First I wanted to tell you about the site I found with self paced free online classes. It is called modernlessons.com. There are many courses but a few that interested me were ones about ipad uses, 10 free websites to use in education and iPads in education. There was even one on a site called learnist.com. There is a free app that can also be downloaded in order to make online slide shows where each page is like a Pinterest pin and links to the blog or site you want. I was looking at one called "Teaching with iPads" by Steve Lai.
If I can get our technology department to agree, I would like to have the iMovie app on our iPads. Then the kids can film, photo, and edit a booktrailer or short movie on the iPad. I watched several short videos about the app and how to edit and it would be a neat project to try with the older kids. With younger students, they could be filmed telling about their research on a topic and all the clips easily brought in and shown to the groups. Possibilities are endless.
I spent the last week or so looking for some good apps that might work individually or together to use in the library. I have had Scribble Press for a while, but thought of a few ways for the students to write and illustrate their own book online. I wrote a short on to try it out and see what it looked like. You can find it HERE. Students can use the drawing feature within the app or use other apps or camera to create illustrations for their stories. There are a few free apps that let you make a drawing and save it to your camera roll. From there it can easily be input into the Scribble Press book. PBS kids app lets you take a picture of yourself and add one of their characters and stickers onto of your picture. Might make a fun Author's Picture for the back cover.
I also tried our the app croak.it which lets you record for 30 seconds and create a link or share it in other ways. I made a quick one for a booktalk on Pie by Sarah Weeks. You can hear it HERE. What I was thinking was having the older students pick a book that they liked as a younger student and re-reading it, then write a few sentences about the book to make someone else what to read it, and use the croak.it app to record their talk. Kids then send me the link and I can make a QR code with them, print them and attach the QR code to the book in the library so that students could hear the recommendations. Thought this might be a nice beginning of the year project to work on with the iPads and technology.
Lastly I used the app stickyboard2 and thought of many uses including posing a question and having the students come and leave a sticky note on the app to answer the question or pose their own. I took a screen shot of the one I tried and will try to post it here if I can. You can then save, send or share the stickynotes as a pdf or as text which is a cool feature.
Well, Thanks and that's all from here for now. Can't wait to try out several new apps and applications this school year.
Cool! So much great stuff! I'm installing apps as I read your post. :) Thanks so much for sharing so many great ideas and tools. And congrats on being the first to finish.
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