Breakouts
Breakout 1: How I use iPads in my Classroom - Craig Kemp
- http://mrkempreflects.blogspot.com/
- the best learning occurs when children are working in small groups - so work in small groups around an iPad
- iPads provide anytime, anywhere learning
- wireless makes it possible to go anywhere
- he bought it for reading, writing, spelling, punctuation and Maths (biggest use is for Maths)
- 90% of apps they use are free
- apps interact with the children so it is like having extra teachers in the room
- they have 2 pods of 5 iPads each for 130 children
- he synchs them all through one iTunes account on one computer - thinks this is not such a good idea - need to make sure a number of teachers know the process and the iTunes account password and how to synch them
- caretaker made a pod container to store them for charging
- iPads fairly robust - have dropped 2 an only a few scratches but not broken
- Kids thought iPads - more fun, appealing, colourful, interactive, they like the touch screen , like to learn through playing games, it’s better than doing a worksheet as you interact with the content
- 10 good apps
- Chicktionary - spelling and grammar - free but $1 for extra puzzles
- Jungle Fractions - $4.19 - very good
- Jungle Time - $4.19 - analogue clock - in settings you change the difficulty
- Maths Bingo - $1.29 - great speed challenge
- Toy Story - read along
- Star Walk - $6.49 - can see he constellations when holding up to the sky or to the ground (Northern hemisphere constellations)
- Toontastic - $2.49 - good for struggling readers - can do voice overs
- Wonkey Donkey - $6.49 - reading
- Fingerstomp - $2.59 - making music
- Super 7 - $1.29
- other great apps - Boggle - $4.19
- Garage Band for iPad is superb
- Freddy Fraction is free and a favourite of the children
- Show Me - free - a great way to share Maths strategies as you can talk through your strategy as you write on the screen
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Breakout 2: The Team - Tony Ryan
- you must get children talking
- you can’t rush people getting on with each other
- you need to be able to listen and respond - need to get children to listen and to paraphrase - needs explicit teaching - do a Y chart of good listening (what does it look like, feel like, sound like)
- set up opportunities for kids to get to know each other
- set up a wiki or such for children to put up what they are good at so others can get help from them
- write down on a piece of paper 4 things they have done in their life, no names - then swap them around and each reads them out and the class gets to guess who it is
Breakout 3: Leveraging iLife11 and iWork09 Software Applications for Better Learning Outcomes - Stuart Hale
- Stuart gave an awesome workshop as always and gave us the Tutorials which are in the Resources folder.
Breakout 4: Supporting the Curriculum with Digistore - Suzie Vesper
- login system has changed - you need to register as an individual user then login with those details and then link to the school login and you computer will remember your login
- look at the wiki in the lefthand list of pages and use that - it has catalogues to make finding material easier
- create learning pathways with digistore items - paths are saved in folders in your digistore account
- digital content needs to be embedded into the learning sequence
- a learning path is a collection of resources
- find the resources, tick the ones you want, create a folder, name the learning path, then add the resource to the learning path
- you can make one giant list of all the resources and then copy them and delete the ones you don’t want to make smaller groups
Breakout 5: The Art of teaching in a 21st century Learning Environment - Emma Winder and Jeff Johnstone
- Willow Park School - IB school - use ultranet
- use a mimio, 8 laptops in class
- need an ICT vision plan
- need to look at a new pedagogy that utilises new technologies in the best way
- reward at the end of the week for those exceeding the expectations
- being proactive is a key skill for children to learn
- all children given tasks to be completed by the end of the week or else it is done for weekend homework
- children get a diary for the week - has some planned “meeting times” - open times are for the weekly tasks
- each morning children get to plan their tasks for the day and plan times for group activities
- whole class meeting times are for whole class teaching times - but don’t waste time teaching concepts children already know
- “Opt - in” meetings - optional - go to if they need to - topics for these meetings come from test results or on data from conferences or from online evaluation - now have a suggestion box for these opt-in meetings
- they write their names on a booking sheet for opt-in meetings and for the laptops
- children have their goal sheets and meet with teacher to decide when they have met a goal and then they move onto the next goal
- conference with children twice a week
- they have reflective blogs - use the ultranet and can choose who gets to see it each time you blog - do so whenever they wish to but must do so at least once a week - they reflect on whatever they wish to bout their work - they had to learn to use it in a critically constructive way
- need to teach children to reflect
- need to have high expectations - need routines of putting things away properly etc
- anything on a screen is instantly more engaging - don’t get it but exploit it
- lots of time spent on setting up the system at the beginning of the year
- children need to use a lot of collaboration and this needs to be taught and practiced - but children also need to be able to work individually
- problem solving is a key skill
- develops life skills and prepares them for the future work environment
- do Mathletics
- no homework really but Mathletics and reading
- start off with this programme for 1 day at a time and then slowly built it to the week
Breakout 6: Enhancing Literacy with eLearning - Marama Stewart
- http://enhancingliteracywithelearning.wikispaces.com
- www.pukeokahu.school.nz
- - prezi.com - an awesome presentation tool - like a Powerpoint/keynote but far more exciting
- ICT is the equipment and the skills and elearning is the added value that ICT can add to the learning process
- we need to scaffold our students to create digital content that is worth sharing
- Wordle.net - great ways to use it for literacy ABCYA is a great one that you can print straight from it
- use as a brainstorm - add in everything the kids say and then you can see what many children aren’t sure of as those words are very small
- voki - a recording tool - children can read their stories as an avatar - you don’t have to create an account - you can use the embed code or the email address
- spellingcity.com - practise spelling
- Google Search - look down the side for options
- Google Docs - use it for planning - create class email account through gmail - syndicate meeting - can do slide shows etc
- you need to teach cyber safety - digital dossier
- Voicethread - use it share Maths strategies, use it for moderation - can be private or public - can speak or type in comments
- Flickr - online storage of photos - upload to flickr and then they are the right size to upload to the web - can make slideshows - once you put photos on it you
- can’t remove it
- tell a five frame story - Flickr five frame story - Flat Stanley
- Glogster.edu - can be a time waster - but use it for book reviews
- Wallwisher
- You Tube - get embed code and then untick the share box so you don’t get the related and if you go to quiettube.com - copy url from You tube and put it into quiet tube and click O on top and it gets rid of the surrounding things