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New Contributor: I’m excited to say that this month we have a contributing author: Judy Slavinsky Caruso. Judy is an SLP from NY who has been extensively using an iPad in therapy and she is also an old collage friend! She will be sharing apps which focus on inferencing skills and receptive language skills.
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Are you feeling relaxed and positive? It’s that time of the year when you think winter is going to drag on forever. This is the time of year when it becomes more important than every to think positive. Below are a few apps to help you given your learning style…read positive, move positive or listen positive. Think Big Today gives you positive quotes from famous authors; Simply Yoga Free will get you moving and center yourself in calmness; Relax Melodies lets you customize nature sounds to listen to. Keep Calm and App On!
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Augmented Reality Aurasma: One app, many possibilities Augmented reality as been picked as one of the top 10 hot tech topics in 2013 What is AR? Augmented Reality is a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, realworld environment whose elements are augmented by computergenerated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data. Simply put, AR is the layering of photos and animations over a real world environment typically on a computer.
Heralded as a technology of the future, many expect that it will be a while before augmented reality sees widespread adoption, especially in education where the annual K-12 Horizon Report, which analyzes trends in education technology, puts its projected time to adoption in the classroom at four to five years from now.
Aurasma App Aurasma is a free app that Bring tagged images, objects and even physical locations to life with interactive digital content, such as video, animations and 3D scenes, we call Auras. It’s a little tricky to learn how to use so I’d recommend eyeballing this tutorial on how to do it: http://www.aurasma.com/aura/ 3
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Aurasma in Education Augmented reality applications can complement a standard curriculum. Text, graphics, video and audio can be superimposed into a studentĘźs real time environment. Textbooks, flashcards and other educational reading material can contain embedded “markersâ€? that, when scanned by an AR device, produce supplementary information to the student rendered in a multimedia format. Students can participate interactively with computer generated simulations of historical events, exploring and learning details of each significant area of the event site. AR can aide students in understanding chemistry by allowing them to visualize the spatial structure of a molecule and interact with a virtual model of it that appears, in a camera image, positioned at a marker held in their hand. Augmented reality technology also permits learning via remote collaboration, in which students and instructors not at the same physical location can share a common virtual learning environment populated by virtual objects and learning materials and interact with another within that setting.
Thanks to Aurasma, every image, object and even place can have its own Aura. Auras can be as simple as a video and a link to a web page or as complex as a lifelike 3D animation. Use the Aurasma app to unlock Auras and share the experience with friends. Or get experimenting and use the simple tools within the app to create and share your own Auras.
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How Educators are using AR through the Aurasma App Dan McWilliam, who taught Calgary Science’s seventh grade iPad pilot last year, first discovered the technology when he saw a video of an app that could scan ordinary baseball cards to reveal a video of the player and wondered if there were similar apps that could be used in the classroom. McWilliam introduced Aurasma to his class during a Year in Review project in December, intending to show students that they were living history. “The inquiry question was what events from 2011 will become history and which will be forgotten?” McWilliam said. "Students in groups chose an event that they thought would be remembered in 50 years time, and then using their iPads they then created a short iMovie, a short descriptive documentary about what the event was and why they thought it would be remembered." A second part of the assignment required students to create a poster about their chosen event that could be displayed in the school’s hallway. Using Aurasma, they linked their poster to the video, so that "visitors to our hallway would not only get the surface, analog data, but then using a device, they could hold it up and access the digital content," McWilliam said. "Like a QR code but without the QR." The novelty of the technology, along with its prominent placement, ended up bringing a larger audience to the students' projects. "It was really neat to see parents, staff members, and other students being invited by students saying, “Mom and dad, you have to come see our school.” McWilliam recalled. "And then they were looking at each other’s work as well."
20 Ways Augmented Reality is Being Used Right Now in Education: http://edudemic.com/2012/09/20-ways-augmented-reality-isbeing-used-in-education-right-now/ 5
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Using Aurasma in an MD Middle School Classroom: The Team Approach
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When I first ran across Aurasma, I could see the potential for the use it in education but was somewhat flummoxed as to just exactly how to use it. When the app first came out it was confusing as just how to create an aura and then how to connect the a “trigger” picture (the picture triggers the video) to the video was a whole other complicated mess. A few months ago Aurasma revamped the app and made it more user friendly with step by step instructions on how to use it. It still isn’t completely “friendly” but it’s better than it was. After several weeks of playing around with it I created a simple video about how to make hot chocolate in the microwave linked it to a “trigger” picture of a Boardmaker microwave. When the Aurasma app is open and the student holds the iPad over the picture of the microwave the video automatically pops up on the iPad and plays. Pretty cool, eh? Now can you see the possibilities? So I showed this aura to the MD teacher and the COTA and immediately we started to brainstorm and shot another 2 more videos of how to safely slice a potato and linked it to a Boardmaker picture of “slicing”. When the student needs to review how to safely slice something they open the Aurasma app and pass it over the picture and immediately the video pops up and starts to play. We also did one for folding towels, opening a can with a can opener, peeling a carrot, closing a chip bag and using a chip clip and have plans for others. I’m going to have my 3rd grade ED students create a video using Educreations describing a landform of their choice. They will then take a picture of that landform and hang it up on the wall as a “trigger” picture. Each of the students can then just hold their iPad up to the picture and see the video their classmates created for about each landform.
How are you using Aurasma? Let me know and I’ll include it in the next issue. 6
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Audience: Students and teachers of all things! Price: Free What if Pintrest and Facebook got married and focused on education? Well, the result would be Learnist! Learnist is a social learning platform that looks like Pinterest with a heavy dose of Facebook and Instagram. It’s for swapping lesson ideas or teaching or taking quick video lessons on a vast range of topics. Learnist lets you create learning boards that are essentially digitally curated silos of information. But since Learnist was built with education in mind from the start, the learning boards are easy to use in the classroom, assign as homework, or simply share on other social networks. 7
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February: Black History Month Plot out an underground railroad journey using placemarks in the Google Earth App (free)
Then and Now Series: Black History App ($1.99) The Then and Now Series offers an informative look into the lives of 100 people in history. Have students pick a person to use in the app below.
Using the Morfo App (free), find a picture of a famous African American figure and turn them into a puppet to make a speech telling about their lives and what they contributed to the world.
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Bitsboard offers free access to tens of thousands of gorgeous flashcards and carefully curated lessons across dozens of languages. No matter what you want to teach (English, German, Telling Time, Sight Words, ABC, etc.), you will find it on Bitsboard. All of the content on Bitsboard is 100% FREE. NEW ADDITION : Photo Touch is one of the games which can be played from the boards you download or create. Photo Touch can be played with gorgeous flashcards or with words making it ideal to learn Sight Words, Fry Words, ABC alphabet, vocabulary or receptive language games and more. But wait... there is more... COMING SOON - Dozens of Games in one App! While the current version of Bitsboard is just limited to Photo Touch and Flashcards, Bitsboard will soon integrate dozens of the leading educational apps in the App Store.
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recorded the function of each item in question form. Such as “which one would you use to make a smoothy?” The student would then touch the blender and a green checkmark would appear on the blender picture. If the child chooses the wrong picture it will be taken away and the choices will then be narrowed down. You can pick how many pictures you want to appear on a board. This is good for alternative assessment because you can then put 3 to 4 pictures on one board for choices. You can put up from 2 to 16 picture choices.
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How to use Bitsboard in therapy: You can create your own board with pictures and record information about each picture. I used it with my high school MH students prior to a cooking activity. I took pictures of the items and utensils that would be used during the activity and
I made one for my MD high school students for baking a cake. Just go to the catalog setting in the app and type in “baking a cake” in the search box and it will pop up for you to download.
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ReadWriteThink’s Trading Cards app (it’s free) allows kids and teens a unique way to share their understanding of various topics, to build study aids for school, or to create their own fictional world of characters. Create trading cards for any number of categories, including: • Fictional person • Real person • Fictional place • Real place • Object • Event • Vocabulary word Each category has specific guiding questions for creating a dynamic, information-rich trading card. Summarizing skills are critical as they drill down to the most important information to fit on the card. In addition, they become aware of writing for an audience because they can share their cards with others. Part of the appeal of trading cards is being able to sort them into collections. Have kids and teens build a collection of cards for characters from their favorite book, landmarks in their favorite city, events from a period in history they find interesting, or vocabulary words by school subject.
How to use Trading Cards in the Curriculum: Create a set of trading cards about characters in a novel, create a set of cards about people of historical significance, or create cards about places that the students are studying in their geography lessons. Create 2 cards comparing 2 real places or 2 fictional places. Create a card about an event from a historical period. Create a vocabulary card about a new word. The best part of this app is the “guiding” questions it asks to help the student fill in the fields on the front and back of the card. Many of the questions are two part questions. If your classroom has a mix of iPads and computers all students can complete the same assignment because the app and the web version offer the same creation features.
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SoundingBoard App (free)
SoundingBoard is one of those apps that I can’t believe is free. I’ll probably jinx it and they’ll start charging for it. I kept saying the same thing about Scribble Press and they started to charge for it so go download Soundboard right now! Thanks Laureen for showing it to me! SoundingBoard transforms your iPad into the latest communication technology. In just minutes, you can create custom boards using AbleNet symbols or your own photos. Perfect for children in special education, persons on the autism spectrum, and adults with disabilities.
Pick the number of pictures you want on your board.
Add a picture from your camera or the app library.
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Sometimes teaching inferencing skills is harder than trying to nail jello to a tree! Pinpointing apps that help to foster these skills can be just as frustrating. Judy has been working with her 1st and 2nd grade students utilizing the following apps below in therapy.
From the Desk of Judy Caruso: Talk About It Objects – Pro Edition – I really like the recording feature on this app. It let’s me know how the students are expressing their thoughts. Guess Who? Guess Where? What Are They Asking? Super Duper Fun Deck – Allows you to tally their responses and print it out. Describe It Free website: I just recently found this website and am going to use it with my students as an extension lesson to go along with the inferencing unit. The website is called CubertsCube. It is an excellent site for creative writing for kids 7-12 years of age. It’s easy to use after you set up your class. The drawing sections if really easy and fun too.
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Apps to Get Your Blarney On: They’re free and they’re green! Yes you may say, it’s just another day, March 17th but to me it’s a celebration of all that’s right in the world (and in the Claddagh): love, friendship and loyalty. Plus I’m of Irish heritage, like a good party and love the color green! So let’s celebrate with a few Irish apps! St. Patrick’s Day Quizzle – free With 300+ questions in "A St. Patrick's Day Quizzle™", you'll love playing this St. Patrick's Day, Leprechaun and all things Irish edition of Quizzle™ again and again!
ScrapPad for St.Patrick’s Day Scrapbooking – free Make a scrapbook page with pictures, text, backgrounds, borders and embellishments.
St. Patrick’s Cam (free) adds dozens of amazing effects to your camera or local photos. Green hat, green bow tie, green beard and beautiful frames produce you the most unforgettable St. Patrick’s Day in memory.
Leapin’ Leprechaun Lite (free) Help the little guy around Ireland to collect his gold coins.
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For Our OT Friends‌‌..
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Steady Snow Man HD (free) This is a balance game which helps with bilateral hand
Snow Bash! Try your skills at this virtual snowball tossing game.
Grumpy Snowmen Using footballs and basketballs a Michigan Sartan tries to knock down snowmen.
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For Our OT Friends…………..
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For tracking, fine motor isolation and visual closure
Find It Match It (free) "Find it"- in this game, your child will have fun looking for objects hidden among many others. With 3 grid sizes and 3 levels of difficulty, the last one with similar objects but small differences; it is fun but a challenging game.
Sam Phibian (free) Sam Phibian can only make it through the day by
Hungry Tiny Fellows (free) Quickly feed them whilst having fun and collecting all the golden stars! In the begining it may be easy, they will eat everything and will like it. But beware! Sometimes you'll have to try a little harder. The Tiny Fellows can become fussy and make up weird meal
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The Power of Pintrest Jump on Pintrest and check out these boards! Call it electronic hoarding, instant visual gratification or whatever you want but there are some really useful boards to follow with interesting iPad ideas and apps. Lisa Johnson is an ed tech specialist. This board has 702 pins for iPad lessons with more added daily. I don’t think this chick sleeps! You can check her out here:
http://pinterest.com/techchef4u/ipad-lessons/ Another person to follow is Ron Engel (smartapps for kids). He has 37 boards categorizing different apps. http://pinterest.com/smartapps/ EDTECH has 685 pins of technology goodness: http://pinterest.com/my4brownsons/edtech/ Educational Technology Group Board, this board is for educational technologies, new apps, tech products: http://pinterest.com/natuniv/education-technology-group-board/
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Google Earth: It’s free and it’s awesome! Fly around the planet with a swipe of your finger with Google Earth for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Explore distant lands or reacquaint yourself with your childhood home. Search for cities, places, and businesses. Browse layers including roads, borders, places, photos and more. Visit the Earth Gallery to find exciting maps such as real-time earthquakes, planes in flight, hiking trails, city tours, and more.
Pack Your Bags, We’re Going on a Trip! Give your students these addresses and let the students locate and identify the landmarks that goes with each of them using the Google Earth App. 5, Avenue Anatole France Champ de Mars 75007 Paris, France Independence Ave SW & 23rd St SW Washington, DC 20001 100 Art Rooney Ave Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 100 Alfred Lerner Way Cleveland, OH 44114
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This way to Map Apps Geography, orienteering, directionality, topography … these are all skills that can be taught, reinforced and enhanced through map apps. I’ve been using Wundermap with my students in the iPad Lab for the last several weeks and they love it!
Wundermap (free)
Ok, what’s so great about this map app? Well for starters it’s a map with weather and webcams from all over the world that allow you to view up to date outdoor shots of weather. I particularly like to look at the webcam shot in Puerto Rico! So here’s what it does: shows CURRENT CONDITIONS from the world’s largest network of personal weather stations – including temperature, dew point, humidity, precipitation, wind speed, wind direction and pressure 4. It gives you 4 DAY FORECASTS – enter a location in the search box or scroll across the map and the forecast will update for the center location in your view. It shows ANIMATED PRECIPITATION (Radar, US only) ANIMATED CLOUD (Satellite) as well as LIVE WEB CAMS – literally view live weather from across the world. You can choose your map’s interface – satellite view, street map view or a hybrid. You can also select between Fahrenheit and Celsius. 18
Wundermap Uses:
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Corkulous, Videolicious, Talking Tom & Ben News
1. You are planning a vacation with 4 different stops around the world, gather the data you need at each location and then make a list of clothing you would pack based upon the data collected. Using Corkulous make a board showing screen shots of the place, a brief description of the weather and pictures of the clothes you’d pack. 2. Students can identify how global patterns of atmospheric movement influences local weather using the WunderMap app. students would use the internet to acquire weather data and information on pressures and fronts. The students could then use Videolicious app to create a “weather forecast” presentation. Images for Videolicious could be screenshots from the app and actual images taken of the weather outside. Students would also be provided with the vocabulary (e.g. front, high pressure, low pressure, air mass, etc…) they must use in their presentation. 3. Students can create weather reports using the Talking Tom & Ben News app. Prior to recording their weather report, students gathered weather data in their journals using personal observations and the app WunderMap 19
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How Far Is It To………. Distance Measure App (free): This app lets you measure the point-to-point (great-circle) distance between two or more waypoints on a map or measure the surface area defined by a polygon having three or more points as its corners. It uses online maps so it needs an internet connection.
Measure Map App ($1.99) lets you quickly and easily measure distances, perimeters and areas with laser sharp precision! It even takes into account the curvature of the earth’s surface. 20
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Virtual Traveling: Pack Your Bags!
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Use one of the virtual tour apps below from the List.ly list to go on a little trip. Use one of the ideas below to describe the trip, place or people you meet. Personally I’d want to go to someplace sunny!
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1. Write about a character that lives in one of these places. 2. Write a descriptive paragraph or poem about the setting including the sounds and sights. 3. Create a movie or cartoon using these worlds as a backdrop (e.g. screenshots) for inspiration. 4. Compose a postcard from one of the destinations as if you have actually visited there. Don’t forget to add a picture on the front of it. 5. Discuss how time has changed various location and write a letter to someone living there in the past describing to them what the changes look like.
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My friend Jen (tech supervisor for Trumbull County ESC) and planned and hosted our first “Appy Hour” at the beginning of January. It was a get together for therapists and educators who use iPad with their students. The turnout was great with 38 people attending. We spotlighted 3 apps and broke into 3 user groups. The time flew by and everybody left with many new apps, which they downloaded on the spot and ideas on how to use them. We are looking forward to our next Appy Hour on March 7th!
Tips for Starting Your Own “Appy Hour” • Spotlight a few apps in detail but spend no more than 5 minutes on each one • Have an agenda • Know who your audience is made up of (speech therapists, OTs, elementary/JH/HS teachers, administrators, others) • Have eats/treats/drinks (you don’t want people to be “hangry” (so hungry they are get angry) • Have a moderator for each breakout group to keep the app sharing moving • Have a way to collect feedback (SurveyMonkey) to make future improvements
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Address: 100 DeBartolo Place, Youngstown, Ohio. MCESC is off of Rt. 7, turn onto DeBartolo Place Drive after the Duncan Donuts and it is straight ahead on the left. This Appy Hour is for all educators and therapist who use iPads with their students. Shoot me an email if you’ll be attending @: tootieu@yahoo.com
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