Ten Reflections on the First Year of an iPad Pilot. Passing out iPads to students on the first day of school was like celebrating Christmas (or in this case Hanukkah) with thirty antsy kids sitting around the tree, attempting to hide their impatience. Once the iPads had been handed out, students were instantly excited, engaged and enchanted with the new learning device in their hands. At first, everyone was confused about where to find work, where to save and store their products – and which app to use for what purpose. As with every pilot, these issues worked themselves out and soon classes were running pretty smoothly. More Than Just An iPad Stand. Platform van het iPadproject op het Dominicus College in Nijmegen. De iPad in de lessen Nieuwe Media. Glossi. I have iPads in the Classroom. Now What? 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. PicLab 2.0 Does Much More Than Add Text And Masks To Your Photos. Released in the App Store just over a couple of months ago, PicLab has now been updated to version 2.0.
It's worth noting that with the app's 2.0 update, PicLab has made the transition from an app that merely adds text and masks to photos to a photo-editing app that does that and more. For starters, PicLab 2.0 introduces nine new filters to enhance the look of your photos: Vibrant, Vegas, Renee, Monroe, Nevada, Cinema, Kruger, Danford, and Saga. Hopscotch Technologies' New App Can Teach Kids to Code. Hopscotch HD is a precursor or introduction to coding.
Hopscotch calls this coding for kids: an iPad programming language. In case you didn’t catch it already, read my recent blog which has been getting its fair share of attention: 15 Reasons Why We Should Be Teaching Our Kids To Code. “All of today’s kids will need—along with reading, writing, and arithmetic—a basic understanding of computation and the role that it plays across a wide range of disciplines.
Dé blog om aan de slag te gaan met apps in de les. Using iPads in Education - The GWAEA iPad Project. iPad as Teacher's Pet - iPad as Teachers Pet.pdf. iPad As.... iPads have exploded throughout schools and classrooms.
Their flexibility, versatility, and mobility make them a phenomenal learning tool. As teachers seek ways to integrate these devices, we recommend focusing on specific learning goals that promote critical-thinking, creativity, collaboration, and the creation of student-centric learning environments. An Excellent Collection of Educational Web and Mobile Apps. I just came across this amazing graphic and thought you might be interested to have a peek as well.
Tony Vincint did a great job and I must say that this is one of the best educational infographics out there. As you know Educational Technology and Mobile Learning always features only the best infographics and I am so proud to say this because the selections I share here are also posted in several other academic settings. Show What you Know Using Web and Mobile Apps will provide you with some handy tools and apps to use to foster students learning. Win one of 3 copies of Digital Rebellion's new CinePlay professional iOS video player. ***Winners Announced*** Digital Rebellion have just released CinePlay, a professional video player application for the iPhone and iPad.
There's a lot of features in the app such as guides and markers and we've also got three copies to giveaway. Jon Chappell at Digital Rebellion knows his stuff and over the years he's built up an impressive portfolio of applications that help all editors (not just FCP) to fix, organise and improve their projects and workflow. New to the lineup is Cineplay, a $9.99 professional video player for the iPhone and iPad. The app does a lot more than just play movies as you would expect, one of the huge features is proper timecode and a proper timecode display. Winners Announced. 8 Excellent Augmented Reality Apps for iPad.
In this post Educational Technology and Mobile Learning is providing you with a list of some awesome augmented reality apps for your iPad but before that let us first see what the concept of augmented reality is all about .
Augmented reality is a relatively new digital phenomenon that is brought about by the recent development in the field of technology and particularly mobile technology. In augmented reality the line between the virtual world and the real one is blurred. Engineers use some sophisticated technologies to pull out graphics from television screen and computer display and integrate them into real world environments.
Ipadles: Gemakkelijk budget beheren via app op smartphone of iPad - neledewulf's Space. Prezivoorstelling Ipadles - grietwillems's Space. Teachers With Apps - Best Educational App Reviews. How an iPad is a More Powerful Content-Creation Device Than a Laptop. That the iPad is a great content-consumption device has never been disputed.
But just 30 months after its launch the iPad is now in some ways a more powerful content-creation device than a laptop in the hands of students in the classroom. When the iPad was introduced in 2010, my school (Wanganui Park Secondary College) was one of a handful in Victoria that included them on the booklist for the following year, a move that raised eyebrows! Critics decried the iPad as “a content-consumption but not a content-creation device”. Admittedly, at first there was limited content creation software available – there was no way to make or edit a movie, take or edit a photo, record or edit a podcast or screencast, or even to annotate a PDF! Now 2.5 years down the track, the iPad is a swiss army knife of content-creation tools. Don’t misunderstand me. We’ve had computers in schools for years, but in reality many (most?) It is getting easier all the time to create content on laptops, too. Zoeken - WeZooz Academy. 50 Things To Do On The iPad.
While the iPad is not the savior for learning–or even mobile learning for that matter, if you use one for five minutes it’s easy to see that it is an amazing piece of hardware. We’ve talked about how to use them in a PBL environment. And how to record ideas with them. Studiedag Op iPad? View NASA Spacecraft in 3D. Spacecraft 3D is a free iPad app produced by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Spacecraft 3D uses augmented reality technology to bring NASA spacecraft to life on your iPad. To get started using the app you first need to print out the spacecraft target codes. Then your students can scan those target codes with their iPads. The spacecraft then becomes a 3D model that your students can explore. Applications for Education Using Spacecraft 3D could be a great way for students to learn about the robotic spacecrafts that NASA is currently using to explore our solar system. H/T to The Whiteboard Blog. Video: Help! My Students All Have iPads! What's On My iPad Mini. My friend Marcus Zarra recently asked me if I would write an update on how I'm using my iPad for productivity.
How has my hardware/software workflow evolved over time? I think the last time I wrote about this was pre-iCloud so I thought an update was well overdue. - Apps for students with dyslexia. 2 Comments December 2, 2012 By: Vicki Windman Dec 2 Written by: 12/2/2012 3:33 PM ShareThis Children with dyslexia can have trouble with many aspects of literacy, including learning the alphabet, recognizing letters, following a sequence of directions and mastering the rules of spelling. Below are six apps that aim to help kids and adults with dyslexia.
Inspiration Maps Published by Inspiration Maps- FREE/$9.99- This was the web-based program now app that truly saved my son’s sanity. Sound Literacy Published by 3D Literacy, LLC- $24.99- This is a full-fledged teaching tool for students with dyslexia. iPad Scotland Final Evaluation Report (October 2012) The final report of the iPad Scotland Evaluation undertaken for schools and local authorities in Scotland was released by the Technology Enhanced Learning Group based in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hull in October. 8 primary and secondary schools were assigned to participate the research by local authorities, the approximate number of iPads in pilot is 365. There are 3 kinds of usages : 1. Some deployed class sets of the technology where devices were retained in the school and issued to students for particular lessons or purposes; 2. Other schools allocated machines to individual students for use across lessons but they were not allowed to take the equipment home; 3.
A third group of schools adopted the most personalised approach and gave students the device for the duration of the pilot for use in school and at home. Key findings from the research : Pretty Pythagorean QR Code Thanks to Unitag. I have been using QR codes quite a bit in my math classes. I like to use them primarily as a “refresh button” strategy to get all of those brains out of the middle-of-the-lesson muck. Using QR codes refreshes brains and gets everyone engaged and curious. I can’t get enough of these goofy things, and neither can my students! By the end of this week, my pre-algebra classes will be applying the Pythagorean Theorem to problem-solving situations. 6 Apps Students Can Use to Create Quick Audio Recordings. Augmented Reality App von daqri: Anatomy 4D « AugmentedRealityBiz.com. Daqri hat eine neue Augmented Reality App veröffentlicht, mit der man spielerisch mehr über die menschliche Anatomie lernen kann. iPad Lessons.
Projectwebsite e-devices in PSSD Green High. Mark Anderson's Blog » iPad in schools 102. A Day in the Life of an iPad Teacher. 6.30 am: Woken by the dulcet tones of Lana Del Rey and a new ‘Wake up Light‘. Contemplate staying in bed then notice the email icon flashing with a number of new messages – check twitter. 7.00 am: Access news app whilst devouring breakfast.
Got A New iPad? There's An AppList For That! iClassroom iManagement – tips for managing an iPad classroom. So, every school now is rolling out their own BYOD and 1-to-1 programs. Mobile learning (mLearning) is the new black! Whether it is just a fad or not, mobile devices change the way the class runs, and they change the way students learn. Many teachers, from my experience, cite too many problems with using iPads in their classroom, most of them related to classroom management. 20 Time-Saving Grading Apps. Can apps help teachers to save time grading? Home - MyBlee - ipad educational application. Tablets op school: de beste app is de leraar op Klasse voor Leraren. Save a Web page as a PDF on the iPad, then annotate and share. On a Mac, you can choose to print a Web page, then instead of sending the ‘print’ job to a physical printer, you can export as a PDF.
Then, open the PDF with OSX Preview app to annotate before emailing to others for their review. On the iPad, the ‘Print’ option doesn’t have a PDF export option. This is where the Universal app Web to PDF comes in handy. Appetijt. Tablets in het onderwijs, versie oktober 2012. Geography and Science - Cross over apps. Augmented Reality on iPads & Android Devices.