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iPad Apps sorted according to Blooms“Remembering” apps:
Diigo – A social bookmarking tool; teachers can use this app on an iPad to add relevant bookmarks, or create their own account and share. Lists can be organized into sub lists.
Evernote – A “must-have” app. Users can take notes, photos, create to-do lists, make voice reminders, and search their content.
Pearltrees – A curation tool with a social component. Users can search, link to other accounts, and organize their own content.
Idea Sketch – Users can create a mind map and turn it into a list or outline, and vice versa. It also offers organizational charts.
“Understanding” apps should help users summarize facts and ideas and retell information and events:
ShowMe – Users can record voiceover whiteboard tutorials and share them online. For a small fee, teachers can create a ShowMe group that only students can see.
Skitch – Users can add arrows, shapes, and text to images pulled from their iPad photos, such as adding arrows or highlighting routes on maps, and taking pictures of items to help students count.
ScratchWork – Students can take notes and browse the web in side-by-side viewing, and also can explain ideas and concepts as they go along.
Pixntell – Users add images, record audio, then create the movie.
“Applying” apps help students demonstrate methods or procedures, carry out procedures, let them experiment with concepts in a new setting, help them use ideas or knowledge, and let them discover a new purpose:
Audioboo – This is an app for making and sharing voice recordings. Audio can be up to 3 minutes in length and is posted to a user’s own account on the web.
MindMash – A brainstorming and note-taking application lets users create idea mash-ups by pulling in images, text, and drawings in a visual, free-form manner.
Flipboom Lite – This free version lets users create a single animation.
“Analyzing” apps help users discriminate fact from hypothesis, recognize intent, and deconstruct content, as well as helping them observe structure, organize content, and select important elements:
Wufoo – Teachers can use Safari on an iPad to create a survey for students. Users can make 3 surveys and get 100 responses per month for free.
Inspiration Maps – Students use diagrams to create maps, edit content, and transform content to outlines, and vice versa.
Zoho Creator – This online database requires a computer, but the corresponding iPad app can be used to enter and query data.
Word It Out – Students can create word clouds using the Safari browser on the iPad, and can take a screen shot and save it to their iPad photos.
“Evaluating” apps help students check for accuracy, detect inconsistencies, appraise efficiency, judge techniques, critique solutions, and evaluate procedures:
Easy Chart – Users create bar, line, and pie charts that can be saved in various sizes.
Side by Side – This app offers offline reading and note-taking capabilities. Up to four sites can be viewed on a split screen. For instance, students can browse web pages, download files, and take notes on each separate screen.
Google+ – Educators can moderate and follow a conversation on a topic and host a Google hangout for students.
“Creating” apps help users construct designs, generate possibilities, compose ideas, brainstorm solutions, design products, assemble plans, and propose hypotheses:
ScreenChomp – Allows a student to create an idea or share screen shot. It offers a recording voiceover option.
Splice – An easy-to-use video editor that allows for the splicing together of HD photos and videos. Users can add music tracks from their library and user other effects.
Vimeo – This is an online video hosting site, and the iPad app allows users to record video and audio, import images, and send the finished product to their Vimeo account.
Videolicious – Users can talk and tap to line up narration with a video recording. They also can record or import a story or add music.
Sock Puppets – Students create 30-second lip sync videos and share.
Haiku Deck – Users type in text and search for images to illustrate that text.
Reference Resources for Classroom Use
TIM (Technology Integration Matrix)
Instructional Models: http://www.instructionaldesign.org/theories/index.html
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- Record Flipchart presentations on Promethean Boardshttp://pbtraining.weebly.com/10-screen-recorder.html
- ideaflight (app) http://www.ideaflight.com/
- educreations (app,web) http://www.educreations.com/
- nearpod (app,web) www.nearpod.com (presentation and assessment)
- Showme (app) www.showme.com
- Knowmia www.knowmia.com
- 7 Whiteboard tools
- Using Avatars
Communication, Critical Thinking, & Creativity
- Using Avatars
- inkflow (app, web) http://www.qrayon.com/home/inkflow/default.aspx
- #224: Green Screen with Windows Movie Maker In this week's itWeekly, Jenny and Jake work with guest Brooke Barrows to configure a CMS PC to allow green screen effects in Movie Maker. Adding the XML file to Movie Maker requires the school's tech contact's administrative rights and the instructions on how to do this can be found here.Check it out here: http://j.mp/itweekly224
iPad Apps sorted according to Blooms“Remembering” apps:
Diigo – A social bookmarking tool; teachers can use this app on an iPad to add relevant bookmarks, or create their own account and share. Lists can be organized into sub lists.
Evernote – A “must-have” app. Users can take notes, photos, create to-do lists, make voice reminders, and search their content.
Pearltrees – A curation tool with a social component. Users can search, link to other accounts, and organize their own content.
Idea Sketch – Users can create a mind map and turn it into a list or outline, and vice versa. It also offers organizational charts.
“Understanding” apps should help users summarize facts and ideas and retell information and events:
ShowMe – Users can record voiceover whiteboard tutorials and share them online. For a small fee, teachers can create a ShowMe group that only students can see.
Skitch – Users can add arrows, shapes, and text to images pulled from their iPad photos, such as adding arrows or highlighting routes on maps, and taking pictures of items to help students count.
ScratchWork – Students can take notes and browse the web in side-by-side viewing, and also can explain ideas and concepts as they go along.
Pixntell – Users add images, record audio, then create the movie.
“Applying” apps help students demonstrate methods or procedures, carry out procedures, let them experiment with concepts in a new setting, help them use ideas or knowledge, and let them discover a new purpose:
Audioboo – This is an app for making and sharing voice recordings. Audio can be up to 3 minutes in length and is posted to a user’s own account on the web.
MindMash – A brainstorming and note-taking application lets users create idea mash-ups by pulling in images, text, and drawings in a visual, free-form manner.
Flipboom Lite – This free version lets users create a single animation.
“Analyzing” apps help users discriminate fact from hypothesis, recognize intent, and deconstruct content, as well as helping them observe structure, organize content, and select important elements:
Wufoo – Teachers can use Safari on an iPad to create a survey for students. Users can make 3 surveys and get 100 responses per month for free.
Inspiration Maps – Students use diagrams to create maps, edit content, and transform content to outlines, and vice versa.
Zoho Creator – This online database requires a computer, but the corresponding iPad app can be used to enter and query data.
Word It Out – Students can create word clouds using the Safari browser on the iPad, and can take a screen shot and save it to their iPad photos.
“Evaluating” apps help students check for accuracy, detect inconsistencies, appraise efficiency, judge techniques, critique solutions, and evaluate procedures:
Easy Chart – Users create bar, line, and pie charts that can be saved in various sizes.
Side by Side – This app offers offline reading and note-taking capabilities. Up to four sites can be viewed on a split screen. For instance, students can browse web pages, download files, and take notes on each separate screen.
Google+ – Educators can moderate and follow a conversation on a topic and host a Google hangout for students.
“Creating” apps help users construct designs, generate possibilities, compose ideas, brainstorm solutions, design products, assemble plans, and propose hypotheses:
ScreenChomp – Allows a student to create an idea or share screen shot. It offers a recording voiceover option.
Splice – An easy-to-use video editor that allows for the splicing together of HD photos and videos. Users can add music tracks from their library and user other effects.
Vimeo – This is an online video hosting site, and the iPad app allows users to record video and audio, import images, and send the finished product to their Vimeo account.
Videolicious – Users can talk and tap to line up narration with a video recording. They also can record or import a story or add music.
Sock Puppets – Students create 30-second lip sync videos and share.
Haiku Deck – Users type in text and search for images to illustrate that text.
Reference Resources for Classroom Use
- WolframAlphahttp://www.wolframalpha.com/ Wolfram|Alpha is more than a search engine. It gives you access to the world's facts and data and calculates answers across a range of topics, including science ...
- PewInternet www.**pewinternet**.org The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It does so by conducting public opinion polling and social science research; by reporting news and analyzing news coverage; and by holding forums and briefings. It does not take positions on policy issues.
- FLIPBOARD www.flipboard.com Flipboard is on a quest to transform how people discover, view and share content by combining the beauty and ease of print with the power of social media.
- Itweekly: #225 Jake and Jenny discuss how to effectively utilize Google Search and the importance of modeling this process for students. In this episode we highlight Google Advanced Search, Google For Educators, Search Stories and InstaGrok. Answers to your questions are just a search button away! http://j.mp/itweekly225
TIM (Technology Integration Matrix)
- The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as illustrated below.Please let us know what you think of the new TIM. Click here to take surveyThe original 2005-2006 TIM remains available as a reference.
Instructional Models: http://www.instructionaldesign.org/theories/index.html
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- Paperless Classroom: In this week's itWeekly, Jake and Jenny discuss ideas and tools that will help you to reduce the amount of paper you use in your classroom. With an average of $25,000 being spent annually on paper in a school of 800 students, it is time to explore alternatives to paper. Technology tools and apps can offer practical solutions for implementing a paperless class at your school. In this episode we explore tech tools and apps such as Evernote, Notability, Google Docs, and Edmodo and we challenge you to take the pledge to "Go Paperless" for one day in celebration of Earth Day 2012. Can you go without paper in your classroom for one day? This episode of itWeekly can help http://j.mp/itweekly226
- Editing images for lesson plans...the value of online image editing in the classroom. We'll show you how you can alter images to fit with the objectives of your lessons and projects. Images can be customized and personalized for Prezis, PowerPoints, documents and more! Teachers', administrators’ and students' wikis can get an instant facelift using logos created with free web tools. Do you blog or encourage your students to blog? Learn how students can add creative images to their KidBlog.org posts. Let your students design their own graphics and watch their creativity flourishhttp://j.mp/itweekly227
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