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Tero Toivanen

How One Classroom Actually Used iPads To Go Paperless (Part 1: Research) | Edudemic - 53 views

  • “The technology used really help to enhance the writing and research process. Diigo and the iPads proved to be particularly helpful during the process of researching and annotating. Some minor challenges were presented with the use of this technology (writing with the IPads was a bit more difficult than typing on a computer), but nothing interfered with the process in a negative way. Some of the technology could prove very useful in the future.” 
  • Dropbox - This app allows students to work offline in the Pages app and upload their document to their Dropbox account with each new draft.  Pages does not support direct upload to Dropbox.  As a solution, students linked their Dropbox accounts with SendtoDropbox.
  • One of the earliest steps in the process was to have the students share a folder in their Dropbox account with their teacher in order to allow the teacher to check in on their progress along the way.
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  • Pages - While there are less expensive alternatives for word procession on an iPad, Pages is the most stable option that will consistently be supported and updated for the life of the iPads.
  • Diigo Web Highlighter for Safari - As one of our goals was to take advantage of the web connectivity and social bookmarking, Diigo was a perfect solution.  Once the Diigo app is installed, there is a three step process to install the Safari web highlighter.
  • To access and refer to each other’s research, students had to access Diigo through Safari, not the Diigo app.  The purpose of the collective research group was to have students examine each other’s research and use the resources their classmates found in their final research paper.
  • Notability - Because students would still be conducting traditional paper based research, we needed a solution that would allow them to digitize and share their research.  When students found traditional paper content that was part of their research, they could snap a picture of the document and pull it into Notability.  They could then digitally highlight, underline and insert notes on the document.  Notability will also export directly to Dropbox from within the app.
  • Explain Everything - This step was a late addition to the process and allowed students to create video screencasting feedback of each other’s papers.
  • Students exported a PDF version of their paper from Pages and email it to a classmates SendtoDropbox email address.  This would place the PDF version of the paper into the classmates Dropbox account.  The receiving student could then open ExplainEverything, link to their Dropbox account and use the PDF of their classmates paper as the back drop to the screencast.  To share the video files, we had students publish directly to the teacher’s YouTube channel from ExplainEverything. 
  • the recent update to the Google Drive app that allows for in-app creation, editing and sharing of a Google document absolutely changes the landscape of going completely paperless with iPads.  The clunky workaround of combining Pages, SendtoDropbox and Dropbox in order to get student work shared with the teacher would be much streamlined by conducting the entire process through Google Drive.
  • As an alternative to the process of writing in Pages, collecting research in Diigo and storing documents in Dropbox, I would consider jumping to Evernote to house the entire process.  Writing, researching and sharing could all be conducted within Evernote.
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    Great article about how to use iPad:s in projects, with useful tips about apps.
David L. Brooks

ComicLife in Education - 2 views

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    The Benefits of Comic Life in Education Making comics is fun for everyone, and Comic Life makes it easy. Teachers and students will find Comic Life a very useful software tool, and now it's available for both Mac and Windows platforms. Technology not only changes how we write, but it also changes what writing is. Education will need to re-evaluate which writing skills teachers should pass to their students. Digital graphic writing is one genre students need to be fluent. Comic Life is the "word processor" of digital graphic writing. Easy to Learn Students and teachers need only a short time to learn the basics of Comic Life. It's easy to add images from digital cameras, computer web-cameras, clip art from CD's and the web, stills from QuickTime movies, scanned photos and drawings -- just about any on-screen image can be used in Comic Life. Adding captions and word balloons is as easy as drag and drop.
School Report Writer .com

School Report Writing Software for Teachers - FREE & ONLINE - 0 views

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    This site allows you to save sentences and lists of activities and projects to easily customise your school reports. Build your own comment back to avoid careless errors and save it until next year. Easily change between he/she him/her and more by using hashtags. It not a comment bank, it's just a smarter way to use your own words in an organised way. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Planning+%26+Assessment
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    New teachers' report writing app - 600 sign-ups in last month! FREE & ONLINE school report writing software for teachers, easy-to-use, with great features including an OOOPS! DETECTIVE that spots embarrassing mistakes and SPELLCHECK AS YOU TYPE. LATEST TEACHER REVIEWS From TES (Times Educational Supplement) http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/NEW-6204573/ "So grateful for this - took me a while to get the hang of it but the time investment was worth it. Thank you." "The software is great, really excellent. I love it already!" "Well worth investing the time to set this up with specific subject related comments. Has made the actual report writing process much faster! Really helpful spelling/grammar checker included. When I had a query, the online support was very useful and prompt. Thanks for this!"
LUCIAN DUMA

Google Plus, Chrome Apps and Tools gateway to knowledge in #education20: #googleplus is... - 0 views

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    If you want a google plus invitation just leave a comment with your email and I will invite you to try this new semantic web tool and also I will invite you to join #edtech20 teachers circle to collaborate  with 150 teachers worldwide
shahbazahmeed

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started by shahbazahmeed on 12 May 21 no follow-up yet
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TabPilot | Classroom Tablet Management System for Android. Tablets in Schools - 1 views

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    TabPilot is a cloud-based management system that puts teachers in control of classroom tablets while also providing MDM features for the IT department. Admins secure devices and distribute apps; teachers monitor student screens and freeze them when it's time for "heads up!" FocalPoint secure browser controls web browsing. Use your own tablets or our Breea tablets, and soon use iPads too! Ideal for 1-to-1 or shared-use.
LaDawna Harrington

Chrome Web Store - Teacher & Admin Tools - 0 views

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    education teachers "tech tools" "teaching tools"
Caroline Roche

100 Tips, Apps, and Resources for Teachers on Twitter | Online College Degree - 0 views

  • this list of 100 tips, apps, and resources is worth browsing. Find out how to get started with Twitter, ways to use it in an educational setting, and tools to help you use it better with these resources
Randy Rodgers

Understoodit - Measure Students' Understanding in Real-Time - 0 views

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    Web app lets students use web-connected mobile devices to indicate whether or not they understand a topic, then provides teachers a real-time graph of student responses.
Anthony Beal

I-Pad Pilot - 1 views

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    Much useful information on using iPads in education and business This Web Site is designed to provide a location for all information concerning the deployment of I-Pads at BRHS.  All teachers at BRHS have editing privileges, while everyone at BRHS can view each page.
Mary Ann Apple

iear - home - 24 views

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    Purpose and or Objectives: IEAR.wikispaces.com is a repository of lesson plans, activities, and projects for K - 12 Classroom Teachers. Goals and Focus: I Education Apps Review's is about examining practical, useful, and educationally sound ways to use the ITouch / IPhone / and IPods in the classroom.
Zach Attackz

Privacy Concerns Over Popular Education App ClassDojo - 0 views

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    Teachers should not be embarrassing students by tracking their data where the whole class can see.
Teach Hub

20 Amazing iPad Apps for Educators - 0 views

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    After the iPod revolutionized how society listened to music and the iPhone pushed the boundaries of smartphone technology, the iPad stands poised to alter the face of mobile computing. Many have praised its potential to make personal and professional lives that much easier - and that certainly includes the education industry! Teachers with a love of technology and a passion for nurturing the minds of their students can easily discover creative ways to incorporate the iPad into the daily routine, and some of these great educational and organizational applications are bound to help them get started.
Paul Beaufait

Free Technology for Teachers: Ten Resources for Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism - 3 views

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    "ten resources for detecting plagiarism and teaching students to avoid plagiarism" (Sheryl A. McCoy)
Shane Freeman

Student Google Docs Samples - 0 views

I was contacted recently by a group of teachers in my district that is working on a project to demonstrate student use of google docs for Middle School. They are looking for sample projects for the...

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started by Shane Freeman on 07 Feb 12 no follow-up yet
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