15 iPad Skills Every Teacher and Student should Have Check the learning goals below and share with us your feedback. Enjoy 1- My students should be able to create presentations . Here are the apps to help you achieve this goal : Sliderocket Idea Flight3- Slideshark5- SlideGrabber6- Prezi Viewer4- Xavier Presentation 2- My students should be able to create digital stories. 1-StoryKit2- Talking Tom & Ben News3- I Tell a Story4- Scholastic Storia5- Talking Tom Cat6- Toontastic7- Our Story8- Bunsella Bedtimes Story 3- My students should be able to create eBooks . 1- Book Creator for iPad2- eBook Magic3- Demibooks Composer4- Story Patch5- Creative Book Builder 4- My students should be able to print their docs right from their iPad. 1- Epson iPrint2- Print Magic3- ACT Printer4- Doc Printer5- Air Sharing 5- My students should be able to create videos . 1- Animoto Video2- Videolicious3- Vidify app4- ReelDirector5- Magisto6- Super 87- Vintagio8- iMovie 6- I want to Improve my students reading skills. 11- My students should be able to screen share .
Using Wordle in the classroom (1 of 2) Consider this post (and the one to follow it next week) as companion pieces to Julie Meloni’s “Wordles, or the gateway drug to textual analysis.” I’ve been interested in computer-assisted textual analysis and information visualization for the most of the twenty-first century (ha! I crack myself up…), and first used such methods in the classroom almost 10 years ago, while I was still a graduate student. Since that time, computer-assisted methods of analyzing and presenting information have become easier to use, more visually compelling, and more common (though hardly commonplace). And I don’t believe that we should do this only by designing and teaching courses on computer-assisted analysis and information visualization (though that’s not a bad idea). Furthermore, we’ve long assumed that students become better writers by reading a great deal; and we assume that experience at writing makes them better readers. First, here are a few related links: Step 9: Change the colors as needed
16 Websites to Teach and Learn Vocabulary There are now several web tools that are really great in teaching vocabulary and that you can use with your students in the classroom. We have curated a list a list of some of the best web tools to teach vocabulary. Check them down below. 1- Vocabulary.com This is a website that will hep students master the vocabulary essential to their academic success. 2- BBC Learning English In this section, learns will have access to a plethora of vocabulary act ivies and tasks great for classroom inclusion. 3- Confusing Words Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. 4- Just The Word Just The Word is a cool website that helps students make informed decisions as to the right word selection to use in their writing 5-Lexipedia Lexipedia is an online visual semantic network with dictionary and thesaurus reference functionality 6- Wordnik Wordnik shows definitions from multiple sources, so you can see as many different takes on a word's meaning as possible.
6 Great Apps to Turn your iPad into Collaborative Whiteboard So you want to use your iPad as a digital whiteboard, well there are apps for it. It is really pretty amazing the things we can now do with iPad. From teaching basic Math conceptions to young learners to cultivating higher order critical thinking skills, you name it and there is an app for it. With the apps below you can now turn your iPad into a digital whiteboard with a bunch of other awesome functionalities. Enjoy 1- Educreations Interactive White Board Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. 2- Show Me Interactive Whiteboard ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. 3- Doceri Combining screencasting, desktop control, and an interactive whiteboard in one app, you’ll never have to turn your back to the class or audience again. 4- Groupboard Collaborative Whiteboard 5- Whiteboard HD 6- Splashtop Whiteboard Splashtop Whiteboard allows teachers and students to turn their iPad into an interactive white board. Courtesy of Edudemic
World Wide Words: Recently added The value of knowing instead of Googling Googling is fast and efficient. But some things shouldn’t be left to Internet searches. “Your curriculum shouldn’t be Google-able.” I’ve heard different versions of this at conferences, on blogs and in Twitter posts during the last year. The world has changed, many education pundits argue. People have smartphones. Teachers shouldn’t focus on simple information learning anymore, many of them contend. I agree. But I only agree to a certain point. Knowing information and being able to recall it is not going out of style anytime soon. Here’s an example from my area of instruction: Spanish. Let’s imagine — in my own fantasy dream world — that many of my students will daily live in worlds where they’ll have to rely on their language skills. They’re in Argentina on business and must answer questions about the product they’re selling. That doesn’t even begin to touch on wooing the heart of a pretty señorita one of my students might be smitten with. [RELATED: Get it right from the start of school]
11 Tips to Keep iOS 7 From Destroying Your Battery Life eBook Publishing – Software | UD iBooks Authors The Software Because e-pubs are really HTML 5 files, an adventurous person could code a whole book by hand. Luckily there are some editing tools that can help non-scripters with formatting. Different types of editors are available for you to create your e-pubs. Some are WYSIWIG, others HTML 5 code editors, and some a mix of both. Text Editors with e-Pub Formatting BlueGriffon EPUB Edition 1.6.1: The BlueGriffon EPUB Edition Editor is a full featured, cross platform, WYSIWYG editor based on the BlueGriffon Editor. iBooks Author: iBooks Author (IBA) is Apple’s iBook editor. IBA also features the ability to do fixed, multi-column layouts with text wrapping images. Jutoh: With the Jutoh editor, you can create a book from scratch or import an existing book. It is not a full fledged page layout program with columns and text boxes or absolute positing of content. You can not edit the HTML in the basic Jutoh editor. Jutoh is cross platform, and works on Mac, Windows, and Linux. Online Resource
Exploring Failure - Getting Large Videos Off Your #iPad Wondering how to get all that student work or long videos (30+ minutes) off your 16gig iPad? That's a question I spent 3 hours on yesterday, and fellow teammate Mary Ray also spent her share of time. Believe it or not, about 9gigs of video content on a 16gig iPad doesn't leave much space...we could only load one app at a time in addition to the stock Apple apps. Mary was kind enough to write up an email to teachers (included below) who use iPads as their new video cameras--and why not, they work great in classroom environments?--offering tips and tricks. However, the one tip Mary didn't share was the one that actually worked--Using BitTorrent Sync ("btsync" for short) to make a backup of all images/videos in the Camera Roll on your iPad to your computer (the option also exists to send files to another device running BTSync). 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. If you haven't exploredBTSync (free, no cost), then you'll definitely want to! Make Donations via PayPal below: