DIGITAL LEARNING

I've shared some great free apps for turning your iPad into a measurement tool: protractor, reading a ruler.  Measure Length - Tiny Chicken by TapToLearn is another app that's perfect for teaching ...

These 5 apps are among the less well-known applications to support the flipped classroom model.

"Have you tried 30 Hands yet? This free iOS app is a great storytelling or presentation app that has lots of potential for the classroom. I first learned about it from the TCEA iPad site, and my head has been spinning with classroom applications ever since."

Teach a man to fish, eh? Give a kid an app and you inspire her for a day; teach a kid to make apps and you inspire her for a lifetime.

iPad research from the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.

Ginger Gregory is the Gifted Resource Teacher at Lakeview Elementary School in Yukon, Oklahoma, and currently has 117 videos on her classroom YouTube channel. Ginger has used the six iPads in her classroom and her free, district-provided YouTube channel (since the Yukon school district participates in the Google Apps for Education program) to help her students develop oral communication skills, oral fluency, as well as digital literacy skills this semester. In the following six minute video, Mrs. Gregory and eight of her students explain what they have learned as a result of their assignments this year using iPad videos and YouTube.

Read the full story at: http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2013/05/16/developing-communication-skills-with-youtube-ipad-videos/

Are you and your students really getting the most out of the iPad? FETC speaker Luis Perez lists 12 little-known tips, tricks, and settings to supercharge your iPad use.

"Il y a peu, j’ai eu l’occasion de lire sur un site un article intitulé « 7 bonnes raisons de ne pas utiliser les tablettes à l’école ». Il m’a fait beaucoup sourire et c’est clairement un texte rédigé par quelqu’un qui n’a pas cherché très loin avant de se prononcer. Cet article regorgeant d’idées reçues basées sur des à priori et des impressions m’a donné envie de passer point par point sur ces arguments qui pourraient, si on les lisait vite, sembler intéressants . Je reprends donc le même plan, mais j’y apporte mon humble vision (d’enseignant) des choses."

Some time ago I posted about iPadio a web service that for years has been a key part of my students' toolkit.  iPadio allows a student to record a podcast (aka "phonecast" or "phlog") directly to t...