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USING IPADS IN THE PRIMARY GRADES
Ways to Foster Communication, Collaboration and Creativity
COLLINS BIG CATIT WAS A COLD, DARK NIGHT
Students can read through the story themselves or have the story read to them.
Then use the Story Creator section to determine students' understanding of the story...
Create slides to show the beginning, middle, end
Create a slide about how the main character was feeling
Create a slide about other animals the hedgehog may have
encountered on his journey
This is an open-ended activty so there are many possibilites.
STORY KIT
Found in app store under iphone onlyUsed to create e-books ( text, photos, drawing and recording of voice)
~ First few times have create a paper draft and then transfer to Story Kit during publishing stage
~ When using photos from the web, have parent volunteers sit with students as they search, talk about copyright of pictures and how to tell what you can use
~ At some point, students feel comfortable enough to create right in the e-book.
~ can share a PDF version with parents through email.
POPPLET
Popplet is a tool for creating idea webs or mindmaps.
*There are many application for this app, brainstorms, story maps, organizing and sharing learning, among others.*The image can be saved to the camera roll and emailed to parents.
After Reading a Biography
In the discovery center children took a picture and labelled it.
Then wrote adjectives to describe the object.
Finally they wrote what it reminds them of and an “I wonder” about it.
From the Discovery Center.
EDUCREATIONS
https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/first-grade/29715185/?s=qlkwh7&ref=appemail
The example is a group math project to first find out how many students are in first grade ,and then the total number of students in the school. You can see how the children used another app, Base Ten Blocks Math, as a tool to support their computation and then used a screenshot in their final product.
Each group needed to make a plan to collect and compile the data. They had to build cooperative group skills to make sure each member played a role. We enjoyed the task so much, we shared our presentations and collected data from the other schools in the district and found a total of students in the whole district.
Educreations is an interactive whiteboard app that can be used for any subject to write, draw, record and explain learning.
PIC STITCH AND TYPIC/TYPIC KIDS
Pic Stitch and Pic Collage are apps that allow you to combine multiple photos in a framed collage.
Typic and Typic Kids allow you to add more framing and text to your pic stitch collages.
They can be used to make posters, share learning and newsletters.
Newsletters
• Began as a teacher lead activity and slowly release responsibility to students
• Jobs included: photographers, collage creators and writers
Pic CollagePic Collage is a similar app with less advertising.
SHOW MECan be used for any subject to write, draw, record and explain learning.
At first, students create a paper draft and then move it into the digital. As their skills progress, can work in app directly.
The example is a biography of a community worker that matched our SS unit.
http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=VzQyZhg
FLIPAGRAM
http://flipagram.com/f/MCCDZdZdvG
Make slideshows using photos and add voice or music
• published students Small Moment stories in this format
• took pictures of their drawings and recorded voice to match illustration
• can easily share with parents through email or embedding on a class webpage
IMOVIE
• Can be used to showcase learning at the end of unit and share it with others
• Students write script, rehearse to practice reading it fluently, record
• Example is 1st graders sharing bus loop rules that they have written with the rest of the school
http://www.bcsd.org/webpages/chutter/news.cfm?subpage=92944
When visiting website, please scroll to the very bottom of the page to access the movie.
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Seesaw is a digital portfolio.
Students can capture theirlearning with…• Photos• Video• Drawing tools• Text• Audio recordingsto share with parents.Parents and teachers can “like” and comment with text or audio recording.Parents access their child’s
work through a personalized QRcode or approval from a email invite.Comments and posts are approved bythe teacher.
Seesaw is a way to share and trackstudent work throughout the year.
CONTACT INFORMATION
• Carol Flanigan ( 1st and 2nd grade teacher)
• Cathleen Hutter (1st and 2nd grade teacher)
