The Use of the iPad in the Classroom a short guide about how to use a variety of iPad applications in the classroom
by Marianna Martini & Olga Dasoura, EFL teachers in Primary Education
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ISBN 978-960-93-5503-2 Μαρτίνη Μαριάννα & Δασουρά Όλγα 2013
Πρώτη Έκδοση 2013 από Μαρτίνη Μαριάννα & Δασουρά Όλγα Αθήνα Ελλάδα
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Table of Contents Introduction Ideas on how to integrate the iPad
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into the classroom Whole class and small group ideas
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Biscuit Dictionary & Flashcards
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Skitch
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Educreations
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Doodle Buddy
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Dropbox
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lino
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Puppet Pals
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Toontastic
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Free Books
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Flashcardlet
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How Stuff Works
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Tiny Tap
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Resources
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Introduction The increasingly globalised and interconnected world of the 21 st century requires that education takes place beyond the borders of the classroom and one way to achieve this is the use of modern mobile devices, the most popular of which, so far, seems to be the iPad. The iPad is a cool versatile tool with a huge potential in education. Its popularity is constantly growing due to a number of its unique features:
It is a device capable of providing enhanced ebooks featuring text, images, video and audio.
It uses touch screen technology which most pupils are already or currently becoming familiar with.
Its light weight, portability and ease of use make it easier to use in the classroom than a laptop or netbook.
It provides a limitless amount of information easily accessed through loads of reference applications for facts, questions, statistics, articles, dictionaries, data and many more.
It can be used collaboratively for the creation of stories, games and other content by the teachers or the students themselves.
In this booklet, it is described how the iPad can be integrated into the classroom and a number of applications are suggested for various teaching purposes.
Finally, a number of resources are provided for
further studying by teachers who are interested in discovering more uses of the iPad for specific purposes.
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Ideas on
how
to integrate
the
iPad into the
classroom
Below are some ideas on how a teacher can start using the iPad in the classroom:
One can put digital books into the iPad to share with students. iBook Author allows users to easily create ebooks and share them with others. Read this guide to learn how to create your own ebook.
Teachers can provide students with a number of interesting learning applications to find definitions, facts, statistics and articles. Some apps are: Dictionary , Wikipedia, and Qwiki,.
Students and teachers can use the iPad to work on classroom projects and make research papers. There are several apps that can be of some help in this regard such as a good mobile browser, such as Safari for IOS.
Flipboard, Zite, and Pulse are also great for reading and finding
ideas to write about.
The iPad can also be used in the classroom for taking notes and there are
some
great
apps
to
help
students
do
so
such
as
Simplenote, Plaintext, Bamboo and Evernote.
Teachers can use iPads to manage classes, assignments and social life using a set of apps such as InClass, Wunderlist and Producteev. There are also many apps to manage your social life such as Twitter, Skype, Facebook, My Pad and others.
The iPad can also be used in the classroom to break the monotony of teaching and give students some time for educational fun by watching movies, playing games, and listening to music.
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Whole class and small group ideas There may be only one iPad in the classroom, which can be used in a variety of subjects and ways such as: ● To review a skill already taught (i.e. phonics, Math) ● To introduce a new skill (a number of whiteboard applications) ● To explain a worksheet or to show a power point (Dropbox) ● To do a Geography lesson (Google Earth) ● To create a video (http://www.convertfiles.com/ )
Or, if the class can afford to have more devices available, small groups may use their own iPad in order to perform a variety of activities, for example, ● To make a presentation on a chapter read (with Educreations) ● To complete a worksheet or other writing assignment (with Skitch or Doodlebuddy) ● To make a creation (with Easy Bake) and turn it into a writing assignment. ● To create their own games and let other groups to play them (with Tiny Tap).
On the next pages you can find a short description of a small number of applications that can be used with younger or older learners for a variety of purposes:
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Biscuit Dictionary & Flashcards
Biscuit is the ultimate language learning sidekick - Faster than a dictionary, easier to use than traditional flash cards or word lists, and always by your side. - "Copy" any word on your mobile to (1) see its definition, (2) hear its pronunciation, and (3) have it turned into a double-sided flash card. - Create your own beautifully designed word list in seconds! - Access your lists from any device. - Take a picture of any text you see in real life, and the words will magically be added to your Biscuit list. - Prioritize and deprioritize words with a simple swipe. - Pop Quiz! Random words from your list will be flashed at you every day at the time(s) of your choosing. Outsource your vocabulary with Biscuit!
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Skitch
Skitch lets you communicate important ideas in an instant. Snap a photo, mark it up, and send it on. Make your message clear with arrows, stamps, text, shapes, and more. Getting your point across has never been easier. → Snap a photo and mark it up by pointing the arrow, then tapping the button. → Use the predefined arrow, add text, and point out what is important. → Send it to your classmates or teacher instantly. → Tap a picture to add arrows, stamps, shapes, text, highlights, and freehand pencil annotations. → Crop or pixelate an image to show only the essential content. → Add a quick caption to your image to provide context.
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Educreations It's Your Personal Recordable Whiteboard. Educreations transforms your iPad into a recordable whiteboard that captures your voice and handwriting to produce amazing video lessons that you can share online. It's as simple as touching, tapping and talking. Our handwriting technology renders beautiful digital ink that looks even better than the real thing. Make a mistake? No problem, you can always undo and redo any of your actions.
Illustrate Your Point. Snap a photo with the iPad camera or choose one from your Photo Library or Dropbox. Sketch your ideas in 10 beautiful colors as you talk through your lesson. Need more space? Add as many pages as you like. You'll never run out of room.
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Great Ideas. Animated. Create amazing animations by touching your photos to move and resize them. Explain a math formula, comment on a famous work of art or diagram some football plays. Whatever it is that you want to teach, now you can do it from anywhere.
Share Your Knowledge. Finished lessons are hosted on educreations.com, where you can choose who is able to watch them. Send your lessons to friends, students or colleagues, or share them publicly on educreations.com and teach the world!
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Doodle Buddy
Doodle Buddy – Paint, Draw, Scribble, Sketch – It’s addictive!
Doodle Buddy for iPad is the most fun you can have with your finger or with all of your fingers! Finger paint with thousands of colors and drop in playful stamps. • Paint with multiple fingers, like in pre-school! • Funny sounds paired with stamps are a blast! • Doodle and stamp all over your own pictures. • Lots of cool drawing tools: paintbrush, glitter, chalk, text, stencils, smudge and more! • 44,000-color picker doesn’t get your fingers dirty. • Share your doodles with your classmates or friends via email. If you mess up, just undo your last stroke. To start over, simply shake your iPad.
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Dropbox
Dropbox lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Access any file you save to your Dropbox from all your computers, iPhone, iPad and even the Dropbox website! Features: • Access all your photos, docs and videos from any device. • 2 GB of space when you sign up -- free! • Automatically save photos and videos to Dropbox and earn up to 3 GB additional free space. • Share a link to even your biggest files— no more attachments! • Add files to your "Favorites" for fast, offline viewing.
Use Dropbox to save and share photos and videos in a snap or even take your work on the go. If something happens to your iPhone or iPad, your stuff is always safe in Dropbox!
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lino
lino is an online stickies service that offers stickies and canvases. You can post, see and peel off stickies on canvases freely. Stickies posted from this iPhone/iPad App can be accessed with PC browsers. - Take a note right away wherever you are You can freely post memos, pictures and videos you take with your iPad, and even files as stickies on a canvas. Stickies posted while you're offline will appear once you're online. - Take advantage of a multi-touch screen Zoom in and out a canvas by pinch gesture. Drag a sticky to move it. You can take advantage of a multi-touch screen of your iPad. - Organize your stickies visually You can move stickies around at any time. Organize your memos and ideas by changing colors of stickies or setting an icon on them. - Never forget special days or deadlines Set due dates on your stickies, and you will receive an email reminder on the morning of the due date. In addition, stickies with due dates can be viewed in Google Calendar or Outlook. - Make your iPad a photo frame Layout your pictures and videos of memories on a canvas, and your iPad becomes a photo frame. Once you make the canvas public, you can show the canvas to your friends, your parents and others. - Share your ideas with texts and pictures lino is an ideal tool to share your ideas and to have a discussion with your friends and colleagues. You can create or configure a group from PC browsers. lino will become more useful if you use it from PC browsers as well as from iPhone/iPad App. Please visit http://en.linoit.com/. 13
Puppet Pals
Create your own unique shows with animation and audio in real time!
Simply pick out your actors and backdrops, drag them on to the stage, and tap record. Your movements and audio will be recorded in real time for playback later.
This app is as fun as your own creativity. Act out a story of Pirates on the high seas, fight as scary monsters, or play the part of a Wild West bandit on the loose. You can even combine any characters however you want!
FEATURES - Create an actor from a photo - Use a photo as a backdrop for your storytelling - zoom and rotate your characters using two fingers - flip them around with a double tap - a wide variety of creative characters to download (including famous talk show hosts and politicians) - limitless possibilities of story creations Your creations are only limited by your imagination!
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Toontastic
Lights, Camera, Play! Toontastic is a storytelling and creative learning tool that enables kids to draw, animate, and share their own cartoons with friends and family around the world through simple and fun imaginative play! With over 2 million cartoons created in over 150 countries, parents and teachers rave about the app... and kids can't stop creating!
Making cartoons with Toontastic is as easy as putting on a puppet show simply press the record button, move your characters onscreen, and tell your story. Toontastic records your animation and voice as a cartoon video to share with friends and family on ToonTube, the app's global storytelling network for kids.
“Kids and parents will agree: Toontastic is fantastic. The app offers a creative and engaging educational experience that builds a critical new bridge between informal and formal learning.� -Michael Levine, Executive Director: Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop
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Free Books
Browse a variety of handpicked collections, download any of a number of 23,469 classic books, and read with the app’s fully featured ereader. Notes, highlights, bookmarks, dictionary support -- it’s all here.
Have you got your own ebooks? Thanks to Dropbox integration and a fantastic ePUB reader, you can just import your books and read anytime, anywhere.
Free Books by Classicly unlocks a world of public domain content, allowing you to acquire the great books of human history. Letters of leaders, the collected works of geniuses, the finest Victorian novels, the plays of Shakespeare, the philosophy of Seneca and Marcus Aurelius, the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Andrew Carnegie. It's all here, along with tens of thousands of other books.
More features: beautiful high resolution covers, author pages, night mode reading, reading statistics , and more. 23,469 of the greatest books in human history, accessible with the tap of your finger. Free.
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Flashcardlet
The official Quizlet app is here! It's a free, fun, and beautifully simple way to study on your iPhone and iPad.
Seamless syncing means all your Quizlet study sets are ready to use. Or search Quizlet's database of over 21 million flash card sets to find content already created.
Pick from 3 mobile-only study modes to suit your learning style and take advantage of audio in 18 languages to reinforce pronunciation and retention. Plus, with full offline support you can study anywhere — even without an internet connection.
Features * Full integration with your Quizlet.com account * Audio in 18 languages * Search 21+ million flashcard sets * 3 distinct study modes - Flash Cards, Learn, and Scatter * Works offline * 100% FREE
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How Stuff Works
Use the HowStuffWorks iPad App to get smarter wherever you are and whenever you want with access to 30,000+ HowStuffWorks articles. Watch archived videos from both HowStuffWorks and Discovery Channel! The HowStuffWorks iPhone App has all of your favorite content, from the thought provoking ’10 Inventions that Changed the World’ to the practical ’10 Ways to Ruin a Job Interview.’
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Tiny Tap
TinyTap is the first user-generated app market that lets anyone create fun educational games from pictures and creative ideas! TinyTap allows you to share and sell your personalized educational games! Creating a game is super simple- all you need to do is add photos or images, record questions, trace the answers and you’re ready to play! TinyTap is the perfect addition to any classroom. It’s now simpler than ever for teachers to create fun and interactive activity books. Teachers worldwide are using the platform as teaching aid in the classroom. TinyTap is also being successfully used in special needs classrooms. Features - Graphics are enhanced to suit new iPad retina display - Option to add own images, use iPad-shot pictures or use images from a web search - Record your own voice over photos so your little ones can always hear a familiar voice - Record a question, an answer and a hint for a rich, interactive user experience - Personalize games with a selection of 20 different soundtracks - Track a child’s progress using the in-game scoring system - Intuitively simple interface – easy for any to create and play games - Easy to share newly created games with friends and family - Personalize pre-made games from the TinyTap store with narration and images
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Resources ● http://heidisongs.blogspot.com/2012/09/tips-forone-ipad-classroom-and-free.html ● http://pinterest.com/mnmann/i-pads/ ● http://elementaryedtech.wordpress.com/2012/04 /11/the-single-ipad-classroom/ ● http://eskymaclj.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/only-1ipad-in-classroom.html ● http://thinkshareteach.blogspot.com/2012/02/te aching-in-one-ipad-classroom.html
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ISBN 978-960-93-5503-2
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