We were impressed with how many of you are using your iPads throughout the day. Now we would like you to show your teachers how you are using them. Please select a teacher that does not have their own iPad and share with them how you are using the iPad in their class (or how it could be used). Make sure you set up a time to do this at your teacher's convenience. Once you have shared with a teacher, please comment and tell us who you shared with, what you showed them, and what their reaction was.
This assignment is due Monday, November 28th.
I interviewed Kemi, my math teacher, and we had a very interesting conversation. First, I showed her Notability, the notetaking app, and how I use my stylus to take notes in her class. Then, I showed her the PDF version of my math book that I have in iBooks, a file a friend of mine made, and sent her a link to the file using Dropbox's public folder so she can download it to her computer. Finally, I showed her how I used my iPad as a planner.
ReplyDeleteWe discussed a couple new ideas. First, Kemi requires us to use a homework sheet, a sheet on which we record our homework every night. She is going to send me an Excel version of this file so that I can have the homework sheet on my iPad in Numbers (or possibly convert it to be used with Pages or GoodReader).
Also, in Kemi's class, we are required to keep a portfolio project. The portfolio, a heavy, two-inch binder, containing our notes, homework, quizzes, Focus Zones (essentially chapter reviews), and other handouts. I asked her if it would be okay if I used my computer to create a big PDF file of all of this instead of having a big portfolio. For notes, I already have them on my iPad and have to print them out. I could begin doing homework and Focus Zones on my iPad, or I could scan it in on my computer. I could scan quizzes and tests and any handouts we have. She seemed open to this idea, and we are going to talk about it more in the future. I think I am going to purchase a Doxie scanner, possibly a Doxie Go, for school and purposes like these. Link: http://www.getdoxie.com/
Kemi seemed to like the idea of using iPads in her class. She doesn't really care how you do notes, homework, etc. as long as you have everything in your portfolio, but she seemed interested in what I was talking about. I'm excited to try some of these new ideas in her class.
I shared with my math teacher, Kemi Griffin. I showed her that I use the app Noterize to take notes in her class. I take pictures of what she writes on the whiteboard with my iPad and I showed her some of those. I also showed her how I put the website that I access the textbook on and her teacher page onto my home screen. She thought it was interesting.
ReplyDeleteI did this with Che, my science teacher. What I showed him was the app Flashcardlet. I showed him how I used this app to study for my upcoming science quiz and how useful it could be in class and at home. I also went through a quick study session to show him how simple the app is and how effectively it can improve class work. He really liked it and he seemed very impressed on how easily a device can help improve classroom grades.
ReplyDeleteI shared my iPad with Danielle Moore, and I showed her a few note apps, and how I used them to take notes. I also showed her my planners in it, that I use to keep track of homework schedule. Overall, she seemed impressed on how it worked, and how I can just use one little device to do almost anything.
ReplyDeleteI shared my iPad with Tom and showed him two apps. I showed him wikipanion and easy note. He was impressed by wikipanion because it allowed me to quickly search up interesting information in class whenever a question about some literature arose. He liked easynote because it's ability to quickly write down notes in class for later copy/pasting to pages.
ReplyDeleteI shared my iPad with Uri ( my dad). I showed him how I take notes in Lit. with pages. In our lit class we take a lot of notes so pages is one of the apps that I use most. I also showed him my planner which has all of my homework and has my schedule on it. The last thing I showed him was the math app I use, geometry designer. Overall I think the thing that impressed him most was that I could have everything in one place.
ReplyDeleteI shared my iPad with my home base teacher, Uri. I showed him how I put the link to our class website onto my home screen, and I also did the same things with the charge sheets for our court. I also showed him my note taking app, Noterize, and my word processing app, Pages, which I use to write mt stories in creative writing class. He was very impressed with the iPad and even said he wanted to get one!
ReplyDeleteI also shared my iPad presentation with by home base teacher, Jane. Jane was very impressed on how I used my iPad. I showed her what I did on every subject and told her how I used the iPad. Jane loved the pictures and commented on how I did a great job on projecting my presentation.
ReplyDeleteI shared my iPad with my math teacher, Kemi. I showed her how I used my iPad to take notes in her class and showed her how I use the link to the textbook website for quick and easy acess to the website. I showed her how sometimes I have to write the problems on paper because they take a while to type up. She said that sometimes the problems I typed up looked messy. I explained how I could under stand what they were and she said that was okay.
ReplyDeleteI showed/shared the iPad to Gregory Mancini. I showed him that I take notes with Evernote and SketchbookX. I told him that I liked using Evernote because I can record my teachers' lectures and I can easily draw diagrams with the sketchbook app. He thought the iPad was an interesting tool to use for school work. He wondered if it would create or take away interaction in the class and if it really helped with studying. He asked me if I what I thought if everyone had iPads.
ReplyDeleteI talked with my chemistry teacher Dave about how I use my iPad in his class. I showed him the notes I take in Noterize, and how I combined handwritten notes with typed notes. I then showed him my planner, inClass, and how I could add and check off assignments as I completed them. He keeps a Google calendar for his class assignments on his web page, and he wondered if I could simply sync his google calendar with a planner. I told him that I wasn't currently using an app that could do that, but I think it would be a good thing to look for. I showed him the flashcard apps I use, such as Mental Case and Flashcardlet. Dave has made quizlet sets for class material we cover, and I showed him how I could download sets he'd made into the apps, which he thought would be very useful for studying. I showed his the periodic table app that I use for reference, and how it wasn't terribly different from the references he hands out. I also showed him a game I use to memorize the atomic symbols, which he thought was cool. Overall, I think Dave was impressed by how many different uses I had for my iPad in his class, and he was interested in figuring out even more ways I could use it.
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ReplyDeleteI talked with my history teacher, Laura, about how I use my iPad in her class. I showed her the Pages app and how I use it to take notes in her class. I also talked to her about the different ways I use the iPad to do research for her class such as downloading JSTOR articles in PDF form to iBooks. She seemed very interested in what I think the benefits are for a student in terms of having an iPad to use for school work.
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I interviewed my teacher Tom and I showed him wikipanion and dictionary apps on my iPad and he was surprised, he even asked me to look up a couple words for him
ReplyDeleteI showed my iPad to my homebase teacher, Uri. I showed him where I take my notes, my calendar, My 1st lass app, And my Documents that I had typed on there. He seemed to see the iPad as a very useful device, and asked me questions. He said it is good to have a planner on the iPad to remind me of events and assignments. I have a calendar, but maybe it would be more useful to use a planner instead. Overall he seemed to like how I was using it.
ReplyDeleteI showed my iPad to my Spanish teacher, Mark. I showed him how I take notes with the note app that is provided by the school, and I also showed him the spanish english dictionary that I frequently use to look words that I do not know the meaning of. I think that he thinks it is making a positive impact on me.
ReplyDeleteI showed my iPad to my lit teacher John. I showed him how I use it to write all of my papers, take notes, and look up definitions of words. John said it seemed to be working well and he thought it was a god idea. He said "That's really cool!"
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ReplyDeleteI showed my iPad to my Comp & Lit teacher, Catharine. She already knew some things about my iPad since she's seen me use it in her class. However, she was interested to learn more.
ReplyDeleteFirst, I showed her my planner (iStudiez Pro), which she thought was very cool. I also showed her Noterize (which I use in her class) and how I had scanned in the packet she gave us. Her favorite part was that I could annotate with my stylus (and she was really excited that you can change the color of the pen!) In addition, I showed her some of the other note-taking apps I use in other classes and iBooks, which I'll probably be using in her class when we read Macbeth at the end of the year.
At the beginning of the year she was a little hesitant to let me use the iPad, so it was interesting to see how much her has changed. She's really excited about the iPad now and very open to letting my use it in class. I still don't think she really understands how it works, but she's happy that we're getting to use them. She told me that I could use it during discussions (even though she doesn't allow laptops) and that I was welcome to type my answers to the quizzes (I don't do this because it is too hard to print.) Overall, I'd say that my interview went very well.
I showed the iPad to Jeanne Lee, my history teacher last year. I showed her how I use pages to take notes and do homework, how I use the flashcard apps, and how I use Notes to write down my homework assignments. She thought it was cool, and was interested in the notes I took. I told her about how I can use the ipad to look up quick facts in history and find cool pictures to add to my notes to make them more detailed. She thought it was a cool!
ReplyDeleteI showed my iPad to my Lit teacher, Jim. He has seen me use my iPad in his class many times but never know what I was doing exactly, until recently.
ReplyDeleteFor starters, I started by showing Jim my main note taking app (complete class organizer). I showed him how I had all of my different writing assignments in different sections, and how I had all of the tests in a different section from my notes.
Second, I showed him Bamboo Paper which is an app I use for the ovation that I want to jot something down in hand writing. That is where I usually copy short small stuff from the board.
Next, I showed Jim an app called Total Recall. Total Recall is an app for mind mapping just like inspiration. I showed him how I can easily map out a paper with body paragraphs, main points, a thesis sentence, and keep it all organized at the same time.
Last but not least, I showed my teacher an app were I can annotate PDF's with high liters and pencils. I talked about how (if everyone in the class had an iPad) we could have all of our packets and handouts on the iPad which would saga A LOT of paper.
Jim seemed very exited about how useful the iPad was for me. He agreed with me that if everyone got iPads it would be a big save in paper, and that iPads have a convenient way of making life simpler.
I showed my iPad to Jeanne Lee, my history teacher. I showed her how I use the iPad for essays (in class and at home) and how I have all of our history websites as exported apps in a folder. She was very intrigued and we talked for a while about how I use the iPad in my other classes, what I think about it, if I like it and how it would change to have a whole class with everyone having an iPad.
ReplyDeleteI showed my iPad to Marianne Hines, my lit teacher. I showed her how I would use it during class to look up words in Merriam-Webster Dictionary, or back up one of her mythology reference from a book to clarify for the rest of the class. Also, how I used iBooks to read books in her class. She found it very neat that I can take notes and highlight within iBooks. She asked me how resourceful iBooks is, is it better for longer books with comprehension or just for the reading. Also, she asked about what I thought if the whole class were to have iPads. Overall, she seemed very impressed, but overwhelmed at how resourceful and not so much the iPad is.
ReplyDeleteI showed my iPad to my homebase teacher, Bonnie. Se said she thought it was good to use the iPad to keep track of what we're doing in our food studies class. She also said some things should be handwritten instead of an iPad such as a planner. I also showed her some of my other notes and she seemed pretty impressed.
ReplyDeleteI showed my teacher John how I use the iPad in his cakes. I showed him how I take notes and can highlight different parts and how I can take pictures of the board if he puts up a map.
ReplyDeleteI talked with Jojo about the iPad a little bit. He was interested in how I was able to take notes in his class (math.) I showed him how I am able to draw formulas with notability, and how I can record portions of his lecture if I want to hear portions of his lecture again. He wa impressed with the app and with how well a computational device was able to handle complex equations. He purchased the app for himself after he saw what it could do. I also talked with Martin about the IPad briefly, he has his own iPad which he received from the school, so he knows the device pretty well. He brought up to me that I might want a stylus for taking down his equations and drawing his pictures, but I showed him how easy it was for me to zoom in and draw them with my finger in "notability." I played with a stylus that was sitting in the tech office, and I liked it pretty well, but I think it is important that one can use this device without a stylus or an attachable keyboard. I can draw pictures and equations in my note taking app just as well with a digital pen as I can without one. I think this shows the power of an iPad. When people choose a note taking app I think its important to find one that you can use to draw equations, and that you won't need your stylus even if you choose to use one. That way, if you aside fly can't find your stylus, you are still in good shape for a day of articulate note taking.
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I interviewed Anna, the librarian. I showed her how I would take about 1 page notes, have to do with Current Events in my classroom. Also, how I would take about half a page worth of notes on Pre-law, and in some cases it's about one page. I also, have the app CNN, because during Current Events, they will usually go to CNN and show us a article on the specific news, and I just find it on CNN, to follow and read what they're talking about. Usually in the end of the day, I take notes on homework, which doesn't take that much writing to do, but sometimes it does.
ReplyDeleteI showed my iPad to Sharon, by biology teacher. I showed her how I use the Pearson eText app to view my textbook, Safari and Pearson's Mastering Biology website to answer the chapter questions and prepare for tests, and Numbers and Pages to create lab reports. She thinks that eTexts will be the norm in the very near future because they save students' backs.
ReplyDeleteI chose John Greene to show how I use the iPad in class. I showed him what notes look like on the iPad and I also showed him the apps I use for note-taking. I then showed him that if you need to look something up, you can go on safari and just up look what you need look up.
ReplyDeleteI talked to Tom about my iPad. I showed him what I use it for. We talked about how i mostly use my iPad at home because in the classroom I tend to feel a disconnect. We talked about how I could use it more, and came up with a few ideas. I told him how it's great for homework because I can type up my work anywhere
ReplyDeleteI talked with Melissa and I told her that I use my iPad for word referencing . Using that program seems the most useful in her class.
ReplyDeleteI shared it with my lit teacher, John. I showed him how I use Pages all the time to take notes and write essays and keep track of things I need to work on and how I use the dictionary apps to look up stuff and noterize also to take notes and poppet to help me brainstorm ideas and lay out my ideas to see the connections. He thought it was "very cool" and said that he had noticed me using it a lot and that it looked like it helped me.
ReplyDeleteI explained what I did on my iPad to my teacher, John. I showed him what cool apps I could use like unbound to organize your google docs. We actually set it up so I could save my Speech on there.
ReplyDeleteI explained what I did on my iPad to my teacher, John. I showed him what cool apps I could use like unbound to organize your google docs. We actually set it up so I could save my Speech on there.
ReplyDeleteI showed Tiffany Oxley how to use the iPad. She was very much exited because she's not really a technological person. She was very fascinated about my Alarm clock app and the alarm sounds they had. I showed her the apps i used in class and how i use it. She also was fascinated aout the keyboard on the iPad.
ReplyDeleteI didn't specifically do this for this assignment, but in art class I helped Madeleine Soloway take pictures of a model in art class and send them to all the students in the class. The model was on her last day but no one was done with their art, so we took pictures of the model and I showed her how to copy and paste each image into her email account and send them to the other students.
ReplyDeleteMy home base teacher Martha (before she got her iPad) was a little concerned about how peoples attention would be with the iPad during class. She wasn't sure if when we were on the iPad if it was distracting us from the lecture our teachers were giving or if it was helping. I told her that it helped me to actually be doing something on the iPad because it keeps me busy during class and still listening at the same time.
ReplyDeleteMy home base teacher Martha (before she got her iPad) was a little concerned about how peoples attention would be with the iPad during class. She wasn't sure if when we were on the iPad if it was distracting us from the lecture our teachers were giving or if it was helping. I told her that it helped me to actually be doing something on the iPad because it keeps me busy during class and still listening at the same time.
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