7. Housekeeping
O Please be sure you submitted your name for a
door prize; drawing will be held at the end of the
session and must be present to win
O If you have any questions during the session,
please visit our back channel on Today’s Meet:
http://todaysmeet.com/HaysCISD_TCEA
O This presentation & lessons shared are posted on
the following website:
https://sites.google.com/site/cresppcd/
8. Session’s Objectives
O Provide a descriptive overview of how
technology has been integrated in one of our
PALS/PPCD classrooms.
O Give our session’s attendants some ideas
that they could implement in their
classrooms using a Smartboard and an
iPad.
9. Classroom Setting
O Type of Class: Pre-School Program for Children with
Disabilities (PPCD) & Pre-School Academic
Language Social Skills (PALS)
O Two classes: A.M. & P.M.
O Age group: 3 yr. olds to 5 yr. olds
O Usually it averages out to about 20 students per
year.
10. Technology Resources
O Two desktop computers: One for instruction
and the other for students to use during
centers
O Data Projector
O SmartBoard
O Ipad
O Flip Cam
O Augmentative Communication Devices
(assigned to specific students)
11. Daily Schedule
Morning Calendar/Cancionero
•Smartboard
•iPad (Splashtop app)
Centers/Communication Dev.
•TechSpeak
•Springboard
•iPad
•Student Computer Handwriting without Tears
•Smartboard
Growing with Mathematics
•Smartboard
•iPad
Recess/YAP
Story Time/Activity
•Smartboard
•iPad
12. Morning Activity
O Smartboard lesson:
Attendance
Circle Map: Letter of the Week
Calendar
What’s the Weather?
Math Warm-Up
O Lesson Preview
14. Smartboard: Adding Pages to Gallery
O There is a way to save pages from SMART Notebook
files into your gallery.
O This makes it easier to import frequently used
pages.
O To do this, locate the necessary page on the page
sorter.
O After doing so, right-click on the page and then
scroll down to select “Add Page to Gallery”.
O Circle Maps: Letter Activity
15. Centers/Communication
Development
O Time is devoted to developing language with
their communication devices.
O Teacher spends time one to one with
student; other students get time to work
with the iPad or work in a center.
O Great time for the teacher to work on
communication with certain students
O Lesson Example
17. Handwriting without Tears
O A type of Writing curriculum
O For our class, we focus on the letter tracing
component
O Done on the SmartBoard and located some
lessons on the SMART exchange website.
O Can be incorporated with additional letter
recognition activities
19. iPad apps: Splashtop
O Splashtop is a remote desktop app available for the
iPad and iPhone (even Android version)
O The app enables us to utilize the iPad as a wireless
slate with our students.
O It has increased accessibility for students with limited
mobility or who struggle with reaching the
Smartboard.
O Addtionally, the app has allowed access to desktop
applications (i.e. Boardmaker) during table time
activities.
20. Things to know about Splashtop
O Price fluctuates throughout the year
(Currently the iPad version is $4.99)
O In order for the app to work, the iPad and
the computer its remoting into must be
connected to the same network.
O The app works best when the computer it’s
remoting into is connected to the internet
through an ethernet cable.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/splashtop-
2-remote-desktop/id382509315?mt=8
22. iPad Apps-Spanish/Bilingual
O My First Book of
O ReadingSkill-Español
Spanish Alphabets
O ABC Mágico O CI Niños
O SimpleSort ($0.99)
O ABC Mágico 2
O Leo Spanish Lite
O Todas las Letras
O Learn Spanish for Kids
(Bilingual Child)
O DIME Lite
23. iPad Apps: Content Creation
O Snowball HD O ChoiceBoard-Creator
O Story Creator O Sock Puppets
O Doodlecast Pro O I Know
($2.99) Quiz Creation App
O ShowMe
24. iPad Apps to use for Math/ESL
O Letter School O Hungry Fish
O My Play Home O Math 3-4
O Sensory Meter Lite O iTouchiLearn Numbers
O A Bee Sees O Count and Write ($0.99)
O Math, age 3-5 O Magnetic Pages
27. Resources
O SMART Exchange website
O Boardmaker software & Boardmaker Share website
O For app suggestions:
- App Shopper
- Mark Coppin mailing list
<mark.coppin@annecenter.org>
