2013 Support Staff Conference

CrossRoads Church, Red Deer

*I have an iPad….Assistive Technology?

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*Today’s Materials

*http://arpdcworkshops.pbworks.com

*How to contact me?

*pbohnet@carcpd.ab.ca

*Twitter: @patrickbohnet

*Blog: http://edtechtoday.edublogs.org

*Today’s Agenda

*1. Accessories

*2. General Settings For Use & Tips for the iPad

*3.Where do I find Apps & how do I choose them?

*4.Share Apps for Productivity & Classroom Use

*Buy What Accessories?

*Apple Authorized Accessories:

*ZAGG Folio:

*PC World’s Top 20 Accessories:

*ZAGG invisible Shield:

*IPEVO Chopstakes:

*IPEVO Accessories (Stands, Lap Cushions, Etc:)

I have a stylus, keyboard cover, ghost armor, VGA Adapter…..Apple TV!

*General Use & Tips for iPad

* iPad Charger Separates for Mac Laptop

* Moving Apps & Folders: Hold and Moving Apps

* Delete or Close Apps: Hold and Click X to Delete Apps

* Adding Apps to Bottom Bar

* Double Click Home Button – open, view, swipe, music, lock

* Keyboard Tricks – Split Keyboard

* Search Tips

* Spotlight Tool – Create an app for a website

* Screenshot Snap – sharing photos/videos

* General Settings, Restrictions, Accessibility, Assistive Touch, Other

50 Useful iPad Tips

*Settings – Restrictions/Itune

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*Save Battery Life!

*Adjust Brightness

*Turn off GPS (but can’t use ‘Find my iPhone’)

*Turn off Push Notifications

*Turn off 3G (if it applies)

*Turn off Bluetooth

*200,000 Apps & Counting???

Great…..

*Who builds Apps anyways?

*Useful Websites for iPads

*75 iPad Tips and Tricks

*22 Useful iPad Tips

*Wolf Creek’s iPad Resources

*www.BestAppSite.com

*Best Free Apps

*iPads in Schools

*iPad Apps for Kids

*12 Characteristics of

an iPad ready classroom!

Curriculum is… *Adaptive (less rigid)

Learning pathways, embedded differentiation and personalization, culturally and cognitively responsive tasks and work that honors constructivist thinking and doing over passivity and compliance

*Dynamic (less static)Having constant access to constantly changing information and media requires a curriculum that is equally dynamic

*Digital (less physical)Promoting blogging, collaborative project-planning via apps and cloud-based suites, digital presentations through apps like Prezi, curating of complex digital portfolios, etc.

Instruction is…* Student-centered (less teacher or institutionally-centered)

Student as designer and producer, teacher as resource and assessment expert rather than knowledge holder and task-master

* Diverse (less uniform)With access to a nearly infinite number of digital domains, instruction will have to adapt in parallel, including peer-to-peer, student-to-student, school-to-school learning; mastery-based learning via apps such as the Khan Academy 

* Focused on persistent transfer (less focused on “tests”)iPads cater to media consumption and production. Intentional instructional scope-and-sequencing will help promote transfer of standards-mastery through both consumption (reading, viewing, observing) and production (designing, constructing, executing)

Assessment is…* Authentic (less academic)

Seamlessly transfers to physical and digital domains of learner, with useful artifacts, products, and applications in the “real world”

* Frequent & Formative (less intermittent and summative)A climate of assessment that yields simple data digestible to all stakeholders–including the teacher

* Fluid and/or Project-Based (less obsessed with standards and “proficiency”)“Fluid” assessment provides a constant stream from a wide variety of sources and forms. This is possible in Problem-based, Challenge-based, or Community-Based projects that reward innovation, risk-taking, self-awareness, and inductive thinking patterns

Integrated with…*School & District Initiatives (in isolation)

Literacy and Technology plans, extracurricular programs, college-readiness programs, etc.

*Relevant Communities (forced, awkward audiences–for the love of everything, please no more letters to the principals)Digital, Physical, Local, Global

*Apple Ecology (disconnected from other Apple and related ecologies)ITunesU, Macs, Apps, iOS, Apple-friendly apps, etc. 

*Introduction to the App Store

*How do you select your Apps?

Thank you Kathy Schrock! FETC 2011

Share App Evaluation Form

*Table Exercise

*First select one of the apps you were to download for today (try to not use the same app as anyone else at your table)

*Use the App Evaluation form

*Share at your table whether you would recommend this app and why

*As a table group, select your best app from the group and share with everyone!

*App Demo

*Ready…..

*Set…..

*Go….

*I will share a lot in a short period of time!!!!

*SHARING!

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