I will be gone tomorrow and Thursday, but will be back Friday. I will need to ask teachers checking out iPads Wednesday and Thursday a favor. Please make sure if you are first on the list to work with Kim to get my office unlocked and take out the iPads that you need from the cart. The last person to check them out, please make sure to put them back in the cart, lock the cart with the padlock, and lock my office door. I appreciate your help, but free to email me with any questions. I will have my phone on me.
On another note with iPad care, please make sure to stack the iPad vertically in the case, all facing the same direction. Also, the iPad checkout is at http://tinyurl.com/deuelipad and be sure that you are refreshing your page before putting in a name. This is especially true on an iPad as the iPad seems to have more of delay in updating than a computer. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns about checkout times. I am open to ideas to improve the process.
1) Six Weeks of iPad Apps for School are reviewed and explained in the previous link. Most of them are free and seem to be some interesting apps. Each app's page on the AppStore is linked on the presentation for easy download. Please let me know if any of these are something you would like on the cart's iPads.
2) http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/ I have told a few of you about the Power Searching with Google online course I took in October. Good news! There is an Advanced Power Searching with Google Course starting January 23rd. If you do not think you are ready for the Advanced, you can click on the link along the blue bar that says "Power Searching" and complete that course at your own pace. I would highly recommend it. And, if you are interested, I'd be glad to work with you on some of this. There are so many great resources on the internet... it's wading through all the bogus sites first that takes work.
3) High quality rubric creation is a lot of work and the following is a link to a great repository of 21st century learning and digital rubrics. Check them out if you are not sure where to start in creating an assessment tool. http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/rubrics.cfm?THEBIGDEALBOOK=634611295785560000
I have also sent you http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ before to help create Rubrics, if you are interested in referring back to this as well.
4) Flipped Classrooms are a buzz word today in Education, but there really are teachers doing it and here are some examples: http://edudemic.com/2011/12/15-flipped-classrooms/ Check them out here and click on each school's name to find out more.
5) I never thought I'd say this, but one of the lessons/ projects I really miss about teaching English is book reports. So, to reminisce a bit, here are 41 Ways to Go Beyond the Book Report that would be good for almost any grade level reading individually or as a class.
Have a great week and stay warm!
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