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Ice 2010 Sessions: iPad Information
ELL Apps: iTranslate, Body Fitness helps us you to workout certain parts of the body, smartNotes - a stylus is very important for this program, [|They have a complete list of their apps at this center for ELL student]s.


 * Technology integration lessons: Plan, gather, build, present**

When you use an app in school share that or a free app similar to it so students can add these to their own iPhones or other devices.

Mobile: Students can move around the room and look at posters teachers have placed for support, they can move outside or wherever they need to be.

Every student can be involved now. They can each have their own iPad and even in group activities everyone can have a role.

Students can test their vision Eye Chart Pro, hearing uHear, etc. In the Hear app students get info about listening to iPods only at 60% volume for 120 minutes a day.

Green: Don't need such extensive handouts.

Videos: Now students are filling out a sheet with questions and an area for note taking.

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iPads in the Classroom: Literacy Centers and Content Areas

Burley School Kristin Ziemke and


 * Engagment: Hands on, Minds on!!!**

Goals: improve 1st and 2nd grade literacy skills

Extend and deepen student inquiry

Raise students technological skill and awareness

Student publishing ,real-time collaboration, using images and other media to inspire questioning Introduce iPad in small group literacy lessons

Ongoing professional development

iPad newscast

Practice skills in a selfirected manner “Basics” Literacy Centers: Magnetic letters for sight words, practice spelling words through videos they create, reading fluency

Blue-Fire GET THIS! Voie recorder

Student engagement, pride and excitement, Drive for improvement, attention to detail, Second graders fall to winter fluency scores went from 14% improvement to 26% improvement

Teacher or older student modeling is important

Use a rubric for self-reflection Always test volume before reading

Turn iPad upside down so the microhpne is pointing to them.

Show students how to set a time limit

Spell Blocks Sight Words Read and Spell good for Sight words.

Keynote to create sight word videos These are available on their blog

Active engagements, student self-monitoring, audiovisual approach addresses different modalities: Auditory, visual, kinesthetic

Whiteboard lte, ABC MagneticAlphabet Lite

Alphabet: ease of manipulating letters and words, saves instructional time: not searching for letters in a bucket, students can hold up the pads for teachers to see them.

Beyond the basics: Students go public, create and publish for other students

Simplenote: students write questions here and their classmates can respond and give them answers

Students are writing and thinking more about what they are doing. Students using one another’s ideas for inspiration and to expand their own thinking and questioning

Students given a photo and then they can draw, type or record audio to respond Teachers get feedback from this as the whether students understand content

Management: Set up a mobile meiDisk, Dropbox,

Turning in work: Email: students use preset contactsm

Work.com

Internet content: Syncing safari bookmarks, Creating a homepage of links

These tag websites for use later. These are tagged on the teacher computer and then each iPad is logged into the account. They are using Read It Later Read It Later Digo Evernote

Use a document camera with the image of what is being done on the iPad on your computer Use the Quicktime screen capture to collect a video of what you want students to use.

Monthly iPad training every other month downtown, every other month one to one with an Apple trainer

Doodle Buddy: they respond to a story byt drawing the characters, setting or main idea of the story and labeling it

We need to have time for teachers to collaborate and share what they are doing. Create a website/wiki to record each iPad lesson/use

Tips and Tricks:

Use a document camera so students can model what they are doing

Beyond Apps for the Basics:

Publish new work, create new work, collaborate with toehrs

Use StoryKit to create stories for appropriate behavior in the community and school

Authentic Problem Solving: Students in 4th and 5th grade classrooms chose real problems: Bullying, Recycling, childhood obesity

Setup a file sharing system

MadMath, sockpuppets

Total Recall, Popplet Mind Maps Google Forms Dropbox – way to move documents around