iTeach Session 2

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Educational Foundation

iTeach Session 2iPad as Organizer

Housekeeping

Connecting to the SHA Network

Today’s Apps: QR Reader, Evernote, Skitch, Socrative

Purpose of iTeach

Help educators use iPads in a more versatile & creative way

Increase collaboration among all Catholic schools

Goals of Session 2: iPad as Organizer

Gain experience scanning, creating, and using QR Codes in the classroom

Set up Evernote accounts & notebooks

Understand basic features & functions of Evernote

Gain “tips & tricks” of iPad use

Revisit Socrative as a Substitution & Modification app as a formative assessment tool

iPad Integration

We are all technological tools. Tools available to

integrate into student learning.

Thinking Technologically

“Okay, here it is. How can I use it?”

“How can I use this tool?”

“I want to do X. What is the a tool that will help me do it?”

Willingham, D. T. (2010). Have technology and multitasking rewired how students learn? American Educator, 34 (2), 23-28.

Three Instructional Steps

• Objectives ---> Activities ---> Assessment

Use an existing, successful lesson.

The Integration Questions

• Is there an iPad-based tool or feature (i.e. iMovie, Garage Band, iPad Camera) that students could use to develop or demonstrate their level of understanding of a previously stated objective?

The Integration Questions

Is there an iPad app that students could use to demonstrate mastery of a given objective?

QR Reader

Modification and Redfinition

What is a QR Code?

Quick Response

2 dimensional bar code

Can be scanned by a mobile device with a camera & QR reader app

Links to a website, video, image, or text

Where can I find QR Codes?

• QR codes can be found in magazines, on products, on billboards, in stores, and even in schools!

QR Code Ideas

Literacy: Link to an online version of a book for emerging readers

Language: Create codes for classroom objects linking audio files that pronounce & define the word in another language

QR Code Ideas

Social Studies: Have students create QR codes on a map or globe with links to web pages with more information

Math: Put QR codes on worksheets linking to videos showing how to solve a sample problem

QR Code Ideas

School: Display QR codes on your classroom door during Open House

School: Virtual tours that are linked to QR codes around your school

Let’s give it a try...

Open the app --> it will either automatically activate your device’s camera or you may choose to scan

Align the QR Code image in your camera’s window

Creating a QR Code

There are several websites that will create QR codes

The QR Reader app allows you to scan and create codes

Quadrant Partner

#1Exchange QR

Codes

Give-One-Get-One

Jot down 3 ideas for using QR codes.

Get up & find someone at another table.

GIVE one idea from your list & GET one idea from someone.

Move to a new partner & repeat to fill your grid.

A full grid means you get to take a break!!

What is Evernote?

At it’s most basic, Evernote is a way to keep notes organized in notebooks

You can share notebooks

You can insert pictures in notes

Free Account: 6o MB of data per month, 20,000 short notes or 400 pictures

Premium Account: $45/month, 500 MB of data per month

Create an Evernote Account

Email address

Password

Creating a Note

Text

Voice recording (Max size is 25 MB for free accounts and 50 MB for Premium account. If the audio file is greater than these limits, the note is not synched with the cloud. That’s about 90 minutes of record time.)

Adding a picture

Organizing Yourself

Notebooks

Tags

Searching & saving searches

Emailing items to Evernote

Finding your Evernote address

Gives you the ability to email items from apps that don’t export to Evernote (i.e. from any app with an export option)

Sharing a Notebook

Create a Public Link

Invite Individuals

Add email address

View notes

Add a message to verify identity

Quick BreakLet’s stretch, get a snack & drink

iPad Tips

What you might already know:

Speed up your sentences. Double-tapping the spacebar while typing a message will type a period and then a space.

Virtual Keys. Tap and hold vowels, or C/S/N for displays of special characters used with foreign languages. Try the $, period, or dash.

More iPad Tips

Even I learned something new!

Tap & hold the comma key and it will insert an apostrophe.

Tap & hold the period key inserts a quotation mark.

Tapping the space bar with two fingers makes indents two spaces. Go ahead, try it with three fingers... and four!

iPad Shortcuts

Settings

Keyboard --> Shortcut

-.

work1

-/.

Revisit Session 1

•Questions

•Reflection

•Socrative

Your feedback is requested!

Scan the QR code to link to the Survey

Monkey questionnaire.

Thanks for

another GREAT

session!