iPad+Integration+Ideas

As always, for these ideas or anything you'd like to try. Please contact Carol Roth via email to schedule a help session.
=Some Classroom Ideas (from email Nov. 29, 2012)= =**Discovery Education on the iPads**=
 * Take some time to reflect on what you have done so far with the integration of iPads into your classroom activities.
 * Now where are you going next? Try to take one step forward in the upcoming week.
 * If you feel like you are just scraping the surface try some of these:
 * Use //Google Drive// to have students collaborate on a shared document (one student creates it and shares it with you and their team members - just like on the computer).
 * Use [|www.todaysmeet.com] to have students discuss a topic in class via their iPad while they are watching a video about it.
 * Use //My Big Campus// or a blogging website like Blogger to have students create online journals of learning.
 * If you feel like you are an intermediate user try one of these:
 * Create a Google Form (on your computer) for students to use on their iPads to collect data from a lab experiment, a survey of teachers, or a survey of students to analyze real data in class.
 * Assign //My Big Campus,// //Edmodo//, or //Moodle// assignments, quizzes, or surveys for your students.
 * Use learning stations for activities students will do on their iPads as they progress around the room. For quick access to needed resources you could use QR codes that students scan with their //Scan// app to jump directly to a video clip, article, or activity. [|http://www.quikqr.com] is an easy one to use for QR creation.
 * More advanced users might want to try some of these:
 * Have students use //Show Me// or //Educreations// to provide explanations for how to do anything. Other students could use these as study videos or next semester could use them to learn a new topic from a peer. They will get a web link to share their creation.
 * As students create their own work (i.e. Google Doc, //Show Me//, Blog, etc.) they can post them to //My Big Campus// or //Edmodo// for other students to give feedback.
 * Students could create gallery walk stations in the classroom or hallway for classmates to journey through a new land, discover new books, or investigate new science principles or topics.
 * Use Safari and it should work as usual on the computers. (example at right)
 * Many updated resources:
 * videos
 * animations
 * articles
 * clip art
 * educational games
 * interactives: maps, videos
 * simulations
 * lesson plans
 * sound effects, etc.
 * Use any resources as an assignment. See...
 * Assignment Builder
 * Quiz Builder
 * Writing Prompt Builder

=More Classroom Ideas (from email Jan. 2, 2013)= Have students use...
 * // Notability // to annotate documents or images you share with them. In Notability you can draw, write freehand, type, insert images, record your voice to make the item shared more meaningful and detailed.
 * // Educreations // to create screencasts for other students on how to do something (i.e. math problems, explaining a diagram and adding to it, use a map to show any political breakdown and explain, diagram and explain the relationships between characters in a story, etc.). Investigate what others have done in the app by clicking on "Featured" on the main screen.
 * // Springpad // to organize their lives. In this app students, or teachers, can create to do lists, set reminders for themselves, collect resources and images for projects, etc. It is a fantastic way to keep us all on track. You can also have students share a "notebook" with you so you can see how they are progressing as well.