Hi Everyone and welcome to the first edition of “Swipe!” Swipe! is a brief magazine about the iPad, apps and how to integrate the use of the device into the classroom. Swipe will appear randomly in your email box from time to time with reviews of apps and ways to use them with your students. Some content will be curated from others and some content will be authored by myself. You can download the PDF of it or you can download the app called “Issuu” and then click on the link I will be sending to you to view Swipe! in the Issuu app.
An iPad Fairy Tale (paraphrased from “TechChopShop”) I remember reading this article several years back and I believe it is just as relevant today as ever. Iʼm going to tell you a little fairy tale…… Once upon a time, a 5th grade special education teacher was given an iPad for her class to use by an administrator. After some initial excitement of holding this shiny new device, the realization hit her….. how was she supposed to make a single iPad work with a roomful of students? So the iPad was promptly loaded with skill and drill apps and game apps and banished to a corner table as a “station” and was sometimes used as a reward for the students if they got their paper and pencil work done first or their behavior was “good”. The end. Oh wait, should I have warned you that this fairy tale didnʼt have a happy ending? Sorry about that, but using such a sophisticated device for skill and drill or non educational games is not a happy ending for the iPad, students or teacher in this story. Unfortunately, this isnʼt an isolated incident. I doubt that this teacher was not the only one who used her new device in such a way as described because there werenʼt enough for all of the students (or even for the students to share). While classroom management with one iPad going around the room might seem a bit daunting, the good news is that it can be done successfully! The iPad is an amazing tool that can support and extend learning opportunities. The key to successful implementation is to provide ongoing iPad professional development, tech support, sharing of ideas and creative thinking. So letʼs get started! J
The views and information found in this e-zine are solely of my opinion, and do not represent those of my place of employment or school district.
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{iPad as the teacher’s pet} Tony Vincent (www.learninginhand.com) has identified 7 ways the iPad is used in the classroom and I believe it is the most concise listing I’ve seen. Here is the link to the original article: http://tinyurl.com/ldmu4jf
Here is an excerpt from the article: “An iPad can be a teacher’s very handy assistant! Last year I published an infographic titled "iPad as the Teacher’s Pet” and I have updated it to version 2.0. It’s all about what can be done by Pad-using educators, whether or not their students have iPads. It is divided into seven sections: •Show on a Big Screen •Manage the Classroom •Assess Student Work •Interact with Students •Manage Your Files •Make Instructional Media •Learn New Things (I’d also add- review concepts) There is a really cool infographic about these seven uses you can download from here (it’s a big file size so it might take a little time to load): http://tinyurl.com/m8mdmrx
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Let’s take a look at the first 2 of the 7 uses of the iPad in the classroom. First up is “Show on a Big Screen”. There are both wired and wireless options. We will be using the VGA adaptor connected to the LCD projector.
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You can control your projector connected computer wirelessly and walk around the room while seeing and using your Mac or PC on your iPad. This can be done for free by downloading Doceri your Mac or PC then use
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“Manage Your Classroom” Use your iPad to randomly select students, monitor noise levels, display messages, track behavior, and count down time. These apps are free of charge unless otherwise noted.
Input student names into Random Name Selector then draw them randomly out of a hat. Monitor noise levels, tally points and display a learning intention with Silent Light - .99 cents. Enter text into iBanner to create a scrolling sign. Use Class Charts to create seating charts and record student behavior. Use ClassDojo to track student behavior by awarding and subtracting points. Put a digital sand timer on display. Best Sand Timer can be set for any number of minutes. The free version displays ads. We’ll cover 2 more of these 7 uses in the next issue of Swipe!
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Acceptable User Policy for Students Chances are, if you’re teaching a group of younger students (elementary or middle school, though high schoolers are certainly not known for being super careful with their devices either), you’re likely concerned about how they’re handling your expensive classroom iPads. There are a ton of “tough” tablet cases out there designed to save your device when it is dropped, banged, slammed, smacked, otherwise injured, but just trying to protect them for when that happens isn’t getting at the root of the problem. Teaching students how to properly handle their devices so that they don’t get broken (or are less likely to, since obviously accidents happen) is a necessary approach (though I’d still recommend padding those iPads to high heaven in whatever case is most appropriate for your classroom needs).
You can go here and get 7 different groovy little posters (created by Sandy at www.soaringthroughsecondgrad e.blogspot.com) like the one above, for free to print out, and hang up in your classroom: http://tinyurl.com/mgj8mel
I created these posters for middle school and high school students: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_7HLVQM7EuR3J0NGQzcHpiUmM/view?usp=sharing
By Katie Lepi @ edudemic.com
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How To Safely Share a Youtube Video There are times when you find a good Youtube video and you’d like to share it with your students however you do not want the to see all the other “stuff” that is on the Youtube site or you want to have them watch it on their own…… what do you do? The answer is a website called:
safeshare.tv
Take the link you have created for the Youtube video with safeshare.tv and create a QR code that when scanned will make the video start to play on the iPad directly.
Find the video you want to watch on Youtube. Copy the URL.
(safeshare.tx may be blocked on your filtering system) Here’s how it works: SafeShare is a website that takes YouTube videos and gets rid of almost ALL of the advertisements and junk around the main video. Safeshare even removes the ads that are often showed before popular videos. Using it is VERY simple and I really don’t know why I did not convert all my videos before now. All you do is copy the YouTube link and paste it into Safeshare.tv (see image below) Then you are given a new link to use instead of the YouTube link. Save that to your favorites and you are set.
Go to safeshare.tv and past the Youtube URL into the box. It will generate you a new URL. Copy
Open the QR Code Creator app and paste in the URL to create a QR code. Save it and print it out.
Use the “Scan” app to scan the QR code to watch the video.
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Side by Side App Marzano’s 6 steps to effectively teaching vocabulary http://tinyurl.com/nxedf4l includes the practice of having students compare and contrast 2, 3, 4 different items to expand descriptive vocabulary and lengthen sentence structures. The Side to Side app is free and can be used to display up to 4 different websites or pictures from a website at a time. Let’s get all Thankgivingie (not a real word) with this screen shot I created to talk about turkeys with the Side by Side app. Looks just like a bunch of turkeys right? Well, technically it is, but it’s also an opportunity to view and compare and contrast 4 non-linguistic representations (the fancy pants word for “pictures”) at one time. Just look at all the vocabulary going on there……..a male turkey is called a Tom, a female turkey is called a hen, a baby is called a poult, a bunch of turkeys together is called a flock, the turkey in the upper left hand corner is strutting, beaks, wattle, claws, feathers, a fanned out tail, a snod (the creepy long piece of skin dangling over their beak). Whew! There’s a lot more going on there than just of a bunch of attractively challenged birds! 8
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Pic Collage Pic Collage is one of my favorite apps because it is quick and easy to use in a variety of ways. Because I’m in “deep like” with it, I will be giving ideas on how to use the Pic Collage app in just about every issue! Let’s get back to comparing and contrasting to work on vocabulary and descriptive language…… the Pic Collage app is a great way to do this. The beauty of Pic Collage is that you can add picture, text or both and it has templates to insert 1 to 8 pictures at a time. Here I created a compare and contrast collage for 2 snowmen……
Here’s how to do it: 1. Go into the app start a new collage. Go to the bottom left corner and click on the template icon…
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2. Choose a template…. I’m going to choose the one with 4 square.
3. Pop in your pictures and add text. This can be “dynamic” meaning that students can type in descriptive words for the scarf, buttons, etc…
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Post It ! K A E R F Note
Yes, I’ll admit it, I have an extreme problem with the over use of Post-It Notes. Most days my desk is littered with them as well as having them stuck up around my computer monitor, on my iPad case and possibly on myself. Post-it Plus is a free iPad app (you have to have iOS 8) that you can use to turn your physical sticky notes into digital sticky notes. You just snap a picture of a collection of physical sticky notes and have them quickly digitized. Once your notes are digitized you can rearrange them, share them with collaborators, or send them to another application like Dropbox or Google Drive. If you have multiple sets of notes you can combine the best notes into one board on the Post-it Plus iPad app. Can’t wait to try it out! How to use it in the classroom: Post-it Plus could be a good app for digitizing the output of a brainstorming session that started with physical notes. In a classroom in which only the teacher has an iPad or there are only a few iPads you could have students carry-out brainstorming sessions with physical notes with words or pictures the students create then go around the room with one iPad to create a digital record of those notes. Then project the app through an LCD projector or interactive whiteboard to show students all of the notes and talk about which notes should be sorted into various categorized boards in the app.
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How to turn a static worksheet into a dynamic worksheet using the Pic Collage App……….. I know, here I go again with the Pic Collage App but this really an ecologically sound way of using technology to save trees….aka – worksheets. You can take a picture of a worksheet or a picture of an image and set it as your background. Setting it as a background keeps it in place so that it does not move around, then students can type over it or place the stickers in the app over areas or word to demonstrate understanding. This is a worksheet I created in Photoshop then emailed it to myself and saved it in my camera roll. I wanted to make it so that my students could type a sentence into each white box so I set it as a background in Pic Collge App. Here’s how to do it: 1. Take a picture of the worksheet then open a new collage. 2. Tap on the + sign at the bottom of the screen and choose add a photo from your camera roll. 3. Choose the picture of the worksheet. It will pop onto your screen. 4. Double tap on the picture and then choose “set as background”. 5. The picture of the worksheet will now fill up the screen and be set as the background. 6. Drag small picture of the worksheet into the trash can on the top right of the screen.
I use these “Currently” sheets to expand expressive language skills, improve executive functioning and metacognition. To teach temporal time concepts, you can even change the “currently” to “yesterday”, “last week”, “last month” or even “tomorrow”. Students love them! You can grab the above December worksheet at: http://tinyurl.com/pbyvn4r 11
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To Use With the News-OMatic App
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News-O-Matic covers relevant news of the day in an engaging way, exploring its many facets through images, maps, videos, and games. Whether your interest is sports, science, world news, or wacky events, News-O-Matic delivers what’s making the news! It offers a window to the world and beyond helping readers become global citizens! Each daily issue features: * Five dynamic news articles * Rich and detailed images, videos, and illustrations * Informative maps relating the user to the location of every story * News Room for drawing or asking questions about the news * An interactive history-based timeline * Puzzles, games, fun facts, and many other elements for discovery * Audio support for challenging vocabulary and full stories read aloud * Improved design * Content adapted for 3rd & 4th Graders * Bilingual articles (English and Spanish) * Bilingual Read to Me (English and Spanish) * Save or print articles * Highlight text * Citations * Access to 10 past editions * There is also a 1st, 2nd grade edition * Every entry is reviewed by a child psychologist.
Unlimited access is for life for $9.99! Download the free trial to check it out. It would be great to use during morning meeting!
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Imagistory is a cool iPad app in which children can narrate picture books. The free version of the app provides students with 2 wordless picture books (the paid one for $7.99 for 6 books). Students then record themselves telling a story about the pictures in the books. They can record and re-record stories as often as they like. Imagistory is easy to use. To get started open the app and select one of the free picture books. When you’re ready to record allow the app to access your iPad’s camera and microphone. (The app asks for camera access so that you can take a picture to use as your author profile). As soon as you open the book the app is recording your voice. As you swipe through the pages the recording continues. At the end of the book you can save play the story back, save the story, or record a new version of your story.
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How to use it in the classroom: This app can be used with one iPad to go around the table and have each student add to the story with each new page. This promotes active listening, expressive vocabulary, understanding and developing a plot and story line, story closure and thinking in a sequential manner.
Have you tried the Collins Big Cat Apps? Cool Free interactive Books!
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You want to find that perfect image to use in an app to teach a concept the Google Image search is letting you down. Well, there are other sources to find images…..images which you have permission to use. First, let me tell you about Openclipart. You can search thousands of images and use any of them for free. Every single image is public domain, so they don’t even require you to give attribution.
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The second free image repository I want to tell you about is Pixabay. It has clipart and photographs. Just like Openclipart, images on Pixabay are all published as public domain. You can copy, modify, and distribute these images, all without asking permission and without giving attribution. Pixabay’s search box has some options to help you find what you are looking for. You can even filter your search to a specific category like animals, people, education, and emotions. Here’s a heads up though……you’ll probably see images that look great and might be perfect for your project at the top of the results. If you look closely you’ll see that these are sponsored images. Sponsored images link to Shutterstock. Shutterstock’s images are not public domain. They cost money. So when using Pixabay, train your eyes you ignore those beautiful sponsored images and keep looking down the page.
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A Clean Machine! News stories today are warning that the glass screens on iPhones, iPads, and iPods can harbor bacteria. While that's kind of a big "Duh!" moment -- after all, who hasn't looked at a smeary iPad screen and wondered what kind of bugs are multiplying on the glass -- British researchers in one study found that mobile phones carry 18 times more bacteria than a flush handle in a men's room. Ewwwww! For viruses that have taken up residence on iPad screens, a single touch can easily transfer them to your fingertips, which then pass the viruses to your eyes, mouth, or nose. Hello, flu! This isn't something new; the New York Daily News swabbed four iPads in NYC Apple Stores in June, and lab results found Staphylococcus aureus (a common source of staph infections), Candida parapsilosis (a yeast), and Corynebacterium minutissimum (a common source of skin rashes). Makes me want to go wash my hands just typing this! Ugh! Yuck! Ewwwwwwweeeee!
The reality of it is this…..Kids + germs = germy iPad. Now I’m not saying you’re going to contract Eboli from your iPad screen but what I am saying is that there can be all kinds of funky filth on an iPad screen after kiddos use it so it has to be cleaned…..everyday…..sometimes many times a day. If hand washing is the best way to combat contagious funk then it only makes sense that cleaning your iPad screen will do the same. Apple does not recommend using anything other than a little water and microfiber towel on an unprotected screen. But, if you have your iPad encased in an Otterbox then spray on my brothers and sisters because your screen is protected! I have a friend who wipes off her iPad Otterbox screen with hand sanitizer. I have personally used rubbing alcohol wipes on the Otterbox protective screen. If you have an Otterbox you really can use just about any disinfectant spray on it and then wipe it off immediately. Use a microfiber
cloth which will keep your screen scratch free.
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Less Swiping & Tapping… More Language Please! We all have those students who grab the iPad, open up a new app and just start swiping and tapping at the screen without any idea of what they are suppose to be doing or how was supposed to be used. So when this occurs, my dilemma as a speech pathologist is how to slow this type of student down to make them use verbalizations to request what they need on the screen as well as having them understand what they need to do to use the app effectively. Hmmmm, sound familiar? I’ve tried
Cookie Doodle - .99 cents Cookie Doddle is an awesome little app and as I tell people, it will be the best .99 cents you’ll ever spend. You can teach various prepositional concepts as well as math concepts such as symmetry and following of 1, 2 and 3 step directions of increasing verbal complexity.
What does it do? This application is a little different from other cooking apps in that the students can do the work of making the recipe or create an instant cookie. Cookie Doodle uses real cookie recipes and asks children to add all the ingredients into the “bowl” themselves. This encompasses verbs such as 16
shaking the salt shaker, cutting butter into pieces, pouring vanilla, and mixing the dough. Children have to roll the dough out and bake it. After baking the cookie, it can be decorated with frosting, piping and candies. It can then be emailed and printed out or made into a virtual puzzle when children can put together on the screen.
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How to use it: To slow students down and provide opportunities for them to verbally request items in the app to decorate a cookie, I took screen shots of the choice charts, emailed them to myself, inserted them into a Word document, printed them out and laminated them.
You control the iPad! Bring up the Cookie Doodle app on the iPad and then present one of the choice charts from the picture on the right. Ask the student “what do you need?” They will then request “I need the blue frosting” or “I need a red heart”, etc. Then lay down the iPad so they can see the screen and have the student tap on the item they just requested. Continue in this manner until the cookie has been created! Remember you control the iPad and there will be NO swiping or tapping until there are verbalization or approximations of verbalizations! You can grab these carts here: 17
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Another way to use the Cookie Doodle App is to make cookies, take a screen shot of them, email them to yourself and then print them out. The student then looks at the picture of the cookie and recreates it by taking about the items needed to decorate the cookie. You can use the choice charts again to help the student request the items. I made the cookies above and you can grab them here: http://tinyurl.com/m495fcn
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I’m playing with……..
Stick Around App - $2.99 I just bought this app the other day and haven’t had a chance to really explore what it can do but the review seemed very promising. Play, design, and share sorting and labeling puzzles! Stick Around comes with an assortment of puzzles, including ordering decimals and classifying rocks. It's the player's job to drag the stickers from the tray to their correct spots on the background before time runs out. The best feature of Stick Around is that you can create your very own puzzles in just 3 steps: 1. Use drawing tools and/or import photos to make a background. 2. Add stickers with text, images, and/or drawings. 3. Indicate where stickers belong by making an answer key.
For your desktop…… If you have ever come across an infographic that you thought would make a good classroom poster, you should take a look at Block Posters. Block Posters is a web-based tool to which you can upload a high quality graphic then divide it into letter-sized chunks for printing. Print out each section and put them together on a poster board to make your own poster. Use in the Classroom…… Most teachers and students don't have ready access to printers that can handle poster-sized paper, but they do have access to standard letter-size printers. When you find a great infographic that you want to display in your classroom, Block Posters is a good tool to use to print it out. Want to create a giant jigsaw puzzle? Block Posters could be useful for that too.
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On the horizon…. iPad with the Google Classroom: Read more by clicking on the link below. http://tinyurl.com/mndxafn
Edible Apps: because techie cannot live on iPad apps alone! WARNING: I made these and they are addictive!
Buffalo Pretzels Sticks 1/2 cup buffalo wing sauce (I used Frank's) 1/2 cup butter 2 Tbs Worcestershire sauce 2 tsp onion powder 3 tsp garlic powder 16 oz bag pretzel sticks
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