Tips and Best Practices for managing iPads in the classroom.
Photopeach, Photosnack, and Slidely are more barebones but are better choices for a quick slideshow that features the photo without a busy theme. The Photosnack free account limits you to 15 pictures, which means it is better suited to share group projects. Slidely is a free app and website that also limits photo uploads to 15 pictures.
How to Argue for iPads in the ClassroomA collaboration between iPad Educators Steve Lai (@sly111, Canada) and Richard Wells (@ipadwells, New Zealand)Preamble: This article is to support iPads in teaching. However, it is not to devalue the benefits of a great teacher. The execution of iPads in class is only going to go as far...
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In preparation for this week's Tech Forum Austin presentation entitled, "Technology in the Early Grades", I have been gathering some resources and examples to share that exhibit evidence of learning. App-Smashed Book Reports: This one in particular was a book report project for my primary-age son.
Upon hearing that they will have to read another book students usually roll their eyes and moan in disagreement. So to make the reading process more fun for them we let them chose their own book and their own creative assignment.
In this post I've selected some examples of work that the pupils have produced in the World War 2 topic using their iPods and iPads to demonstrate and enhance their learning. It also includes the apps the pupils used and a brief description of the lesson.
Video lesson plan & reflection from 1st grade teachers at Ryan on integrating FOSS Pebbles, Sand and Silt with writing using Tiny Tap and Pic Collage iPad apps.
Senior kindergarteners at Park Tudor School learn about the life cycle of butterflies and create movies about what they learned with iPads. The student-created video can be found here: http://vimeo.com/32850366 Park Tudor is a private school for kindergarten through high school in Indianapolis, Indiana.