iPads in the Classroom
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Free Technology for Teachers: SlideShark - Convert & View PPT on Your iPad
From the same people that created My Brainshark comes SlideShark . SlideShark is a free app for converting and viewing PPT files on your iPad. SlideShark converts your PowerPoint files without losing any of your original formatting, transitions, or animations. To use SlideShark just upload your PPT files to your free SlideShark account, SlideShark converts the files for you, then you can access your converted files on your iPad at anytime using the free SlideShark app. If your school is one that is trying to implement an iPad program, SlideShark could be a handy app for you.
Useful Tips For iPad
Free Technology for Teachers: QR Codes Explained and Ideas for Classroom Use
When I lead workshops or give presentations I typically don't distribute handouts in paper form. Instead I just give the link to my digital resources for that day's presentation or workshop. Recently, I have started to deviate from that policy just a little bit. Now I like to place printed QR codes in a dozen or so locations in the room.
iPad As....
Over the past few months, iPads have exploded throughout schools and classrooms. Their flexibility, versatility, and mobility make them a phenomenal learning tool. In webinars and blog posts , we have talked about the iPad as....
The Complete List of iPad Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials - How-To Geek
The Apple iPad is an amazing tablet, and to help you get the most out of it, we’ve put together a comprehensive list of every tip, trick, and tutorial for you. Read on for more. Note: This article was originally published earlier this year, but we’ve updated it with a real lot more content since then, so we’re republishing it for you.How to Design a Beautiful iPad Lesson:
This is a beautiful lesson designed and presented by Rob Miller on Scrib. What I really like about this series of activities is that it allows the students or in Rob's case his teachers to articulate their own learning. It is never about a single app. It is the combination of apps that allow the learners to meet the learning outcomes.
Teaching Kids with iPads – Part 1 of 5 | Elementary School Tech Ideas
How to you teach these kids? A few months ago I took a survey of my elementary kids to see what kind of mobile technology they had at home and it turned out that 53% of my students in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades had iPads and 82% had iPods! With over half of my students having iPads, there is no doubt that soon they will be bringing these devices to school — so it go me thinking… How do I teach students with iPads? So I called my friends over at Atomic Learning to brainstorm some ideas and we both agreed that this was a question worth answering. They explained that they are working with classrooms that have iPads and they have been gathering some interesting ideas on how iPad classrooms are a lot different than conventional ones.
Teaching Kids with iPads – Part 2 of 5 | Elementary School Tech Ideas
Using an iPad to record a narrated slideshow. I came home from teaching day 2 of my iPad Boot Camp to find over 70 emails from teachers wanting to know more about how to teach kids with iPads. Many of the emails were full of questions that I hope to answer over the next few posts, and many of you wanted to see the projects that the kids have been working on, so here is a link to the students project (which is being constantly updated)… iPad Filmmaking – every morning we work for an hour on our movie project. On Monday we outlined and planned our movie and today we were able to shoot the first couple of scenes.The importance of iPad training. Every day we start with about 30 minutes of iPad training — which is really the nuts and bolts of the Boot Camp. We felt is was important that the students know how to use their iPads like a pro.
Teaching Kids with iPads – Part 3 of 5 | Elementary School Tech Ideas
iPads in the Classroom
The resources below come from a Diigo feed that Beth and Greg maintain. Their most recent find will always appear at the top of this list. Comments:This app gives you direct access to course content from schools and universities. - Beth HollandTags: iPad, apps, iTunesUby: Beth... Comments:This blog post gives a great overview of the new Apple Configurator. - Beth HollandTags: iPad, configurator, deployment, appleby: Beth... Comments:This article from the Langwitches Blog recommends 10 apps for achieving iPad fluency. - Beth HollandTags: ipad, apps, educationby: Beth... Comments:This is a great YouTube channel that features tutorials on useful apps for education. - Beth HollandTags: ipad, apps, education,...iPad Tips: Getting Started with the iPad — iPad Insight
Have you just got a shiny new iPad as a holiday gift, or maybe just bought one for yourself? Here’s an easy Getting Started Guide that will help you get the most out of your new favorite tablet: The iPad has been a huge hit ever since it first hit the market back in 2010. It’s an amazing and powerful device, and a joy to use – whether for work or play.
Personalize & Unpersonalize iPads All In Same Class Period
ATTENTION! This will be helpful if you have a class set of iPads and multiple students using the iPads in a day! Many apps are limited in that they need an iPad to be personalized with an email account in order to export through email. The same holds true for Twitter.Educreations: DIY Whiteboard Video Tutorials on the iPad | Hack Education
The new app from Educreations is available in the Apple App Store today ( iTunes link ). The app is designed to make it easy to create, narrate, and record whiteboard video tutorials on the iPad and to share them with others. A Web version of the startup's whiteboard app has been available for some time now, but it's the native app for an iPad that makes this sort of tool make sense -- it's so much easier to write on a whiteboard with the finger than it is with a mouse, if nothing else. Educreations is hardly the only app like this available for the iPad (I covered the very similar app ShowMe over on MindShift this summer, for example). But while Educreations' iPad app might be late to the whiteboard app market, its entry is a solid one.Awake your Appthusiasm for Learning I am an Instructional Technology Specialist at NEISD that serves 3 Title 1 campuses. We are very fortunate to have an abundance of technology at our disposal to service the students. With a background in English & Math and a love for all things Apple, I naturally gravitate to the iPad.