Teaching APP-ortunities

Our Teaching and Learning Group have spent many hours collating Apps that are used by our teaching staff. As a result of which they have produced a booklet on what they feel are the top 5 Apps for teaching and learning.

Click for full Teaching APP-ortunities Booklet

Appy Christmas

Paperport

PaperPort Notes (Formerly Noterize) is a digital note taking tool for the iPad that is transforming the way people create and share information. Now you can combine documents, web content, audio, typed text as well as hand written notes into a single document that you can easily organise and share with anyone. 


• Quickly take typed and/or free hand notes

• Leverage powerful annotative tools to quickly mark up documents

• Never miss another detail by adding audio page by page within your notes

• Combine full documents, individual pages, content from the web and notes into a single document.

• Powerful search, copy/paste, reordering and bookmarking tools allow you to quickly navigate your notes while staying organized

• Access and share content using your favorite cloud storage services

• PaperPort Anywhere connector provides access to files stored online or within PaperPort Desktop

Fring

Group Video Chat

* Group Video Chat with 4 friends video chat at the same time!
* Video chat on 3G,4G & WiFi

This free app can allow staff to video call up to 4 people at the same time on their iPad.

Therefore, aslong as you have a wifi connection you can attend an online meeting with colleagues, or possibly get students to share research, findings, feedback, etc. that are in other classrooms.

From Book to Board

Miss Massie is demonstrating how to take a picture of students work, using her iPad. Then displaying the work on the Interactive Whiteboard, so that she can now annotate and discuss the work with the rest of the class.

This is all achieved within a 5 second period, whereas traditionally by using a scanner, it would still be warming up before being in a position to use it.

Please note that it is not necessary to email the image to yourself as it is already stored on the iPad. However, this demonstrates how you would then send the image to the students iPads, so that they can see the image on their iPad.

Use of New Technologies in the Classroom

Click for our iPad Apps Booklet

The iPad Classroom - CPD

Photo Sync

Due to the amount of messaging that students have been randomly sending each other via the ever popular Bump app, we have removed it from the iPads and replaced it with Photo Sync.
It works very simply by ticking the pics you want to share, tick the devices you want to send them to and Hey Presto, pics are shared quickly and easily.

The End of Interactive Whiteboards?

Not only can you control your White Board through any of the free VNC apps available, but you can also draw on the whiteboard as if it were like any of the expensive Interactive Boards that are out there.

Now teachers and students can draw on the whiteboard from anywhere by using an iPad, freeing everyone from being tethered to the whiteboard.

All we do is install a program called Ink2Go (which is currently free on trial) onto the whiteboard computer, connect to it through VNC on the iPad and hey presto.....an interactive whiteboard from your iPad.

Geography Lesson using iPads

Miss Music's Geography Class using iPads with the App Air Sketch to navigate O.S. maps

Mr Jamiesons English Show and Share Lesson using iPads

Controlling the IWB with an iPad

Mr Green once again..... demonstrating how he uses his iPad to control the IWB

Starter Keyword Quiz using iPads

Your 3 favourite Apps?

Go on tell us what your 3 favourite apps are.......

Me it's

Dropbox
Being able to have all the documents I need on either my computer, iPad or iPhone makes it so easy to access and edit anything, anywhere, at any time.
Also I can share pictures and documents, so students can access them on the school iPads.

Kindle
First chapters of nearly any book for free.
Enough said.........other than can also buy lots of books for cheaper than half price.
And I can read in bed without the light on.....wow....isn't technology wonderful.

Brushes
Even I can almost look like a proper artist
Problem is that Beth keeps pinching the iPad, just so she can apparently do some more Art coursework.
By the way this is her artwork on Brushes.....not mine.


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iPad - The end of interactive whiteboards?

I teach in a room with 32 computers arranged in 3 island rows. So my interactive whiteboard is 4' above the ground so the pupils at the back of the class can see therefore the top is an un-useable 8' away from the ground. Even Max in my tutor group (6' 8") [Edit Max tells me he is now 6'8" and a half] might find it a tad difficult to reach.

Solution?

Ditch the IWB and use my iPad to interact with the screen.

The two apps I use are;

The Real VNC
Allows the board to be controlled from any part of the room by me or the students. I can ask them to write text onto presentations or complete tasks without thinking about their height to reach my board.

Air Sketch
This is a great app which display what ever you do on the iPad on the projector using Firefox. It just uses HTML5. Annotate PDF's, images, screen shots of the iPad. It's a good bit of kit!

So with these two apps (£10) I can do all that my IWB (£800). So is this the end?