IPADS have gone VERY well today....we used them first thing this morning! The kids created a HEALTH folder where they can dump their assignments and projects for upcoming Health assignments. I made sure all of the students added me as someone who can view/edit, and they were off and running.
Students had time during the Band hour to jump on Khan Academy and check out their comments on KidBlog. Not many got to these two options this morning, but in the future I hope they become a daily app the kids use.
For switches....we have ability grouped the entire 6th grade and they have short switches for Science, Social Studies, and Grammar. Coach Jenny K came in and shared amazing ideas for me to get the kids ready for a descriptive writing assignment that they will do tomorrow and Thursday. The kids opened up a picture in Google Images, saved it to the camera roll, and opened them in SKITCH. From there, students were able to learn all of the tools in Skitch and added descriptive writing, phrases, intro's etc. on their picture. [The picture was supposed to be of a dream vacation spot that they would travel to today if they were given the opportunity. Many opted for the warm climates!] Tomorrow we will hopefully get a little time to share those pictures.....
After our share time tomorrow, Jenny K and I will walk the students through opening PAGES and how to create a password on their document [as three kids will be using each ipad....the ipads stay in the room and the three different classes switch out according to their ability group]. We will show them how to put that picture they made in Skitch into Pages where they will start their descriptive writing first draft. I am excited to see what the students will create! I will be able to add comments once the students send it to Google Drive......once folders are created for that. Many things to do....but the kids were TOTALLY engaged today. Hopefully this pushes them to become even stronger writers!
Thanks to Jenny K for the wonderful ideas with descriptive writing....they were AWESOME!
For discussion after our reading novel [Maniac Magee], students opened up our Today's Meet page [Thanks Brent Catlett for reminding me of creating our own for the year]. Once they opened that up, I typed questions and the students responded on that page. A few times the answers wouldn't go through. So kids had to refresh the page and type in their name again. [QUICK fix]. Students liked discussing it that way vs making them write down answers in a packet! I can't wait to show them more things like that! [Socrative is coming soon I hope]
Math in the afternoon went VERY smoothly. Kids pick up things so EASILY and QUICKLY. Wow. And to see the kids helping each other through....and hearing the technology terminology is just mind-blowing. They are getting 21st century skills throughout the entire day!
Happy on where we are....excited to think of where we are headed.....
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