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Intro | Requesting apps | PRSD App List
Intro | Requesting apps | PRSD App List
Introduction
Introduction
Whether it's retrieving, evaluating and organizing information for a purpose, or simply organizing their lives, our students need to understand how technology can be used for personal growth and learning.
Finding a balance between technology, pedagogy and content in our classrooms is a bit of a 'chicken and egg-er', but something we notice is that when you have it, the spotlight moves off of the technology and onto the learning. YES!
To assist with deeper learning it is important that we understand how technology can support creative expression. Our students may understand iPads as a gaming platform, but might not be drawn to it as a writing and publishing station, a video production suite, or as an extension of their voice. To assist in that exploration, we've loaded several creative apps on all our iPads. Please get to know what each app is capable of.
- Popplet: a mind-mapping tool. Great for pre-writing activities, plot summaries, stories about your town, sequencing the steps in a task, outlining a report…
- Book Creator: your young writers become authors with this top-rated education app! Students can combine text, drawings, photos, videos, and record their own narrations of their text — all from within the app! There are a variety of book templates to choose from, and work can be shared as video, PDF or eBook, via e-mail, G-Drive and more.
- ABC - Magnetic Alphabet: a digital slate. Lead a group with word work or number sentence constructions; let students combine these with seasonal backgrounds and other fun stamps. Work can be saved in the photos app for inclusion in a student's digital portfolio or other projects (Book Creator, Popplet, Explain Everything). Video 1: Literacy | Video 2: Numeracy
- Explain Everything: a screen-casting tool. Import a picture, doodle on it, narrate your understandings of a concept, then save the project as a video in the photo library of the iPad. From there, share the video in another project—eBook, website, portfolio, etc. Place a photo from Popplet or ABC Magnetic Alphabet, then annotate it further. Import an eBook (PDF) from Book Creator and EE will distribute it across multiple slides, ready to be annotated and narrated further. Endless possibilities.
- G-Drive: file storage, word processing, slideshows, spreadsheets, drawings, forms and more. iPads configured with class G-Suite accounts become wonderful tools to document learning in centres. Just show your students how to photograph their work and receive instant updates on learning that's happening! (see: Visible Learning Project)
- iMovie turns iPads into one-stop video creation studios... no additional hardware required. Handy templates help create movie trailers. Smooth integration with camera, microphone, music and photo libraries helps young creators tell stories in engaging ways.
- Clips: new for 2017, this little app lets you create movies from photos, video clips, title graphics, and text captions. It seems like another iMovie, except it's better suited to small screens. The products can be saved to Photos, uploaded to GSuite apps, like Drive and Classroom. Here's a very enthusiastic reviewer on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cZ2igKILJnI.
Getting to know these apps, and the potential for student engagement they contain, can be significant. A teacher who knows what the technology is capable of:
- Can select it appropriately to support learning rather than make the learning about the tool.
- Showing students how to perform their tasks independently using the technology and can be freed up to work with small groups or individuals more regularly
- Seeing their pedagogy and content become more effective over time.
A mind-map created in Popplet during a class discussion about cats. The centre graphic was created with ABC Magnetic Alphabet, and imported into Popplet.
Book Creator turns iPads into simple yet powerful publishing stations. Look for the cartoon panels and artwork to amp up the energy of story-telling!
Magnetic ABC.mp4Video: literacy activities in ABC Magnetic Alphabet.
Magnetic ABC Numeracy.mp4Video: numeracy activities in ABC Magnetic Alphabet
Requesting Apps:
Requesting Apps:
How do we get more apps onto classroom iPads? Please view the slides below to learn more about the app distribution process.
To suggest an app, please click here.
App Catalogue
App Catalogue
Here is a current view of our app catalogue. Please disregard the icons that say apps are 'installed'... this view was taken from an iPad.
Are you new to iPads?
Are you new to iPads?
Here are some more resources.
Apple has a set of six (6) guidebooks designed to help educators better implement products like iPad and iOS apps into classroom activities. The iPad Starter Guide shows educators who are new to iPad how to navigate and personalize their device while working with built-in apps and features. The Keynote, Pages, Numbers, iMove and GarageBand guides help educators learn how to create spectacular learning materials. Each guide includes step-by-step instructions to learn basic and intermediate skills, and provides all the material needed to build a small project. The guides are also great for experienced users who want to brush-up on their skills!
See all these Multi-touch books from iBooks here.
There's also the Apple Teacher program... build your skills and earn recognition!
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