Module 1

I am a member of gen y and love teaching with technology.  I have just (last week) finished my first year of teaching. I personally have an iphone and an ipad.  In my classroom we share 3 ipads with year 6.  We also share a variety of laptops, netbooks, macbooks and flip cameras.  As realistically a class of 30 students cannot share 3 iPads I need to be creative in how I teach and organise the class. 

ibooks

I love the ibooks app.  I enjoy reading books on my ipad, I also have the kindle and kobo ereading apps on my ipad.  What I most enjoy about the ibooks app is its flexibility.  You can change the font size and type and the background .  It is easy to search make notes and flip through pages.

 

Through this module I learnt how to create collections.  This could be beneficial for creating libraries for different KLAs.

The beauty of the ibooks app is that you can download pdfs.  I can save instructions as pdfs and get my students to follow them on the ipads.  For example if I can list the activities for my students to do on the ipad during reading groups, save it as a pdf and open it in ibooks.

A great (and free) ibook to check out is Hot apps 4 HOTS- a guide to using free apps to support higher order thinking skills.

Camera

The camera is so easy to use.  My students use it all the time for taking photos of their work, recording themselves and others speaking, creating tutorials and taking screen shots of their work.  They then upload their photos and videos to drop box so we can access it anywhere. 

A great (and free) app for creating a photo collage is photomess.  You can import photos from your ipad and rotate, crop and edit them into a collage.  This then saves as a photo which you can use anywhere.  For example I create a photo collage from individual photo of the 30 students in my class to use as a background on our google site.