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iPads and Projects and Apps, OH MY!
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iPads and Projects and Apps, OH MY!
Effectively Integrating iPads into Your Science Classroom
OH MY!
"App"solutely Amazing Results
iPads.....
- Gradebook Pro to keep in touch
with students and parents
- Use your plan book as a journal to keep
track of what does and does not work.
Extremely helpful in year 2.
- Start a blog!
http://glassmanbiology.blogspot.com
- Use Twitter to connect professionally
@eglassman757 @espatterson
and with your classroom
@BiologyNA
Elizabeth Glassman & Ed Patterson
EdTech Teacher iPad Conference
Boston 2013
- Be a classroom that uses iPads instead of an iPad classroom.
- What does and doesn't work
are equally important.
- Be flexible with deadlines.
- Have solid rubrics for grading.
- Always have a clear purpose for using the iPad.
How
- Ordered 40 iPads - (2 classrooms)
- 2 Bretford Powersync Carts
- 40 Otterbox Cases
- (adding keyboards this year)
- Purchase the Text from iBooks
- 1 MacBook to manage Science iPads
Be Prepared
Setting up iPads
- Be Prepared to have your Teacher's FLIP OUT
- Be Prepared to have your IT department FLIP OUT
- Don't give up - breathe - remember that Apple (and other iPad program managers) are very willing to help you.
- Creating a shared account for iTunes
- Manage purchases via iTunes Education Store
- Install apps using Apple Configurator -
So what changed
Apple TV in your classroom
Earbuds
Allow time to start from scratch with iPads
- iPad Meet and Greet
- iPad Password Keeper
- Sign-out sheet for cart
E-text, i-text, your text, my text!
Digital lab portfolios: When to use
Google docs v. Evernote
Communication platform for changes:
Celly, Canvas, Twitter, etc...
and Projects...
Where do we go from here?
Crime Lab
- First Year - supporting the teacher
- Identifying issues for the students
- Determining optimum workflows
- Printing
- Login Issues
- Web filtering
- Second Year - supporting the student
- Replicating program in other classes
Why shared iPads?
Prezi code
- By design
- Curricular focus on reading and writing
- inclusive - no haves & have not's
Crime Lab Intro Trailer
Student "Mockumentary"
Cell Cycle
Atoms and Molecules
"App-solutely"
Smashing!
Live Binder code
MyStopAction or MyCreate with Explain Everything
Anatomy/Physiology
...and APPS,
Nova Elements, Explain Everything, Evernote
iMovie
Who We Are
As an academically rigorous school we value student work -
not only the use of technology to create it.
- Elizabeth Glassman (@eglassman757)
-Biology Teacher
-Year 2 of shared iPads
- Ed Patterson (@espatterson)
-Director of Educational Technology
- Norfolk Academy