iPads in Pilot Rock Training

Objective : To become more familiar with the iPad by using 21st Century Learning skills preferred by students.  Then start exploring and finding what fits in your classroom.

Agenda:

8:30-9:30 iPad Functions with Q&A

Basic Settings

• Save a Website to home screen (Share Button)
• Gestures
• Brightness and Wallpaper
• Turning Off or Sleeping iPad
• Task Bar
• App Organization - folders and deleting apps
• Installing an App
• Location Services and Notifications
• Safari: Google search, reader, images
• PDF to iBooks P21 Common Core Toolkit
• Pictures: take them and where are they

More advanced settings

• AutoLock, Passcode Lock, Restrictions
• Text to Speech
• Guided Access
• Find My iPad

9:30-10:00 Activity 1: Design your Lock Screen

• Use Phonto to create and save your image
• Find photo and share button to Wallpaper
• Use as Lock Screen
• The app in the classroom: A vocabulary word lesson or label an image.

10:15-10:45  Activity 2: Create a Digital Story

• Topic: Inside My Classroom or Your Summer Experience
• The App: 30hands
• Collect the photos first, then use the app to verbalize thoughts on each photo.
• Use share button in app to publish movie to camera roll
• The app in the classroom: Solve a math problem, explain a science experiment, tell a story, or  talk about something in history.

10:45-11:15 Activity 3: Explore different grade appropriate apps

Some apps to try out

• Educreations - a virtual whiteboard
• Bitsboard - a Flashcard creator app, great for ELL
• QR Code Reader : I-nigma
• Book Magic - an app to create story books
• Number Pieces - a Math manipulative
• Click on Apps tab from above and find more apps to try

11:15 Next Steps