Activity One - Recording your voice!
Goal: Using Screenchomp,
create a short video (1 to 2 minutes) in your given subject area and
share it with the lead learner. This could be a video about a problem
in math, or constructing a sentence, or even drawing a map and
describing a particular event. This is just an opportunity to get used
to recording your voice while drawing on the iPad. It might take a few
takes to get it close to what you want. Once you are done, please share
the video with mark.hammons@gmail.com
Discussion: How could this be something you use in your classroom? With your students?
Activity Two - Annotate with Skitch!
Goal: Make a creative and fun graphic using the features available in Skitch!
Skitch
is a FREE app from the great people at Evernote! It's a fun and
intuitive tool for making quick screen captures (with annotations) that
you can quickly upload and use wherever you need.
Make a
minumim of two screen annotations with Skitch. One has to be from a
picture you take in the workshop. The other has to be from a screen
capture (Home + Sleep Button). Feel free to share both me
mark.hammons@gmail.com
Activity Three - Creation in the Classroom
Goal: To create a short
video as if you were traveling across the country as a reporter for
your local newspaper. Your task as this news reporter is to interview
various people from a new town (perhaps San Diego?) and find three
interesting facts about the area to report. This can take place in the
past (farming in the 1800's), present, or future (a vision of what you
think Sacramento might be in 20 years?). Take on the persona of a
"character" you might know, or even a local celebrity! (please limit
your project to 3-5 minutes).
Ready? Follow the steps below.
- Save images to your iPad from this link (tap and hold the image and select save)
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Additional information about San Diego can be found on its http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento,_California.
Don't forget you can use Google Earth or Google Maps to make your own custom Screenshots!
- Find your saved images in your Photos
- Open up the SonicPics Lite and import the 3 images
- Drag your images to change their order
- Write a script that will cover all the areas mentioned
- Practice speaking with inflection.
- When
ready, click record to narrate the movie. As you narrate you can move to
the next image and keep speaking by sliding your finger over the image
from left to right.
- When you're finished, save and preview the movie
- Share your video, send your video to mark.hammons@gmail.com
Activity Four: Getting down with Google Forms
Let's take a look at how the iPad can help us gather data on our students in a effective manner.
I recommend you do the following steps on your computer (easier to create there)
1. Create an account at docs.google.com or login with your existing account. 2. Create a new "form"
from the menu and create a "survey" that you can use to gather data on
your students. Class participation points, Physical Education Stats,
etc.
3. Once you have all the
questions you want (and have a custom theme), click the link on the
bottom of the screen to see the fruits of your labor.
4. Now go to docs.google.com on your iPad (or if you downloaded the Google app, you can get there too).
5. Click on the form you just created and click on the same link on the bottom of the screen.
6.
NOW.... click the arrow to the left of the address bar and then either
add it as a bookmark (browser shortcut) or add it to the home screen
(desktop shortcut)
Activity Five - iBooks/GoodReader (accessing information "offline")
With
apps like iBooks and GoodReader, you can have access to content
(pre-planned) on the go when you don't have a wi-fi connection to the
Internet. I'd like for you each to find some content on your
computer (Preferably PDF's) and get that content on your iPad so you can
read it later.
1. Connect your iPad to your computer.
2.
Drag files (either audio, video, but most importantly documents.... )
into the iTunes library so that the library is highlighted blue.
3. Now click on the iPad icon on the left and then navigate to the books tab across the top of the main menu in iTunes.
4. Check the books you want to sync to your iPad (repeat these same steps for music, videos, etc).
6.
Open up the iBooks app and you'll see an option on the left side for
"PDF's"... now you can read them wherever you are, or at least have
access to them.
2.
Email yourself (or use Dropbox) a copy of a PDF you'd like to have
access to offline. When you go to open it, it will prompt you to
choose the program to open it in, select
.
3. Now that you have the PDF open in
, feel free to make some annotations to it!
4. Now, browse to a website that you frequent.
5. You can do this cool feature in GoodReader.
Once you find a website (let's pretend it's something that you want
to read when you're offline), put a "g" in front of the url
(ghttp://www.google.com) and it will now be accessible offline.
STILL HAVE TIME?
- Remember High School Algebra? (No worries, it's only plotting points... no formulas!)
- If we have time, we'll walk through how to download the white paper on iPhone App Use in Higher Ed from GetYaLearnOn.com and use the GoodReader App to read it.
Want to learn more about transferring files from the iPad to a computer?
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