The Teaching & Learning Technology Team has the following equipment available to be checked out for a limited time. See the descriptions below for the equipment that is available. If you would like to check out any equipment list please fill out the form at the bottom of this page.
If you have any questions about or would like to check out any of this equipment please email Gail Ramirez or Travis True.
The Swivl is a robotic mount for an iPad, camera, or smartphone that comes with a remote control called a Marker. It is designed to track, and with the video capture abilities of the other device, record videos of a moving person. It is designed to capture presentations or classroom activity.
The Swivl robot follows an infrared signal on the marker. You should maintain a direct line of sight between the robot and the marker, and we recommend using a table, floor stand, or tripod to help. The audio cable must also be plugged into both the base and into the lightning port on your iPad.
There are 16 kits available for checkout.
A Swivl kit includes:
Swivl Robot
Swivl iPad (Tripod not included in the kit)
Osmo is an award-winning game system that will change the way your child interacts with the iPad by opening it up to hands-on play. Put your iPad in the Osmo base with the red reflector over the camera - and now it can see what’s in front of it. Most of the games use physical pieces that students manipulate through progressively difficult levels.
5 Osmo Kits available:
Kit includes - Osmo Words, Numbers, Tangrams, Coding Awbie, Monsters, Newton, Masterpiece
Kits do not include iPads
Kits include manipulatives and 4 bases
Must use building iPads
Google Cardboard is a Virtual Reality viewer used with a regular wifi-enabled smart phone. There are several manufactures of Cardboard viewers. You can get the simple Cardboard view (made of cardboard) straight from Google. Google Cardboard viewers are very simple. They consist of cardboard, lenses and a rubber band. The lenses make the picture from the smartphone look 3D and the rubber band helps hold the phone in place so it doesn’t fall out of the viewer. Google has discontinued support for the Google Expeditions app, so it is no longer available with the kit. Google moved a lot of the content to the Arts and Culture app and that is included on the iPod touch.
1 Google Cardboard Kit available.
Google Cardboard Kit includes
12 Google Cardboard Viewers
12 iPod Touches
1 AirPort Access Point
There are 20 cameras kits available.
Camera kits includes:
Camera (Cannon EOS T6 Deck)
Camera bag
18-55mm Lens
75-300mm Lens
Battery charger
64GB SD Card
USB Card Reader
Green Screening is also known as Chroma Key compositing. It is a visual production technique for compositing two images or video streams together based on color hues. This is similar to what the weatherman does each night when he/she shows the weather map.
Chroma key compositing doesn’t have to be green, sometimes it is blue. It can really be set to any color, green is more common because most people don’t wear a lot of bright green.
6 Green Screen Kits are available.
Green Screen Kits include:
iPad & app
Tripod
iPad/Tripod adapter
The teacher must provide the green backdrop. (Green paper from workroom works great!)
25 USB Microphones available
There are 4 boxes available
Each box includes
1 Large Breakout EDU Locking Box
1 Small Plastic Locking Box
1 Hasp
1 Alphabet Multilock
1 Directional Multilock
1 three-digit lock
1 four-digit lock
1 word lock
1 key lock
1 UV light
1 invisible ink pen
1 USB thumb drive (blank)
There are 20 MacBook Pro with iMovie & GarageBand installed available.
The Little Bits education kits are the easiest way to integrate power STEAM and Coding learning into your classroom. Each kit includes everything you need to engage up to 3 students. The components snap together as magnets.
There are two kinds of Snap Circuit kits available - the Junior kits for elementary students and the expanded kits for middle school. These can not be checked out during Kanza field trip times (Sept-Oct).
Students build a Rover car using Snap Circuits that snap together. There are 50 parts and multiple design can be created. These can not be checked out during Kanza field trip times (Sept-Oct).
There's nothing more fun that learning coding through the use of the Dash robot. Dash is available for 2nd through 6th grade classrooms. There are also some peripherals you can check out that work with Dash, like the launcher, gripper kits, and xylophone.
The Cue robots are much like the Dash robots, only a lot more powerful! Cue kits are available for classrooms 6th through 10th grade. There are also peripherals you can check out like the whiteboards, marker kits, and gripper kits.