Great Creativity Apps That Every Teacher with an iPad Must Know. Ofsted, Outstanding Teaching and the iPad | dedwards.me. If OFSTED were to walk into a lesson tomorrow they would see the following: Prior to the lesson students would have viewed an 8-10 min screencast introducing the topic. This resource would have been produced and sent via twitter to the students when appropriate.Students would have uploaded work required to Edmodo that is then assessed, annotated and sent back to students again prior to the lesson. The nature of the work is determined by perceived difficulty of the topic.
The initial task would be a Socrative quiz to establish understanding for the lesson (AFL) – this often includes one multiple choice and two short answer questions. With a given problem the students would then have to produce an explanation of the problem on the interactive whiteboard app ExplainEverything - collaboration in groups of 3. These problems would be tailored to the groups and range in difficulty. Socrative would then be used again to assess where the students are and the lesson would be adjusted accordingly. Top Apps. How to Save Web Pages as PDF Files on the iPad & iPhone.
One little feature that iOS really needs is the ability to natively “print to PDF” directly on the iPad and iPhone, a popular trick on the Mac and in the PC world that allows you to digitally print anything and, in this case, save the contents of any web document or web page as a self-contained PDF document, allowing it to be read later, printed, or used for whatever other purpose. Since this great feature isn’t around on the iPhone and iPad at the moment, we can use a nice bookmarklet trick combined with a free third party web service to be able to add a “Save as PDF” option to Safari in iOS, which allows you to ‘print’ or convert any web page to a PDF file that is then accessible to apps like iBooks.
Let’s walk through the process of setting this up: 1: Create a “Print to PDF” Bookmarklet in Safari First we’ll create a bookmarklet that provides the PDF conversion service, this is easy and free: javascript:pdf_url=location.href;location.href=' 6 Useful iPad Apps for Creating Tutorials and Screencasts. iPad in the Classroom – Can we make it simpler? With many educational institutions choosing to use tablets for learning, it can be quite intimidating for teachers when faced with so many applications. The diagram below serves to illustrate that less than 20 core apps can play a significant part in the learning process and hopefully temper any trepidation. (with thanks to Greg Hughes @deepexperience1 for his ideas and input) The apps indicated serve to enhance or modify existing practice with scope to be transformational.
The extent to which the learning environment can be changed is up to the educator and students. Twitter and Skype are part of many students’ lives, with immediate contact and communication a must. There is no reason they can’t be utilised in the classroom and to support learning at home. A class twitter account provides an easy way to convey links/information and is simple to set up and make private.
Perhaps the most important collaborative tool however is GoogleDrive. (with thanks to dc12norfolk) Like this: iGeneric: how can teachers incorporate iPad in all subject areas? A group of science teachers were sitting around on the staff room table. They were having a faculty meeting. One of them said, “I found this great app about biological cells! We can use this to teach the unit about cells!”. Another one responded by saying “This app I stumbled upon yesterday is amazing for teaching about the periodic table!”.
The conversation went on for quite some time, only to end with one of them saying “there aren’t that many apps that can be used to teach Science”. This is when I intervened! What I observed was a number of teachers who flicked through the chapters of the textbook, and then tried to find an iPad app to replace each chapter. In Andrew Douch’s words, the iPad is a “Swiss-army knife” of tools! Here are some generic learning activities (or learning processes) that can incorporate the iPad, and using apps that are not subject-specific: 1- Documentation: the iPad has a Camera. Like this: Like Loading... 12 Things You Never Knew You Could Do With Your iPad.
12 Characteristics Of An iPad-Ready Classroom - Implementing iPads isn’t exactly a just-add-water proposition. While they’re wondrous little devices capable of enchanting learners for hours, to get the learning results you’re likely after will take planning, design, and reflection. It can help to start out by asking yourself some important questions, such as “What can the iPad do that is not possible without it?
Put another way, what problems does the iPad solve?” But the learning environment you’re starting with can make a big difference as well. It’s one thing to come up with individual lesson plans high on the wiz-bang factor, but low in terms of sustainability. Below are 4 distinct areas of instruction and instructional design that can help frame the concept of iPad integration. There is more to the conversation, but rather than overwhelm you (not that you couldn’t handle it), it seemed better to simply start your thinker. One iPad in the Classroom? – Top 10 Apps. How To Quickly Rip A CD Onto Your iPad/iPhone In Ten Minutes Without iTunes | teachingwithipad. I used to have a ton of CDs. I spent a fortune back over ten years ago collecting them. Now they are all sitting in boxes in my garage. Literally. I almost NEVER use CDs anymore. I don’t even own a CD player. My MacBook Pro doesn’t have a DVD/CD Drive; only my aging PC can play CDs in my house.
The days of the CD are almost over. However, there will be times when you need to rip* a CD to get it on your iDevices. These are the steps: What you’ll need: The CD you want to ripAn online storage account (probably Dropbox, Box, or Skydrive)Any PC or Mac in your workplaceAbout 10 minutes I completed during the middle of my lunch break today. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. That’s it! Remember that you can “Favorite” files for offline use. Above: My offline files “Favorites”: I can listen to/view these files without an internet connection.
Please let me know if this works out for you! *Definition: Rip = the process of importing songs from a CD to a digital format (mp3). Like this: Like Loading... 23 Ways To Use The iPad In The 21st Century PBL Classroom By Workflow. 23 Ways To Use The iPad In The 21st Century PBL Classroom by TeachThought Staff The iPad is not magic, and as many educators have found integrating them meaningfully is by no means a just-add-water proposition. The same applies to Project-Based Learning. Project-Based Learning is a method of giving learners access to curriculum in authentic ways that promote collaboration, design, imagination, and innovation while also allowing for more natural integration of digital and social media. Below we’ve offered 23 ways that the iPad can be used in your classroom. While given strategies may or may not fit exactly into your curriculum or grade level, consider them instead as a kind of board of ideas to inspire your own thinking.
Note that the visual is also arranged in a kind of visual spectrum, as our past visuals have been. 6 Great Tips to Speed up Your Slow iPad. iPad , this beautiful gadget that shine at your face anytime you hit that home button, is like all the other electronic gadgets, if not properly tended to it will relegate to a mere tool to use to check your mail and notes.The power of iPad lies in its portable computing capacities which are maintained and managed by its CPU. There are several important things that are very simple and that can help users preserve the life and speed of their iPad and enhance its performance yet many people ignore them.
If you think your iPad is not performing as potently as it used to be when you first got it then consider the tips below. Below is a set of tips I collected from different sources online on how to speed up you iPad. Please check them out below and share them with your colleagues. 1- Fixing a Weak Wi-Fi Signal.Trim the Spotlight Indexing.The indexing service is the last thing you need on iPad. 6-Shut Down Apps Running in the Background.