Step 2: Create PicCollage and "Send To Library" Step 3: Tap Photos App, Choose Photo, Send With Email Step 4: Give email address to students found from screen shot below.
Step 5:
Students need to log out of their mail on the iPad.
Several teachers use a blog to update their classroom content. It is year two for some of them, and they wanted to know how to remove blog posts from last year. This would enable teachers to use the same blog posts from year to year or modify them as needed.
Today was a great day of learning! Teachers set up calendars for each of their classes or subject area.
To communicate with parents and students these calendars will be used for their lesson plans and embedded into their classroom blogs. The step by step process is in video and presentation form below.
The entire process of creating a lesson plan in Google calendar and embedding the calendar with a week's lesson plans into a Google blog took one hour.
When students are using the iPhone Blogger app on the iPad (or on the iPod) and adding a label a small punctuation mark can cause a non-publishing problem!
As I try to challenge students more in developing mathematical thinking. Basically trying to follow some advice from Dan Meyer! I went about a problem that was presented in our textbook, which of course, laid out the entire problem for them, in a slightly different way.
My plan presented them with this blog post and nothing more!
Students really struggled with the question of what to do. Some even displayed their frustration through loud speaking!
I don't get this!
What are we suppose to do!
Where's the math in this!
Eventually, a student realized they need to research plans to see what the most cost efficient plan would be based on minutes.
After the initial fury of questions and debates, I presented the students with another Dan Meyer tactic. A very small piece of the problem.
Finally, students started to use resources that seemed to fit the task. The Graphing Calc app was used by this student to compare different plans that were presented in the problem on our blog. I really liked how this student explained the reason why he was using the app.
As a bonus, I was able to utilize my new podium placement with a student immediately placing their graph so all of the students could see. I really like this podium placement as it is centrally located. I also have another mirror connection cable so that students in the front of the class can quickly display their iPad screens.
Today our school district created a professional development day that was conducted entirely in house. Twenty-six different staff members developed a lesson for staff that was based on something they feel passionate about relating to technology.
Our idea was to teach staff how we would teach students. Conducting a lesson plan complete with integrating technology while learning content. Our content needed to be fun. We chose bathroom etiquette. It was well received.
Our entire lesson was really a Lesson About Nothing. (We created a blog specifically for all the resources that we used, and the Simple Mind creations of the teachers) However, we incorporated a number of tech tools.
Non tech tools included an introduction to our collaborative white board areas.
Teachers laughed, struggled, and engaged their way through the lesson and discovered the possibilities of truly integrating technology into a classroom setting.
Students are able to quickly reflect on topics that will be presented to them in a quiz through blogger. Before iPads, I would have never taken ten minutes for students to reflect and process quiz topics.
Benefits of Reflection:
Processing Skills
Students must explain the processes
Teachers can review "what the students know" prior to the quiz
World Wide Web always brings out the best in students as they know it will be available to everyone
Time is really not a factor, and I believe that in the end, overall knowledge of concepts is retained longer
See How We Blog:
Students really start to use different tools to enhance their blog post with multimedia documents!
