Saturday

Using iPads

These are just a very few 'quick and dirty' uses of the iPad and associated apps...


iTunesU is interesting in itself.  When mobile... it brings new possibilities.  There is much more to be made of iTunes U...
We have downloaded a whole series of free Spanish apps.  The teacher is using them with the children in their MFL sessions.  We then plan to do the same with the Teach Yourself Italian apps.... but not teach it - just give children the iPads during the lunchtimes and see what they can teach themselves of the language.... a Lunchtime University / independent learning action research project.
Structured, and coached, Study Support is a really enabling and empowering skill for children to acquire.
 

The integrated video camera in the iPad allows real flexibility.  We are taking short movies in school, then dropping them straight into Pages (wordprocessor app) - thus creating talking posters and books, in the style of The Daily Prophet.
Comic Life is an app for purchase.  This app - which can also be bought as an Apple & PC software program - gives lots of DTP / Comic style and poster creation options and is thus completely cross-curricular.
I Can Animate (again available not only as an app, but as a PC and Mac software programme for computers) enables stop-frame animation that can again apply to any curriculum area.  Recently we have been creating animations relating to Literacy and Science.  

A nice Science-related animation: animate a fruit talking about healthy eating.


Moving files:
Setting up a Dropbox allows you to quickly move files from the iPad to other devices.

Having an Apple TV box (£100) is another option here.

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