Teach. 10 Good iPad Book Creator Apps to Use with Your Students. March 7, 2014 Below is an updated list of some powerful iPad apps for creating books that you can use with your students. I have only selected ten of what I think are the best and ideal apps for using with different age groups from kids up to adults. I invite you to check them out and share with your colleagues. 1- Book Creator The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad.Use Book Creator to create a personalised story for your child, or arrange family pictures and art into a beautiful eBook.
Then pass your iPad to your child and watch their imagination run free! 2- A Novel Idea A Novel Idea is a good tool for plotting your story and recording bursts of inspiration. 3- Creative Book Builder Creative Book Builder enables everyone to create, edit and publish ebooks in a few minutes on the go. Using the easy-to-use interface of this app you can add text, place photos on pages, and share with your friends within a few seconds.
Top 8 Competencies of a Mobile Learning Designer. Mobile learning is one of the major revolutions happening around us that demands a shift in the mere thinking of ‘learning’. It requires us to unlearn and relearn some of the traditional notions such as learners’ attention span, learning style/preference, and the new (additional) dimensions to learning. In this article, we’ll take a quick look at the top eight essential competencies that a new age learning designer is required to possess for designing effective mobile learning interventions for today’s workplaces. It is exciting to be part of the learning revolution happening all around us, with new learning paradigms and technologies emerging almost on a daily basis.
Thanks to the inherent quality of learning designers, we find it easy to adapt to most of these changes. However, some of the shifts may require us to move beyond the traditional definitions of ‘learning’. Mobile learning is one such major revolution that demands a shift in the mere thinking of ‘learning’. Knowledge Skills. Educational Literacy Apps. 5 Great Ways to Document Students Mobile Learning. I am actually working on an academic paper on Education 3.0 which I am intending to publish in one of the mobile tech journals. I will provide you with a synthesis of the main points I am covering but I can not republish it here in my blog though I have the full authorship rights because republishing a published paper is prohibited by most academic journal policies. However, one of the things that really drew my attention while working on this paper is how teachers can document students' learning in a world increasingly going mobile.
Digging deeper into this topic, I decided to share this short guide with you to help you better understand and learn about the mobile tools to use to document your students learning while on the go. There are actually five ways for teachers to document students mobile learning : 1- Blogging This is the most pertinent way to advocate to your students. Photos speak a thousand words or louder than words. 4- Audio blogging 5- Note Taking. A Must See Wheel on The Difference between Using Technology and Technology Integration. Top 10 Apps in an Established 1:1 iPad School. The Stephen Perse Foundation has had a 1:1 iPad programme running for two years now.
Whilst there are many subject specific apps utilised for learning, it is interesting to note how the top 10 apps are all multipurpose. The list below also includes an indication of how workflow is developing for the school and how an app is chosen when and where it is appropriate. For more information about how we are using the iPads as a tool for learning please visit SPFlearning.com Explain Everything Simply the most versatile education app available.
Socrative 1.0 and 2.0 Socrative is a very simple and effective assessment tool that can be used during any part of the learning process. iMovie iMovie has always been a favourite with students, but it is interesting to see how it has developed as an educational tool. iTunes U iTunes U is often referred to as our learning platform. Showbie Showbie allows you to assign, collect and review student work. Edmodo Notability Keynote Book Creator Pages Like this: A Practical Guide For Teachers Who Just Got iPads. The above image was wonderfully put together by Richard Wells over at ipad4schools.org after seeing the article (below) originally posted here on Edudemic. Thanks Holly! So you finally got a class set of iPads and you are not sure what to do next and where to start? Here is a very simple list of tried and true tips to help. Don’t Start Collecting Apps!
This is every teachers first inclination. So Stop! Stop scouring the internet for apps you think you might use with your class. Here is my onescreen of Apps – these include a few of my own personal productivity favorites. Remember the iPad is Not a Computer The purpose of an ipad is to be a creation device, it is NOT a small laptop. Learn About The SAMR Model As you begin to make new lessons that you will deliver with the help of your exciting new device – think to yourself – where does this lesson fall on the SAMR model? Put Some Limitations On Personalization How many pictures will you allow on the camera roll? Workflow Back to School Night. 300+ Educational Twitter Hashtags Being Used Right Now.
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I Declare an… iPad Oath. So… we have reflected, oriented, and even fostered formative assessment. Think this might be a good time to solemnly declare… an oath. These previous posts (linked above**) have laid the ground work to prepare for a transformative year with mobile devices. Last year the middle school felt a need to create an iPad Oath that addressed specific classroom behaviors and legislated appropriate use beyond the existing R.U.G. (Responsible Use Guidelines). After reviewing multiple middle school AUP’s and iPad forms online and our own existing elementary iPad Oath, I decided to concoct one of my own using similar ingredients. MS iPad Oath by Lisa Johnson Now truly there are two schools of thought on the discipline rationale. All Tools Are Created Equal: One feels the device should be treated no differently than any other classroom tool.
Off Task Intervention Created with Comic Life TechChef4u would LOVE to hear from you! Interested in 1:1 Deployment and PD strategies and implementation? 8 Ways That Apple Could Improve The iTunes U App. Apple's iTunes U app and the accompanying web based iTunes U Course Manager remains the least noticed but potentially the most important edtech innovation of 2012. Provided that all of your students have an iOS device (iPad, iPhone, or Touch), the iTunes U app finally allows easy and secure distribution of curricular content (articles, book chapters, videos, recorded lectures) to mobile devices. The iTunes U app provides offline access, multi-speed media viewing, note taking on text and video, and seamless integration with iOS reading and annotation apps (such as GoodReader).
Best of all, content in iTunes U courses (which is private, with enrollment controlled by the course builder or instructor), is dynamically updated on the students' iOS device. This means that articles can be added throughout a course, or captured lectures can be included after they are recorded. So how could Apple improve on the iTunes U app? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. What improvements would you like to see? A (Second) iTunes U Courses Wish List. Our students are loving iTunes U Courses. We have just rolled out a one-to-one iPad mini initiative for our small blended (residential / online) graduate program, and we are using the iTunes U app to deliver course materials.
If you have not played with the free iTunes U app and Course Manager, (the web-based platform used to build your courses), then I highly recommend that you check it out. Apple has been strangely quiet in promoting the private iTunes U capabilities, and I've been surprised by how few people seem to know about this secure, elegant, and robust method of delivering course materials for iOS devices. After a week of intensive observation of students using their iPad minis and iTunes U to interact with course materials I have a few observations and requests. Back in November I wrote about 8 Ways That Apple Could Improve The iTunes U App. I stand by all these requests, and I have 8 more: 1. 2.
Instructors have no way to view activity within a particular iTunes U course. 3. 4. Here is What Happens Online in 60 Seconds. Have you ever observed what happens in a minute of your browsing the net. You might have the intent to just check your email before you head to work but that glaring Twitter message or that Facebook notification that keeps popping up takes you aback and before you know it you have already spent an hour roaming around. Is this multitasking or a mere digital distraction ? Up to you to decide. I have recently read some articles on the importance of multitasking for students but I am not yet convinced that multitasking is advantageous to students learning. I view it as a distractive habit that breaks apart attention and dismantle focus.
A person who can not hold his/her attention for a moderately decent period of time is not capable of thinking reflectively and deeply. Today's post is not about multitasking though I would love to write about it in a future post. Source: graphic realized by Qmee & mycleveragency. AppCrawlr: the most relevant search engine for app discovery. Graphite | Ingredients for effective teaching. Mobile learning. John Dewey, writing in the early years of the twentieth century, may not have foreseen the proliferation of 21st century ‘mobile devices’ but, in the quotation to the right, he does point out something that remains relevant: that mobile learning involves change, initiative and adaptability.
Mobile learning involves change in the sense that the ability to communicate with tutors and peers, as well as access learning resources, changes what is possible in education. It takes initiative for leaders to create a vision to sustain that change and, finally, mobile learning requires adaptability by members of staff to carry out the change. This infoKit is a practical guide to thinking through the issues relating to institutional adoption of mobile learning. It follows a JISC Mobile and Wireless Technologies Review which delves deeper into the theory behind mobile learning and the wider context. Emerging Practice in a Digital Age Bee motif. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.
12 Principles Of Mobile Learning. 12 Principles Of Mobile Learning by Terry Heick Ed note: This post has been updated and republished from a 2012 post Mobile Learning is about self-actuated personalization. As learning practices and technology tools change, mobile learning itself will continue to evolve. It is only within these communities that the native context of each learner can be fully understood. 1.
A mobile learning environment is about access to content, peers, experts, portfolio artifacts, credible sources, and previous thinking on relevant topics. 2. As mobile learning is a blend of the digital and physical, diverse metrics (i.e., measures) of understanding and “performance of knowledge” will be available. 3. The cloud is the enabler of “smart” mobility. 4. Transparency is the natural byproduct of connectivity, mobility, and collaboration. 5. Play is one of the primary characteristics of authentic, progressive learning, both a cause and effect of an engaged mind. 6. 7. 8. With mobility comes diversity. 9. 10.