iPad+Ideas

=** iPad Trial - Teacher Experience - "the low down from the classroom"  **=

__ Hi guys - please add your iPad ideas OR things you have used the device for OR the potential you see for this device in your classroom. __

"I was in my class the other day and I asked a student to come up to the front so we could discuss their approach to a particular task - the idea was that the sharing would allow all students in the class to learn. Suddenly I thought I could use my iPad camera to show on the interactive whiteboard the student's work so that the whole class could be involved in what we were discussing. It was great! A whole dimension of engagement was added to this class sharing moment. Simple but effective"

OK way beyond me at the moment. All I have managed to do is get the background changed to a photo of the Grand daughter, by importing it from a flash drive via e-mail and talking to the step son in China on skype. Hey this is huge for me.

Have not used in class but have enjoyed how the Wikipedia app has made searching through that site a lot more user friendly rather than scrolling down continuously. Also like the way it stores the last several searches. Maths stuff not too hot so far!

A student used my iPad in assembly today. They wanted to show a video, through the big data projector which is mounted from the lighting gangway. To do this we connected a laptop to the projector and then used the iPad to control the laptop remotely. The SplashTop App was excellent and the whole presentation went very smoothly.

We used the anatomy app to look at bones in three dimensional form. In our Y 11 class we took pictures of sports skills being performed and then described what was happening biomechanically in the body between different frames. This was done using the Burst app

Hi guys. I love using the iPad. I have used it in many different ways. One of the ways I have used it is to note down all of my girls athletics results by using the app Pages. I can also print out a sheet of all their athletics results. I have also done my roll on the iPad when I was on the turf using Splashtop.