Blog 13 How Many?

Blog 13: How Many? I use iPads on a daily basis in every subject taught. In reading, I have downloaded Touching Spirit Bear. Students open up the app, Kidblog and read over the open ended questions that will need to be answered after reading. The iBook app is then opened and students follow along as I read it. It is also displayed on the Presentation station through airserver. When we are through reading, Students will open up google maps and we will chart how far the Alaskan coast is from us as well as find the population of the small Alaskan village we are reading about. Students will return to Kidblog and answer the questions pertaining to novel. In history, students have read a book about Mummies and Pyramids on the iBooks app. They have used Kidblog app to blog information, Discovery App to watch short videos, and finally the Puppet Pals 2 App to create a puppet show. In math we used the Brainpop app to be introduced to integers and then took a short quiz. The quiz results were emailed to me. We then used the Screenchomp app to watch a few short lessons the teacher had recorded for them to watch. These were also placed on a Kidblog app for later reference. We then used our Google Chrome app to open up our online math book and went to assignments and each student practiced using integers. It is very hard to imagine not teaching with the iPads. I believe they are a, “Big Plus,” in the classroom. I have been able to cut down on discipline and catch the attention of a few students who would never before participate in class. There is the occasional student who likes to wonder so it would be nice to have an app similar to the program Lanschool to spy on them.