Harmony Day / 19th March

Overall everyone is  super keen, with amazing ideas. Most teachers are working along similar ideas and everyone is finding it easier to allocate students certain iPads, so that all their work can be stored in one place. The idea of creating a book in Book Creator that holds all the students is great and will help with sharing this work with parents.

I have put some information about Padlet, a website that students can collaborate on in the resources section of this site. Jude and I were discussing it yesterday.

Em

Padlet

What is Padlet? 

Padlet is a virtual wall that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device.

As it’s web based you can have students on computers or iPads all collaborating together. All you need to do is give your students the URL. 

Once signed in you have the following options:

Customise the wall title and description.

Customise the background (wallpaper).- By creating an image such as a KWL you can add it as the background to structure students comments. 

You can also choose how your posts will appear. Choose Freeform if you want students to be able to place posts in a chosen spot. e.g. label a map or in a KWL.

Use Grid if you don't want the posts overlapping and use stream for the most recent post to jump to  the top. Stream is a great way to have a blog experience without students having login’s. Use it for collaborative Chapter reviews for example. 


Examples:

Week 6 Classroom Lessons

Hey FLDC crew, 

Again massive thank you for being prepared and trying out the apps between sessions. As some of you have found by revisiting the same apps again it has helped to consolidate the students knowledge. The process then becomes more about the learning objective and less about the tech side of it. 

Hayley’s class have been focusing on numbers to 10, the students used “Showme” to record their voice and record drawing the numbers. 

In groups students first made the number with counters and took a photo of it. Then in "Showme" they recorded their voice “this is the number 7” and drew the number on the page. 

( We had a few small glitches in the app, with the writing not appearing. I'll check it out this week)

Overall it was a great way to record writing and speaking at the same time. 

Lucy was working on pronouns- Lucy had the students using Puppet Pals to explain who is holding what toy. "He is holding a Green car."

Puppet Pals allowed for students to listen back to their recordings and save the recordings as evidence if needed.

Deb's class have been cooking 2 minute noodles. We used Pic Collage to sequence the photos and they are putting them in Book Creator. Once in Book Creator the students will record their voice to explain the process.

Deb and I also looked at Air Drop- this is only available on the new iPads in A block, it allows you to send photos via bluetooth. Therefore taking photos on 1 iPads can easily be sent to the other 3 iPads in your class. C block will need to use Dropbox to share photos and work.

Alison's class created a Pic Collage after a picture sort. Students had to take photos, import them to Pic collage and write their name. 

Creating a Popplet such as the example below could be another option to display this kind of language work. 

Pic Collage student work 

Popplet Example

Lucy's class consolidated their knowledge of Puppet Pals and retold a different story. Using the App for a second time the students showed a lot more independence and it allowed students to push ahead quickly if they were confident with the App. As students were quite independent it allowed students to move outside to a quiet recording area so that they had less background noise. 

Jude's class ( Sorry I forgot to grab a photo) retold the story of Mr Gumpy using Puppet pals.  Students worked in 3 groups and some students even tried to add expression and character voices. 

Each group created a great first try, I can't wait to see what else they create next week.