tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51410799642669025572024-03-05T20:24:30.928-08:00Transforming Teaching and Learning with iPadsNCCS teachers blog about how they are using iPads to transform teaching and learning in their classrooms.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141079964266902557.post-52850644972105231122014-05-09T12:47:00.002-07:002014-05-09T12:47:31.661-07:00Minecraft and the Law of Superposition<br />
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I came up with the idea of using Minecraft over the summer
for the current school year. I knew I would be teaching relative dating and the
Law of Superposition and wanted to develop a fun and interactive way for my
students to learn the concept. (The idea
that oldest rock/fossil is in the bottom layer of a given sample) I originally
just wrote the idea down with my other notes and ideas that I wanted to try
during the school year, but since I wasn't going to teach relative dating until
the second semester of the year, I put my idea on the back burner. </div>
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As the time approached for our <i>Change Over Time</i> unit, the idea of using Minecraft crept back into
my mind on numerous occasions. I began by starting to play the game on my iPad
to get familiar with it. (I was well aware that my students would be better at
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Students were broken up into groups of three. Each group was
given at least one iPad to use for the activity as well as an activity sheet
that they were required to fill out during the activity. Students opened the
Minecraft App and selected one of five designated worlds. (I created the worlds
prior with A LOT of help from some of my boys) In each world, the group found
an “Archaeology Site.” Each site was fenced off at the corners so the students
would know where they were located.</div>
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out each of the seven layers. Each layer contained a chest with one or two
artifacts from a civilization that lived there before. On their activity
sheets, students recorded the artifacts in each layer and the type of soil/rock
that surrounded.</div>
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Once students were finished with their dig site, they
rearranged the rows from each layer to have a side view of their dig site. This
allowed students to have a view of all of the layers they dug up in the previous
steps. Students were then able to label and answer questions related to the
dating of the objects and what information the students could infer from their
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Ultimately, I think the activity went well. I did run into a
couple of speed bumps along the way. There were some issues along the way of determining
how to be able to place objects in the holes so they wouldn't disappear and
gathering all of the materials needed. I was extremely fortunate to have
several students that offered up their own time after school to help dig holes
and gathering materials. I truly owe those boys the world to helping me make
this activity successful.</div>
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Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141079964266902557.post-54508224929956382442014-05-04T17:49:00.002-07:002014-05-04T17:49:34.314-07:00Confessions of a First Time iPad Cart Teacher<div class="MsoNormal">
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class set of iPads in my classroom this year.
Would I use them enough, would I use them effectively, and how would I
manage the students’ use of the iPads?
Despite this nervousness I was very excited for this new experience, and
am so glad I have had this opportunity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the first ways I used the iPads was for whole group
literacy lessons. Nearpod is a great way
for all students to use the iPads and be engaged in lessons. I found it very convenient to find power
point presentations that were already created online and modify them for use in Nearpod or
make my own. Students could follow along
as we reviewed setting, learned about character traits, or conflict in
stories. The quizzes, polls, and other
feedback Nearpod allows students to give were a valuable part of the lessons as
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students were able to use the iPads for writing in lots of
ways. For our first quarter writing
samples students integrated science in their writing through projects using Tellagami,
Popplet, or StoryKit. Once students had
a final draft they chose one of the apps to publish their writing. We had a variety of samples that I e-mailed
to our class account, and then printed.
Some students worked to create their own “Gami” with Tellagami and recorded
themselves reading their final project, while others made Popplet designs to
present their writing. Still other
students enjoyed taking pictures to add to the pages of their books about the
moon, sun, and Earth with the StoryKit app.
These writing samples were great.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In literacy stations students used the iPads to record
themselves reading and then listened for accuracy and fluency during Daily Five
in read to self or read with a partner.
They also used Tumble Books and News-o-matic (a new favorite I learned
about at tech tens) for reading or listening to reading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During reading groups we would always keep an iPad or 2 on
hand to look up vocabulary and science or social studies information for topics
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For math some of our favorite apps were Educreations,
KidTime, Geoboard, and a variety of apps for multiplication. Students were so excited about getting to use the iPads through out the lessons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have highlighted some of the ways we used the iPads this year. I know this is only the tip of the ice berg for the ways to
use iPads in the classroom and I hope to have the opportunity to do so much
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This has been a great year working together as a class to integrate
iPads into our daily activities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "CK Journaling"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">At the end of last year I applied (wished) to have ipads in my
classroom for this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the end of
last year I was teaching third grade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found
out at the end of summer that I would be teaching first grade this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was really nervous about moving to a new grade
with such little people and on top of it having ipads in my classroom!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has definitely been a learning process,
but with a lot of help from colleagues, I did find fun and engaging ways to
implement ipads in my classroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am
amazed at how quickly the students learn how to use the apps and I am so glad that I did "wish" for the ipads after all!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "CK Journaling"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I have used the nearpod app this year for several math
lessons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I take the information from our
Math Expressions teacher manual and implement it into my nearpod lesson. What has been
great about nearpod is that I can use examples from the teacher manual to see
how my students work them out. Since they must share an ipad, they also have to
collaborate before they submit their work. I love being able to pull up
students work for the class to see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
really lends to the “math talk” that we encourage so much with common
core.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Students can comment on the work
of other students by sharing if they “agree or disagree”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is such a learning tool for students to
be able to explain how he or she came to a solution, or even where a mistake
was made.</span></div>
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classroom response system which is very engaging! It reminds me a lot of the “clickers”
I used to use for whole group review.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Students
in my classroom have to be partners, but they love creating a team name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once all students have submitted their team name,
they put in a pin number and the Kahoot begins. With Kahoot, you can create
questions for a quiz or as a survey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
the survey format, it shows how many “teams” chose a certain answer and it lets
me know if the majority of my class is familiar or unfamiliar with a certain
topic. I have created a survey in Kahoot as a pre-assessment before a lesson on
telling time. I have also used Kahoot in the quiz form for a science review.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is time based and it has fun music that gets
the kids really excited. Kahoot is not an app, but I turned it into a QR code
and students can just scan the code to take them right to Kahoot!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "CK Journaling"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In small group lessons, such as guided reading, I like to use
edmodo to upload books for a couple of my reading groups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The students amaze me at how quickly they go
get their ipad for guided reading time and log in to get to their book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also have used educreations to follow up on
guided reading activities by uploading some of the Reading A to Z graphic organizers,
such as the Venn diagrams and the cause and effect boxes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It saves paper and copies and the kids love
it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a bit time consuming for them
as they learn how to insert the text box and type, but they are getting faster!</span></div>
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codes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, since I don’t have enough
ipads to go around, they must share which means a lot of collaborating!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My students know they still have to work out
their problems in their math journals before scanning the QR code to check their
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<span style="font-family: "CK Journaling"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">During the reading stations, one rotation is to read a book, take
an AR quiz (also on ipads), RAZ kids or go to Scootpad reading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have recently found “free” QR codes for
online reading books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once a week, I
allow them to scan what looks like a little iphone and it takes them to some
online reading sources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have them
differentiated for students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the
resources takes them to articles and stories from the Highlights magazine. They
can choose to read it on their own or use headphones and it will read it aloud
to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If time permits, they are asked
to fill in a story summarizer to keep them accountable for their reading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "CK Journaling"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It has been an amazing year of learning how to implement the
ipads, I feel the biggest impact the ipads have made in my classroom, is the
ability to differentiate for my students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If I have a student who is really struggling in an area, I can find
something or create something that can give that student extra practice during
his/her station time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone is so
busy working on “what is best for their own learning” that students respect
what each other is doing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
gloverowls.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231957848863110579noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141079964266902557.post-71085176986354214822014-04-07T13:07:00.000-07:002014-04-07T13:07:07.049-07:00First Grade IPad Happenings
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my
first grade classroom I am lucky enough to have a 1:1 IPad ratio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is my first year with an Ipad classroom and
it has been such a wonderful learning experience for me!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the classroom we use the throughout the
day in all subject areas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Below I have
highlighted some of the Ipad happenings in first grade!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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an account for every student in my class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The students are organized within the program into their guided reading
groups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each group has their own leveled
reader for the week on the program. After working with the students throughout
the week, they take a reading comprehension quiz on Edmodo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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am meeting with guided reading groups’ students rotate through reading
centers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three of the centers I use most
often are Scootpad, Raz Kids, and Accelerated Reader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Scootpad program is Common Core aligned
and the students have their own sign in and account in which they can work on
particular reading (and math) objectives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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their own sign in and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>account in which
they read books on their assigned reading level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I use my Mclass data to assign the child’s
current reading level within the program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The students sign into their account and they have a “bookroom” in which
they select a book on their level to read, listen to, and complete a
comprehension skill activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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helped my tremendously this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every
year, the number one issue within the classroom has been that there were never
enough computers for students to take their AR tests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, this year students have their own
Ipads to take tests as often as they would like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have seen a significant increase in not
only their reading levels but their attitude toward reading and taking AR
tests! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Newton has adopted the Math Expressions math program this school year so we are
following the program cover to cover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, I have had the opportunity to enrich the students learning
experiences by incorporating several math apps throughout lessons. Here are a
few math apps I use in my classroom:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Math Lite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This app allows students to
practice their addition and subtraction facts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is so important for students to be able to answer simple addition and
subtraction facts automatically and this resource allows them to practice this
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finished teaching the students about ½ and ¼.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The math app Pizza Fractions 1 has helped my students practice the
skills they have just learned and it has allowed math enrichment opportunities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The students work with pizza fractions such as
4/5 , ¾, etc. The students love the interactive “shaking” of the pizzas to
identify new fractions! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rocket Math.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This app allows students to
practice many different math skills such as identifying numbers, telling time,
identifying amounts of money, etc., while they get parts of a rocket to
build.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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If you are working on fractions I highly suggest the app (Thinking Blocks Model and Solve Word Problems, Practice with Fractions). This app provides students with a word problem and they are working with thinking blocks to help them solve the problem. It does a great job of walking students through the process of solving a complicated problem. Many times with students visualizing different fraction amounts is difficult, and now with the complexity of word problems they are asked to solve; it is essential that students have a clear understanding of fractions. Another aspect to the problems that students will be solving is fractions of a whole number. Believe me when I say this can be extremely frustrating to students. However with these visuals my students are getting better at solving these problems. This app would benefit 3-6 graders. Also online there are other concepts that use thinking blocks. Just go to http://www.mathplayground.com/thinkingblocks.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141079964266902557.post-5443975216064838882014-03-28T18:57:00.001-07:002014-03-28T18:57:20.034-07:00Using iPads with Daily 5 in Room 6<div style="text-align: center;">
This year, I have implemented Daily 5 into my kindergarten classroom. Each day, my literacy centers consist of the following: Read to Someone, Read to Self, Listen to Reading, Word Work, and Work on Writing. My students love learning while using the iPads! If you are interested in using iPads with Daily 5, here are just a few things that happened in Room 6 this week.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03812436928596710383noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141079964266902557.post-56805843526435398382014-03-26T06:12:00.000-07:002014-03-26T06:12:20.399-07:00EDMODO and the Irregular ScheduleWhat a year. As I reflect about the things we have done this year I must say that Edmodo has been a saving grace by which this school year would not have been possible to survive without. Edmodo is an old buddy of mine which I have been utilizing for going on my fifth year now.<br />
The first year I used it as pretty much a tool to quiz and poll the students whenever we had the opportunity to get into one of the computer labs at the "OLD" Middle School, a few of us "techy" (I am pretty sure that is a word even though it is being underlined in red) teachers even moderated a "chat page" for the students but had to shut it down after a few unwise choices of what to post showed up. The second year I utilized it in each of my classes (as I do now) and I found that it was wonderful to connect with not just students but also parents and I have used it since then much like the web-page where assignments and other pertinent information is posted. Also, I could EASILY link websites we used in class and other files so everyone has the capability to access them even if they have become misplaced in the endless pit of the backpack. Last year was much the same except I had the wonderful experience of having the iPads in my classroom so we were able to utilize the site daily.<br />
Now that brings us to the current school year. A school year in which man y of our students have their own devices and I am now sharing the iPad cart with another class. It is also a year in which we have gone to an "A" day, "B" day schedule for Social Studies and Science so I see my students every other day. (unless of course we have an interruption in the schedule because of weather, assemblies, testing, etc...) A tool like Edmodo is wonderful for this situation. Not only can I post the assignments and/or quizzes I can also communicate even if I don't see them through messaging to either a particular student or a whole class.<br />
In my Social Studies classes right now we are reading a couple of novels (half of my class is reading one and the other is reading another) they both deal with the Holocaust. What even my students do not know yet is I am creating special Edmodo pages for each novel where they can answer and discuss questions and what they have read.<br />
This leads me to probably my most selfish reason for using Edmodo, drum roll please, I don't have to hang on to 170 quizzes, homework assignments, etc... Edmodo makes it possible to collect everything electronically (I know there is Dropbox and other ways to accomplish the same thing) but hey, I am almost fifty and it is hard to teach an "old" dog new tricks so when I find something I stick to it. Well I am finished rambling and for those of you who need to know there are ONLY 274 days until Christmas as of the day I wrote this.<br />
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When you walk into Room 5 at South Newton Elementary School, you will see 5 & 6 year olds taking their learning to the next level with Skitch. Skitch is a FREE app created by Evernote. This app is very user friendly. My kindergarten students picked up the basics in a matter of days.</div>
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*DISCLAIMER: The spelling you see is incorrect. My kinders are learning to spell through inventive spelling! "We rit the sownds we her n wrds" :)</div>
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During Guided Reading, Read to Self, and/or Read to Someone students take pictures of the books they are reading with their ipads. They then use Skitch to label characters in the book, highlight sight words they are studying, and label other important parts of their stories. </div>
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When using Skitch during word work, students are able to write their sight words on basically anything they can take a picture of. Some students will take pictures of our word wall and trace over sight words, other students will take pictures of the white board & write their words on it. However, the MOST popular word work activity is writing on their dear teacher's face. </div>
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During Math, we use the program Math Expressions. This is a fabulous program that allows for students to delve deep into number concepts. In kindergarten, this program involves a lot of "Going Further and Homework & Remembering Worksheets" To save copies & trees, we often snap a picture of the daily worksheet on the ipads and complete the worksheet using Skitch during math centers. During a whole group lesson, students will take a picture of the manipulatives they use and label them during a math center. </div>
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Hi everyone! Wow, I can't believe it's the middle of March already. When I look back on all the ways I have utilized technology this year, it's amazing to see all the wonderful ways students have been able to present their ideas and also to gain information on any given topic. We have used iPads for research, for presentations, for collaboration in math, and other engaging activities this year! It's been a lot of fun.<br />
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One of my favorite ways since January that we have been using the iPads in our classroom is through reading and writing Must Do/May Do activities. Because of Read to Achieve and other forms of testing in third grade eliminating important parts of the day, I wanted to come up with a way to integrate science, social studies, and technology into my reading block. By doing so, my students would not miss out on other important Essential Standards this year. Must Do activities are assignments that students must complete by the end of the week. May Do activities are assignments that students can complete when finished early with their Must Do activities.<br />
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I love that these activities require students to use the 4 C's. I also love that it's a way for students to be grouped by mixed ability while working in stations but I can still pull my reading groups back to work with me based on their reading level abilities. I am able to provide fun apps and reading websites that allow students to practice further on a skill that week. During their May Do time it allows them to explore topics they enjoy on their own. Students are also able to share what they learned through apps like Educreation and Edmodo and other students can leave feedback.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141079964266902557.post-25473906931474542422014-03-04T10:53:00.002-08:002014-03-04T10:53:59.685-08:00Using Literature Circles With I-PadsIn my classroom, I like to mix in literature circles during my guided reading block. I wouldn't say that I do "true" literature circles, but it has transformed to being guided reading with some blogging added in. I have taken the traditional literature circle roles and used them with KidBlog to increase my students' literacy performance. All of the students work is completed on KidBlog so that they can collaborate with one another. Here are the different roles that I use. I have found these roles online from various sources and changed them to work in my classroom.<br />
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Summarizer: Students will summarize the highlights and key points from the previous readings. Students prepare their summaries on their KidBlog account. Other students are able to comment and discuss the summary that the summarizer has come up with.<br />
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Questioner: The questioner lists questions from the reading that would help increase the discussion from the group. The students can answer questions on KidBlog that the questioner has posted.<br />
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Illustrator: The illustrator shares their own images and visions of what they visualized while reading.It can be a sketch, cartoon, diagram, flowchart, or stick figure scene. Students are able use Google Drive or Educreations to draw what they visualized and then upload their drawing to their KidBlog account.<br />
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Vocabulary Enricher: These students will discuss any words that they found that stood out or were crucial to what they read. Students will post their words on KidBlog, where the words came from in the selection, what they words mean, and why they choose those words.<br />
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Literary Luminary: The literary luminary finds parts of the text that are interesting, powerful, puzzling, or important in their opinions. Students will briefly describe the part of the selection that they chose and why they feel that this part is important to the text or reader.<br />
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I have found that using KidBlog along with the iPads is a way to engage students in what they are reading. The students are able to collaborate together about what they have read. This is also a way to switch from paper to paperless. I don't waste the paper that I used to when I did formal literature circles. However, I feel that my students' learning has increased from using technology with the literature circles. Ipads make this process simple because students can easily upload pictures or drawings. They are also able to transport the Ipad throughout the room during reading stations. This process is something new that I have begun this year but it is proving to be worthwhile.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141079964266902557.post-42404901529464691622014-02-11T06:31:00.000-08:002014-02-11T06:31:03.686-08:00iPads in the Self-Contained ClassroomI am in a self contained classroom at a public separate school. My class consists of eight students with varying levels of academic and physical functioning. In our classroom we have two sets of iPads. We have been using the iPads for a variety of classroom activities. The main thing that they enjoy using them for is free time activities. We help them navigate to educational apps to learn about math, reading, and science. We have more involved students that enjoy going on the iPads to watch videos regarding science. One student uses the iPad as a motivational tool to increase his range of motion. He has a cause and effect app that he enjoys but in order to make it work he has to reach to touch the screen. This in turn increases his range of motion because he has to reach to where we place it to access it. They ask for the iPads every morning when they come in the room. It has been a joy to watch them increase their knowledge about how to navigate around and find the apps that they are looking for. Through the use of the iPads several of my students have increased their sight word vocabulary and their communication skills. Number identification has dramatically improved for another one of my students. The students also enjoy having the ability to participate in group activities that we are doing on the whiteboard through the use of the Splashtop app on the iPad. The ability to control a part of their own learning has helped them to not only enjoy school more but also increased their knowledge. <br />
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141079964266902557.post-11018071839844906092014-02-08T18:54:00.001-08:002014-02-09T10:08:33.063-08:00Using Less Paper with a Few iPadsOften teachers struggle with how to use iPads in the classroom daily. This year I am using a small group of iPads (7) during my reading workstations which helps to eliminate making the many copies that I have made in the past. It also has helped to enhance my students' excitement for learning and has provided access to a wider range of knowledge which is provided through the internet.<br />
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My students are using the iPads to complete their reading workstations for the week. I have two google accounts which one is my personal school account and the other is for the students to use and access. I create reading workstations on my personal school account and copy it to my student account. I do not want my students to be able to access my original copy. I currently have four heterogeneous groups in my classroom which are called by the following names: Yummy Yellow, Radiant Red, Brilliant Blue, and Outstanding Orange. When I copy my workstations to my student account, I make four copies of workstations and make a title with their group names in them. When the students access the account, they look under their groups names and fill in what is asked of them for that week. I found that the Google app does not work well on the iPad 1s. For some reason, they cannot edit the Google documents. The students login through Safari and are able to edit their documents with this method. I no longer have to make copies for each students and each station. It not only helps me out, but it also helps the students. There are some students who struggle with keeping up with their weekly workstations papers. By using the iPads, their group work is saved on the iPad through the Google documents and their do not even have to press save. This way of doing things helps me and the students. <br />
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Our grade level integrates our Social Studies curriculum into our reading stations. The students use the iPads to watch videos and answer questions. They also use the iPads when working on research projects. We recently started researching some of the battles that took place in North Carolina which led up the American Revolution. The students have been given safe websites and videos to find information on each battle. They are also encouraged to use their Social Studies book. By researching this way, they are having to use higher order thinking skills in formulating their own ideas on the topic and use different types of media to do so. The students are also learning how to work together and collaborate with different types of personalities. By using this technology in the classroom, it has not only enhanced my students learning, but it has cut down on the amount of paper I have to use. <br />
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There are many blog posts and articles out there about
having one iPad in the classroom and how to make it work. There are also many
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and articles of both kinds. However, I find myself in a rather unique position.
I have a small group of iPads, 6 to be exact. It is more than one and less than
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That is the question that stumped me for a while. I have
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Being a Spanish teacher, I am often asked
how to say a word. If I’m not asked how to say a word or sentence, then I often
find them using Google Translate. I don’t want to be their personal dictionary
and Google Translate doesn’t help them decide which word is correct. So I use
my projector to introduce them to a website that will help them. In case you
are curious, it is <a href="http://wordreference.com/">http://wordreference.com</a>.
This website is a dictionary. It will give them various options for a word, so
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Having 6 iPads has made it much easier to
tell them, look it up. When we are doing a project and several students need to
find various words, I hand out the iPads and they can share them in small
groups. Each child can find what they need and pass it along to another one who
is looking for information. When students need to look up little bits of
information, a small set of iPads are immensely helpful.</div>
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Another feature of a world language
classroom is that students need to speak together often in order to practice
the language. As such, the iPads are a great tool to encourage them to work
together and speak. Without the iPads, they fall into the habit of one student
doing most of the work, the others copying, and trying to stutter out a few
words. With the iPad, they all want to contribute. Instead of assigning 3
activities to be written by hand, I can assign them to be completed with Haiku
Deck or VoiceThread or Blackboard. Writing a sentence or filling in the blank
is much more engaging when done on Blackboard. Asking a classmate a question
and recording their answer is much more interesting using VoiceThread. A review
assignment becomes more memorable when done on Haiku Deck. A ‘boring’ assignment with a partner or a
group can be more engaging, interesting, and memorable when technology is
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Studying cultures are a vital part of any
world language program. There is only so much talking a person can do and
expect the student to be interested. It is much more helpful to talk about
something and show them photos or videos. However, even better is when they can
do the talking and showing. They can work in groups to study various aspects of
a country or the different ways a topic is approached in different countries.</div>
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Of course they will be students for one
reason or another cannot participate in a cultural activity. In those cases,
the iPad is a wonderful way for them to explore another cultural topic and
demonstrate what they had learned. Culture can be a fun part of the world
language classroom and iPads make it come to life for these students.</div>
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The world language classroom takes a different approach than
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language classroom and in your classroom too!</div>
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12731429709333401301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141079964266902557.post-26260399360066648252013-11-20T04:10:00.002-08:002013-11-20T04:12:12.440-08:00Flipping roles in the classroom This year my fourth grade class has 15 iPads to use! The iPads have allowed the classroom to become very interactive and hands on. It has also made reteaching easier as well as implementing higher order thinking.<br />
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If you walked into my room during math you would not see me in front of the room teaching and all eyes on me. Rather you would see students in stations teaching each other, doing hands on activities, in small groups with me, or even making their own lesson.<br />
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EDUCreations has been a big hit in the classroom this year. Many students are more eager to master the concepts we are learning so that they can make a video showing their mastery to show to another friend. You can even e-mail the video clips to parents to show progress or as a success celebration for a student who may have been struggling with this concept for a while! I use the student made videos for review for others and also to find out how deeply the student understands the concept. I also record myself and what we are doing in class on this app when students are absent. That way when students return than can use an iPad to catch up from the missed lessons. You can add voice, writing, and pictures on this app.<br />
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Another rotation that we have been using is Ted Ed. Students hearing the same information multiple times in different formats is so important. We use <a href="http://ed.ted.com/" target="_blank">Ted Ed</a> to watch videos that go with our math content and then answer questions about the videos. This gives great insight to the students full awareness and understanding of the concept you are teaching. Ted Ed is also set up so it is very user friendly for students. The different steps they go through in Ted Ed are as follows: </div>
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Technology creates a fun learning environment for students, and I believe that it will prove to be successful the more learning students can take part in on the iPads. It is also a great way to develop self motivated learners. Let your students take charge and responsibility of their own learning!!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A typical day in my classroom during language arts consists of stations. In those stations, I incorporate the iPads in three of the five stations. In my station the students, have to log in to download their guided reader from Edmodo. I have used Edmodo in the past but not like I am this year. I have also used the quiz tab to create a quiz for their guided reader. The students seem to like taking the quiz on the iPads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The next station where the iPads are incorporated is in the Word Study station. After the kids have sorted their Words Their Way words, the students then can select different activities to complete. There are 5 or 6 activities that they can complete with the materials provided and that they can complete on the iPads. One of my favorites is the magnetic alphabet. The students practice using this app to spell their words for the week. </span></div>
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Check out how my 2nd graders are using iPads so far this school year!</div>
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This year our school district is using the Math Expressions program to support our math instruction. Part of this program includes a Quick Quiz to help guide the teacher's instruction after a certain skill has been taught. This year I am giving these quick quizzes through the use of a Google Form. Check out what I did!</div>
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I opened up the online version of our math expression book. I used a snipping tool to snip a picture of all the problems. I uploaded the pictures as a question in a Google Form. I was able to add a blank question below it to provide a text box for the students to type in their answers.</div>
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Next, I took the link from the form and created a QR code for the quiz. My students were then able to scan the code during their Quick Quiz math station to take the assessment. It was perfect! I had results within minutes which guided my instruction immediately for their small groups. Check out some of the results!</div>
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I was able to provide immediate support for students who were one off and some who were transposing numbers. It also confirmed that I have students who are still unable to count on. I didn't have to wait until I was home to grade these papers and provide support the next day. My students still remembered how they worked through the problems and we were able to correct some of these mistakes immediately.</div>
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Feel free to check out the link to our quick quiz <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mYg7gyk8xv917JlOz_Hh8XShCQG5az5_7jB84Tfjdi0/viewform" target="_blank">here</a>. Or scan the QR code. Please do not complete the form.</div>
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Check out some other forms I am using in my class this year or previous years, but please do not complete the forms.</div>
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This year I am using KidBlog for Science Notebooking. This first post is just an observation post, so my students didn't complete an investigation. In the future, they will include all the parts to the scientific method as we complete our investigations. <br />
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You can use Kidblog on computers, but the iPad app is so kid-friendly and it was easy for my students to take pictures. I love that this app/site is very secure. Outsiders can not view our blogs. Parents can sign in using their child's username and password to view their site or you could create a single account for parent access. What a great way for parents to stay up to date with the learning that is going on in our room!</div>
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Ahoy Mateys! We celebrated Talk Like a Pirate Day this past week and had a blast dressing up like pirates! After learning a little bit about pirates my students worked on one of their first blog posts. They were asked to give some facts about pirates and to take a picture of their partner to upload to their blog. Check out this post:</div>
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Next Steps: I hope to continue using KidBlog for school events as well as Science Notebooking. My goal for the year is to have my students blogging about the 8 Mathematical Practices! </div>
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We are off to a great start this year. Hopefully, I will have more to share as the year continues!! Happy new school year! Hope it is as great as mine! :)</div>
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Story Kit allows each student to create his/her own book. Students can write text, record their own voice reading the text, and add pictures either from photos, the internet, or draw a picture. When finished, the books can be emailed home to parents! </div>
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We use Story Kit in the classroom for children to free write, for projects, and as a way to evaluate what a student has learned. Here are a few examples:</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03812436928596710383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141079964266902557.post-22463593487429145432013-05-13T05:35:00.000-07:002013-05-13T05:35:32.462-07:00GeocachingMy student teacher was able to get the kids outside for a little geocaching in order to prepare for the AP test in a unique way.<br />
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He and I spent the morning typing up personalized examples of literary devices they seemed to be struggling with. Each of the samples featured one of the students. We hid them outside all over campus in sandwich bags, making sure to plot each of their locations with device.<br />
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Students spent their mornings finding each of the literary device clues. Once they found one, they used their iPhones (or iPod Touch) to tweet the example and notate which of the literary devices it was. This kept all the groups that were spread out around campus truly "connected" to each other as they all were posting to and reading from the back channel.Crossonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17221047184716575659noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141079964266902557.post-13874162369331095302013-05-10T06:19:00.002-07:002013-05-10T06:19:52.732-07:00Facilitator...With the opportunity to have iPads in my classroom this year I have become much more a facilitator of learning. I still have those teaching moments in which I have to spew facts about the significance of the Fall of Constantinople or the impact Gutenberg had on the world far past his death. However, I can also guide a class of learners who search for knowledge on a particular subject to where to find the answers and then they can relay that information to others in there class and vice versa.<br />
In the learning groups that I constructed on Edmodo I have given each group a different topic to research and had them report out on their findings. I find this has surprising results, as well as results people remember. Another good thing about the learning groups on Edmodo is that I don't have to constantly rearrange the room when we work in groups a student on one side of the room and the other side of the room can share data and ideas without getting up. One note of caution here is to include yourself into all of the small groups to avoid the inevitable off task cyber-chat.<br />
I'd be amiss to say that I have a student who is homebound and is able to contribute to class from the comfort of his own home. He only has to log on to Edmodo and he can leave post-its on my virtual bulletin board at padlet.com (formerly known as wall-wisher) which I use to introduce subjects or review.<br />
For the end of the year I am having the students plan a trip, research how much it would cost, and write up a detailed itinerary for their trip. On the linked "wall" I am having them report their destination. <a href="http://padlet.com/wall/qbj901hv05">Trip Planning</a> <span id="goog_1895954053"></span><span id="goog_1895954054"></span>Have a great summer! <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141079964266902557.post-30368060584542166772013-04-11T02:17:00.000-07:002013-04-11T08:53:11.618-07:00iPad Activity: Host your own Classroom TEDTalk<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>A TED talk you say, what is this and who is TED? </b></div>
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This conference first appeared in 1984, in attempts to bridge three worlds together: Technology, Entertainment and Design. The theme revolves around, 'Ideas Worth Sharing,' demonstrates the influence of how ideas change attitudes, lives and ultimately make impact the world. <a href="http://www.ted.com/" target="_blank">TEDTalks </a>have evolved into being a global community fueled to seek a greater understanding of the world around us. </div>
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So, how can you do this in your classroom? After recently attending the local sponsored <a href="http://tedxhickory.com/" target="_blank">TEDx </a>Hickory, the idea hit me; why not inspire students to think globally, use 21st Century skills and to think 'outside the box' in the same manner? Each student possess unique talents I, even as their teacher, am unaware and may never see unless they are provided with the opportunity to share them. </div>
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<b><i>Classroom Outline for Lesson using iPads:</i></b></div>
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<li>Watch a TED Talk, discuss revolutionizing idea and its level of impact on society.</li>
<li>Students were assigned a specific general topic and asked to research links between any TEDTalk given and current research being done to associate and identify the level of impact locally, state and globally. Students used the iMovie trailer app to present their findings. </li>
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<li>As a review for AP Biology approaching College Board Exam, I assigned students a specific unit/topic. </li>
<li>Students used Google Drive app in their student work folder to plan and outline their presentation. </li>
<li>Students were asked to blog on Blogger (private only to classroom), about their topic and after the classroom hosted talk were required to make a minimum of 5 blog postings. </li>
<li>Using the auditorium and whatever props they needed, students had a maximum of 18 minutes (TEDTalk requirement) to present. Recorded each student using iMovie.</li>
<li>During the talk, students used iPads to follow on Twitter posting.</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141079964266902557.post-63131636648808140642013-03-13T12:31:00.001-07:002013-03-14T07:14:49.003-07:00Using Evernote with One iPad to Build an Online Learning CommunityHaving only one iPad in the classroom presents unique opportunities and challenges. I feel that a resource is at the height of its usefulness when it is accessible to all students; however, 28 students can't simultaneously use one iPad. While many of the resources an iPad brings to the table can be found on computers (and often in more powerful forms), the mobility and freedom provided by the iPad create new opportunities for student utility. Specifically, I like to have my students use Evernote to create an online learning community.<br />
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Each day, a different student on a rotating schedule is responsible for being the "Class Chronicler" -- the student who uses the iPad to record in-class notes. This student records everything done and takes any notes presented in class. The student can take pictures of class activities to serve as visual cues for students who are reviewing the class notes. Being a science class with a lot of demos, my students love to record videos that we can post to the notebook. Thanks to the open sharing settings of Evernote, students can access the class notes from anywhere -- including their phones! Teachers are able to review and edit<br />
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Using Evernote in this capacity is particularly useful for students who are absent. An absent student knows that he or she is responsible for checking the notebook before class to overview any notes and watch any demos that were performed in class. The Notebook also serves as a great tool for reviewing before quizzes and exams. Above all, using the iPad to create a classroom notebook stimulates a sense of community, connectedness, and ownership in the classroom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141079964266902557.post-73497074077604091202013-03-03T11:21:00.000-08:002013-03-04T13:08:01.241-08:00Read Across America! It's no secret to those that teach with me and to my students that reading is my favorite subject to teach! So, when I get the opportunity to spend a whole day doing activities to celebrate reading, I jump at the chance!!! Friday, March 1st as we celebrated Dr. Suess' Birthday, we, of course talked a lot about his influence on reading, but we also took the occasion to discuss other great authors. My favorite part was my 5th graders teaming with a 1st grade class to work on the book, "A Bad Case of Stripes", by David Shannon, one of my favorites. We begin by listening to the book being read aloud on a very neat website, <a href="http://www.storylineonline.net/">http://www.storylineonline.net/</a>. My fifth grade students then helped the first grade students create a poster of the food that they like the most. The posters looked like this: <br />
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Yes, we got the idea from Pinterest! I just love that place!!!<br />
We completed our projects with an imovie of the book. Mrs. Fulbright painted her first grade students faces just like you see in the photo. After the imovie was complete, the whole school got together for a Character Parade in the gym on Friday afternoon. A perfect ending to a perfect week! <br />
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Check out the iMovie we created on youtube!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141079964266902557.post-2861981405631836432013-01-16T07:13:00.000-08:002013-01-16T07:13:23.533-08:00Technology and adaptability<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Earlier this month my
colleague posted four apps that saved her teaching life! Similarly, I
have encountered this blessing, but have had my fair share of moments where
technology has seemingly “turned against me.” To many, this could be
viewed as a negative, but it has strengthened my abilities to adapt and think
on my feet—and as a middle school teacher adaptability is one of the important
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took a virtual field trip to The Battle of Bull Run and discussed without a
sound being uttered in class. The “<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bull-run-battle-app/id446024893?mt=8">Bull Run</a>” app and “<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/edmodo/id378352300?mt=8">Edmodo</a>” were hard
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metaphor, technology requires the user to drop back and punt at times. I
began the school year with the idea of online science notebooking! I have
always had my science students create interactive science notebooks. I
thought this would be the year to save some time, copying/paper, and bring yet
another opportunity for my students to see these iPads at work, and for a
crucial tool used in my classes. I spent much of the summer creating my example
notebook, working on lesson plans for students to set their notebooks up, and
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students was to load the rubric on to the rubric page of their virtual
notebooks. The internet was freezing, the app was freezing, and my kids
were freaking. I stopped, regrouped, and had them add me as a
collaborator. I spent the rest of that class period on my computer
loading rubrics while they found pictures for the cover of their notebooks!
We continued trudging through for about a week taking notes in this
format. We then had to draw a diagram. We couldn't do that with the
program I was trying to use so I had the students practice drawing their
diagrams on “<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/screenchomp/id442415881?mt=8">Screenchomp</a>” while I loaded the diagram into each of their online
notebooks. Other issues included internet connection issues during open
note quizzes. It’s unfair to let students use their notes when only half
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plan and regroup. Technology is not perfect and I needed to be flexible
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This allowed them to take even greater ownership in their learning.
It was different for both the teacher and the students. Some
students still use our original program, some use “<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/evernote/id281796108?mt=8">Evernote</a>” which along with
“<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/evernote-peek/id442151267?mt=8">Evernote Peek</a>” gives them a chance to study. Other students use
“<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/screenchomp/id442415881?mt=8">ScreenChomp</a>”, notepad, “<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrainstorm/id382252825?mt=8">iBrainstorm</a>”, or “<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/inkflow-think-visually!/id519524685?mt=8">inkflow</a>”.<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Great str</span>ides have been made
to modernize our schools, classrooms, and curriculum; however, if Rip Van
Winkle woke up tomorrow morning, he’d first be able to recognize a school and
its classroom quicker than anything else. It is essential that we make
education relevant for today’s students each and every day. This is just
one of the many steps needed to improve achievement. As a 1:1 iPad
classroom, I never imagined how much they would positively impact my classroom.
While they don’t fully replace paper, pencils, and books, these iPads can
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141079964266902557.post-41465396684401071732013-01-03T03:00:00.000-08:002013-01-03T05:18:14.577-08:00The 4 Apps That Saved My Lessons<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">In the last year or so, there have been many times when my carefully laid lesson plans blew up leaving imaginary shards of paper all over the classroom. </span></span><br />
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I had to be gone on an afternoon I had a test scheduled. For a world languages teacher, this is an issue. Part of the test was to be oral and I can't trust a substitute to give the oral part correctly. So what did I do? I recorded the oral part on the Recorder Plus app and emailed it to my substitute. He played the clip and the test went on without a problem.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Another difficulty for world language teachers is getting students to speak in class. They quickly tire of talking to one person or five people or even 20 people. A question and answer session gets difficult, so they take shortcuts. The Songify app has created a whole new way to get them to speak and to be entertained as well. They record their voice and the app puts their words with music to create a song from their words. I have even used it to have the entire class practice a section of vocabulary. Two students can talk to each other and be recorded or the whole class can stand in line and be recorded with their word. It takes no time at all to record. As you play it back they are carefully listening for their voice and their words in the target language. I love to use it at the end of the period to fill in those last few minutes and reinforce the most important words.</span><br />
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<img src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSAZ6tR4nkIUHmzhwoxCX-OSq0JBh_4grNVDux86OCGvz0rysK9" /> <img height="200" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSLCM3RrY2VSxoQL3G0S8ZDepp2Fku-WoNSnfmHT1wAhQBCZHBEcA" width="139" /> <a href="http://voicethread.com/">VoiceThread</a> saved my 2nd period class.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Another difficulty that is faced by some middle school teachers is field trip day. For those of us that are EA (Elective Arts) teachers, field trip days create an interesting dilemma. We only have very few students who did not go on the field trip. Normally, those students did not stay behind because of behavior issues. It is often a monetary issue. Therefore you want to make it an interesting assignment. On this day when I had two excellent students in class for two days, Voicethread was the solution. They created visual flash cards of the verbs we were learning. They took a photo of them acting out the word. They recorded their voices in Spanish and in English with the pictures saying the vocabulary words. This created a video of pictures and vocabulary words. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We are also in a brand new building this year which of course means there are unforseen things that go wrong within the building that have never happened before in this building. So when there was something wrong with a pipe and something was leaking from the ceiling, the </span>maintenance staff had to fix it. In the fixing, they had to close off one wing on one floor, which included my room. So I was kicked out of my room for the day. What do you do when you use a class set of textbooks and no longer have access to those? A movie! So I found <a href="http://www.buenavistasocialclub.com/">The Buena Vista Social Club</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> movie online. Today seemed as good as any for the kids to learn about Cuban music and to learn to read subtitles. The perfect space for this new lesson, the auditorium! After a little tweaking and some student help, we figured out the sound system and were ready to go. Then I realized I wanted to stop the movie and talk about what they were seeing to give them some background information. That is difficult because I would have to leave the auditorium and go into the sound booth. Then I remembered, Splashtop! I wirelessly connected my Ipad to my laptop through the Splashtop app. There was the video ready to be paused and started at my discretion. The rest of the day went rather swimmingly. I could pause to answer questions, clarify what they were seeing, and ask some of my own questions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I must warn you though technology is not always so nice to us. Stay tuned for the post later this month when technology turned against my colleague. </span><br />
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