Media Minute
a newsletter from the windsor locks media center
ipads are coming! ipads are coming!
Or so I’ve heard... We all know there are apps for everything, but which ones are really the most classroom and standards based friendly? Is the app the only way to go? And how can we utilize the iPads and get the most out of our students as workers?
All great questions! Now I may not have all the answers, but I have done some research for you. So, take a moment and check out this installment of Media Minute as it will concentrate on ways to utilize the iPad in your classroom.
So please take a moment and explore!
classroom 2.0
Located on the Library Media Homepage, there is a page entitled, Classroom 2.0.
Here you will find a Symbaloo, a free visual bookmarking site, that I have created just in case you forget the technologies that I have shown you here, in the past, or in the future!
I have also attached links to Media Minute flyers.
Helpful tip to protect our students online
If you want to branch out and have students try a new web 2.0 tool either via the PC or the iPad, and they need to create an account, have them use their student email and password. This way they will keep their social, personal accounts, and their academic, school accounts, separate.
password is how they log on to the computer.
Print Friendly & PDF
Benefits:
- Print Preview: Optimizes and displays content for print.
- Edit Before Printing: Remove images, text, and print only what you want.
- Print or Save as PDF: Print now, or save for later as a PDF."
- Easy upload to website: Add resources to your classpage that do not have to be downloaded. PDFs simply open in a new tab.
Padlet
Benefits:
- Easy to use: Simply click anywhere on the board to add content.
- Instant Collaboration: Email the link to those you want to allow editing rights to. You can also password protect the padlet that is created.
- Multiple Editing Options: You can make it so students can only edit their posts.
- Add Content: Images, Links, Videos, Documents.
- Easy collection for exit ticket responses.
- Create projects. The use of images and videos allow for very robust project creation.
- Pose a debate question. Students post their ideas to the debate.
- Note-taking and outlining.
- Quick research and discussion boards.
Zaption
Benefits:
- Multiple use: Use video, images, passages of text.
- No waiting: Display questions for students to answer as they watch the video.
- Varied Content: Pulls videos from YouTube, Vimeo, PBS, National Geographic, CrashCourse, NASA, TED, and much more.
- Question Types: multiple choice, open-ended, check box.
Educreations
Educreations is a screen capturing tool.
Benefits:
- Record voice and screen to create videos
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Import documents and pictures
Insert webpages
- Send videos over email, youtube, Edmodo, and Twitter
- Embed videos on your website
- Build a digital classroom
Post-it Plus
Use the app to take a picture of physical sticky-notes you have hanging up and quickly digitize them.
Benefits:
- Organize: Once stickies are digitized you can quickly manipulate them and re-organize.
- Collaboration: You can send the digitized grouping to other applications
- Combine: You can combine multiple boards together onto one larger idea board.
Even better than an app!
Benefits:
- Help students research, analyze, and organize.
- Pro/Con viewpoint essays available.
- Browse by: Issue, curriculum standard, type of resource, viewpoint, or general/advanced search.
- Differentiation: 3 different reading levels.
- Resources: Lesson plans are available, step-by-step instructions and worksheets for getting started and wrapping up a research paper.
- Share: Share articles you find on outside applications. Like: Symbaloo, Outlook mail and then you can share it with your classes via onedrive, or put it on your classpage.