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Using iPad apps for science inquiry projects Google docs files: http://tinyurl.com/897x3er http://tinyurl.com/7fv7rfu LLAPPS (Learning Literacy Apps) http://usingipads.pbworks.com Richard Beach

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  • 1.Using iPad apps for scienceinquiry projectsGoogle docs files:http://tinyurl.com/897x3erhttp://tinyurl.com/7fv7rfuLLAPPS (Learning Literacy Apps)http://usingipads.pbworks.comRichard Beach

2. Jeff Uteckt: Literacy CurriculumModels 3. iPad Apps: Affordances Interactivity: both read and write Students as consumers andproducers Multimodality Combine images, video, music, text Connectivity/Hyperlinked Connected texts 4. Affordances: Inquiry-basedlearning Engagement in an issue Questions about that issue Evidence supporting positions on thatissue Formulation ofarguments/explantations Developing strategies to enactchange 5. Science Writing Heuristic(SWH) 1. Beginning ideas - What are myquestions? 2. Tests - What did I do? 3. Observations - What did I see? 4. Claims - What can I claim? 5. Evidence - How do I know? Why am Imaking these claims? 6. Reading - How do my ideas comparewith other ideas? 7. Reflection - How have my ideaschanged? (Norton-Meier, Hand,Hockenberry, & Wise, 2008, p. 26). 6. Climate, food supply, andsurvival: Migration of theMonarch butterfly 7. Migration through Texas toMexico: August throughNovember 8. Monarch butterfly in McAllen,Texas 9. Oct. 4, 2011: Drought in Texas 10. App resource: Climate, food,and endagered species 11. iPad Apps: Affordances forliteracy learning Accessing and sharing information Interactivity: both reading and writing Students as consumers and producers Collaboration Multimodality Combine images, video, music, text 12. Learning to WriteWriting to Learn Employing Using writing to learncomposing how to focusprocesses:attention on andprewriting, drafting, develop a hunch orrevising, editing idea Constructing Recordingsocial/rhetorical observations/data forcontexts: purpose further analysisand audience Developing andrevising onesPurposes for teaching digital Producing narrative,argumentative,thinkingexplanatory textswriting Experiencing 13. Digital writing on the iPad Keyboard issues: Use of externalkeyboards Moving files between iPad, iPhone,and desktop iCloud, DropBox, CloudOn (Office files),GoToDocuments Targus: iNotebook (June or July):$150 Transfer paper handwriting to the iPad 14. Use of writing to fosterinteraction: Backchannelwriting: Todaysmeet Go tohttp://todaysmeet.com/Lawrenceapps Add your name and a reaction orthought (limited # of characters) Click on Say Purpose: 15. Note-taking apps Notes (IOS apps), Evernote,Penultimate, Notes Plus, Simplenote,NyNoteIt, SoundNote, SpringNote,Notability, UberNote, NotePad ProPaperDesk LITE, SmartNote Science note-book observations Record specific, detailed observations Create annotations/drawings on images Alison: NotesPlus 16. IOS Notes: Emailed from iPad Chapter 1 the use of computers/networks are over use of mobile use of phones with more space making devices and cloud computing 83 of market still ipand mobility: GPS smart phones: mobility and many kids have them issues of blocking not allowing use of cell phones focus on learning using these things: advantages and trends everyone has ipads--what to do with them--how to tie this to learning what are the best practices affordances: overview of the book were focusing on reading, writing, discussion, video production across thecurriculum Need to link to CCSS on the science and social studies and complex text 17. EverNote (and Skitch), NotesPlus (Alison) Evernote use in schools Evernote for clipping webpages Skitch for visual annotations Notes Plus (handwriting) 18. Now-to demo apps: Addingand recordingnotes/annotations ShowMe Easy-to-use for students to describeresponses to images Explain Everything Has more features and sharing options 19. Purpose: Acquiring andsubscribing to/sharinginformation Social Bookmarking and sharinglinks/tags Sharing links in class Diigo groups Adding annotations to online literarytexts for sharing responses to literature 20. Social bookmarking: Diigo.com Set up Groups based on classes Students share bookmarks to the class Students tag bookmarks Students annotate online texts/sitesusing sticky notes 21. Email from Diigo group 22. Tagging posts, sites,images/videos Flickr, Google Images, YouTube,etc. Identifying key terms/categories Search strategies: Uses of tags attentive noticing/informedseeing tagging 23. Using Diigo for adding a sticky-note response1. Add Diigo to your toolbar2. Find an online text3. Highlight sections of the text4. Click on the icon to add a Sticky Note response5. Have other students add their responsesAnnotating "Womanhood," Catherine Anderson 24. Womanhood, CatherineAndersonShe slides overWhen she enters, the hot upholsteryand the millgate closes, of her mothers car,final as a slap, this schoolgirl of fifteentherell be silence. who loves humming & swaying Shell see fifteen high windows with the radio. cemented over to cut out light. Her entry into womanhoodInside, a constant, deafening noise will be like all the other girlsand warm air smelling of oil, a cigarette and a joke, the shifts continuing on ... as she strides up with the rest All day shell guide cloth along a line to a brick factoryof whirring needles, her arms & where shell sew rag rugs shoulders from textile strips of kelly green, rocking back & forth bright red, aqua. with the machines 200 porch size rugs behind her before she can stop to reach up, like her mother, and pick the lint out of her hair. 25. Highlighting and adding aSticky Note to the poem 26. Use of iAnnotate for iPadVideo on use of iAnnotate Effective annotations Private: Personal purposes Public: Collaborative goals 27. Literacy Practices: Note-taking/annotations Generating a record of ones thoughts Generating specific, concreteobservations Creating multimodal texts Formulating ideas and interpretationsin their own words Searching for information in notes Extending ideas and interpretations 28. Dictation apps Dragon Dictation/Search/Go Siri Remote Dictate dictate text that then appears on their PCWord or other word-processingapplicationtransfer facilitated by thefree, Air Mouse Server Google Translate 29. Dragon recording sent asemail Im now recording my thoughts onDragon dictation to share with apresentation at the Lawrence Hall ofscience in using Dragon dictation Ican react to immediately to differentphenomenon I am serving I can alsoshare those thoughts with others andI can develop really a sense of voicethrough how I am recording mythoughts 30. Annotations/dictations forimages/video VoiceThread share multipleaudio/written annotations aboutimages/video clips My Voicethreads (includesPowerPoints) VideoAnt shared annotations tovideos on a timeline 31. VoiceThread: Multipleaudio/written comments onsame image 32. VideoAnt: feedback to videos 33. VideoAnt: feedback to videoshttp://ant.umn.eduhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8U8F7LgrZQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiPivMSD8Y4 34. Literacy practices: Dictationapps Expressing specific reactions andfeelings Recording specific details. Adopting a sense of voice tocommunicate meaning Acquiring proficiency in a differentlanguage 35. Reflect on TodaysMeet:How can note-taking,annotation, and dictation appsbe used in the science project? 36. Writing: Online classroomdiscussion platforms (Chapter7) Ning Social networking features Forums, Notes, Blogs, Chat, RSS, Links 37. Using Social Networks (Ning): 38. Facebook: Character profiles 39. Collaborize Classroom Free platform for classroomdiscussions Web-based Extensive curriculum resources Focus on fostering studentscollaboration Professional development on leadingdiscussions 40. Video/audio conferencing iChat, Skype, Facetime, Google+Hangout, Adobe Connect, BlackboardCollaborate, 41. Google+ Handout: Up to 10people 42. Ideas for using onlinediscussion/social networkingsites to foster science inquirythrough student interaction 43. Stephen Downes: Connectivismlearning theory We need to look at networks, not as physicalsystems, but as semantical constructs, wherethe organization of links is determined asmuch by similarity and salience than byraw, epistemologically neutral, forces ofnature. Knowledge is a networkphenomenon, to know something is to beorganized in a certain way, to exhibitpatterns of connectivity. To learn is toacquire certain patterns. This is as true for acommunity as it is for an individual. 44. Mark Lombardi: MapsOsama bin Laden support 45. Mind-mapping apps Mindmeister Mindo/Simple Mind 46. Uses of mapping forresponding to literature Visually portray performancesaccording to three units of analysis:o Events|o Spaces|o Social worlds/systems 47. Female adolescent inWomanhood Mapping events, spaces, andinstitutions shaping her identities Outside factory --> car, songs, jokes Inside factory --> closed, regimented Generations --> gendered, repetition 48. Map of Womanhood 49. Pre-post learning assessment:Maps changing over time Students enjoy watching the concept mapgrow as we progress through the unit. It is aperfect place to show how our ideas change.What they thought they knew at the beginningof the unit sometimes isnt exactly true. At theend of the school year, it was time to eraseour class concept map on the human body.This was the first time during my six yearsthat students asked if they could take apicture of it. I said yes, and before I knew itabout six students took out their cell phonesand started snapping photos. It showed methat they were proud of their learning. 50. Using mapping to identify roles andrelationships between roles 51. Ideas for using mind-mappingapps to support science inquiry 52. Purposes for using blogs and wikis:comparison Blogs: Wikis:o Individual o Collaborativeexpression ofwriting ofideas/personal reports/essaysaccounts o Shared revisiono Hyperlinking ofo Hyperlinking oftextstextso Comments fromo Multimodal writingpeerso Multimodal writing 53. Blogging apps BlogPress or Blogsy Export their blog posts to Blogger,Wordpress, Posterous, Edmodo,Tumblr, Live Journal, Private Journal,Edublog, or KidBlog. 54. Blogs as individual expression andmultimodal writing Rather than using a traditional journal, you can use blogs. This student uses written words, oral expression and a video to guide us through a comparison of her room and Melindas. Melinda is the main character in the novel Speak. 55. Students use blogs to hyperlinkStudents used personal blogs to write letters from their character in our role-play to a characterin the book we read. This allowed them to use voice and audience in their posting. Students also were required to hyperlink their suggestions for support and coping strategies to this character in preparation for a Problem-Solution Essay. 56. Comments from peers 57. Twitter apps Twitter Apps such as Twitter,TweetCaster Tweetbot, Tweetdeck,Twitteriffic, HootSuite 58. Twitteriffic 59. HootSuite 60. Literacy practices:Blogs/Twitter Engaging in dialogue with others. Using hyperlinks to engaged inintertextual communication. Employing multimodalcommunication. Engaging with social issues as civicparticipation 61. Wikipedia apps Qwiki includes videos, images, graphs, andentries for millions of topics Articles for iPad Wikipedia Mobile Wikipanion Plus Simplepedia iWiki 62. Collaborative Construction of Knowledge: Wikis PBWorks (http://pbworks.com),Wikispaces(http://www.wikispaces.com), or Wetpaint (http://www.wetpaint.com) Rhetoric and Composition wikibook:http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/ 63. Students used the experience of collaborative writing towrite papers and post them to their wikis http://watsonmontana1948.pbwiki.com/Compare+and+Contrast 64. Shared revision is easy to doand to see in the page history 65. Collaborative writing/datacollection: Google Docs forms 5th graders: Weaver Lake School,Osseo, MN Data on parasite presence inMonarch butterflies 49% had parasites 66. Extended writing apps Pages, IA Writer, My Writing Spot foriPad, PlainText, Manuscript for iPad,Notebooks, Clean Writer, StoryistiPad, DraftPad OnLive Desktop, DocumentsToGo CloudOn (Word, Excel, & PowerPointediting) 67. Literacy practices:Extended/collaborative writingapps Providing and receiving peer andteacher feedback to foster self-assessing Editing and formatting drafts toenhance readability. Creating multimodal, linked textsthrough publishing ePubs books Learning to work collaboratively withpeers. 68. Ideas for using blogging, wiki,extended/collaborative writingto support science inquiry 69. Dictionary/grammar apps Dictionary for iPad, Merriam-WebsterDictionary HD, WordWeb DictionaryDictionary.com: Dictionary andThesaurus, Advanced English Dictionaryand Thesaurus Students can speak words for dictionarysearches Grammar App HD, English Grammar,Grammar Up, Word Study & EnglishGrammar, iGE Lite: the interactiveGrammar of English from UCL 70. Literacy practices:Dictionary/grammar apps Acquiring knowledge of grammarrules Learning strategies to improvespelling. Understanding shifts in language use 71. Apps for Sharing/PublishingWriting ePub: Mac Pages (soon to be on iPadPages)or Dotepub for sharing oniTunes and iBooks. ebooks for reading on eReaders bysubmitting properly formatted Wordfiles to Smashwords.com, BluefireReader App, or Book Creator Knowing how to engage audiencesthrough formatting and editing