Stacey Buckalew

Stacey Buckalew

• Instructional Technology Coach, K-8• Title IID Funds• Math Camp

Stormi Johnson• Title 1 school• 3rd grade teacher• Team Leader• Inclusion class- 22 students

How hard could this be?

Once reality set in……..

Setting up the iPads• Create an ITunes account• Each iPad must be added to account. This in

itself is a small chore, especially when it is time to update. There are carts that can make this job easier.

• Find apps• Update apps• Decide on storage• Check signal strength (IMPORTANT!!!)

Management of iPads• Assign each student an iPad they will use everyday• Teach students how to respect the equipment (cleaning

it, holding and carrying it)• Introduce app one at a time and allow time for practice• Set up generic student e-mails• Set up numbered backgrounds, individual for each

student using https://www.dropbox.com/s/85kownxevk9ss4p

• Decide on procedures to get Ipads in and out everyday

Don’t spend too much time hunting for content apps that fit what you always

have done. Instead, think of new ways of teaching while utilizing the Ipads.

Paula Heiney• Title I School• 5th grade teacher- Reading• Departmentalized Team• 125 students

Expectations:

The Reality• 30 Ipads• 125 students• 6 reading

classes• 1 math intervention class

This was my first indication that having Ipads in my classroom may not be all that I had imagined.

Management Issues: Ipads1. Do I have wireless?2. How do I secure the Ipads?3. How do I get them out and put them

back?4. How do I get apps?5. How do I keep them powered up?6. How do I make sure nothing BAD is done

with them?

START SMALL

Tony Vincent’s Bloglearninginhand.com

Student Management• Student number on iPad • Schedule time to teach procedures• Schedule time to play• Regular use• Small steps• Expect the unexpected

The Unexpected:After 5 classes

Solution: Microfiber cloth

Think

What can I do with the devices that would be impossible without

them?

Set Goals! Think about…….-Increasing differentiation

- efficient assessment- Increasing student access to

teachers

Plan your classroom pedagogy and instruction around the goals.

Allow for student creation!

• Instead of worksheets being replaces by games, have students create their own math videos, post to blogs, or create challenge based projects.

• Students can create and deliver presentations. (Keynote)

Animal Features Lesson

Science and Writing focus• Differentiated• Allowed the ability to work with ALL levels of students

in the classroom.

Planning Lessons• Let students get used to new

technology before you move into higher level thinking• Plan for objectives not just using

technology• TEST, TEST, TEST• Make fast examples of students

misusing iPads

Planning•Decide first on learning

objective• Think of the higher and the

lower level learners•What new output is possible?

Favorite Lesson: Rikki Tikki TaviRudyard Kipling

Kipling Assignment

• Set up author sites in folders• Use PBworks and setup one time • Us Notebook one page for each

class/student

Advantages of Using Ipads in the Classroom

• Notes, worksheets, tests, reports can be delivered electronically (Drop Box)**Have a paper notebook ready along with the Ipad, just in case

• Motivating • Excellent for differentiation• Digital field trips• Instant assessment feedback (Hinge)• Can be used as a remote device for your Interactive

Whiteboard

Disadvantages for using IPads

• No flash player• Time consuming- usage and planning• Time on task• Teacher Envy• Technical issues

Great Math Apps

• Google Everything (Apps, Translate, Earth, Maps)

• Crayon Physics• Math Board • Partial Products• Everyday Math Games• Math Drill Lite• Rocket Math

Math Board

Awesome Reading Apps

• Story Kit (create stories)• StoryRobe (another digital storytelling app)

Productivity apps.

• eClicker (teacher buys host...students download app)• Flexbooks (free textbooks for many subjects)• Labelbox (This is an app that lets you put lablels on

photos. I can see students or teachers taking photos on a geometry hunt, nature walk, etc... and then using this app to correctly label parts in the pic)

• Dropbox• Evernote• Noterize

Favorite Apps

Rocket Math

Rocket Math

Miss Spell’s Class

Reading Remedy

Reading Remedy

Reading Remedy

Reading Remedy

iTalk Recorder

Wish List

• Ear buds with microphones• Otter Box cases• iWorks- Keynote, Pages, Numbers• Sync cart• Mac

Great Support Web Sites!

• http://teachinglikeits2999.blogspot.com/2011/09/quick-ipad-management-tips.html

• http://mobile.discoveryeducation.com/users/login

• https://sites.google.com/site/schrockipad/

Favorite Info Sites• Recommended iPod Apps (Grade Levels & Subjects) Escondido

Union School District - iRead : 2009-2010 https://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=tenru11ELMGfma9kDka2moQ&type=view&gid=0&f=true&sortcolid=0&sortasc=true&rowsperpage=250

• 50 really useful iPad tips and tricks http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/75-really-useful-ipad-tips-and-tricks-688556

• iPod Touch & iPad Resources http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit/36989 • Tony Vincent’s Learning in Hand http://learninginhand.com/blog/

• iPads in Schools http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=26195

Websites• Spelling City.com• Study Island.com•Mr. Nussbaum.com/ios• Discovery Education

Now It’s Your Turn

• THINK TIME: Consider a brief activity in your content area that you think the iPad could enhance.

• Share with your “elbow buddies”• Write your idea on a sticky note and place it

on the “parking lot” on your way out• We’ll include these ideas on the conference

wiki

Bibliography

• Russell Ipad Classroom. (17 August 2011). From Ecstatic Attack to Panic Attack: Gearing Up for an iPad Classroom. Retrieved 30 October 2011 from http://russellipadclassroom.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/ipad-blackboard-275x2971.jpg?w=275&h=297.

• IWORK: The Mac way. Retrieved 30 October 2011 from http://www.apple.com/iwork/• All other clip art from Google Images

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sbuckalew@marietta-city.k12.ga.us