TIS and THAT
Back to School Integration and Career Exploration Sept. 22, 2017 VOLUME 6, ISSUE IV
Getting to Know You by Candi Legursky and Jennifer Noll
As we start back into the school year, and we are learning about our students and classes as a whole in order to group them in projects and/or centers, have you thought about using Applications and Processing Software to integrate technology? At our school, our students just received their 1:1 device today. An exciting time for sure, but for many of our students, they have not worked with iPads before so it takes time to introduce our students to the devices. We are learning as a school not to simply use the device as a substitution for a worksheet, but to have our students create presentations and projects to turn into us for evaluation. Although we have been in school for 2 weeks, we are using this week to have students create presentations about themselves on the iPad. One of the ideas we are using is for each student to use Keynote (or if you have Microsoft accessibility-Powerpoint) to create a trading card for themselves. On the trading card, they are
taking a picture of themselves and then telling us information such as their birthday, favorite subject, family members and writing a goal for themselves this year. They are able to format shapes and text boxes to add the information or for younger students who may not have the capabilities, the teachers are creating a template and using AirDrop to send out the template. During ELA time, students can practice their speaking and listening skills by presenting their trading card, and the audience can ask questions to the presenter. Another great idea to getting to know your students is to use TouchCast Studios (app for iPad) and a green screen to create an autobiography of themselves. They can use a news cast background and add pictures from their lives to explain the importance of the people and events. You can also have them use a timeline to present important dates in their lives. The TS app can then be used throughout