The iPad Comes Alive with Augmented Reality Technology and Education | Box of Tricks Posted by José Picardo on September 4, 2012 Introducing new vocabulary in an engaging way is one of the greatest challenges for language teachers. Remembering vocabulary is arguably the greatest challenge for language learners. That’s why I’m always on the look out for new and exciting ways to present vocabulary items to students in a memorable way. Wordfoto is an iPhone and iPod app that allows you turn any photograph into a mosaic made up of your chosen words, which can then be used to reinforce vocabulary learning or other concepts, not just in languages, but in a variety of other subjects. Once you have created your picture-mosaic, you can tweak the colour and fonts further by choosing from some preset themes. If you don’t own an iPhone or an iPod – or if you don’t fancy spending £1.49 ($1.99) – you could consider Tagxedo, a browser based tool that allows you to achieve similar results for free. What do you think? José Picardo
2013 iPad App Lists – v1.0 | iPads 4 Learning @ Manor Lakes P-12 College Finally. After weeks of deliberation. After weeks of deleting, adding, changing, swapping, etc… We’re done! Below you will find our 3 Application Lists for our iPad Programs in 2013. The lists have been designed with student learning in mind with focuses being placed on creativity, collaboration, modification and redefinition. If you have any suggestions to these app lists, we’d love to hear from you. In the mean time… happy viewing! MLP12C EY iPad App List 2013 MLP12C MY iPad App List 2013 MLP12C SCMY iPad App List 2013 Breaking Research: Most Apps Bad - EdTech Researcher My EdTechTeacher colleagues Beth, Greg, and Tom have been pouring over educational apps. Lots and lots of apps. As practitioners, their instinct is that the vast majority of educational apps are terrible. Shovel-ware. Flashcards. So, we've developed a framework for thinking about teaching with tablets that focuses on using a handful of curation and media creation apps: one for annotation, one for curating, one for web browsing, one for audio creation, one for video creation, one for screencasting, and so forth. But, of course, our position is based on practitioner-wisdom and experience—both of which I value highly—rather than research—which I also value highly. So, I looked forward with great anticipation to receiving a report from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and the New America Foundation on Pioneering Digital Literacy in the Wild West.
iPad App Evaluation for the Classroom Jumbled Sentences – A Series of Free Writing Apps for iPads Jumbled Sentences is a series of five free iPad apps designed to help students learn to construct sentences. The apps provide students with drag and drop activities in which they sort jumbled words into sentences. The sound can be turned off and on in each app. When the sound is turned on students can hear the words read them by the narrator. The narrator also reads the sentences that students construct. The app provides students with immediate feedback on each of the sentences that they build. Click here for Jumbled Sentences 1 Click here for Jumbled Sentences 2 Click here for Jumbled Sentences 3 Click here for Jumbled Sentences 4 Click here for Jumbled Sentences 5 Tags: ELL, ESL, free ipad app, free ipad apps, language arts
PrometheanPlanet This article was originally written in Spanish by Andrés Carlos López Herrero and is translated by Leysi Ortiz. An app (short for "application") is a computer program designed to allow the user to perform specific tasks. In general, the term applies to program apps for new mobile devices, tablets and smartphones. The above diagram shows the location and relationship of the front end user, applications and other existing software. (Source: adapted from an image from Wikipedia.) Students can reinforce their learning with the many free or low cost educational applications available each day in greater numbers in the market. One of the main features of next generation mobile and multi-touch tablets is that their use and handling is extremely simple and attractive to the younger audience. Eduapps: recommended web with over 28,000 educational apps for teachers and students, all classified by educational levels. Enjoyed this?
Ways to Evaluate Educational Apps I am conducting a series of workshops in Florida and was asked to share a rubric to help teachers evaluate educational apps as part of the workshop. In 2010 Harry Walker developed a rubric, and I used his rubric (with some modifications by Kathy Schrock) as the basis for mine. (Read Harry Walker's paper Evaluating the Effectiveness of Apps for Mobile Devices.) I kept in mind that some apps are used to practice a discrete skill or present information just one time. Others are creative apps that a learner may use again and again, so it's a challenge to craft a rubric that can be used for a wide span of purposes. My rubric also emphasizes the ability to customize content or settings and how the app encourages the use of higher order thinking skills. Here's what I chose to spotlight in my rubric: Relevance The app’s focus has a strong connection to the purpose for the app and appropriate for the student Customization Feedback Student is provided specific feedback Thinking Skills Engagement Sharing
20+ Classroom Blogs to Enjoy I spent today working with staff at Christ Church Primary School in Brixton, South London – and we were predominantly talking about the use of classroom blogging to support learning. During the day I was tweeting to ask people to share their own class blogs as I was working with different year groups and it was lovely to look back this evening and find so many all across the world that people sent me – so a big thanks to those of you in this list. I have gathered them up and indictaed where the cass blogs are from and thought I would share in a post for everyone to benefit from. And here are the class blogs from Christ Church Priary School too – they would be so pleased if you and your classes dropped by and added a comment or two. Make sure you spend some time exploring the different blogs and look for links to other school blogs they have displayed and I hope you perhaps find a class to link to and share some stories with. Please share your class blog in the comments below
Techie Teacher: Free Apps All Month!! It's hard to believe that March is already here! Did you know it's National Reading Month? To celebrate, Auryn, Inc. is giving away a free interactive reading iPad/iPhone app each day of March! Today's interactive book is by Dean Koontz. Take advantage of this amazing promotion and download each free book daily! This will be great for your primary classroom or your own children! Check out the free book schedule below and don't miss out!
The $20 App Starter Package After recently being crowned the 2010 word of the year by the American Dialect Society, “Apps” have reached an unprecedented level with well over 600,000 currently available on the app store. The tremendous possibility that they bring to the classroom cannot be overstated, with PE Teachers from all over the world investing in and trialling their uses within the classroom. In recent months the level of take up and interest has reached new heights with an over 3000% increase in the number of Google searches related to mobile applications in PE. Coaches Eye Coache’s Eye is the premier video analysis app available on iPhone/iPad/iPod and Android devices. Easy Assessment The Easy Assessment app has been designed specifically for PE Teachers with an aim of capturing and swiftly assessing student performance in Physical Education. SloPro The easiest way to produce beautiful slow motion videos. BaM Video Delay The most exceptional video feedback app I have seen on an iOS device. Easy Portfolio