Wednesday, October 16, 2013

iPads and Reading

Just for fun - since it is Oct.   Crazy Pumpkin

Resources and Example Lessons:

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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Sharing with Airdrop on IOS 7

One dilemma teachers often contend with is how to view students work that is completed on an iPad, particularly if you have an iPad center or you are 1-1.  One workflow solution is to have students email finished work, but that will fill up a teachers in-box.  Another workflow solution is to have students upload to a cloud service, such as Google Drive, Dropbox, or Edmodo.

You may want to try out this new IOS 7 solution using Airdrop which allows you to share items between compatible IOS devices via bluetooth.  Wifi needs to be turned on, but not necessarily connected for Airdrop services to work.  Currently it's available for all iPhone 5 models, 4th generation iPads, iPad mini, and 5th generation iPod Touches.  

It's quite simple to use, as you select what you want to share and if there are available Airdrop recipients within close proximity, they show up as possibilities.



You tap on the particular recipient and they receive a notice to accept or decline.
 
 

To enable your IOS device to receive Airdrop items, you need to go into the control panel, tap on AirDrop, and choose either from contacts or everyone. 



If the teacher has their iPad, or even iPhone 5, set to receive Airdrop shared items, students could go in and share their work to the teacher's device.  

Shared items include anything with the Sharing button; photos, notes, videos, and completed items in apps.  The shared item will be stored in the same location as where it came from; photos in camera roll and notes in notes.

If all iPads in a center or 1-1 classroom are set to receive Airdrop items, then students will be free to share with each other.

Currently IOS devices can not Airdrop to a Mac, as I'm hoping that feature becomes possible in the near future.





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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Writing with iPads


   

iPads in Writing    Oct. 9th 2013


It’s not WHAT app I should use.  It’s HOW I should use it!


An Example from Grade 6:
Use technology including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently.
          
GTKY Activity                                                                   *Trading Card App                                                                                                                                   
iOS 7 and iOS 6 

     *Gesture Changes
    *New Restriction Features 

 Built in Features 

    *Spell Checker
    *On Screen Keyboard vs Blue Tooth
    *Speak Selection Tool
    *Voice Recording - Revision Tool  
    *Dictation (SIRI on iPad 3 or higher)
        *Dragon Dictation
         Audioboo  (website and app communicate)
         Quickvoice




Brainstorming, Mindmapping, Notetaking:
     *Paperport Notes

     * Simple Mind 
     *Total Recall

    *iBrainstorm
*iBrainstorm Companion
    * Padlet   (website - useable across all devices)
     *Evernote

    *Educreations   (app and website communicate)

Just Writing:

    *Google Drive (need Google Account)
    *Pages ($$$) The Mac Word Program
    *Native NOTES app 


Writing Resource Sites:
    *OSLIS


 Prompts:
    *Using Videos:  Example:  I can prove my dad is a space alien
    *Writing Prompts Sites:  Tumblr
    *teachhub.com  tap on:  “Lesson and Teaching Tools”along top blue ribbon

Blogging - Publishing Work:
Internet Safety and Copyright Lesson - Common Sense Media    
Class Blog:  (one iPad use)
        *Blogger
        *Edublogger 
Get Kids Writing: 
            www.kidblog.org/ipadwriting
          
        *Edmodo  (Edmodo Website)


Alternatives to Book Reports and Essays:

            *Tellagami

Vocabulary

              *Quizlet  (app and website communicate)
             *PicCollage
           


Additional Resources: 
**List from Technology Tailgate - Create Apps


             App Explore Time!  Choose App Resources Tab at the Top and  
        Explore “Writing  Apps K - 12” 
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Monday, October 7, 2013

Restricting Websites on IOS 7

After upgrading to IOS 7 last week, there were some features this new operating system contained that were intriguing.  One in particular was the ability to control which websites were allowed or not allowed to come through on an iPad.

There are three choices for restricting websites:  All access, limiting adult content, or specific websites only.

If you want some tighter restrictions on content for teens or tweens, a good setting is "limiting adult content".  This setting allows students to navigate to most any kidsafe website, but should block the rest.  If you feel a site is valued and want to have access to that website, click "Allow website" and key in the 4 digit restrictions code.


Another example of using these restrictions is to select sites you want students to use in order to obtain research on a particular subject.  For instance, students could be researching about a state, an animal, Oregon Trail, or Lewis and Clark.  You can collect all the websites you want available for that research, enter them in the "specific websites only" list, and the rest of the Internet will become off limits during this time period.



If you are restricting sites on your iPad, when opening a new tab in Safari you are provided with colorful icon bookmarks for just those particular websites.



Restricting websites on an iPad further than your district web filtering has advantages, and now IOS 7 gives you rights to tinker with those settings.
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Thursday, October 3, 2013

Annotate on PDF using PaperPort Notes

Paperport Notes is a great free iPad app that allows you to annotate on top of pdf documents stored in your dropbox or google drive account.

Certain criteria to look for when previewing free apps are:
  • Does the app push out ads?  Paperport Notes does not.
  • Does the app allow you to work on more than one project? Paperport allows you to work on multiple projects at once.  This is great if you are using an iPad center in classroom where several students share an iPad during the day.  Each student can work on their own project and have it saved in the Paperport table of contents.
  • Does the app only allow you to share via social media? Paperport allows you to export a set of notes a variety of ways, including Google drive and Dropbox.

Paperport allows you to import pdf files from your google drive, dropbox, or straight off the Internet.  While working on a document, you can insert blank pages at anytime between any two pages.  Blank pages can consist of lined paper, graph paper, blank paper, or other documents.




Paperport allows you to annotate with a highlighter, pen, text, and voice recorder over any page on a pdf document.  In the text tool you can create text on top of a page, type on a stickie note, or insert an image.  You can insert multiple audio annotations on each page, saved for playback on demand at a later time.  Some advanced features include speech to text dictation and inserting text using the camera.


When Paperport projects are shared via email, google drive, or dropbox, the document is converted to pdf, thus audio is not shared.  There is an option to share via iTunes Docs Folder which will also share the voice recordings.


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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Primary iPad Classroom

GTKY Activity - PicCollage 

  • Picture Of Self, Name, School, Grade, 2 Stamps 

Basics Settings to Review - Group Time
  • AutoLock
  • Using Camera / Video
  • Take Screenshot
  • Saving a Picture off the Internet
  • PDF to iBooks - Children's Books Forever  - find a book and download it into your iBooks library  
  • App Purchasing 
  • Deleting Apps and Making Folders of Apps 
  • Guided Access 
Tech in the Common Core 

Audio Resource Exploring  (QR Codes) 


 You will need the I-NIGMA app for this activity. 

Making QR Codes on your computer:  QR Code Generator 
Past Blog Posts with QR Codes:


Links that were on our QR Codes:
    Making Your Own Audio/eBook Library 


    Youtube - Channels, Privacy, Managing of Audio Library

    Online Storybook Playlist from IMESD  Save to Homescreen
    Educreations Online Storybook Playlist Save to Homescreen
    App Explore Group Time

    Letter Recognition/Beginning Reader

    Math/Numbers
    Drawing/Fine Motor Skills 
    Creative Play/Games/Puzzles 
    Classroom Management Apps
    Share Out of Apps


    Activity Digital Story Telling 
    Additional Story Creation Options:
    Additional Resources:

    Free App of the Day from Smart Apps for Kids 
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