Youngstown ipad integration workshop

The iPad Integration Workshop @ Youngstown City Schools August 30, 2013 Melissa Ustik, M.S., CCC-­‐SLP m.ustik@mahoningesc.org

iMovie – “A Year of iPad Integration”

iPad App Rubric: http://kathyschrock.net/pdf/evalipad_creation_final.pdf

What do you think makes a great app?

http://learninginhand.com/blog/ways-­‐to-­‐evaluate-­‐educational-­‐apps.html

Common Core App by Mastery Connect

Let’s evaluate the following apps using the rubric and tell what standard would they link to. What kind of goal could you work on with the app.

Jumbled Sentences 4 Photowall HD Toca Boca Monster Kitchen Sentence Maker Free Things That Go Together Action Words Alligator Apps TinkerBox Story Spine ScrapPad Doodle Buddy

OT Find it-­‐Match it My Mosaic

Choosing an App: Work Backwards

1. Outcome: What are do you want the learning outcome to be? Common Core Standard?

2. Product: What do you want the student to create to show what they know?

3. App: What app can be used to meet the needs of 1 and 2?

Focus on the learning outcome/standard (what can students actually do) then work backwards. ……

Example: Goal: I want the students to show that they know the difference between 3 kinds of angles (right , obtuse and acute) and can identify them in the real world.

Outcome: Produce a short video drawing the angles while describing them and then show pictures from the real world and drawing the angles in to the pictures while describing them App to use: Educreations (free).

Goal: I want my students to identify (by pointing or verbally naming) kitchen appliances based upon a description of its function.

Outcome: Student will point to the appliance given the choice of 3 pictures after hearing a brief description of its function.

App to Use: Bitsboard (free). Choose from a catalogue of predetermined boards or easily create your own custom board.

A great analogy: Greg Kulowiec wrote in his article “Ipads are Like Hammers”: Start with the end goal in mind, the inspiration, the challenge and then determine if an iPad can be used to effectively, not to teach new content to students, but to allow them to achieve the end goal. To demonstrate their learning and share that understanding with their peers, a broader audience and even potentially the world.”

He says that a contractor does not look at a hammer and immediately has a vision of what the house he wants to build but rather he looks at a house and draws inspiration from that to complete his end goal.

The same is true for iPads…..the product that can be created is the end goal, the iPad is the tool that will help you get there just like the hammer is tool that will help you get to the end goal of building a new house.

Where in the World are the Apps?

Where to find apps: 1. Google Search 2. App Store 3. List.ly 4. Scoop.it 5. App of the Day 6. Networking with others (Tri-­‐county iPad User Group called Appy Hour) 7. Pintrest 8. www.techchef4u.com

How do you find your apps?

Show What You Know Apps Videolicious Puppet Pals Educreations ScreenChomp ShowMe Scrap Pad Corkulous Pic Collage

Cheap is Good But Free Is Better: Free Apps

Pic Collage

This app allows you to create a page with photos and text. The best part is that you can trace with your finger around the picture to “cut it out” and then the pictures can be layered on top of each other. The page is dynamic, can be edited and automatically saves.

5 Ways to integrate it into the curriculum:1. Science: Extended Standards: Have the student choose a biome (let’s say desert). Have them go to Safari and Google “desert”.

Have the student save the picture to the camera roll then open Pic Collage and set the picture of the desert as the background.

Next, go back to Safari and find 6 animals that live in the biome: 2 that fly; 2 that crawl and 2 that run or hop and save the images to the camera roll. Open pic collage and bring the animals into the picture; cut around out and place them within the picture. Bring up the text tool and label each animal. Here you are hitting the language concepts of verbs, identification/vocabulary.

2. Career Study: Researching a Vocation/Career

After taking an interest inventory, the students realistically determine their top 3 choices of jobs then go on the bureau of labor statistics website and find the following data: mean yearly income; type and years of schooling needed; job outlook.

The students then take the information and create a poster with the information collected.

3. Language Arts: Identifying the Problem/Solution: 2nd grade Take a picture from a book you’ve read to the students in this case Steven Kellogg’s “The Missing Mitten Mystery”. Have them create posters about the problem and solution. They could also create an alternative ending.

4. Sorting and Categorizing: Since this app is dynamic meaning you can move and manipulate objects it’s great to use as both a teaching and then as an quick pre and post assessment tool. I used it with my MH students to teach what food items would go in the refrigerator or cupboard. Download a bunch of food items to your camera roll and add them to your collage then have the student sort and move the food items under the pictures of the fridge and cupboards. When you are ready to reassess or use it with another student, just mix up the pictures of the items and slide them down to the bottom of the page.

5. Vocabulary: Illustrate a concept or vocabulary word through a collage of pictures with text such as recycling, chemical/physical reactions, sustainability, preposition concepts, quantity concepts in the kitchen (teaspoon, Tablespoon, Cup, etc.)

How would use the Pic Collage App?

Puppet Pals HD – free but $2.99 for Director’s Pass

With this app you can turn yourself or others into puppets or with the Director’s Pass you are supplied with many character sets such as “farm, space, pirates, presidents, political figures, talk show hosts, aliens, Christmas, zombies” and several others with up to 5 changeable backgrounds. You can then create and record a puppet show with the puppets moving them and you talking for them.

5 Ways to integrate it into the curriculum: 1. Social Stories -­‐ Let’s say you have a student that has a difficult time transitioning from the computer back to her desk and has a melt down every time the timer goes off to do so.

Well, with Puppet Pals you can take a picture of the student and turn her into a puppet, take a picture of the computer and one of her desk then create a puppet show social story showing how to correctly transition.

2. Interview a Leader: After studying the 3 forms of government: monarchy, dictatorship and democracy, students pick a leading figure from one of them and create 5 questions they would want to ask the leader. They get a picture of the leader, take a picture of themselves and turn themselves and the leader into a puppet. The students then pair up with one being the interviewer and the others being the leader.

3. This Day in History: Pick a character or two from back in the day and have them talk about what life was like. Pick time period backgrounds. Some ideas: October 24, 1929 (the Great Stock Market Crash), the first Thanksgiving, July 16, 1969-­‐ First man on the moon.

4. Create a Public Service Commercial: Have the students draw robots created from recycled parts, take a picture of them and turn them into puppets. Create a commercial about the importance of recycling using the robot puppets as spokesmen.

5. Weather Reporter: Kids can turn themselves into puppets or use a character and create a weather report puppet show. Save the show and broadcast it through the school’s TV monitors.

My Top 7 Paid Apps: 1. Corkulous 2. Making Sequences by Zorten Software 3. Cookie Doodle 4. Puppet Pals HD Directors Pass 6. Scribble Press 7. SeeTouchLearn

My Top 6 Free Apps 1. Pic Collage 2. Trading Cards 3. Bitsboard 4. Videolicious 5. Educreations 6. Tiny Tap

My Top 7 Apps for reference and productivity – all free 1. TxTools by PediaStaff 2. Big Calculator Free 3. Percentally $2.99 4. iTalk 5. iTunes U 6. Inkflow 7. NoteRecord

My Top 3 Map Apps – all free 1. WunderMap 2. Google Earth 3. Map Pad

My Top 3 Simple Communication Boards Apps – all free 1. ChoiceBoard Creator 2. Sounding Board