The holiday celebration of Halloween hasn’t changed much in the past 100 years. But now there is a new twist that can make the celebration even better. Check out the Nextdoor app. Normally used for neighborhood events, the app has added. a Treat Map.
Where’s the Candy?
Simply sign up for the free service. Then you can go in to the provided map of your neighborhood. You will be given the choice to add icons over your family’s home specifically for Halloween. There’s a candy corn you can use if you are giving out candy or a haunted house icon if you’re hosting a scary adventure and everyone is welcome to take part.
Planning the Night Out
Parents can use the Treat Map, available also for iPhone and Android, to help their children plan out where they will go to trick-or-treat. There’s no need for confusion about who is providing candy and who isn’t with the old habit of leaving an outside light on. They can also use it to see what streets are offering the most candy. Teachers could use the website version of the app to have students plan out the best route to get get the most candy or the route that doesn’t require any backtracking or lost time. For Halloween, Nextdoor is a good thing! Plus, they’ve given everyone the ability to add pet treats this year.
conduct their research as they normally would. But as they collect information that they need, they are now able to highlight the data, drop it onto a “Candy card” with automatic site location and citation, and then organize the ideas into a “Storyline” to reveal connections and find answers. Candy cards can be dragged and dropped into different orders, which is fabulous for organizing the final draft, and the contents of each card are searchable. Once the research is complete, the Storyline can be exported as a text file with just one click.
Information and quotes from any source can be Candyed, including websites, social media, videos, images, and more. When you’re ready to insert the Candy cards into a document, the original source comes with it, making citation simple, complete, and automatic. To help students throughout the project, a teacher can ask that the Storyline in digest format be emailed to her to look over. Candys can also be shared via email and social media and inserted into blog posts, which is great for student blogs.