April 2012

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Day 1 Problem Based Learning For Markup In Math

Posted by Unknown Friday, April 27, 2012 0 comments

This is only day one, but is a one example of how we "do math" in our classroom.Students used multiple apps in their creation process...SkitchScribble PressPic CollageWhitebo...

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Flashcardlet App

Posted by Unknown Thursday, April 26, 2012 0 comments

We are using Flashcardlet as a way to create review problems throughout our chapt...

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I have been asked many times the size of iPad that is used by our students. We use 16 GB iPads. With the ability to control and update the contents on your iPad easily, it should be the only size you need to buy.See how you can easily control the amount of available space you have on your iP...

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iPad Apps Review & Leads Into Today's Lesson

Posted by Unknown Wednesday, April 25, 2012 0 comments

Students provided a list of apps that could be great for quick creation on the iPad.Their list included:Whiteboard Noterize (Notes)(PaperPort Notes) All the sameTactilisSkitchHaving the students review the formula for Simple and Compound Interest revealed that while the students knew the formula through their findings in yesterday's lesson, they did not know what each variable stood for. For...

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Movement and Apps Engage Students

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The following reflection outlines the process of my math class yesterday while introducing a new concept and new algorithm.I have utilized movement in my class room (up to 4 times in one class period) as a method for stimulating learning.Students moved back to the "direct instruction" area to direct self learning in finding information on the web or in an app related to the "Zero Product Property".After...

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Episode 12 Google Forms To Collect Student Scores

Posted by Unknown Tuesday, April 24, 2012 0 comments

Before this year, I would have students correct their own daily assignments in class. I then had them come to my desk and show me their score while I plugged the score into the grade book. The process of students coming to my desk took approximately five minutes of class time. Multiply that by five days and 25 minutes a week was spent having students walk to my desk, waiting in line,...

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Introduction To Concept - Students Doing Work

Posted by Unknown Saturday, April 21, 2012 0 comments

I believe this lesson typifies how my classroom instruction has changed in the last year. Our scope and sequence called for an introduction to parabolas. If an iPad with searchability features and creation apps didn't exist, our students would have been stuck with their textbook and me for information about this topic.Instead, multiple tools were used to obtain detailed questions...

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Staff Walk Throughs

Posted by Unknown Friday, April 20, 2012 0 comments

Our staff visited our model classrooms on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week. As they visited, they were asked to observe the following items for discussion on Friday.As you implement iPads or any device consider giving teachers the opportunity to implement a total change of teaching!Today we discuss the following...THE IT...

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Single Paper To PDF To Google Doc Reduces Paper

Posted by Unknown Wednesday, April 18, 2012 0 comments

As a long time math teacher with first year iPad experience, I find myself still using some drill and practice for certain math concepts. I have been able to use some of the old math drill and practice problems by photocopying them on our copier. Instead of paper, I choose email option and email the pdf to myself. I then download the pdf attachment and upload it to Google Docs.This...

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Three Tools For Math Class

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As I have mentioned before, tech tools are not the only thing allowed in my classroom. This was a great example of our students using:Calculator appPaper & PencilTic Tac Fractions ...

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Google Form And Images

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I wish Google forms would allow embedding with images. Since they don't and Safari now has tabbed browsing, I have modified it this way!...

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Bamboo Connect Pen Helps In Video Creation

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Google Form For Providing Opinions

Posted by Unknown Monday, April 16, 2012 0 comments

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Different Way of Obtaining Information

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Students become providers and teachers. This student shows a great map that I never found.Really impressed with the creativity that students demonstrate while processing the information they fi...

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Staff Walkabouts

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This week our school district is providing opportunities for staff who will be obtaining iPads for their classroom to view class periods that demonstrate effective integration of the iPad.I created a list of iPad uses with our lessons in one of my math class...

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Whiteboard Groups

Posted by Unknown Friday, April 13, 2012 0 comments

Having whiteboard groups was a great tool for this problem as more than one answer was available....

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Today's Meet As A Back Channel

Posted by Unknown Thursday, April 12, 2012 0 comments

As we watched a 10 minute video on the stock market crash, (we used the quiet tube extension) students were encouraged to use their iPads to join in on a backchannel conversation. Today's Meet was us...

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Student Discovers iPad Keyboard Options

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What the student found...Tutorial to place Emoji Keyboard on you iPad/iPhone/iPod To...

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PowerCam HD camera app and One Minute Videos

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Students completed their "Affects of Westward Expansion on Native Americans" study by forming an opinion on whether the treatment of Native Americans was an example of a holocaust.Students used their Draw Smart Venn Diagram app to create a one minute video on whether they believed or didn't believe that it was a holocaust.The process of recording a video was enhanced by the options on the PowerCam...

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Explain Everything Completed Projects

Posted by Unknown Wednesday, April 11, 2012 0 comments

If you follow the blog regularly, the past two days have been spent reviewing concepts from our math Chapter 6. Our students used the Explain Everything App which is detailed here.Below are links to the public Dropbox links that students uploaded. The whole process has been engaging for students and revealing for the teaching. Students truly can "do more work" and it is totally worth the...

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Recording In Explain Everything

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Draw Smart Venn App

Posted by Unknown Tuesday, April 10, 2012 0 comments

Students will be comparing two main ideas today in class. We used the Draw Smart Venn app ($.99 or $.49 if VPP) which is detailed below. Draw Smart Venn App TutorialAfter students took a screen shot, they went to the photos section of the iPad to crop the picture. Students posted the picture to their professional blog.Students using the Venn AppNot just circles.Locking items in place.Student...

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Video Uploaded To Blog via Dropbox

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Today students will be completing an Explain Everything creation. Students will upload the movie to a public Dropbox folder. Then, students will use the Dropbox app to obtain the public folder link of their creation and paste it into their blog.For the first time, we will be able to upload a video to their blog. (We will be doing this with 1 minute videos that students will upload...

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DiaMath App To Focus Brain On Factoring

Posted by Unknown Monday, April 9, 2012 0 comments

The DiaMath app was used tod...

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Explain Everything As A Personal Review

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Today, students started using the Explain Everything App to review concepts. See their instructions. The problems refer to places in our textbook that give specific instructions on topics. Students will be sharing the creations through the classroom Dropbox accou...

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Search Page Feature on iPad

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Just showed students this feature while they were researching on iP...

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Instructional Reteaching Tool

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I've always struggled with the best way to provide positive, individual feedback for assessments. For the most part, students complete assessments quite well. With the four or five students that struggle, giving them positive, constructive feedback is crucial.Today, I created a video that discussed in detail steps to solve particular problems from the assessment.I used SMARTboard notebook...

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Episode 10 Safari vs.Rover and iTunes U

Posted by Unknown Thursday, April 5, 2012 0 comments

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Explain Everything For One Form of Assessment

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Students created an Explain Everything production based on the mathematical terms from our recent unit of study. Having the Explain Everything app in the students hands again worked wonderfully. As we have used it in Social Studies quite extensively, the learning curve for the tech tool was zero! This allowed for the students to dive right into creating.I am amazed at how engaged...

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Individual Teaching After Assessment

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In the old days, I would teach the review the entire quiz with the entire class. Even if students would have a perfect paper, they would need to sit through explanations of items they already knew.Using iPads, allows for a video to be created with helpful tips to solving problems of the day. In the mean time, students receive one on one instructions to reteach items that were not understood...

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New Digital Hub Set Up

Posted by Unknown Wednesday, April 4, 2012 0 comments

The discovery and use of the Reflection App has allowed for a new set up in my classro...

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Google Form For Math Assessment

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I tried something slightly different yesterday. I had the students complete a paper copy of their math quiz. After their quiz was completed, I allowed them to access a Google form that presented the math quiz in digital format. This format contained places to enter their answers.I felt that with this group of students, having the iPad present while they completed the test was a distraction....

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Problem Solving To Understand Concept

Posted by Unknown Tuesday, April 3, 2012 0 comments

This activity really didn't involve the iPads, but it did involve problem based learning on a small scale. ...

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Reflection App For Monitoring Student iPads

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Thanks to Tony Vincent's Learning in Hand, I learned about the Reflection app for Mac. I decided to try to use this app for monitoring student use on iPads. It works, but only up to 3 at a time. As soon as I click on the fourth iPad, the Reflection app crashes.Three iPads are the maximum!See how it work...

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