iPod/iPad Stuff

There are so many cool uses of these tools in learning!  Thought I should link some in here for easy reference...
iPads in Education
Setting Parental Controls
Grant Braes School in Interface
Live Binders
kbs.school - click on the iPod image
vln.school
iPodsiPhones wiki
iPads a fad?
iPad podcast

The Race

Interesting....
fits with my current thinking that there needs to be more learning through play...discovery learning. Thanks Greg...nice to see you on the blog again :-)

ICT lead teachers met today...I have just been checking out some of the links I was sent as a colleague found them today. I love my iPad and recently have been exploring it's use with my students in class, not for note taking, book reading etc but students using it - we have had success with puppet pals and also using it to put up a puppet performance on the activboard.

  This site has heaps of information, suggestions and motivation

here's an article from Interface

Reading this and watching the video...I can see 3 of my students benefitting from being able to use the iPad for inputting their writing and it's so true that the simplicity of typing on the viewing screen could make it easier for students (they don't have to look from the keyboard to the screen to check that what is on there is what they intended).

There's heaps more to wade through but loving the possibilities.  Fingers Crossed the Year 1's can have some iPads to use soon :-)

Debbie Clement

filled with curiosity & dreams....
Ritual
Repetition
Rhythm
Rhyme

flowers are red green leaves are green...or are they

What is it that excites the kids you teach to want to learn?

What ignites their passions?

How do you provoke their learning?

There are so many colours...
Why box them in?

QR Codes

Fun.  Why hadn't I hooked into these before?  Was chatting on FB with a librarian friend in a Uni library about what they use their iPads for, QR codes was one of the uses linked with training students on how to use the library and forresearch purposes.  This got me playing with QR codes.  They seem like heaps of fun and I'm thinking that my Year 1 students would find scanning a QR code heaps easier to get to a YouTube video or learning task following a guided reading session for example than typing in all the details or going through the process of logging into our class page and following the links there.

I wonder how many of their parents have smart phones that could scan these codes for home learning support?

I've found some helpful ideas.
10 Ways to use QR codes in your classroom
nuts and bolts
QR codes in the classroom
QR Codes in Education Prezi

And if the links weren't interesting enough...love the simplicity of navigation for the student in the YouTube video above!

Puppets

Today we had the excitement of the 'enchanted wood' in our school hall.  I watched my students faces, the ones who wriggle or are often chatting to their neighbour were transfixed on the stories unfolding in front of them.  This evening I am exploring ways I can learn more about puppets with the view to using them to provoke my students into deeper thinking or problem solving or to introduce new material or learning.

The above YouTube video has some good advice for starting out.

For starters I am going to get the students to make their own shoebox theaters for finger or small stick puppets that they can use to retell stories or make up their own stories.  But I think I want to make some puppets...need to investigate that a bit further...

Thanks for some inspiration Magic Play House team!