1. Creating
writing, drawing, recording
on your iProduct
Jennifer Gingerich
Educational Technology Trainer & Coach
Providing Dynamic Staff Development
jennifergingerich@mac.com
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Resources and links available at
https://sites.google.com/site/edtechsimple

2. Objectives
Examine apps for their use as a
creativity tool, comparing and
contrasting features.
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Identify ways to effectively use
these apps in a classroom setting
to support your content and
curriculum.
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3. What do you, or your
students, do on the iPad?
Share your answer on
Answer Garden

4. Consumers
Collaborators
Creators

5. Targeting Bloom's
How can we target a variety of Bloom's levels
with ipads & ipods?

6. Meeting Modalities
How can we provide for a variety of
learning styles with ipads?

7. Jigsaw Activity
• Number off 1-5
• Read assigned article from agenda
• Discuss with like group
• Regroup into 1-5 groups. Discuss to find
common key points.
• Record a group statement using an app of
your choice.

8. Jigsaw Articles
• K-5 iPad Apps for Creating: Part Six of Bloom's Revised
Taxonomy
• Redefining Instruction With Technology: Five Essential
Steps
• Teaching Innovation Is About More Than iPads in the
Classroom
• I Pity the Fool Who Thinks It’s About the Devices
• There is More to iPads in the Classroom Than Apps

9. Using Apps
• Best Instructional practices
• Effective instructional strategies
• Gradual release of responsibility...
~ I do, we do, you do
• Integrate throughout lesson
• Utilize Driver/Navigator roles
• Scaffold use of app
• Repeat use of app
• Reevaluate app
• Share your finds and experiences

10. Apps for Creation
Sonic Pics Pic Collage
Popplet
Educreations

11. Be creative...
Combine text, photos, drawing, and narration
• Language Arts - Write Poetry,
Retell Story, Practice Spelling
• Social Studies - Use Vocabulary,
Create Timeline, Tell the Story
• Math - Explain Concepts, Show
your work, Solve a Problem
My Published Story
• Science -Document an
Experiment, Analyze the
Results, Explain Cycles

12. Math Lesson
• Use drawing tools to
show arrays, geometry
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• Use text to label
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• Record voice to explain
Try this lesson
with
Educreations
or Show Me

13. Social Studies Lesson
• Find pictures on Safari
and save image
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• Insert into story kit
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• Add text and voice to
show what you know
Try this lesson
with Poppet

14. Science Lesson
• Take photos of experiments
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• Take screen shots using
power + home buttons
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• Use text or voice to
provide details
Try this lesson
with Pic
Collage

15. Language Arts Lesson
You Tube Example
• Use preloaded photos as
writing prompts
• Focus on literary device
• Record voice to to tell
story or poem
Try this
lesson with
Sonic Pics
or Animoto

16. 4 Ways to get Photos/Images
• Take a picture with the built in camera
• Upload photos into iPhoto and sync the
album using iTunes
• Find an image on Safari and Save image
into camera roll
• Take a screen shot by pushing Home
and Power buttons at the same time
• Upload photos to an online album like
Picasa and make a quick link

18. Creation Stations
• Travel in pairs or individual
• Scan QR code to bring up the direction sheet
• Download one of the suggested apps
• Follow directions/suggestions to go through
app and create a sample product
• Post description and sample on Edmodo by
taking a screen shot or by linking to a
published product

27. Creation Stations
Fun with Communicate Screencasting
Powerful
Photos
& Collaborate
! Presentations
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Pic Collage
Skype
Educreations
Haiku Deck
Post Card Edmodo Screen Chomp Keynote
Creator
Mind Maps
Digital Comic Strip
Audio
! Storytelling
! Recording
Popplet
! Strip Designer
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Inspiration Sonic Pics
Comic Life Fotobabble
Web
Animoto
GarageBand
Simple Mind Blurb Mobile

28. Creation Station PDFs
Hint:
Open in
iBooks to
save the PDF
on your
iPad.
All materials can be found at
http://jennifergingerich.wikispaces.com/Creation+Stations

29. Reflect & Connect
with Edmodo