Ipads for Administrators

D.A.T.April 13, 2012

Goals

• Share several app’s and tools and discuss their practical use for administrators

• Allow colleagues time to share an app/tool that they find quite useful as administrators

App’s & Tools

• Turboscan• Dragon • Quickvoice• Ecove• Slideshare.net• Zite• Edmodo SOMSD Admins code 26bxus

Effective group work ?

Teacher talk v. Student talk10:39Teacher focused the class and asked, “Which was the hardest question toanswer? A few questions were discussed by Teacher and the class. Shereferred one question to the class, “She is saying the question is confusingWhat is happening in the text? It does seem like a lot is missing. “

Teacher: To what areas is Islam spreading? To Where?

Anything we need to add?

Teacher then discussed the geographical advantages the Middle East in thedispersal of Islam..10:45Teacher referenced a wall map of the Middle East to illustrate her points. Studentswere not attentive to this presentation.

What did you want students to think about and do here?

Teacher talk…

Between 10:39 and 10:47, Mr. Preston tallied theamount of ‘teacher-talk’ versus the amount of ‘studenttalk’ during the facilitated discussion. We discussedthat 84% of the time featured the teacher talking andwhat was discussed during this time period.

Taking photos/videos during class visits…

Q & A