iPads_2011

This page of our wiki is for journaling about iPads at West. It's the messy part, the breaking new ground and the trials and tribulations of what it becomes. Here's were we are...

2011.11.09 Tonight we will be working with the Syncing Station in the Library. A "Wish List" might be needed as an opportunity for teachers to be able to add an App for "purchase review" This would be an on-going list of Apps that is reviewed every quarter for example... The criteria for the reviewers at this time is ...

2011.09.28 (email) Good Morning!

Wow, the Monday PD that Jim Weber presented was awesome! I heard great comments from many of you too! Thank you!

Please remember the invitation is always open, to participate in our weekly iPad PLC on Wednesday afternoons. The most important piece during this hour, besides support & troubleshooting, will be the ongoing dialog as we study, research, documents, and develop the program.

I loved this definition: **A professional learning community (PLC) is an extended learning opportunity to foster collaborative learning among colleagues within a particular work environment or field.**

When you have time, this Edutopia article has some interesting talking points.

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I'm looking forward to being involved in helping you and your students accomplish great things, as we start to work on the challenges of implementation.

Have a great day!! See you this afternoon.

2011.09.26 My notes are rough and in draft format here, and have holes... Nonetheless, here are my notes from the Apple training with Jim Weber. If there were others taking notes, please feel free to post.

======= His entire teaching career spent at an Indian Reservation - 2nd grade for 19 years in South Dakota

How comfortable you are with iPads in particular? What grade do you teach?

I'm learning The basics Kids are very comfortable with them Preschool - Intervention and standard Inter-related = special ed

Students that are coming in this is coming to them as an integrated way of life for these kids. Easier than the computer. The learning piece becomes flat where everybody in the classroom is a learner and everybody in the class is a teacher. Dongles for the iPad2? Something to consider having.

How do you make folders Do you know how to make buttons, for web-pages - perfect for elementary settings Settings/ Speaking about charging and management, battery memory, suggested to shut them all the way OFF on the weekends do you know the difference between pushing the off button once and push and hold, THEN swipe it to shut it down,-Apple icon shows up on screen This is also GOOD for troubleshooting - it is in effect a "restart" on a MacBook DO NOT USE CLEANERS on these screens!!! It will remove the special surface and it will smudge Old athletic socks - pop-up hand wipes - you have to have clean hands on the screens. Lightly dampened cloth - or sock to keep them cleaned - STAY AWAY from the home button Great Tips & Tricks for teachers!! Airplane Mode is a great way to keep students out of the Internet - You can walk by and see that Johnny shut off Airplane mode and you are going to ask him to switch it back. When teacher says, teacher means it, and there may be tears because kids Notifications - some have it some don't - explains what notifications are and uses his alarm clock as an example. NO FACEBOOK on these devices Location Services NEED to be ON-don't turn it off globally you need it on - requires location services Suggested they all change the sleep timer in General to be 5-10 minutes before it sleeps Talking about Keyboard - but students at this level don't know this anyway International Keyboards - You can ADD a Keyboard - if you add the Spanish keyboard to this, you will have 2 keyboards to switch back and forth between if you have a student There will be a GLOBE on the keyboard to click - If you can't remember just look at the Teaching foreign language is a great use of this keyboard functionality Accessibility Voice Over if you don't read the directions you can't shut it off - just be careful with it Speaking Rate - i've turned it down substantially Nobody has ZOOM on - but Zoom is cool..turn it on everyone take 3 fingers and tap on your screen -practice It's cool because it zooms to where I tap Don't turn on large text folks :) Zoom and pinching you should have the bases covered.  Speak Auto-text-on or off it's up to you  Every kid needs their own set of ear buds  Elementary kids eat their ear-buds - should be on the SUPPLY list

A talk about Syncing and Automatic Downloads on and off - for training If you start to have issues with the way an App is running, Double-click on your home button and see what happens This is called Fast or Quick App Switching - all these apps are in my current history keep swiping from left to right until you get to this screen and then you can Mute ALSO screen brightness is here and I use this button all the time "with this tab" Some 3rd party apps do not want to shut down If your battery starts to really go down fast- check what all your

Open Notes - oops got distracted with a QR Codes question Create a new note to show you a few things about your keyboards multiple function keys -Cap-Cap Locks-Auto-Cap on the exclamation comman - tap and hold on it switch to your number keybaord - tap and hold on the question make tap and hold drag from left-to-right

Open Safari - go to this website pics4learning.com - this is a GREAT website for you and your students- BOOKMARK it!! at the bottom go to Countries and choose countries in this list and choose a country you'd like to go to on Vacation these picture you do not want to use b/c they are thumbnails, choose one and tap on it, then tap/hold and choose Save Image Especially true for Middle school teachers in regards to Citations - and we need to talk about this even for elementary work at the bottom of the picture tap/hold to copy the citation This is a resource for education, not a resource for your iPad! Use it! Tap on the "send to" button

Learned how to create "buttons" and folders and then how to put them in there....(i missed this) will google

cnn for kids is a really great site - cnn.com/studentnews there is an app for this

Now I need you to go to my webpage - [] Suggested the App - GoodReader as it reads multiple file formats where iBooks does not He is talking about the tools in the book we downloaded - the ugly duckling if the font is too large you start to loose some functionality search the entire book for the word...clouds

After lunch...i missed about 30 minutes Blue Fire 1.5 recorder FREE, is very cool, and then you type in your browser on your machine and download Downloaded Dictionary - answer no to push notifications and yes to location services Dragon Dictation - cautioned that this program likes a quiet room, and doesn't like lots of background noise

Always look for the plus sighn

Touchy-Books Sock Puppets Talking Tom 1 Cimo Tell Time Lite Baby Mars Audio Note Lite iDiary SMart Traveler Free App Tracker App Shopper

What I would like to see from you next time is the use of the iPad as a production tool, show something your students created either in iDiary-or SonicPics-etc.

By the time kids get to 2nd grade, they will need a writing tool - Pages ======= 2011.09.15 (email) We had a good crowd at the meeting. Thank you all for coming, sharing, and asking questions.

Cassondra came with good questions, this was one of them. When you get emails on your computer, with links to Apps, how do you get that on the iPad? Aileen explained how she did it and it was a great suggestion. It's a matter of finding the name of the on your computer, then searching the Apps Store on the iPad. **On your laptop**, click the link, choose "View in iTunes". This gives you the "name" of the App and a visual of the icon. **On your iPad,** open the Apps Store. In the upper right-hand of this screen, tap in the search bar and start typing the name of the App, choose to Install. It's important to have the "real" name of the App, and sometimes the "creator" as well, with over 425,000 to choose from.

Dixie taught us how to go in and out of an App, without closing out of the App by double-clicking the "home" button. This is also the way to check which Apps are still running on the iPad. How to "quit" open Apps on the iPad... Double-click the home button, and it exposes a second "bar" at the bottom of the screen. Tap and hold on one of the Apps. You should see a red negative sign for each app that is still "running". Tap each red circle, to quit the App. Click the home button to stop the shaking, and click it again to hide the bar. Dixie mentioned she doesn't do this everyday, but maybe once a week is a good habit to learn.

I will be collecting the rest of the iPads, checked out on Aug. 19, the first of next week. If you have any questions, for me, please let me know. Thank you!

2011.09.08

Karla's meeting notes: ======= Visited about the possibility of purchasing SPED iPads and KDG, so mabe four more will be added through west funds. That is being worked on.

We heard more about the email and iTunes accounts that are set up finally. This is the program implementation that Karla had mentioned was not ready when we trained on Aug. 19. The iPads that were handed out at Wednesdays meeting had the 1st grade account and 2nd grade account authenticated on the iPads.

These grade-level accounts are set up as a credit card-less account, and when an App is installed /downloaded it is "pushed" down to all the rest of them and how it is possible, that you may never need a sync cable to install and delete apps on the iPads.

Newest Discovery!! thanks Dixie!

Learned how to take a screen shot on the iPad/iTouch...

hold the on/off button and the home button together and you will hear the camera click,

it saves into iPhoto on the iPad

then manually manage and sync photos to your computer

Karla had everyone turn in the first iPad checked out and re-issued another iPad with the new configuration installed