**If you are unfamiliar with this project, check out my first post introducing my pilot project with LearnPads and comparing them to iPads. In first grade we have been learning how to tell time throughout the school year. We started with time to the hour, moved to half hours and then went to quarter hours. Our most recent adventure took us to writing the digital time represented on analog clocks. The activity that we did can be done on both the LearnPad and the iPad. While the apps used to complete this activity were different, the end result turned out the same. In an attempt to have my students apply their learning while creating and collaborating, we annotated a time on an analog clock and posted it to a blog. Having students annotate a time on an analog clock required them to apply their understanding of Common Core Standard 1.MD.B.3 which requires 1st graders to tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog/digital clocks. To add an additional layer to this activity, students then went to their peers' blog posts and left a comment with the digital time that the analog clock was representing. Below is a video that highlights how this activity was done in my class as well as how it can be done on both LearnPads and iPads. Below is a few screen shots from a students final product posted on the blog. You can see the rest of the post by clicking here. Share This:
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Today during our grammar lesson we were exploring nouns. We began this lesson by watching a Brain Pop Jr. video. After watching the video and discussing different types of nouns, we introduced a new app for our iPads. I hooked up the iPad to our projector and modeled how to open up the Skitch app. Below are some images highlighting this process. **Our internet was not working so we had to save the images to our camera roll instead of syncing to our Evernote account. After all students had saved their images to the camera rolls, I had them open up Dropbox to upload the pictures to our Dropbox account. Once school was out, I took the images and downloaded them to my desktop. I then put them into PhotoStory and added some music. Below is our final mash up of our noun hunt. **In the future, I would like the groups of students to use the Animoto app to turn their photos into a short video. Another idea would be for students to put all the images into the Pic Collage app and share their group "noun hunt" images with the class or post to their blog. School is only a couple weeks away and I am working to get some SMARTBoard lessons ready for this upcoming school year. Our school district just changed curriculum's last year. We are using Journeys by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. I have my SMARTBoard lessons that I created for 1st Grade shared in Google Drive. I am missing the first seven lessons and working to create those now. Below is an idea that I will be using for the first lesson. Step 1 Students will be using the iPad to snap a picture of their pals. This will be done at recess or during the school day. Step 2 Using Skitch students will add labels to their pictures. **The focus of the first weeks writing is adding labels to pictures of pals to show "who" and "what" the picture is about. Step 3 After students have added the labels to their pictures, they will upload the picture to their own blog via Kidblog. I am excited to see how it will work with my first graders. Since I will be introducing iPads to them to start the school year, I thought having them use the iPad's camera, Skitch and Kidblog will hit some key tools we will utilize throughout the school year.
I previously posted how I have been trying to integrate Evernote as a tool for cataloging student artifacts of their learning. To compliment Evernote, I have also been using Skitch. This tool allows me to annotate over my pictures that I take of the artifacts. Skitch is also available on the app store. I have it installed on my iPad and iPhone to make recording artifacts in my classroom a point and shoot task. Below is an example of how I used Skitch to capture an image of a student's spelling test. Using Skitch, I made a note that the student knew it was a "D" but wrote the letter "B" in place. This is a very low student. This is great progress for this student to know the two sounds. By taking this picture and annotating, I will have a quick, easy reminder during conference as to why I wanted to share this artifact. |
Andrew FenstermakerInstructional Technology Coordinator | Innovation Coach | Google Certified Innovator | Presenter | Blogger | Adjunct @UiowaEducation | Owner @kids_f_i_r_s_t |