Assignment+7

Assignment 7 1. What impact do you expect to see as a result of using this technology in the classroom?
 * The impact I expect to see as a result of using an iPad in the classro om is student work production collaboration will increase, and more tools will be in the hands of students that enhance their learning. Student's and teachers produce a lot of paper. I am hoping, from watching others in this class, that students will be able to send their work to dropbox. No more. "I lost my paper!" Plus, I won't loose it either and I will be able to find it when I need to. This will also help with increased communication and collaboration between students and teachers. I see feedback to student work will be more timely when using the iPad. I see that there will be a lot more "Tools" in the classroom that will help with student learning. In my class we will use the GPS and compass tools I found on xtreme. There are many different tools/apps that the district can use, but cost much less than purchasing the real products. I foresee many of the classes that I have will become paperless or at least reduce the amount of paper used in my class. It would be nice if everyone could have an iPad in my science class as we use composition notebooks. I would like to have this all on line. It would save time and space.

2. How do you plan to continue to use your iPad in your personal life? Professional life?
 * In my professional life I will continue to use my ipad to use productivity apps such as dropbox, splashtop, and creative apps such as garageband and iMovie. The productivity apps I will continue to use as I would my laptop, word process documents, write notes, send and receive email, skype, etc. However, I can add a few tools, as apps to reduce my load.
 * In my personal life I can use my ipad as a phone, as a gps. driving directions, as well as find restaurants that have sushi!

3. What have you learned from others' sharing that you would like to try or explore more of?
 * iPad peak: Set up your own questions and answers that you can "peak" using the iPad cover folds.
 * Brain Pop movies: shows a brain pop movie of the day.
 * Tap Reef: I love to snorkel and now I have a virtual salt water tank on my iPad.
 * Ted Talks: Educational videos with ideas for students and teachers.
 * timer: I liked having a timer on my ipad.

4. Describe the presentation you gave today and the application you shared / demonstrated.
 * My presentation demonstrated my growth from learning about ipads to applying what I learned to my profession and to my personal life. First, I discussed the articles I found in a round table discussion. I found I was not alone in the thought that there was a trend in the readings. We agreed that many articles are how great the apps are, how schools are deploying them, but little on how they will "fit" with the current hardware, wiring, bandwidth, etc. Where was the talk about how this will help student learn, what is the pedagogical value is it worth the money just yet? We found, at our table, that we agree that the ipad is a great tool, but should be used by the teachers who know how to use one. Just like the SMARTBoard trend, it was too expensive, but they bought them anyway, not knowing the "full" use package. They could have waited and purchased the same technology from a different vendor was a lot less expensive.


 * Next, I shared my 15+ apps I have used or plan to use with my students and for myself as recreation. I really am happy to have GPS units for all students this year. We have struggled to purchase them because we wouldn't use them for enough time, I also like the fact that students have a visual science vocabulary app. I have read that it lack some basic terms, but for most of what I need them to understand it will work just fine. My 2 apps for the periodic tables.


 * After sharing my apps, I demonstrated my favorite one, GPS. I showed how we can use it to geocache and use it as a compass and map GPS. I see that other people liked the app as well. I really like to like how it works and how simple it was to use.
 * Then, I showed the books I downloaded, One for my professional use and one for my personal use. I discover a book that I could read on my ipad that I aready had, however, it was hard to keep reading, Ifound that it was easier to read, more fun, than to read it from a book. My personal book was Diane Mott Davison's read. I like her becasue she is a caterer and solves crimes. I love to cook and it is a entertaining book, a good summer read.