effective use of 1 ipad in the classroom

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Focus on Creation Apps, NOT Consumption Apps

Making Thinking

VisibleTeacher Modeling AND

Student Modeling

Integrate Apps that allow

you and your students to

Make their Thinking Visible

Air Server

• Project web and App

content

• Model instruction

• Share student work

Stage Pro

• Document camera and

interactive whiteboard

• Create flipped lessons

• Saved to Camera file

for easy uploading to

multiple sites

Skitch

• Easily Annotate Anything!

• Taps into your Camera on the iPad

to snap photos for quick annotation

• Teacher can model annotation or

select students to annotate

QR Code Scanner

• Scan large QR Codes

for whole class

scavenger hunts

• Model integration

before stations

Plickers

• Great Formative Assessment

• Easily Scan Student Responses

• Analyze Data

• Modified Plickers for K-2

Thinglink• Create interactive images for lessons

Name one App

that you can

integrate easily.

Additional Fluency Ideas

• One Touch Recording up

to 5 minutes

• Pause and Resume Feature

• Email Recordings

• Simple Interface

• Powerful for students to

hear themselves

Quick Voice

• Built in

• Easy to Use

• Record Video of Students

practicing words, phrases

or passages

• Powerful Playback

• Integrate to other Apps

Camera App

• Record Video

Conversations for Fluency

or Comprehension

• Create Videos of Leveled

Readers or Picture Books

• Great way to Make

Thinking Visible!

• Powerful Editing Tools

iMovie

• Snap a photo of

anything and record

your voice for 30

seconds

• Practice fluency

phrases or passages

• Great for students

that need additional

reinforcement with

sight words or phrases

ChatterPix

Many Examples of ChatterPix in the Classroom

• Select a scene

• Practice fluency

phrases or passages

• Great for students

that need additional

reinforcement with

sight words or phrases

TeleStory

• Create a Gami that

looks like a character

or themselves

• Practice fluency

phrases or passages

Tellagami

Name one App

that you can

integrate easily.

Read to Self Word Work

Writing about Reading

Great

apps for

Math

Stations

as well!

Read to Self

EPIC!

Hundreds of

FREE digital

eBooks

Raz-Kids

Login and

Read/Record

Scan QR Codes to

eBooks or Books

read aloud

Record

reading a

passage

Wonderopolis:

Engaging

informational

text articles

Newsomatic:

Current Event

articles for

kids

• Respond to text in the

form of a collage

• Practice spelling

words, sight words,

phrases

Pic Collage Kids

• Creative

Storytelling Skills

• Describe Project

or Experience

• Making Thinking

Visible with Text

Shadow Puppet EDUhttp://puppetfeed.com/in-the-classroom

• Teacher or students can create interactive iBooks

Book Creator

• Mind Mapping Tool

• Students can map thinking using all types of text

Popplet Lite

App and Web 2.0 Tool

• Easily create your own

apps!

• Teach something

• Tell a story

• Access gallery for

apps created by

teachers

Tiny Tap

• A Virtual Wall that

allows students to

express their

thoughts on a

common topic easily.

• It works like an

online sheet of paper

where students can

put any content

(images, video, text)

on the wall to

collaborate.

• Have students add to

the Padlet discussion

about a text/math

problem.

Padlet

App and Web 2.0 Tool

Name one App

that you can

integrate easily.

Running Record Calculator

With the push of a button,

you will be able to see

students’:

• Reading Rate

• Percentage of Accuracy

• Self-correction ratio

• Interactive Learning Journal SeeSaw

• Powerful Observation Notes

Bright Loop

• START with an area you

LOVE…feel the most

comfortable integrating

• PICK a few apps to START,

add more as you get more

comfortable.

• TEACH basics of app whole

group, then add to stations

or small group

• Students Making Thinking

Visible

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