Deb Norton Tech

A few months ago, our school set of iPads were finally allowed to be taken out of the Media Center.  Prior to this, the iPads had to be used while in the Media Center.  Throughout the past few months, it had become the routine that I go down and pick up the iPads in the morning and without even planning to, they end up in our classroom most of the day.   What is so incredible is that my students, on their own, pick up the iPads and use them as naturally as they would use a notebook from their desks. I'm finding that I incorporate the iPads without even planning to. It is just natural, convenient, and simple. Here are some of the ways we have been using the iPads, naturally: We used the app Explain Everything to create videos about what we had read and researched during our literacy time. Deanna's video from Deb Norton on Vimeo . We used Kahoot to write and review a chapter from a novel we are reading. We used Infuse Learning to wr...

Last year we had the opportunity to begin using iPads with our students through our Media Center.  We had 12 iPads available. This made creating online content and utilizing educational apps very doable. This year we are supposed to be getting 12 more ipads in the Media Center which should make the possibilities even greater for student creation!  :) I plan to make the best use of these iPads and to help me out I can refer to the generous amount of iPad apps shared by various presenters at the Ripon Summer Tech Academy . Dan King shared multimedia apps in this presentation .  Consider using the  iTalk app and the VidEditor app. Dan also shared a nice collection of apps for creating ebooks.  Click here to see this presentation.  Last year we used the Book Creator app as well as Story Kit and I was very impressed with both of these apps. Tim Nielsen also shared wonderful lists of apps.  Click here to view the list of...