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iPads in French

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It has been fantastic having iPads in my Y7 French class this year, we have used the device frequently in meaningful ways and the kids' repertoire of tools is becoming impressive. Today, having drafted a piece of extended writing about what they typically eat and drink for each meal of the day, including an introduction to the concept of le goûter, we focused entirely on pronunciation. Students had previously peer-assessed speaking work using ShowMe so they each had targets to pay attention to this time. We brainstormed specific tips for 'sounding French' on Edmodo, kids then checked any tricky-to-pronounce words using the speaker function of the Google translate app. When ready, they then used the Educreations app to make a narrated slide for each of their meals, posting to Edmodo for all to see.

Student portfolios on iPad

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A trial group of Y7 students today sharing their first entries in their Evernote portfolios..they have been shown how to tag each entry with one of our school's 8 learner profile attributes: balanced, open-minded, reflective, principled, knowledgeable, thinker, communicator. There were some innovative uses of the camera, with photos of certificates achieved, positive feedback from teachers on written work, team photos, dance performances and even a picture of a full roast lamb dinner one student had proudly made for her family! I guess she tagged that under risk-taker and knowledgeable? Students certainly found out things they did not know about one another and so did staff. Evernote does not natively embed video, which is a shame, but with video now able to upload into Google drive, kids can post a web link to that. Can't see a way to create that link on the Drive app itself, but can on the web version...

Interested to know if anyone is using a different platform for portfolios!

iPads in Gymnastics

by Archie

As everyone knows, Year 7 has been given iPads. Among all the brilliant uses of them has been 'SloPro', which is an app that lets you film something and play it back in slow motion. In gymnastics we have been using it to record and evaluate our balances. Watching movements back in slow motion helped us to identify the strengths and weakness in the performances. We could watch it back many times and even stop it to look at skills more closely. Using the iPad camera to record the skills helped us to see what we did wrong so we can do it better next time. I think that this is an amazing idea to help us evaluate performances and we should carry on using it. Gymnastics is fun but using 'SloPro' helps us learn more quickly. 

Meograph: Four-dimensional storytelling - Fab for timelines/plotlines

www.Meograph.com is an awesome way for students/teachers to easily create, share, and play back stories in context of Where and When. They call it four-dimensional storytelling ... pretty cool. Can include maps, narration, video, images, text etc I made this quick Meograph about Vichy France in three minutes. : http://www.meograph.com/stevesingapore/18291/vichy-france The website has a really easy video tutorial. Every feature works on iPad as well as online except the recording audio narration element, so slight compromise.

Fun iPad game for all subjects

Www.bingobaker.com is an online bingo card maker..can use brilliantly on iPads as kids can play in pairs or individually - or can print off for other year groups Teacher (or student) enters key terms into a grid, (commonly misspelled words, geographical/historical/scientific terms, symbols, numbers, square roots, periodic table, anything!) then hit 'Generate' to create a web link. The following link for example is for the food vocab from the unit our Y7 French students are doing https://bingobaker.com/play/50054 You share the same link on Edmodo but each kid magically sees a randomised card when they click the link. Genius! Teacher (or student) uses the wordlist to call out the words ie https://bingobaker.com/words/50054 Kids tap the words they hear on their ipad and they get crossed off just like a real bingo card. Once a line is crossed off, kids have to explain the terms on that line to win the game/prize/merit.. SAMR level: Augmentation if teacher makes and directs, Modification if students make and direct the activity as this would not have been possible without technology and is therefore changing the traditional task.