iPads: From Rookie to Productive in Three Days

Here are the resources that we used the past three days.  There are links to apps, files, and websites that you will (hopefully) find valuable as you delve into the world of using the iPad in the classroom.  :)

iPad Boot Camp

Tips and Tricks to Use With the iPad

Here is a link to the Prezi we used in the training.

Tips and Tricks for the iPad
**Great website with tons of tricks that we did not cover in the training!**

Productivity Apps/AppSort
Reminders
Doodle2Go
Notes
Jumbo Stopwatch
SimpleDice
EventBrite
Paper
LiveBinders
Seatcharter
iRandomizer
Evernote
iBooks
Dragon Dictation
DocScanHD
StickyNotes
DocAS Lite
RL Classic
CloudOn
ClassDojo
Contacts
Scan
SlideShark
Wunderlist
Calendar

  

Productivity Scenarios
These are the apps you found to use in these scenarios.

Planning a Conference: 

Wunderlist

Calendar

Seat Charter/Smart Seat

Attending a Conference:

DocAS

Calendar

Evernote

Contacts

StickyNotes

Dragon Dictation

Planning a Grade-Level Field Trip:

I Plan Field Trips (free)

TooNoisy

Sit or Squat

Back to School

Be Seated

Class Dojo

Pinterest

Teach Thought

Notes, Evernote

Science and Math Night Out

Prezi

Educreations

iRandomizer

Timer

Sock Puppet

Evernote

Nearpod

Socrative

Grant to Visit Another Country

Evernote

SeatCharter

Dragon Dictation

Nearpod

FaceTime

DocAS Lite

High Maintenance Student

Edmodo

Calendar

Reminders

Evernote

Thirty Apps in Thirty Minutes!

App Party!!

Here are the screenshots of my folders on my iPad.  Some of the apps are listed above, but there are some news ones for each category as well!

If you find any cool, new apps to share, please comment on this post, or email me at mhutton@scs.k12.al.us so that I can repost on my blog for others to benefit. You know I'm a bit of an electronic hoarder... :)

Web-Based Tools for Teaching and Learning

This module is full of great web-resources and tools!  Check them out!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/K5MX9XM

Brainstorm

•SurveyMonkey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/

•Response-O-Matic: 

http://www.response-o-matic.com/

•Kwik Surveys: http://kwiksurveys.com/

Flisti: http://flisti.com/

•www.voki.com

•Mixbook: http://www.mixbook.com/

•

•Blabberize: http://blabberize.com/

Answer Garden

§Wordle

§Tagxedo

ABCya!

•Storylineonline

•ReadWriteThink

•Diigo

http://www.diigo.com

•Symbaloo

•http://www.symbaloo.com

http://www.sweetsearch.com

•Delicious: http://delicious.com/

•Google Bookmarks: https://www.google.com/bookmarks

•StumbleUpon: http://www.stumbleupon.com/

•Portaportal: http://portaportal.com/

•ikeepbookmarks.com

•www.jogtheweb.com

•Alabama Virtual Library http://www.avl.lib.al.us/

•Famhoo: http://www.famhoo.com/

•AskKids: http://www.askkids.com/ 

•KidRex: http://www.kidrex.org/

•SchoolWAX TV: http://schoolwaxtv.com/

http://www.toondoo.com

•http://bit.ly/MZHFJ3

•www.glogster.com

•Edublogs: http://edublogs.org/

•Wikispaces: http://www.wikispaces.com/

•WordPress: http://wordpress.com/

•PBworks: http://pbworks.com/pbworks-basic-edition (basic edition is free for educators)

•Blogger: http://blogger.com/

•Edmodo:  http://www.edmodo.com/

TeachersFirst – Wikis: http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/wiki

•Bubbl.us: http://www.bubbl.us

•MindMeister: http://www.mindmeister.com/

•XMind: http://www.xmind.net/

•Mindomo: http://www.creazaeducation.com/mindomo

•Gliffy: http://www.gliffy.com/

•Popplet: http://popplet.com/

•PrimaryWall: http://primarywall.com/

•Padlet: http://www.wallwisher.com/

•PiratePad: http://piratepad.net/

•Educreations:  http://www.educreations.com/

•Web Guru

•Pinterest

•www.freetech4teachers.com

•www.superteachertools.com

•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbQBJHNxwjE&feature=player_detailpage

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•http://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org/challenges-2/free-tools-challenge/

http://alex.state.al.us/

Autism Spectrum Disorder Resources

Here is a great podcast from the Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX) website that address the Autism Spectrum. Have a look at it--there is valuable information on it!

http://alex.state.al.us/podcast_view.php?podcast_id=1279

Check out these articles on mainstreaming children with autism into the general education classroom:

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr034.shtml
http://www.kelbermancenter.org/assets/documents/IncludedStudentswithAutismAndAccessToGeneralCucciulum.pdf
http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/EJ890580.pdf
http://www.tinsnips.org/Media/autism/CMNCHAR.pdf

These are other links to resources on autism that are quite informational:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002494/

http://www.autismspeaks.org/

http://theautismresearchfoundation.org/resources/about-autism/
http://www.educationworld.com/special_ed/iep/inclusion.shtml **This one is awesome!

Web-Based Tools for Teaching and Learning

This module includes TONS of great web resources.  Take some time to explore them...there's no end to what you can find!

Survey tools:

Survey Monkey

Google Doc Presentation

Google Docs Home --forms 

•Response-O-Matic:
http://www.response-o-matic.com/

•Kwik Surveys: http://kwiksurveys.com/

•Flisti: http://flisti.com/

Creativity Tools:

Voki

•Mixbook: http://www.mixbook.com/

•Blender: http://www.blender.org/

•ZFlip: http://www.zflip.com/

•Blabberize: http://blabberize.com/

Word Clouds:

Answer Garden

Wordle

§Tagxedo

§ABCya! (Grades K – 5)

§WordItOut

 •Storylineonline

•ReadWriteThink

Bookmarking Sites:
•Diigo http://www.diigo.com/

•Delicious: http://delicious.com/

•Google Bookmarks: https://www.google.com/bookmarks

•StumbleUpon: http://www.stumbleupon.com/

•Portaportal: http://portaportal.com/

•ikeepbookmarks.com

•www.jogtheweb.com


Student Friendly Search Engines

http://www.sweetsearch.com

•Alabama Virtual Library http://www.avl.lib.al.us/

•Famhoo: http://www.famhoo.com/

•AskKids: http://www.askkids.com/ 

•KidRex: http://www.kidrex.org/

•SchoolWAX TV: http://schoolwaxtv.com/

Cartoon, Comic, and Online Story Creators
 http://www.toondoo.com/

•Thinkfinity’s Comic Creator: http://pivot-stickfigure-animator.en.softonic.com/

•Pixton: http://pivot-stickfigure-animator.en.softonic.com/

•Xtranormal: http://pivot-stickfigure-animator.en.softonic.com/

•Storybird: http://pivot-stickfigure-animator.en.softonic.com/

•Make Beliefs Comix: http://pivot-stickfigure-animator.en.softonic.com/

•Animoto: http://pivot-stickfigure-animator.en.softonic.com/

•Animoto Education: http://pivot-stickfigure-animator.en.softonic.com/

•http://pivot-stickfigure-animator.en.softonic.com/

•Kerpoof ***

•DoInk

•Pivot

Blogs and Wikis

kidblog.org/6thGradeSWATTeam

•http://www.glogster.com/

•Edublogs: http://edublogs.org/

•Wikispaces: http://www.wikispaces.com/

•WordPress: http://wordpress.com/

•PBworks: http://pbworks.com/pbworks-basic-edition (basic edition is free for educators)

•Blogger: http://blogger.com/

•TeachersFirst – Wikis: http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/wiki/ (ideas for how to use wikis in the classroom)

Mind-Mapping Tools
 •Bubbl.us: http://www.bubbl.us/

•MindMeister: http://www.mindmeister.com/

•XMind: http://www.xmind.net/

•Mindomo: http://www.creazaeducation.com/mindomo

•Gliffy: http://www.gliffy.com/

•Popplet: http://popplet.com/

•PrimaryWall: http://primarywall.com/

•Wall Wisher: http://www.wallwisher.com/

•PiratePad: http://piratepad.net/

Other content-based resources:

•Web Guru

•Pinterest

•http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

•http://www.superteachertools.com/

 

http://alex.state.al.us

Learning Asset


http://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org/challenges-2/free-tools-challenge/

Incorporating Video in the Classroom

Fifth and final ALEX module that we are presenting this week...this is all of the resources that we will share to help incorporate video into the classroom.

Google

Google Doc

Penguins Dialogue Video

Toucan Rap

BrainPOP

Skype

Where to find videos...

•ALEX’s gallery360°: http://alex.state.al.us/staticfiles/podcasts.php  (AVL podcast)

•Teacher Tube: http://www1.teachertube.com/

•Mathtrain TV: http://mathtrain.tv/

•Next Vista: http://www.nextvista.org/

•School Tube: http://www.schooltube.com/

•Ted Videos (ideas for using some TED videos): http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-with-technology-articles/effective-uses-of-video-in-the-classroom)

•National Geographic: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player

•Edutopia http://www.edutopia.org/video

•Nova: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/video

•Radbox (a video aggregator): http://radbox.me/

•Snagfilms: http://learning.snagfilms.com/film/category/k-5

•New Learning Institute: http://newlearninginstitute.org/

NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/nasaeclips/search.html?terms=&category=1000

iTunes

YouTube

Alternatives to YouTube:

•School Tube - Excellent safe place for students and teachers to share and view video.

•WatchKnow -  Wonderful site with 1000's of videos for students in multiple subjects, organized in a clear, precise way.

•Neo K-12 - All videos on this amazing site are a 100% safe. Also, there is a complete suite of educational tools for educators to choose from, such as quizzes, presentations, and more.

•Snag Learning - An interesting site that brings documentary-style films to engage students in discussion and classroom participation.

•Qwiki - A very new (alpha) site that brings an innovative twist on video experience. While the content is still growing, one can't help but notice that amount of promise that is shown here.

•Explore -  Great site, similar to Discovery Streaming for educational video. Users can either view on the web or download for their own convenience.

•Kids Tube -  Excellent filtered site for kids' videos.

•Teacher Tube -  Excellent site for educators to find videos for students and share in the wonderful educational online community.

•Vimeo - A nice very popular alternative to YouTube. I recommend using with a filter of some sort, or view all content before introducing to students.

•Clip Blast - A huge collection of videos can be found on this nice site; must be used in a filtered environment for safety reasons.

Copyright and Fair Use Resources:

•The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education from the Media Education Lab, Temple University (http://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/mediaeducationlab.com/files/CodeofBestPracticesinFairUse.pdf)

•Copyright Confusion Wiki A tremendous resource w/scenarios, links, videos, Q&A, presentations, etc. (http://copyrightconfusion.wikispaces.com/)

•http://www.libraryvideo.com/articles/article6.asp

•Thinking Through Fair Use Analysis Tool (http://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/fairthoughts)

•"Copyright Law and Distance Education: Overview of the TEACH Act" by Kenneth Crews, updated 2010 (http://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/files/2010/08/teach-act-summary-by-kenneth-crews.pdf)

•Additional up-to-date (2010-2011) context from Columbia University (http://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/special-topics/distance-education/)

Fair Use Analysis Tool http://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/fairthoughts

WallWisher

ALEX

•Using Video in the Classroom http://www.edutopia.org/youtube-educational-videos-classroom

•Free Video Clips Listing http://videoclips.mrdonn.org/list.html

•Sample Video Viewing Guide - http://www.docstoc.com/docs/3474977/Viewing-Guide-for-The-Last-of-the-Mohicans-This-video

•Discussion on using video in the classroom http://education.ted.com/showthread.php?73-How-do-you-use-video-in-the-classroom

•Video Utilization Strategies http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/ntti/resources/video2.html 

End-of-Module Survey