Today was the iPad camp at TCEA. Karen, Clay and I all had presentations for the camp.
The opening keynote was interesting it was a panel of students and audience participants that shared some of their favorite apps, and how they were using iPads in their schools.
The app that surprised me the most was the Adobe Reader app, both students listed it as one of their favorites for completing what would be paper assignments on the iPad and then sending them back to their teachers.
My session was the first one up of our teams presentations, I presenting using Digital Scavenger Hunts with an iPad and I received quite a bit of positive feedback. It seems that they liked the strategy and I had provided example for the PK - K level as well as all the way up to high school. So I think they saw the relevance at all levels.
Next up was Karen's iPad-tastic Vocabulary. I had not seen her present this before and I really liked her workstation plan and the multiple ways she had the students engage with the vocabulary word. This strategy is again one that I think can be scaled up to any grade level. In the session where I helped with her back channel she covered using Educreations and Popplet Lite as tools for the students to collect their examples of their vocabulary word and present them back. Great examples.
We then hurried over to help Clay with his Popplet Lite session. Clay showed all of the ins and out of using Popplet Lite, how to add multiple different kinds of content, and also that there is an online version that students can use that has additional features such as collaboration, and adding video.
I then headed back to the main ballroom to help out with their Tech Slam event. They had different people come up and share an app or a tip for using iPads. I shared the Morfo app for creating quick (less than 30 second) videos from the point of view of particular characters. Some of the apps that I would like to take a closer look at were,
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The opening keynote was interesting it was a panel of students and audience participants that shared some of their favorite apps, and how they were using iPads in their schools.
The app that surprised me the most was the Adobe Reader app, both students listed it as one of their favorites for completing what would be paper assignments on the iPad and then sending them back to their teachers.
My session was the first one up of our teams presentations, I presenting using Digital Scavenger Hunts with an iPad and I received quite a bit of positive feedback. It seems that they liked the strategy and I had provided example for the PK - K level as well as all the way up to high school. So I think they saw the relevance at all levels.
Next up was Karen's iPad-tastic Vocabulary. I had not seen her present this before and I really liked her workstation plan and the multiple ways she had the students engage with the vocabulary word. This strategy is again one that I think can be scaled up to any grade level. In the session where I helped with her back channel she covered using Educreations and Popplet Lite as tools for the students to collect their examples of their vocabulary word and present them back. Great examples.
We then hurried over to help Clay with his Popplet Lite session. Clay showed all of the ins and out of using Popplet Lite, how to add multiple different kinds of content, and also that there is an online version that students can use that has additional features such as collaboration, and adding video.
I then headed back to the main ballroom to help out with their Tech Slam event. They had different people come up and share an app or a tip for using iPads. I shared the Morfo app for creating quick (less than 30 second) videos from the point of view of particular characters. Some of the apps that I would like to take a closer look at were,
Documents by Readdle, Slideshark, Appolearning, Math Duel, and Youtube Capture.