Saturday, May 18, 2013

Week 3: Free Apps.... Free is good!

I read an article from Edutopia today titled "Free iPad Apps to Teach Current Events" as a teacher in a parochial school I'm always looking for cost-effective means to bring lessons to my students.  Recently my 6th and 7th graders received their iPads making our whole entire school (140 students) a 1:1 iPad learning school.  I want to use these new classroom tools to the best of my ability but yet can't justify buying any Apps for this school year since we only have seven class days yet.  This article gave me several ideas to use, specifically the NBC Nightly News app as well as the SnagFilms app, inside my classroom.  I am always trying to give the students more opportunities to read science related articles that are up to date with information.  These two Apps are now installed on my school iPad as well as will be downloaded first thing on Monday morning so that my students can read content related articles that can help them beome more aware of the world that is going on all around them!
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  1. AnonymousMay 20, 2013 at 9:49 PM

    Wow! A 1:1 iPad school! How neat!! How do you like it so far? Have you had troubles implementing everything the iPad has to offer? Do the students take the iPads home? So many questions!! This is neat and I hope someday to teach at a school like this. Right now, my school has mobile labs, which are quite helpful. We are able to teach in the classroom with the lap tops. It makes things more accessible to the students.

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  2. UnknownMay 21, 2013 at 10:54 PM

    So far so good. Both classes just received them last week so it is still a learning curve for them since only a handful of them have use any apple product before. We only have 4 more full days of school for the year, so that also throws a challenge in as well. I;m planning on setting up an Edmodo classroom account as of next school year which should be a great tool. As a science teacher I typically plan my larger science labs for the end of the year which they look forward to. I was able to find an App that I could use for my bottle riocket lab. I worked with the math teacher and we were able to have the students use "Clinometer HD" which allows the students to virtually calculate the maximum altitude with using two of the iPads. The next class period we were able to take the information that we learned while using the iPads and apply it to launch real rockets to test what we had previously discovered.

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