Teaching Teachers Who Will Experience 1:1 iPad in 2012

Today, I had the privilege of teaching a high school staff about tech tools that I have used in my iPad filled classroom.  Next year, the high school students will be using an iPad on a daily basis.  The iPad will be theirs to use during the school year.

This school did the correct thing by getting the iPads into the hands of the teachers well before they are asked to lead students with them.  Teachers have had the iPads for about 2 months.

The presentation that I used is below.  Highlights are listed below the presentation.



Some highlights:

• Tips and Tricks: Slide 4
• Knowing 21st Century Students: Slide 6
• 21st Century Educational Settings: Slide 15
• Classroom Setup: Slide 20
• Finding Apps: Slide 31
• Being App Literate: Slide 38
• My App List: Slide 40
• Lesson Integrating Technology With Students: Slide 48
• Lesson Integrating Technology With Adults: Slide 49 
• Lists of Apps: Slide 50 to Slide 55
• Digital Citizenship: Slide 66

It truly was a great experience.  I really enjoy teaching adults about iPad/technology/21st century classroom techniques so that they can implement techniques with their students.

Awesome!

Setting The Message In (Virtual) Stone

While I am impartial to iPads, I realize that many digital devices will make my following point!  Having verbal guidance from a teacher is one thing (an effective thing), having visually appealing pictures, written language, or video substance can make or break a student's ability to succeed.

Since we have iPads and every student has digital access during school AND after school, I decided to place all three lessons (Algebra, PreAlgebra, Social Studies) in written form and visual form on our classroom blog.  I am finding that many students struggle with following directions!  In the past, students may only hear the instructions while in class or receive the instructions on paper (but subsequently lose the paper).  Placing instructions on the web, allows for the content to be relatively "written in stone".

Digital Tools Used By Instructor OR Students During The Three Lessons

• Camtasia  Could also use Screencast-o-matic  or Screenr
• Whiteboard App
• Educreations
• YouTube
• Blogger
• Skitch App
• Google Docs (great tool to publish documents to web)
• Laptop (Windows)
• iPads 

Without a digital device, iPads!, this would not be possible.

Become a student and see what they saw, read what they read, and view what they viewed.

Algebra

PreAlgebra

Social Studies

KI - Another Piece of Furniture

Thank you once again to KI for the furniture.  We are not sure how we are going to use it.  Student with best email of how to use it, gets two days in the chair.

Daily Storage of iPads

Daily iPad2 Storage

Equipment Arrival

The day has come...the iPads and Cart have arrived.  Barely out of the box, the process of inventorying them starts!

While the cart does cost a bit and we brainstormed about ideas to store carts while not buying the cart, now that it is here...I am glad the school district decided this is the route we will go.

Additional Equipment: Google Apps For Education

I am thrilled that the pilot of Google Apps has been a success and will be implemented district wide next year.  (We will be requiring all staff to use GMAIL and CALENDAR - NO Outlook) I have been fortunate to be a part of that pilot and have used multiple Google tools with students and for myself.  With that being said, the iPad 2 will be extremely friendly toward the use of Google tools.

Google Apps that I will be using with students in 2011-2012 as of March 29, 2011

Google Mail
Fast, searchable email with less spam

Blogger
Share your life online with a blog - it's quick, easy and free - still working on how I can upload pics from iPad into a post (This is where Posterous comes in!)

Docs
Create and share your online documents, presentations and spreadsheets Only Spreadsheet &Word Processing

Calendar
Organize your schedule and share events with friends

Reader
Get all your blogs and news feeds fast - want students to develop their personal reader of math articles

Groups
Create mailing lists and discussion groups

Sites
Create websites and secure group wikis

Finance
Business info, news and interactive charts

Google Chrome

A browser built for speed, stability and security - teacher work station

VERY COOL ADDITION http://kathyschrock.net :  

An interactive Google and Bloom's Taxonomy

Equipment: Apps List

Maybe this book will help? Get Book

Creating List of Apps For Purchase ($250 limit - consider VPP)I believe this app list will be changing until the absolute last day before needing them deployed on the machines for the start of the school year. In my estimation about eight paid apps averaging $0.99 per app for 30 machines will take the entire $250 budget. Of course, if an app is more than
$0.99 than a smaller amount of apps will be able to be purchased. $250 really doesn't go that far
when the VPP takes affect. I do understand the reason for the VPP as apps are not created for
free. Managing the $250 for paid apps I believe will be the most challenging part of the 1:1 year.

BY NO MEANS is this a FINALIZED list, but I will be adding to it as I find apps that may be of use in my classroom. It is really going to be difficult to pair this down. I do believe that I will develop a rubric to determine the overall ranking of the apps before purchase.

1. ColoabraCam

2. LifeCards

3. Penultimate I really like the ability to write with finger - great for math processing

4. PaperHelper $0.99

5. iSwifter (might be able to use free version)

6. Mathination Unsure if this will be too much math help for students

7. GraphCalc My favorite, A MUST!

8. eClicker Cost efficient!
9. WolframAlpha Algebra Assistant A Great tool, not sure something students need
10. CNN
11. Marquee Great for quick responses by students - show to instructor
12. Reel Director
13. QuickCam
14. Mathboard - Excellent for basic math computational skills
15. Math Drills
16. Animation Creation
17. iAnnotate PDF since our textbook is going to be in PDF, maybe this will be needed

18. Doceri - Possibility

FREE APPS TO BE INSTALLED

1. SimpleMind X

2. Zite Students will be compiling their own math and economics news
feeds

3. Google Search

4. Fox Business

5. Bloomberg

6. Dictionary & Merriam-Webster Dictionary

7. Fox11online

8. USA Today

9. Marketwatch

10. JSOnline

11. CNBC RT

13. Yahoo! MarketDash

14. Newsy

15. Mindblowing-Mind Map

16. iLunaScape - Alternative To Safari

17. Terra - Web Browser with tabs, Full Screen and Offline Viewing

18. Calculator For iPad Free

19. Proportion Solver

20. Number Line

21. Popplet Lite

22. Bing

23. Terra - web browser: tabs, Incognito Mode, ability to be Mobile Safari, IE, or Firefox

24. Tour Wrist - virtual field trips

25. Snag Films - free, full length documentaries
26. Groupboard - single click collaborative tool

27. Whiteboard Lite - collaborative work tool

28. White House - live updates of news from our capital
29. The Street - Wall Street Stocks
30. Videolicious - free video editing
31. Rock Melt - Web Browser For iPad
32. Super 8 - old fashioned movies - bought when it was free on 5-19-2011
33. Merriam-Webster Dictionary iPad App Review
34. iChromy Web search for iPad
35. Dragon Dictionary
36. QuickVoice Recorder
37. Reuters Insider iPad Edition
38. Howcast.com for iPad
39. Financial Times iPad Edition
40. USA Today
41. XE Currency for iPad
42. Fox News
43. Business Day

44. Apps For Getting Your Students Organized

45. Fotobabble -

46. Explain Everything

THIS POST WILL BE UPDATED AS WE PROGRESS TO THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR!!!

Please leave a comment if have an app that should be on a classroom set of iPads.

Equipment Images

The hardware mentioned in the last post is shown with pictures of the actual item.

MacBook Used To Sync iPods/iPads

Document Camera For Students Sharing Information Found on iPod/iPad
While I have this one, I would buy a MUCH cheaper version in the IPEVO Point 2 if having to do again!

Ceiling Mounted Digital Projector

SMARTboard connected to my laptop:  Used for projecting digital version of math work resources

Equipment

Photo Credit

Items considering to be purchased for the 2011-2012 school year:

               1.  USB extender:  1 

               2.  iPad 2: 30 

               3.  iPad 2 Cases:    30 

               4.  iPad docs/keyboard:  10 

               5.  iPad cart: 1 

               6.  iPad headphones:  30 

               7.  iPad bluetooth speakers: 1

               8.  iTunes Gift Card:  $250

Still looking for some comfortable furniture to reconfigure the room away from the traditional rows of desks.  Would like a combination of desks and comfortable working chairs.

Items to be used from existing classroom:

               1.  Document Camera
               2.  SMARTboard (Interactive Whiteboard)
               3.  Apple Mac Book

               4.  Ceiling Mounted Projector
               5.  VGA Cable

               6.  Six headphone audio splitters
               7.  DELL laptop

               8.  Camtasia Screen Recording Program

               9.  iPhone