Module 2

I use many of the built in apps on both my iphone and ipad.  But it was great to review them with my teacher/ classroom brain in, and think about how I could get my year 5’s to use these apps. 

Safari

I am fairly comfortable with safari, but I have now added our class website and my diigo bookmark site to the homescreen.  So easy to do!

Message app

I use the message all the time personally on my iphone and ipad but have not considered using it in the classroom. I have now set up the ipads to be able to message each other so students can send photos and videos from one ipad to the other.  This is convenient if one groups of students is using an ipad that has videos or photos on it that another groups needs, particularly as we cannot set up email on the ipads at school.   

Newsstand

I spent some time exploring newsstand.  The newsstand has some good free magazines.  We have 10 minutes of silent reading each day in class.  Some students would be able to read magazines on the ipads.  They could even read them in guided reading time.

Apple user guide- Camera

My students love using the camera on the ipad.  They love recording themselves and their classmates and taking photos of their work.  The beauty of the ipad is the front camera allows the students to take photos or videos of themselves.   They are great at uploading their photos and videos into drop box- eliminating the need to physically connect the ipad to the computer.

I enjoyed playing with the exposure when taking photographs.  It would be great to have a couple of students in the class become experts in the ipad camera.  They could then be the ‘go to’ people for the rest of the class.

Editing videos is another great skill for my camera experts to learn. I have edited videos on my iphone before but had not thought about doing it with videos on the ipad.  At this stage we are only able to download free apps onto the ipads, and I have not been able to find a great video editing app.  It is good to know that my students can edit parts of their videos without using imovie.