iPads

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Permalink Reply by Brad Nikunen on September 13, 2010 at 7:58am

Is anyone using their iPad for grading in the elementay classroom? What apps are you using? Anyone using pages and/or numbers for grades?

Permalink Reply by Bekah Wadkins on September 19, 2011 at 2:39pm

I really like  teacher pal

Permalink Reply by Shelly Moses on January 11, 2012 at 6:42pm

Essay grader is phenomenal. I give my students a five paragraph essay of feedback about their five paragraph essays. There are comments precomposed which are editable plus places for you to add you own comments. No more writing the same comment ten times, just choose it from the array of choices whic are categorized wonderfully. You can then e-mail the comments to students, parents, or yourself.

I have looked at grading apps but am worried about losing the grades without backup. I do them in a spreadsheet now but am considering switching to Google docs because it is easier to access from home than my school network which is spotty when being used remotely.

Everyday Math has some good math games, brain pop has a daily video for free. I love stack the states and stack the countries along with the Oregon Trail.

Ipadeducators.ning.com has loads of suggestins

Permalink Reply by Patrick L on September 14, 2010 at 5:54pm

Here's my blog post I wrote about the pros and cons of my experiences using the iPad as a student. The same issues would apply for K12.

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/leading_from_the_classroom/

Permalink Reply by Steve Tanksley on October 16, 2011 at 11:04pm

I use an iPad, especially for progress monitoring.  However I also am using to facilitate with learning. Kind of a digital portable marker board.

Permalink Reply by Linda Gillham on December 1, 2011 at 1:38am

Hi JoAnn.  We have looked at using iPads in the classroom this year and have gone with Laptops for upper and lower school students at this stage. A few colleages are using iPad, includng myself, and I find the iPad helps me with all the administration task of being a teacher. I love the way I can contact a parent during class if required - great classroom management tool.  Looking at download text books for my students to use and also interactive support material to support essential content.  So far, no drawbacks from me.  However, I have elected to purchae my own iPad and use it in my classrooms.  Not sure when the school will follow. 

Permalink Reply by garyb on January 23, 2012 at 5:54pm

Now iBook2 has arrived..how do people use epubs and pdfs on the iPad??

..though LION is needed on the mac to run ibook2 this cuts out many people with the need for PPC(powerPC) running on snow leopard..VMware is one solution i run - both LION and SL run simultaneously as well as win7 (and winXP)

my typical workflow is (was until last week!)

provide pdf for download from google website (school badged as an .edu website)

students view in ibooks, create album folder to organsie their 'books'

take screen snapshot, go to camera roll insert into CBB( creative book builder) where they can comment annotat etc..when research is completed they can publish their epub from CBB

benefits are no reliance on strong wifi signal, all sorts of issues with CISCO waps dropping signals as students move around between base stations ( over x40 base stations on campus) work lost not saved to google docs

browsing websites can only go so far, lack of multitasking requires to have 'something' on the ipad to store and edit written/typed material

only web sourced material with citation is accepted

..btw this approach is secondary y8 and y9 science ( in australia)

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