PA+LEADS+2012-2013+March

Catasauqua Middle School will be using the $15,000 PA LEADS grant award to purchase iPads that will allow teachers to:
====1) meet the demands of the Common Core Standards (curriculum alignment, skills, text complexity, level of rigor) ====

**1. Getting Started **

 * Backchannel for questions and sharing - @http://todaysmeet.com/CASDiPadTraining
 * iPad & Accessories Distribution
 * Technology Loan Form
 * iPad Use and Security Procedures
 * [[file:updated CASD iPad USE AND SECURITY FORM March 2013.doc]]
 * Basic iPad Overview
 * iPad Quick Reference Guide [[file:iPad Quick Reference Guide.pdf]]
 * 15 iPad Tips for Teachers [[file:15Tips_eBook.pdf]]

**2. Accessing & Managing Content **

 * iTunes Accounts
 * Apps - Dropbox, Common Core, Screenchomp, Evernote, Class Dojo
 * Customizing and Organizing Folders
 * Camera, Video & Facetime

**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">3. Using the iPad as an Instructional/Feedback Tool **
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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Dropbox- see video
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">ScreenChomp
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">ScreenChomp Video
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Student Example -
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">1st & 2nd Grade Students' ScreenChomp written and produced entirely by the students - []
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Hands-On Partner Activity -
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Go to: [] and s<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">elect 1 Reading or Literacy in the SS, Science, Technical Subjects standard.
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Take a screen shot of the standard you want to use
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Open Screenchomp - Draw & Record - Select the screeenshot background from your library and resize/zoom as necessary
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Record and unpack the standard
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Provide an example of a sample performance task
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Stop your recording and enter your last names as the title of the recording
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Share - Copy the link and paste in an email and send it to lutzdoemlingc@cattysd.org
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Screenchomp/Audio/Video to Improve the Quality of Feedback -
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[]
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 * Evernote in Education - []
 * Evernote assignment example - []
 * Hands-on Partner Activity - Create a notebook and an assignment note.
 * Prior to class
 * **Plan and organize your classes with tags:** Using tags is a great way to organize your classes on a week-to-week basis or on a class-by-class basis. For example, if you know that there is certain content that has to be taught during the second week of the school year, then for all related content you can use the tag “week 2″. Once you’ve created this system you can keep adding additional items throughout the year.
 * **Standards database:** Compile standards of achievements for your particular grade or subject. You can even [|share them] with teachers, parents, administrators and students using Evernote’s sharing features.
 * **Professional development**: If you use the summer break or vacations to improve your skills or continue your education, keep all your notes, resources, lessons and new ideas learned in Evernote. This also works well for teacher in-services, conferences, workshops and seminars that you attend.
 * **Classroom templates:** Templates are a great way to save time when grading and assessing your students. If you use templates such as grade sheets or student assessment forms, keep them in Evernote so you have them at your fingertips throughout the year.
 * **Prepare for your absence:** Use Evernote’s shared notebooks as a way to keep your class up and running even if you aren’t there. Evernote makes it easy to share a notebook with the substitute teacher. Consider sharing lesson plans, worksheets, answer keys and examples of completed work. This can ensure your class keeps moving even if you aren’t there.
 * ===During Class===
 * **Share a notebook with your class:** After you create a [|public notebook], share the URL with your class. This way anything you add can be viewed by your students (or their parents). Here’s an example of a[| public notebook that I created for an entrepreneurship class].
 * **Whiteboard photos:** Taking snapshots of the whiteboard is a favorite use of mine. Take photographs of the whiteboard before the start of the class, and again at the end. This gives you an accurate time stamped snapshot of what you were working on, on any given date. You can title or tag each photo based on the lecture number to make searching for specific photos easier. Also, you can share the photos with students that miss a class, so that they have the day’s notes.
 * **Keep handouts handy:** Keep all of the handouts, worksheets, templates, study guides and assignments that you frequently use in Evernote, where they are easily searchable and accessible.
 * ===After Class===
 * **Simplify grading:** Scan graded tests, including scantrons and add them to Evernote. You can then enter them into your preferred grade-book or spreadsheet when you have time. This is also great if you have a teacher’s assistant. You can share the notebook with them and have them help with the grading process.
 * **Keep your extracurriculars in order:** If you participate in any committees or coach a team, you can use Evernote to keep track of all the different research, notes and information associated with it. Again, shared notebooks are a great way to keep your committee on the same page and makes for an easy way to share collective knowledge about a project.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Class Dojo

**4. Ideas for the One iPad Classroom**
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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Researcher of the Day- student uses iPad to find answers to great, slightly off topic questions that come up during discussions
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Daily Scribe- student notetaker
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Recording/Reporting Tool
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Photographer/Videographer
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">iPad Use Incentive
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Virtual Field Trips
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">FaceTime/Skype for virtual connections
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Webinars- GoTo Meeting
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Tutorials/Review
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">The Single iPad Classroom blog-@http://elementaryedtech.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/the-single-ipad-classroom/
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">5. Using the iPad a Professional Learning Tool **
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">The Teaching Channel - []
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Pinterest - []
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Teachers Pay Teachers - search for freebies - []
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Twitter - [] see video below

**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">6. PA LEADS iPad Project Deliverables **
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Select two of the options below and share your evidence/products/comments via the PA LEADS iPad Project Deliverables Page of the wikispace - http://casdcurriculum21summer.wikispaces.com/PA+LEADS+iPad+Project+Deliverables+2013 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">. Please be sure to post your projects by May 15th (at the latest). > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Use of Google Docs to collaboratively create grade level curriculum maps by subject/unit aligned to the Common Core Standards (template will be provided to anyone interested in this option)[[file:Module 1, Figure 4 (Elements of Curriculm Maps).doc]][[file:Module 1, Figure 5 (1st Grade Math Curriculum Map).pdf]]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Refinement of One-to-One CDT/Study Island Teacher-Student Conferencing Strategies - use the iPad to record individual conference best practices, etc. (whole group preparation - understanding of reporting categories and skills assessed and CDT report formats/information, individual conference format & discussion topics, and class activities during conference time)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Use of Technology to Improve the Quality of Feedback Provided to Students
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Use the iPad to upgrade Lessons by Using Technology (facetime, virtual field trips, etc.) to address 21st Century Skills (21st Century Student Outcomes and/or Interdisciplinary Themes)[[file:Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Student Outcomes and Interdisiciplinary Themes Themes.doc]]
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Using the iPad and projector, Focus on Evidence Based Writing/Analytical Writing Tied to the Demands of the Common Core - []
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Use the iPad to record the Implementation of Activities Aligned with the Mathematical Practices embedded in the Common Core - some great cross-curricular examples are listed below
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Barbie Bungee - []
 * Catapult - []
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">"Reading Away Isolation" - Design/Revise a Unit Using Context, Fulcrum, and Texture texts [[file:Reading Away Isolation.pdf]]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Using the iPad camera, video, and/or any relevant apps or Web 2.0 tools, create an electronic collection of student work samples illustrating activities, assessments, and/or projects describing the alignment to the grade level demands of the CC and how the activities/assessments were used within the classroom.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Use the ipad to record a model lesson demonstrating best practices/alignment to the CC/integration of technology


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">Please add any iPad resources on this wiki **
 * **iPad Manual-** (manual is 137 pages- please don't print but use a reference)
 * [|Details]
 * [[file:casdcurriculum21summer/ipad_user_guide.pdf|Download]]
 * 14 MB
 * **Apple in Education Resources-** @http://www.apple.com/education/resources/ explore a collection of video tutorials, classroom guides, and web pages for educators.
 * **iPad app evaluation - Excellent document to help guide your evaluation of iPad apps!**
 * [|Details]
 * [[file:casdcurriculum21summer/iPadAppEvaluation.pdf|Download]]
 * 3 MB

Visit Langwitches Blog to read the article on iPad Apps and the Digital Learning Farm- Note: you will need your web filtering password to unblock the website. To view a clearer copy of the graphic above, click here: The Digital Learning Farm: Apps for iPads <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">


 * ** 20 Free iPad Apps Educators Can't Live Without **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[[file:iPad_ebook_FINAL.pdf]]
 * ** 20 More Free iPad Apps Educators Can't Live Without **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[[file:eBook20more.pdf]]


 * ** Parkland iPad/iPod Apps- [[file:iPod Touch apps - Parkland School District.pdf]] **
 * ** Salisbury iPad Apps- [[file:Salisbury Ipad Apps.pdf]] **
 * ** Bloom's Taxonomy link from Kathy Schrock- **@http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps.html
 * ** Kathy Schrock's iPads in the Classroom **- []
 * **This wiki has a great wealth of iPad resources http://macdonaldtechforteachers.wikispaces.com/iPad+Apps+for+Educ****ation**
 * ** Free Apps for Teaching Across the Curriculum [[file:free apps teaching across curriculum.pdf]] **


 * TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) - Ideas Worth Spreading and TED Ed - Lessons Worth Sharing.** TED has some excellent videos - definitely worth a visit to the site if you've never been there. Additionally, TED ED has some really cool features for teachers. You can share a link with your students and have them watch a video prior to class to activate prior knowledge. You can also assess your students using multiple choice/open ended assessment items that are already created or newly created by you. Furthermore, you can track results of your students.


 * TED -** [|www.ted.com]


 * TED ED** - [|http://ed.ted.com/lessons/introducing-ted-ed-lessons-worth-sharing#watch] - Click on the video in this link to get a brief overview of TED ED and the features available to you as a teacher. Furthermore, I think it is exciting to note that you can use TED ED with any you tube video, not only videos available on TED ED.


 * Reflector Software-** AirPlay mirror your iPad 2 to any Mac or PC, wirelessly.
 * Reflector Directions [[file:Reflector Instructions.pdf]]