Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
Consider using edutainment apps like My PlayHome, Lil' Kitten Shopping Cart, and Kidz Kitchen to teach real-world math (using iPen app to record)
Digital Storytelling can transform your students' writing into a visual masterpiece that is filled with voice and emotion, while enhancing critical thinking skills. The iPad takes digital storytelling to a new level by making the process easier, and even more engaging for students of all grade levels as well as for their teachers.
It is amazing how the iPad has changed education. Developers are thinking differently about education. Textbook publishers are thinking differently about education.
This post is to explain in detail how we manage application deployment to our iPads. Our system is not perfect, but it does work to a certain level of reliability and it's about as good as we can manage given current tools. We use three iTunes accounts.
I recently received an email from a media and tech teacher from a school district in Wisconsin.
Whenever Apple schedules a press event to announce something new the world stops and takes notice.
Even more relevant with the announcement of the iPad 2.
An iTunes account is required to download iPhone/iPod touch applications from the App Store. When you create an account, iTunes asks you for a credit card number to keep on file for purchases. When using iPods in schools, teachers probably don't want to use their personal credit card and schools usually do not have a credit card that can be used for iTunes.
* Are There Really Whales In Lake Michigan… A Seven Step Approach To Web site Evaluation (A-G) – In this seven part series I will deliver what I believe to be a powerful and meaningful way to teach web site evaluation.
Today, I had the privilege of presenting to a number of teachers at the T3 Retreat held in LCISD! It was a great day and I’m so thankful I was able to be a part of it! I’ll post a recap of this event either tomorrow or early next week, but I did want to share one of the sessions I offered in the best way I could through the blog.
There are several options to choose when trying to create an activity. Try to combine apps together to create a piece to be shown to a class. Some apps are better creating learning objects and some are better for displaying materials.
Oh the possibilities! Just aim and shoot to capture sounds all around you - your local café, car, kitchen, kids, cat, friends - MadPad magic will take care of the rest.
Here are some classroom ideas for activities using a range of apps that teachers can try with their students. The activities are grouped into broad categories to provide a starting point however many of the apps can be used across a number of learning domains.
If you think that iPods are used just for listening to music, you obviously haven't been keeping up with the latest technology. The Apple-developed music player now features all kinds of accessories to help you study better, and now other companies are in a rush to get their designs in sync with the iPod.