edu combines programmable Sphero balls and software to teach coding and computational thinking. The software is designed for students of all ages and offers programming through three different methods: drawing and dragging lines, block coding and text programming with JavaScript.

Sphero Edu is used in education to develop technological literacy, enhance creativity and provide engaging, interactive projects related to STEAM learning (sciences, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics).

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Reykjavík City has conducted a privacy risk assessment for Graphogame. Learn more about privacy and digital schooling.

An app that lets students create their own animations easily. Works well in any school setting, from preschool onward.

• Instructions for use at SFS workplaces

Reykjavík City has conducted a privacy risk assessment for Graphogame. Learn more about privacy and digital schooling.