Building Better Readers Using iPads

Title: Building Better Readers Using iPads

Tuesday 9:30

Room: 103

Presenters:

Tom McGee, Ann Noonen

Description:

The iPads are an amazing device in teaching reading skills such as fluency, decoding, and reading in context. In this session we will explore how to convert fiction and non-fiction materials into ePubs.


Audience:

K-12, All subjects, All teachers

Devices

iPads only- iOS7, Pages app

Outline of Presentation:

  1. A Look at Common Core
  2. Exploring FREE reading materials
  3. dotEPUB- converting online text to ePub
  4. Wikipedia- What you didn't know!
  5. Pages- Authoring and publishing
  6. Reflections- How will this change the way you teach?
  7. Share an idea