For Valentine's Day my husband bought me an amazing gift. It was a cord that allowed me to show what it on my iPad on my activboard. He was tired of me complaining about the air server dropping when I was trying to teach class. I love that cord, the kids loved it and we were using it every day. Today I was so excited to see our tech coach walk into my room with a little box in her hands. She brought me an Apple TV.
I feel so spoiled with all the technology in my classroom. My Promethean Board is still my hub, the iPads are where kids create and now with the Apple TV we will be sharing. Up until today, kids were sharing their youtube videos in a link to my email. Now my inbox thanks my tech person.
Right now the kids are sharing movies that they created on Cyber Bullying/Bullying. They knocked my socks off this morning. I saw true, emotional movies about the effects of bullying, sincere talks as to where students can turn if they are being bullied, best of all it was all student driven content. Being that this is delicate information, I am going to share their movies using QR codes on the bulletin board. Almost like a virtual film festival.
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
So little time lately
I have been knee deep in IEP season for me. Love that it is early, but with all of the delays and closings I am a little behind. My bulletin board is neglected, the blog (which is mainly for me) hasn't been touched, lesson planning is on a day by day basis. Stuff like that. Now I'm hoping for some point of a normal life. Only 3 more IEP meetings to go, district testing, and state testing, preparing a presentation and bio for BGSU Mobile Learning Symposium. Oh and an impending snow storm!
Now that we are about 3/4 of the way done with our year 1 of being 1 to 1, my students had a couple if interesting things to say
Pro's
1. Like them it makes it easier to have everything with you
2. You don't lose papers...less ZAP's
3.Keeps you organized
5. I like them but want to stick with paper and pencil, so that I can have more things open at once.
6. Allows you to personalize your iPad. Lock screen stays the same but you can change the background
7. No more papers falling out of binders or loosing papers
8. More direct help such as spelling words
Cons:
1. Using Progressbook, we have trouble naming the files. It makes it hard to figure out which ones are which in PDF expert
2. Some teachers won't print papers anymore.
3. Kids forget about doing their homework
4. Sometimes it freezes up (but easy to turn off and on)
5. Each teacher is doing something different for turn in.
As a teacher we don't have an LMS. We are trying different things. In my classes, two of my classes are using schoology, one is using google drive and PDF Expert and the last group is using email. My kids are really easy going and willing to try, but then again I have had them for 3 years. One of my kiddos said to me "If we can figure out the stuff (LMS) then everyone else can." This year has been filled with trials and tribulations. I have a feeling we are not done with the tears and stress.
Now that we are about 3/4 of the way done with our year 1 of being 1 to 1, my students had a couple if interesting things to say
Pro's
1. Like them it makes it easier to have everything with you
2. You don't lose papers...less ZAP's
3.Keeps you organized
5. I like them but want to stick with paper and pencil, so that I can have more things open at once.
6. Allows you to personalize your iPad. Lock screen stays the same but you can change the background
7. No more papers falling out of binders or loosing papers
8. More direct help such as spelling words
Cons:
1. Using Progressbook, we have trouble naming the files. It makes it hard to figure out which ones are which in PDF expert
2. Some teachers won't print papers anymore.
3. Kids forget about doing their homework
4. Sometimes it freezes up (but easy to turn off and on)
5. Each teacher is doing something different for turn in.
As a teacher we don't have an LMS. We are trying different things. In my classes, two of my classes are using schoology, one is using google drive and PDF Expert and the last group is using email. My kids are really easy going and willing to try, but then again I have had them for 3 years. One of my kiddos said to me "If we can figure out the stuff (LMS) then everyone else can." This year has been filled with trials and tribulations. I have a feeling we are not done with the tears and stress.
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