Garfield County MLK Training: iPad Apps for PBL & Productivity

1. Garfield County MLK Training: iPad Apps for PBL & Productivity • Clint Stephens • Southwest Educational Development Center • Permalink: http://goo.gl/3hjTn • clint@sedck12.org | (435) 590-8149 • http://sedcclint.com - iPad or GCSD tag

2. Keeping Up-To-Date • Flipboard - a fast, beautiful way to flip through Twitter, the news, photos, Google Reader, Flickr - whatever RSS feed you give it • Zite - a free personalized magazine for your iPad that automatically learns what you like and gets smarter every time you use it. Zite delivers all the great news, articles, blogs, and videos you want – and helps you discover new stuff that you'll love.

3. Zite - What is it? • Zite now knows about 40,000 different topics –These new topics will allow you to drill even deeper into your interests and give Zite even more feedback about what you like and don’t like. • Your Top Stories gives you more of what you love – we’ve expanded the number of articles in Your Top Stories and also brought in more articles from the topics you like. As always, using Zite more will help us to get even smarter about what you prefer. • “The Smorg” is our internal name for Your Top Stories, because we were inspired by the vast variety and constant surprise that you find on a Smörgåsbord. • Thumb articles up or down from a section –pull an article up to give it a thumbs-up or down to give it a thumbs-down.

4. Project Based Learning on the iPad • The iPad is good for consuming information, but are you looking to make your own media projects? Like to have your students create for a world wide audience? There are some amazing apps for this • Create Kahn Academy-style instructional screencasts with Educreations or Explain Everything

5. Response Systems • Socrative - http://www.socrative.com/ • Web-based platform that makes all sorts of voting, formative assessment, surveys and feedback simple and fast • iOS and Android apps available, but it runs on any web-enabled device - no app required • FREE! • Let’s give it a try...

6. Response Systems • Please head to: • http://m.socrative.com • Enter My Room Number: sedc

7. Response Systems • Example: • Pre-Built Quiz • Can be either student or teacher paced • Results are collected and tabulated with an Excel or Google Spreadsheet • Results can also be emailed back to teacher

8. Response Systems • Example: • Quick Multiple Choice • Instructor asks question verbally or on slide • UTIPS quizzes! • Students respond on device/laptop • Responses go to Socrative

9. Response Systems • How comfortable are you with using the iPad for productivity? • Very Comfortable • Somewhat Comfortable • I'm comfortable with the basics, but I would like to know more • I can check email, but that’s about it • How do you turn this thing on?

10. Response Systems • Open Response: • What would you like to be able to do with your iPad that you don't know how to do now?

11. Finding Educational Apps? • Apps4Edu - UEN Resource to find apps by Utah core, subject, grade level, device, price... • 60 Apps in 60 Minutes - Presentation for UCET 2012 • Kearns HS iPod Touch Project Wiki • iEducation Apps Review

12. What questionsdo you still have?

13. Thank you for your time and participation