Making Connections

Tasks

1. View this presentation and complete the embedded assignments

2. Participate in a “connection activity”3. Post to the discussion forum

Reading

Read this article and explore some of the apps within it. As you look at the apps, use your rubrics to evaluate their usefulness, and be thinking about which ones are about students making connections – social connections or academic connections.

iPad as…

More apps

The next few slides provide a few more apps with examples that will help students make connections. Refer to your evaluation rubrics as you explore. Also, as you look at each one, decide which category of connection it falls into – social or academic connection.

Edmodo

Kind of like a Twitter just for your classroom

Teachers set up an account then invite students to join groups within her account.

Messages can be sent to groups, polls taken, or quizzes given.

Edmodo

Whiteboard Genie

Part of EdmodoMakes an interactive

whiteboard Invite students from

your Edmodo groups to participate

Venn

Make Venn Diagrams on the iPad

Can create on the iPad and save

Can be emailed and loaded onto the web version of the program

Created by ReadWriteThink

Screencasting Tools

Students can use screencasting tools to create a product that shows what they’ve learned and how it connects to what they already know. Screencasts can be shared with the class or more widely.

Screenchomp

Educreations

Video conferencing

Skype FacetimeHangouts (Google)

Each of these apps allows your classroom to communicate with the wider world. You could interview an expert in the field, collaborate with a class in another state, get a firsthand account of a scientific event….there are many possibilities

Now….

Go back to the course to select a “connection” activity to participate in and to post to the discussion forum