10 Great Writing iPad Apps for Teachers and Students
Coming to you from the Canadian Maritimes ( Halifax), Educational Technology and Mobile Learning is an educational blog dedicated to curating, reviewing and sharing EdTech tools and mobile apps. The purpose is to help teachers and educators effectively integrate digital technologies into their day-to-day teaching, learning and professional development. For any questions regarding our website or the content we publish, please contact EdTech admin, editor and blog owner, Med Kharbach at: info@educatorstechnology.com. Med Kharbach is a doctoral researcher and former teacher with 10 years of classroom teaching experience. Here is how to cite any of our blog posts in APA style : Kharbach, M. Example: Kharbach, M. (2016, December 30). 9 Fundamental digital skills for 21st century teachers [Blog post].
4 compelling ideas for using Book Creator in the classroom
Technology Coach Chris Loat shares his ideas on how Book Creator can be used effectively in the classroom. Chris Loat has taught for 16 years between grades 2-7, and recently moved to the district board office in Richmond, Canada, as a teacher consultant for the integration of technology. Book Creator is a versatile and intuitively set-up app that allows students to easily create digital content in a variety of ways. 1. Kirsten Wallace at Steves Elementary first taught a series of lessons on procedural writing to her grade 5 class. Each student wrote about this topic and explained the process with text, photos, audio recordings, and video. The next assignment was to explain the steps to their Science experiment for the annual district Science Jam event. Using Book Creator allowed for easy edits to the digital work the kids had completed so far. 2. Each student was given a letter of the alphabet and came up with an idea that started with their letter and connected to Ancient China. 3. 4.
Redefining the Writing Process with iPads
Take a moment to think about how you learned to write. What steps did you go through? What was your process? Most of us learned the same core set of skills on paper: organize, draft, edit, revise, turn in. When computers entered into the equation, we digitized the process. In the progression from Writing 1.0 to 2.0, we digitally enhanced an existing process. With what we'll call Writing 3.0, students and teachers can: Organize and draft through handwriting, drawing, text and voiceCollaborate and incorporate multimodal feedbackCreate a final product that demonstrates mastery and communicates understanding beyond the literal confines of paper Organizing & Drafting With iPads, writing has becoming mobile, not just in the sense that we can write anywhere -- in some ways, we could do that with paper -- but that we can use the tools and features of the devices to scaffold our process both in terms of the output and the input. Imagine a student who benefits from the tactile nature of handwriting.
Great Interactive iPad Storybook Apps for Your Kids
June 24, 2014 Looking for some good interactive eBooks for your kids to read this summer? The list below is a great place to start with. These are basically iPad storybook apps that are designed specifically to enhance kids early literacy skills most specifically reading. This is the animated version of the popular fairy tale "Three Little Pigs". This interactive story is based on the popular Tv show character Olivia.Using a multi-sensory eBook platform with animations and narration makes kids reading experience even better. Lazy Larry Lizard is a great animated storybook app designed specifically for preschoolers (2-6) years. The Monster at the End of This Book enhances the classic Sesame Street book with a completely immersive experience that draws children right into the story. Young readers will love escaping to a magical fantasy world of princesses and fairies in this classic tale, featuring games and puzzles that draw them ever deeper into the story.
15 More Apps To Create Books On The iPad
Creating books on the iPad doesn’t seem like the first thing you might do with one of the popular little tablets, but it’s really quite capable of doing so provided you’re not trying to write the next great novel. We’ve written about 3 apps to reate books on the iPad in the past, but the following listly by Meg Wilson goes further, including 15 apps to do so. The artful collision of technology, learning, and literacy is an idea promoted in the Common Core Standards, which is likely your rule book if you teach K-12 in an American public school. This is a new age of literacy where students can read, research, write, publish, and socialize on the same device sitting right in their lap with a pinch-and-zoom elegance that somehow makes the whole process seem easier than it really is. And for those of you that rail against both Common Core and the iPad (but obviously not literacy), keep fighting the good fight. 15 Literacy Apps To Create Books On The iPad
HoJos Teaching Adventures: Ipad Apps for Reluctant Writers
Please help me in welcoming Susanna from Whimsy Workshop! She's got some great ideas for motivating reluctant writers through technology that will work at a variety of grade levels! She's also been gracious enough to offer a freebie!! Read on to check it all out. Hi everyone! So, how could I motivate these reluctant writers? What is is about making comics that kids love so much? I was amazed at the creativity my students showed! We also used this app for labeling the pictures we drew after taking a photo of them and importing them to the app. 3. 4. Once that is done, I asked them to choose a crayon tool to write some text (with their finger) right on to the screen. 5. Once all of the elements of the story are completed, you can add music and play it as a short movie! All of these apps can be used in many different ways, especially to challenge older students to use more of the available features.
