Well, tonight's class was lots of fun and very informative. What I learned is that I WANT the Apple TV for my classroom. Getting to use my iPad and projector without wires! Whoopeee! I also loved learning more about Evernote. What a great way of taking notes and pictures and having them synch with my iPad and computer! Yippee! Plus I learned how to create keyboard shortcuts! Yeah, no more typing my school address--which is sooooo long! Tonight I learned more about QR readers. I'm thinking there are some real possibilities using this app. For example, students do a math problems and then scan the QR and see a solution! Poll Everywhere could also be a fun way to collect data using my classroom iPads. This data could then be used for our graphing unit. Plus other classes could participate too! Garageband on the iPad was a fun place to learn more. Music is NOT my strength, so I need to do some practicing before I would be ready to use it in the classroom. I finally got set up to receive UCET emails so I can learn about free apps for my iPad! Yeah. Learned a new way to search for cool iPad apps. I really like AppGrooves. I'm not as sure about Discover, but I didn't get to play around with it since it wasn't free. What I really liked about AppGrooves is the Sales option. I just love sales! In this center I learned about some super cool apps. I am very excited about the Cursive Practice app that was shared. I totally know how I want to use this in my classroom next year! Who knew cursive could be fun! Facetime allowed me to see benefits of using Facetime vs. Skype. Drawback--everyone needs to be on Apple products. I also learned so really cool shortcuts for my iPad! Maybe I'll get good at this one of these days! Well, I learned a lot and loved tonight's format!
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Debbie Owens
I'm a third grade teacher that wants to improve on how I teach and how to incorporate technology more in my classroom. Archives
December 2012
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