I'm back! Working on trying to get at least an update a week on here! Life took over and got busy, that's for sure. This week in fifth grade, I bring you, iPad deployment. My kiddos are 1:1 and have their new iPads for the year. I wanted to have a lockscreen with their class number on it so that I can find the owner quickly by pushing on the Home button. I went to canva.com and created a custom image. I made it 1024x1024 pixels (it asks when you go to create a new image. I then created the background. Pretty simple. After each one, I downloaded it, then edited what I had (wait for it to download or it sometimes keeps downloading the same image over and over. I also put our class saying on it - Be a nice human After this, I uploaded the images into a Google Folder, shared the link with my kids in Schoology, and saved the correct image to their iPad to change the lock screen. Honestly, it did not take that long! And it is SO worth it!
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After watching Kristin Ziemke speak at the TAWL conference, I knew I wanted to utilize some of the great things she was doing with her students in her classroom. One of those was having students in the lower grades record their voices talking about the books they are reading.
She had this great idea for creating a recording booth for kids, where they can sit and record their conversation about reading on an iPad, or other recording device, and send it to the teacher. I searched around for what app I wanted to test this out with, and settled on Educreations. I thought this would be a simple app for 1st graders to use, and I was right! I went in to a couple of classrooms, Ms. Sutter and Mrs. Hague were kind enough to share some of their kiddos with me, and worked with a couple students. They were handed the iPad, took a photo of their book, pushed the record button, talked about either the plot of their book or their favorite part, and then rated it by drawing 1-5 stars on the image. Of course they did a wonderful job! This would be a great tool to use for fluency checks and for retelling. I think about all those times that I would intend to get through 5-6 conferences with kids, only to get stuck on conference number 2 or get called away in the middle to tend to something else. If a teacher had a "recording corner" in their room and a rotation schedule, students could talk about their reading often and the teacher could listen to it when it best suited them, as well as have a recording to keep for student records. Below, I have linked these videos for you to view. One thing about Educreations, to download the video you have to buy the Pro account. If you don't have the Pro account, you can copy the links to the videos to share them! |
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