Hello again digital teachers,
I’m Amaranta and today I will explain to you the things that we learnt during Session 7 with Maribel. The last session was about Ipads, the new trendy thing in relation with education nowadays. The amount of applications and resources that Ipad offers us is amazingly growing. Currently, either teachers and students can access to and endless ways of learning and teaching by using ICT in the classroom. However, how can teachers and students chose the right application that they want to use?
Choose the right one!
In this session, Maribel showed us a useful tool where different applications are organized by the skills that students are developing or by what the teacher want them to focus on such as photo editing, recording, interactive writing, creating a game...etc. If you are looking for an specific app this website might be useful for you!
Here you have some other websites (examples, reviews..) where applications are well organized and will save you a lot of time when looking for the good one! Hope you find them all worth it.
In addition, if you feel that it is too difficult to assess Ipad work, here you will find some resources to do it such as rubrics and grids that will make it easier and faster: Ipads4TEACHING
Quizz response games
Related with the assessment, during the session we also learnt different apps or programs that you can use it as a way of assessment or if you prefer as a quizz response games that children need to answer faster. In this way, children use technology in a more motivating way that help them to review the content while using Ipads, computers, smartphones...Personally, I will absolutely recommend all teachers Kahoot and Nearpod. If you want to know more about Kahoot you can read my last post and you will find further information. As for the Nearpod, I have discovered recently and I’m amazed about all the possible things it can offers. Nearpod allows you to work in groups, write with a purpose, express your knowledge by drawing, develop your critical thinking...etc. In short, take part in a quizz where all the learning styles are taken into account.
The rest of the class we focused on StoryTelling. However, we didn't spend time reading books but we learnt lots of websites to create our own story! In this sense, children are the authors of their literacy creations and develop the four skills in a contextualized way. You can ask them to create whatever they want after exploring all the resources or let them read for a while. Here you will find good apps to do it! Want to know more about them? Scan this QR code:
Price and Platforms
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Skills
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Purpose
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Shadow Puppets
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Free/ Ipod, Iphone, Ipad...
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Communication
Collaboration
Creativity
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Create and design
Creating high-quality, versatile presentations is really easy. Students can use their own images or pull images from several impressive online resources
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Puppet Pals
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Free/ Ipod, Iphone, Ipad...
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Communication
Collaboration
Creativity
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Kids can learn how each part of the creative process works to form a story as they make decisions about which backgrounds and characters to use in each scene, how to size them and move them around, and which audio to record.
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Toontastic
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Free/ Ipod, Iphone, Ipad...
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Communication
Collaboration
Creativity
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A fantastic digital storytelling tool that empowers kids to organize ideas, transforming them into entertaining animated cartoons
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Some photos of our projects and presentations:
Thanks for the summary. Although you have not really summarize all the contents of the class, you have added some good links to find resources and have included some samples of the work you did and photos, great!
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