As students with special needs are truly integrated into the general education classroom, teachers struggle to provide appropriate learning experiences for them. The iPad and appropriate apps can bridge that gap and help all learners engage in activities that support and reinforce needed skills.
This session will provide participants the opportunity to explore and create interactive lessons for K-5. Come ready to participate, have fun and explore the possibilities!
QR Codes – they’re everywhere, but how can they be used in the classroom? Leave this workshop with lots of QR Code activities for all subjects and grade levels!
Many school districts are adopting iPads for classroom use, while at the same time "going Google" with Google Apps for Education. Both provide students and teachers with worlds of opportunity, but they don't often play well together. Let's sit down with them both and see what we can do to bring the best of both worlds together.
When you combine the power of Google Apps with the mobility of the iPad, you’ve set the stage for anytime learning. Learn tips and tricks from a Google certified teacher that will help you look like an iPad pro! Topics include content creation, eBooks, filesharing, mobile productivity with Google Docs, Google’s free iOS apps such as Google Voice, and tons more!
The beginning of this hands-on workshop will focus on reviewing a Final Exam for French Class where small groups of students used their iPads, PCs, or pen & paper to create an 8-block comic strip in French. Rubric, lesson, and sample work (the good the bad the ugly) will be provided.
Come to this session ready-to-go with "Explain Everything" - we will explore the apps' features and then, as a group and in small groups, we will explore potential uses for teachers of young learners AND for young learners to use. We will capture as many ideas and apptivities as we can and leave with ideas bursting forth. Focus on curriculum and learning-rich uses of this app with your iPad!
Apple has added a new way to create simple apps without writing any code. This session will show you how to create simple apps using storyboards. We will also show you how to add templated code to enhance your apps.
If you want to learn how to set up a course for your students to subscribe to in iTunes U, this course is for you. Join us as we take you through creation, set up and publication of an iTunes U course with YOUR content.
Participants MUST bring a computer with Safari to actively participate in this workshop!
Perplexed by the plethora of apps that are available for teaching and learning? Does your head spin trying to figure out which app you need for the task at hand? Join the Tech Chicks for a hands-on interactive session as we strip down the process and lay out a workflow for taking students from a collaborative reading assignment to collaborative mind-mapping to creative retelling and book building. Along with other apps, we’ll talk about Edmodo as a means of assigning, collecting, and sharing student work. Perplexion solved!
Learn how to utilize a variety of creation tools, integrate STEM, and publish in an alternative formal assessment portfolio tool.
Participants will learn how to take a few apps and raise the level of instructional rigor based on the SAMR model of technology integration. Tips will be provided to evaluate apps for effective use in the classroom.
From emerging readers to advanced creative writers, all students have a story to tell. Give them the tools to tell about family vacations, emotions, changing the end of a fairy tale, or even recreating the great events in history using one very powerful iPad app. It even exports into iBooks for easy sharing! Let's all live happily ever after in our iPad world.
Interact. Engage. Participate. Learn best practices for collaboration with the iPad and SMART Board. A variety of lesson ideas will be explored that demonstrate how these tools work together or independently for student success.
If you are looking for a list of apps this is the wrong session. We will explore how these digital tools can broaden the possibilities for our students and challenge preexisting notions of what "formative assessment" means. Expect to participate, create and do during our time together.
From emerging readers to advanced creative writers, all students have a story to tell. Give them the tools to tell about family vacations, emotions, changing the end of a fairy tale, or even recreating the great events in history using one very powerful iPad app. It even exports into iBooks for easy sharing! Let's all live happily ever after in our iPad world.
Student "work" needs to move beyond handouts and 5-part essays. Student curated content is a meaningful way to get students to show and share their learning while creating resources and tools for others.
The iPad is a great personal learning tool that provides users with a variety of ways to digitally create text, images, audio and video. How can these creations be shared? This session will provide a variety of strategies and learning opportunities that help support the digital workflow between teachers and students. We will also explore a variety of websites and/or tools that can be used to assist teachers in distributing and/or collecting digital creations.
Are you wanting to transform your classroom into iLearning Central? With this workshop, you will learn some fun, easy, and hands-on ideas to create some iFun with iPads! We will explore how to create activities in iMovie, and use such Apps as ScreenChomp, Skitch, Pic Collage, Dropbox, and Quickoffice to create developmentally appropriate activities for your students. This hands-on workshop will be a make-and-take. You will walk away with ready-made activities and countless ideas to take right into your classroom! Be sure to BYOD!
A picture says a thousand words. Empower your students to express their knowledge through the use of pictures! Using these apps, students are able to merge visual images with written text. In this session a wide range of apps and student projects will be demonstrated and participants will have time to explore the apps.
During this session, we’ll explore the importance of PD for educators to unlock their creativity and encourage their students to unleash their potential using video, imagery and audio in the powerful iMovie tool. Best practices for using iMovie will be demonstrated to include how to deliver PD over two or three sessions to produce end products ready for the big screen!
Are you ready to climb to higher levels of thinking using productivity apps? Would you like to design a lesson that stretches students to think more deeply about a topic? Put on your boots on and get ready for some Bloomin’ fun and some deep and complex thinking as you develop a lesson that you can integrate into your curriculum. Bring your own backpack of apps, such as Explain Everything, iMovie, Screen Chomp, or Puppet Pals! Let’s start the climb!
There are hundreds of educational apps that allow students to play “games” on the iPad, but what else can you do in the classroom with this amazing device? Learn how to use the iPad as a document camera and a tool for assessment, student engagement and teacher productivity.
Comic Life is creative app with tons of possibilities for your classroom. Yes, Comic Life is a cartoon strip creator, but it is also so much more! In this session you will learn how to use the app and create samples to use in your classroom. You will walk away with lesson ideas to use this coming school year, starting from the first day of school. It is encouraged that you download this app prior to the session.
The App Store has tons of apps, and a large percentage of them are games! Students are naturally attracted to games and teachers can use this attraction to their advantage. Come and learn how you can use gaming to teach problem solving, critical thinking, and subject level concepts in your classroom.
Apple has added a new way to create simple apps without writing any code. This session will show you how to create simple apps using storyboards. We will also show you how to add templated code to enhance your apps.
In this session participants will learn how to use apps to make their faculty meetings more engaging while also modeling good practice to their staff.
Come "speed date" your iPad with seasoned iPad educators! Every 10 minutes, you will rotate through one of seven different stations and learn about new apps used to accomplish a lesson, project, or goal. Come away with lots of lesson ideas, tons of apps, and infinite possibilities across all grade levels and disciplines.
Our session will introduce The Desk 1.0, a program developed by teachers for teachers to help them search for and organize all the TEKS with the click of a button.
By the end of this session, teachers old and new will be given a glimpse at a one-stop location where they can plan, search, share, and organize lesson plans all while tracking the state standards that they've used.
The Desk is a forum where we as teachers can leverage the latest technology to meet the needs of our students and provide a classroom experience that moves at the same creative pace as the digital age.
What does the iPad offer those in the educational environment right "out-of-the-box"? This is an in-depth look at the iOS from the user's perspective. This will explore several of the built-in apps, functions, and tools that come with the iPad right "out-of-the-box". More specifically, this session will explore several of the built-in features, e.g., Safari, Notes, Voice Over, Guided Access, Speak Selection, etc.
