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Is only one iPad in a classroom worth it? This question keeps
reappearing on the EC Ning and in other blog spaces.
The answer is easy:
YES, especially if the teacher has access to a Mac desktop or (preferably)
laptop and a wifi network in the classroom. It is an even larger YES if the Mac
device has the most current operating system. Having a computer to which the
iPad can sync is not absolutely necessary, but it is a Best Idea. If you are
not feeling confident, get your IT person or another teacher to help you out
with setup. I am focused here on apps to install for MS and HS - and
then what to do with them. Here is a recent post from an elementary teacher
called "Teaching in the one-iPad
Classroom" that will help k-5 teachers.
If more iPads are in
the future, you might want to check out iPad App Reviews and iPad 3C's: Some Planning
Questions. [new] You also should take the time to visit Google Apps for the iPad - ways
to use these valuable apps in the mobile environment. You might want to require
it of your students. Click on the tabs to access the info.
OK - I have apps,
now what can I do with them?
Here is a brain-storming list I
created after using the iPad 2 in my classroom and at home for a year:
Posted byElizabeth
Sky-McIlvainat7:39 AM
Tags:apps,iPad
It was originally Posted byElizabeth
Sky-McIlvainat7:39 AM
Tags:apps,iPad
Is only one iPad in a classroom worth it? This question keeps
reappearing on the EC Ning and in other blog spaces.
The answer is easy:
YES, especially if the teacher has access to a Mac desktop or (preferably)
laptop and a wifi network in the classroom. It is an even larger YES if the Mac
device has the most current operating system. Having a computer to which the
iPad can sync is not absolutely necessary, but it is a Best Idea. If you are
not feeling confident, get your IT person or another teacher to help you out
with setup. I am focused here on apps to install for MS and HS - and
then what to do with them. Here is a recent post from an elementary teacher
called "Teaching in the one-iPad
Classroom" that will help k-5 teachers.
If more iPads are in
the future, you might want to check out iPad App Reviews and iPad 3C's: Some Planning
Questions. [new] You also should take the time to visit Google Apps for the iPad - ways
to use these valuable apps in the mobile environment. You might want to require
it of your students. Click on the tabs to access the info.
- Setup and Projection
- You will definitely need to set up a unique Apple ID (iTunes acct.) with a
password that is kept secret from the students. You can do this on the iPad
itself. If your first downloaded app is free, you do not need to
attach a credit card to the account. I highly recommend that you
immediately download Dropbox (read about it below and in this post). - AirDisplay is one
solution for using the iPad with your laptop (a Mac works best, but read about
it). This app mirrors your laptop screen on your iPad, so you can use a stylus
or finger to control and annotate apps - give the iPad to a visually impaired
student who can not see projection - or just use it without projection for a
small-group focus session - this does not project the iPad screen/app
onto the laptop. - [update: Using Airplay, Reflection is a new Mac app
that vastly simplifies this process, working on the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S.
It is worth the $15 download! If you doubt me, download the 10 minute trial -
that's all you will need. Review. How-to.] - Use your iPad as a document
camera (requires a projector) - display print, for example - great
for all-class review of student responses/annotations, etc. - YouTube video showing how to connect to an LCD
projector (using Favi Entertainment's inexpensive projector, in this case) -
will work for other projectors as well - with only 1 iPad, you will not use it
for app instruction/directions, but you should use it to project student work.
Of course, you have the option of moving student work to a laptop or desktop
connected to a projector (see various options for this in the lists below). - Ask for an HDTV and Apple TV - many iPad apps will
project using Airplay to mirror the iPad screen (try it out before
class!). No Apple TV is required if you purchase Reflection (see
update above). - [update: see The Big Problem With iPads in the
Classroom for suggestions about network connection and file
backup.] I have provided some other thoughts about using WebDav and DropBox. - [update: On the classroom/teacher computer: make sure to bookmark ScreenLeap - this web-based Java app will make it
almost instantaneous for you to share the PC screen with the classroom iPad
(also student smartphones) - Finding Apps
- I have provided a list of review sites and the best lists on my iPad Apps Reviews page
- AppsGoneFree - daily listing of apps temporarily available free -
potentially, a huge savings - Be sure to review the apps in Blooms Taxonomy of Apps - it
will give you additional ideas for using the apps. Below are my current
favorites. - Apps for Communication and Sharing - whether you have one laptop or
desktop in the classroom or students with iPhones (smartphones) or neither (in
which case you and students rely on the computer lab, library, or out-of-school
machines), the most important capability of an iPad is sharing. - iMessage can be used by students to input to your iPhone.
First, you will need to set up both devices (IOS 5 only) to find each other.
Settings -> Messages. Here is nice little tutorial.
By passing the iPad around the classroom, you can read - and project - multiple
responses to a single question, or gather multiple questions to be
answered - Evernote - important sharing tool, especially if the classroom has a
desktop computer (or laptop) - there should be a classroom account that is
controlled from that desktop - many apps upload to Evernote, facilitating
sharing (Skitch, Penultimate) - Dropbox is essential - this free app is for sharing files, images,
even video over the wifi network - you will want it on laptops, desktops,
smartphones - create one classroom account on a teacher machine, with folders
for every student. Students will then be able to upload into it. Here is my
post on it and connected apps: Drop By - OR you can use CX, a free app that works like Dropbox on fire, has
more web-based storage (10.3 GB v. 2 GB), and makes it very easy to create
classroom groups. Special features to use in education: Group
discussion board! Multiple file upload. Free for all platforms (Android
and Blackberry on the way). - iFiles for storing images, files, URL's, voice recordings (can be
made within the app) - then sharing those files or folders across the
wifi network directly - access web page within iFiles and transfer it to
the app for reading offline, sharing, etc. - see this great use of iFiles from
Google Apps for the iPad - Printopia - print directly to a DropBox,
Evernote, or designated folder on a Mac host computer that is running the
Printopia application set up correctly in Settings - warning - $19.99! There
is a free limited 1-week demo - it works like a charm - Twitter or Tweet (my choice) for posting and following Tweets
(there are many more apps, of course) - Posterous - a single or multiple blogs can be created, accessed, and
contributed too, allowing for multiple levels of writing, sharing,
communicating, creating - images as well as text can be included in posts
OR the more powerful Blogsy. The latter does
not yet sync with other apps, but it can fetch Posterous drafts and send
media rich blog posts as email. Either app can be used to automatically post to
a class blog, making it a great tool for back-flipping lessons, group commenting
on text, or in-class idea sharing. - zapd - use on-board camera and text to create a
quick web page or blog - as many as you want to make with a class account, or
individual accounts for students over 12 - web-storage and totally free
(this is an iPhone app) - Penultimate - note-taking app that exports to both Dropbox and
Evernote is perfect for an in-class archive or for a group archive - Syncspace (free), Upad ($4.99), or
AirSketch (limited free or multi-featured for $9.99) for creating
multi-media (draw, image import, annotate, paste) notes (documents) that can
then be shared via a cloud service, Dropbox, over wifi (for simultaneous
co-editing), and many more options. - Skitch - annotate photos, screen shots, images,
text, web pages, original drawing - share to Evernote, Twitter, or email - save
to Photo library - I love the toolkit, the crop feature, and the export options
- use this in the classroom to back-flip and evaluate activities: trips, labs,
hands-on learning, dramatics, image study - use with a blogging, journaling, or
digital storytelling app - students can upload Skitch images and add to
annotations - Text? the text tool will paste any copied text (from
Notes, web page, Pages, etc.) and of course web based text can be instantly
annotated with the Web tool - this is a terrific classroom tool! - Sketchshare allows you to simultaneously sketch, annotate,
brainstorm on 4 iPads - because this app uses the Game Center (not wifi) for
sharing, the other iPads can be anywhere in the world - exports completed
images to Photos for further sharing - FaceTime and Skype are free apps - if you have wifi in the
classroom, your kids can converse with anyone else during the class time (yes,
you can connect the iPad to a projector if you have the cables - see top of this
post) - try authors, researchers, or community experts - Voicethread mobile app - can now do just about everything that the
online Voicethread can do - powerful literacy application! -
you will need to set up a class account that students can access - QuickMark - my favorite app for creating and reading QR codes -
another frequently recommended one is i-nigma - SoundCloud - voice recording or sound recording
(birds, trains, waves, rain...) - storage online (limited free or fee-based) -
combines directly with the web app Thinglink to create interactive, sound-supported
images - social sharing of sounds facilitated - annotation of sound recordings!
opens up great opportunties for the classroom - TinyVox - audio notes - multiple export and sharing options or
Audioboo - free app that records up to 3 minutes of voice and uploads it
to a discrete URL in an online space (acct. required - can be set up before
student use) - a great way to create book talks, instructions, oral responses,
fluency reading checks - Audioboo URL's can be used to create QR codes for
posters, websites, assignments, etc. (see QuickMark for more on QR
codes) - Wifi Photo - to access photos in iPad camera roll
from any laptop or desktop on the network - great way for a teacher to gather
student projects (eg. ComicLife, 1-page writing response, or any other project
that can be captured in a screenshot) - Stickybits - almost unreal that this exists - use
the app to scan a barcode on a product, like in a book or on a sweet sold in the
cafeteria - then add your own text to that barcode - unfortunately, not
yet available in the US - write them! - Reminders or the more powerful Wunderlist should be used to
create calendars for class due dates - color coding works well - Apps for Literacy (Researching, Reading, Writing, Viewing,
Listening, Creative Thinking, Journaling) - I clump these together because
in I don't believe that literacy is separate skills in this mobile, digital
environment - READ - Kindle books (download from Amazon or through a
desktop/laptop - many free and inexpensive classic texts also), iBooks
(public domain), interactive book apps such as The Artifacts and numerous
titles for elementary students, which are great vocabulary builders and great
for developing visual literacy as well as great reads, Comics and
graphic novels (Comics app) - MegaReader 2.5 indexes and
downloads free texts from sources such as Gutenberg - 1001
Books to Read Before You Die - this brand new app is the IOS
version of the 900+ page book - not only a list, but critical essays and more -
great tool for HS and ambitious MS students (not to mention educators) - Mastery Connect's CommonCore or EZ Education Tool's EZ
Language Core - the ELA Common Core Standards at your finger tips - I prefer
the EZ tool - Tools 4 Students - 25
organizer templates for writing and reading notes - basic organizers that can
be used individually (reading support, independent investigation, teacher demo
or flipping) or in a group or projected setting - includes KWL/W, word concept
analysis, summarize - probably more useful in MS and upper elementary - share
only via email, or take screenshot and share that (DropBox, etc.) - Dragon Dictation - a must-have app -
text-to-print - use for fluency, for reluctant writers, for visually impaired -
link is to a tutorial - iDesk Lite (free) allows students to create up to
4 maps or graphic organizers - the purchased version ($6.99) has unlimited
storage - my link is to a tutorial - email, save as image - Literary Analysis Guide
- a reference for all of those terms and analysis language - Grammar Up HD - at $4.99
it may seem pricey, but this is a great way to individualize grammar instruction
- quizzes, etc. for the most useful (mostly) range of skills that need
developing - Dictionary.com is the mobile version of the
web-based app - huge word bank, word origins, more - my link is to a tutorial
- Singit! Your Musinc With
Lyrics - instantly get the lyrics of songs - great resource for
poetry study, as many teachers have discovered - News 360 is a news
aggregator - this would allow a class or group to follow a specific news story
- Newsstand displays full magazines and newspapers to which you
subscribe - get at least one good subscription with articles you can use in
class - Video Time Machine - simply provides historical facts in many subject
categories for over 200 years of history - Vintage Radio - one-stop
shopping for old radio shows, great for developing listening skills, teaching
about suspense, mystery, humor, narrative flow - TED - search and view TED talks
- Qwiki - gathers information into a narrated (with
a better machine voice than most) media presentation - great for quick look-ups
of topics related to reading - iBook - essential ePub reader - readers can annotate text (except for
.pdf files, for that you need an app like Notability or
GoodReader) - Comics - download inexpensive comics (classics, contemporary) and
graphic novels from ComiXology - use to supplement reading (thematic,
graphic versions, etc.) - Read Hamlet, Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth or Romeo and
Juliet? Or perhaps you have students ready to read one of the plays
independently? Purchase the Shakespeare in Bits app
from MindConnex. At $14.99, these seem expensive, but the range of teaching
supports are amazing. - Zite allows you to set of a classroom "magazine article feed reader"
based upon student interests - for the elementary classroom, Timbuktu is
the iPad magazine I recommend - EasyBib - mobile version of the online tool creates citations by
scanning the ISBN bar code of print resources - not as good as a mobile version
of the
online citation tool should be, but an option - GoodReader - view and annotate (typed text or by hand or by drawing)
.pdf files, connect to other Macs and devices on a wifi network - will work with
Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers (share them via.
Dropbox) - Pages - purchase this as the writing platform, especially if you are
in a Mac school - also an important tool for viewing downloaded or emailed
documents (public domain texts, student work, lyrics, poems, etc.) - will open
most Word documents - and publishes to the ePub format (so students can create
and easily share texts to iBook - GoDocs - access, share,
upload and edit your Google Docs files - editing only when wifi connected
and you can not create docs in the app (you can download them to read offline
and create in Pages, Numbers, etc. to upload when online) - myMemoir is the app I prefer for jounaling - keep an on-going record
of each class (in separate journals) or of individual/group projects - journals
can be published in the ePub format or as text or .pdf document files - photos
(images from Photos file) and videos can be attached to entries, making this a
great tool for building a class portfolio - Taposé is a new
journaling tool, more fully loaded - it features side-by-side drag and drop
object entry (it's about time this feature of the environment has appeared in a
good app) - at $2.99 you might pass until you have multiple iPads in the
class, or you can purchase this and use it to frame group projects - Penultimate - note-taking app that exports to both Dropbox and
Evernote is perfect for an in-class archive or for a group archive - can
be used with a stylus - drawings as well as writing make it a very different
tool than myMemoir - Keynote - purchase this for your presentation tool - will open
PowerPoint presentations - Storyline for Schools
(free) - in elementary, great for story writing - in MS and HS, perfect for a
"silent conversation" about text or an essential question - all levels, great
linear "concept mapping" of vocabulary - Posterous - a single or multiple blogs can be created, accessed, and
contributed too, allowing for multiple levels of writing, sharing,
communicating, creating - images as well as text can be included in posts
- Audioboo (see above) or TinyVox - audio notes - multiple
export and sharing options - i-Prompt Pro turns your iPad into a teleprompter - use for fluency
checks, for recording presentation narration, with Photobooth for videocasts...
- purchase optional wireless controller for smoother projects and/or an external
mic to cut out background sounds - Onlive Desktop - a free
app, with online file storage, that provides Windows users with the ability to
edit Microsoft Office documents on the iPad - not needed for Apple classrooms,
but might be useful for many students (and teachers) who have PC's
elsewhere - Skitch- annotate photos, screen shots, images,
text, web pages, original drawing - share to Evernote, Twitter, or email - save
to Photo library - I love the toolkit, the crop feature, and the export options
- use this in the classroom to back-flip and evaluate activities: trips, labs,
hands-on learning, dramatics, image study - use with a blogging, journaling, or
digital storytelling app - students can upload Skitch images and add to
annotations - Text? the text tool will paste any copied text (from
Notes, web page, Pages, etc.) and of course web based text can be instantly
annotated with the Web tool - this is a terrific classroom tool! - Webnotes - shows a web page and a note pad side-by-side
- Side By Side - view and interact with (annotate) multiple screens
simultaneously - web, document (opens a wide range of file formats),
note-taking, chatting... free version is ad-supported - share via
DropBox - Screencasting Apps for the
iPad - lists entry level apps for the flipped and back-flipped
classroom - use for storytelling, group-writes, descriptive challenges (like you
might use VoiceThread,
which also has a mobile version) - Explain Everything should also be on
the list - ShowMe has recently made a significant upgrade, making it one
of the better screencasting apps - use SonicPics for narrated
slide shows (you control the timing - an important feature) - Doodlecast Pro - more
than simply a screencasting app - this allows for editing of the narration,
making it wonderful for teacher or student "analyze" videos - Doodlecast Kids
is more like ShowMe - Voicethread for: audio and text commenting and annotation on a text,
image, question - uploading student work (poems, paragraphs, images) to a thread
for peer comment or grading, much more! - InAWorld...Drama
add snips from a professional voice artist to your own photos to create
a movie trailer - but students can easily use it for book trailers and original
stories as well - share via web gallery, email, or Twitter or YouTube. - Words With Friends (older kids) or Nerdy Birds Social HD (all
ages) to build vocabulary and spelling skills - and for fun! Play socially or
by oneself. - 7 Little Words - not
entirely like any other app - word play for the sake of it - set up informal
competitions - iCardSort Lite - virtual index cards or
post-it notes has multiple uses in classroom: vocab, sorting, classifying,
describing... my link is to a great tutorial - Words Frequently Confused or Commonly Confused
Words to support vocabulary study - Instapaper - capture web text for reading offline - or use
iFiles or the new Readability app (tied to a web-based app for
your laptop or desktop) - FlashCards is the mobile version of Quizlet - access quizzes,
make quizzes, print quiz questions, flashcards, answers - Robozzle - mobile version of online programming (as in computer code)
"teach by doing" site - and yes, programming skills do transfer to both reading
and writing - it is also a collaborative environment - SurveyBoy - if you include field surveys in project or inquiry
learning, this is the tool you want to get - inDecision - if you include group projects in your classroom,
consider this tool to help groups arrive at final solutions or to narrow
thinking about topic, problem, etc. An optional tool (just replaces paper for
the task) - Apps Specifically for Creating
- Apps for time-lapse video, such as claymation or animated storytelling, are
reviewed in this article: Time Lapse Photography
Apps - with Animoto mobile, student groups can shoot pics and turn them
into a polished, free 30 sec. video - advertisements, book trailers, character
interviews, propaganda shorts... or use Magisto - free app will combine
iPad video clips (or imported clips) into a short movie - contains a sound bank
as well - zapd - use on-board camera and text to create a
quick visual story or visual record of a literary response event - as many as
you want to make with a class account, or individual accounts for students over
12 - web-storage and totally free - Garageband - not essential, but recommended - avoid copyright issues
by having students create their own music! - PhotoBooth (installed as part of the IOS)
- iPhotoAlbum - organize your camera roll / photos into albums -
great if you have multiple groups working on image-heavy projects - PS Express - free photo editing - mobile version of PhotoShop Express
- easy to use and works very well - essential for cropping screenshots - Prezi Viewer - use the iPad to view and now edit Prezis made using the web
tool - Comic Life - like the desktop app, use this tool
to create comic books from stored images and student text - link is to an
excellent tutorial - Mindo - webbing, brainstorming - email, send to Dropbox, send
directly to another device on the wifi (Mac is especially easy) if the
device has the Mindo app installed - TinyVox - audio notes - multiple export and sharing options
- MagBooth is a little app that takes an image and makes it a magazine
cover - add "article titles" to the cover, date, etc. - a splurge, but may be
just the thing needed to differentiate a project - Deezine (used with Deezine Reader) create an entire digital
magazine-like publication - a project alternative - Free Music Download Pro
- source of free music for student projects - Audioboo (see above)
- Stickybits (see above) - not available yet in the US
- Doodlecast Pro - more
than simply a screencast app - this allows for editing of the narration, making
it wonderful for teacher or student "analyze" videos - iStopMotion, especially
when used with iStopCamera, makes it easy for students to create stop
motion videos. Giffer is another app to do this same thing. - GifBoom or Giffer
(also for iPhone) - easily create short animated gifs, which can be 20-frame
animations from photos, or can be edited from a previously shot video, or can be
an instruction set (diagramming a sentence, or marking a rhyme scheme, for
example) - useful for student projects, for flipping a short lesson, for fun -
share via email, texting, or Dropbox - Phonto - very simple app
adds text to a photograph or screenshot - excellent for focused practice with
literary terms, visual literacy analysis, textual element analysis - Paper by FiftyThree - a lot of
features in a free paint app - I am not sure that iPad illustration will catch
on, but it is good to expose kids to it - several stylus options in the
classroom would be a nice addition
- Other - Teacher Focused
- StickPick - this is a great way to make sure that every student
speaks in class - and gets the best type of question - a virtual Popsicle stick
jar - Tap Forms Database - you will need to practice,
but this can be used for short formative assessments, for lit circle and fluency
records (saves audio), or even for CCSS progress recording - share databases
with other teachers
OK - I have apps,
now what can I do with them?
Here is a brain-storming list I
created after using the iPad 2 in my classroom and at home for a year:
- Reminders or the more powerful Wunderlist should be used to
create calendars for class due dates - color coding works well - Students with iPhones or smartphones can input images to the iPad for
projects or sharing via email or DropBox (free app for mobile devices and
non-mobile devices, allowing for quick sharing) - Use Skitch to have a student or a group annotate just about anything
digital (web pages, images, text files, drawings, screenshots...), and the
device can be passed around so that many can input - upload annotations to
Evernote, email, Tweet, download to photo library - Run a class blog using Posterous, Blogsy or other iPad blog
app - use for archiving content, class decisions, rubrics, just about anything
- responsibility can be passed around - Use zapd to archive each class (a student can do this), to archive
student work, to create student projects - Create a class or group (reading circle, etc.) audio blog using DropVox -
use QR codes to quickly access individual posts - Audioboo URL's can be used to create QR codes for posters, websites,
assignments, etc. - Capture a webpage for research, for student reading, for discussion using
iFiles (from within the app itself) - keyboarding practice (there are apps for that)
- Tweeting and following twitter streams (apps for that - all free)
- Assign TED talks for independent viewing
- Write collaborative eBooks (in the ePub format) - read about how here and here
- Create a Home icon for sites like Open Culture or other curricular
integration media sites - Have kids create an audio-visual screencast of the key ideas at the end of
each class - these are posted to freely hosted web spaces - free apps for that
can be found at Screencasting Apps for the
iPad - Appoint a class "researcher" for the week - use Literary Analysis
Guide, Dictionary, Safari, QWiki, etc. to answer questions
that come up during the class period - You can use the same apps for flipping many lessons too - kids needing more
practice or who missed the class can quickly catch up by viewing these
pre-lessons on important skills and concepts - Use Webnotes to annotate a web-based text (article, poem, lyric,
image, online text, diagram, infographic...) - have students respond to question
then pass it on, ask questions, have a conversation - Maps! Find out what your texts are happening - quickly - the Maps app
is pre-installed and Google Earth is a free download - Quick research (Safari is on board) - use WebNotes to annotate
a website - Use ComicLife to create 1-page comments with figurative language
themes (metaphor, figure of speech, hyperbole, simile), vocabulary, alternate
endings, digital hot seats... - iDesk Lite to create thinking maps, vocabulary
study (connotations, inferences - use with Commonly Confused Words or
text-based vocabulary lists) - Quick looks at Video Time Machine - find video from any year back to
1860 - great tool for historical or historically based fiction (ads, games,
sports, news, TV, music, movies) - provide historical background for novels - Create your own discussion assessment tool, allowing you to enter evals and
notes and pics as they happen (wish someone would develop that app, but there
isn't yet) - use Mastery Connect's CommonCore or EZ Education
Tool's EZ Language Core to quickly copy/paste standards - Zite (free) - create your own daily magazine that meets the
interests of a student, a class, or the whole class, or just a topic you are
interested in together - Use Side By Side as a research tool and to develop critical reading
skills - bias, point of view... - Music - iTunes to organize, play and Garageband to create
- Use iCardSort Lite to study affixes, to study character traits, to
compare/contrast anything, to create plot lines, to brainstorm group ideas for
projects, to create concept definition maps... - Prewrite and plan projects with Mindo
- Have students capture text to Instapaper for sharing, for annotating
in GoodReader, for printing - Write lessons, vocabulary lists, assignments, just about any text in
Textforce and export directly to Dropbox for sharing to all
student devices - Use Taposé to organize a
reading group's responses - Eyewitness - top news photos can be used to spur discussion and
provide visual writing prompts - iPad time can be a reward (not my thing, but it works for some
teachers) - Add comments to a VoiceThread or create a new one using the mobile
app (not ed.voicethread.com, just regular public voicethread) - Communicate with an absent student synchronously or asynchronously
- Use TinyVox for voice annotation, for fluency checks, for recording
voiceover text... - Take the iPad on field trips - archive with images and voice memos, blog,
create website (find apps for this above) - Use Stickybits to have students attach 25 word stories to the bar
codes of actual products, or reviews to library books (not yet available in the
USA) - Make book/story trailers or original video shorts (suspense, mystery,
romance, humor would be good topics) using InAWorld...Drama - Broadcast HW, announcements, texts to all students via email: send messages to all students using email
- Make quizzes and vocab lists / flashcards in FlashCards
- Use QR codes (made in QuickMark) on assignments, posters,
announcements, web pages - send students to URL's, to short poems, to specific
questions or answers... They will need a mobile device, like a smartphone, with
a QR reader - MagBooth can be used in place of a character map, false Facebook
character page, etc. to demonstrate understanding - or have a group use
Deezine cooperatively to create a magazine (for example, to demonstrate
understanding of a complexly plotted novel) - iStopMotion or Giffer can be used to create stop motion
animations in response to a thematic challenge (sorrow, love, failure, etc.),
to tell a story, to create a visual genre narrative (suspense, historical
fiction, SF, etc.) - Use Phonto to quickly label trip photos, to create vocabulary
pictures, to make "mini-motivation" posters - Use Sketchshare to hold brainstorming, analysis, creating conferences
with another student in another school - or with an author... - Did I mention reading?
Posted byElizabeth
Sky-McIlvainat7:39 AM
Tags:apps,iPad