Edcamp Boston, April 2012

• SkypePlay - The Play Project
  tags: kindergarten skype mariaknee
• 21minutes
  tags: professionaldevelopment Yarmouthcourses teachers

These are a couple of the many Diigo links that I got from EdCamp Boston that I hope to pursue. There were many conversations about "Blended Learning", iPads and learning and other topics. The "smackdown" at the end gave us many links to use with our students. Some of the notes I made are:

• 6 word memoir in Animoto
• Edmodo turn in for assignments
• LittleBirds for writing and drawing
• Fotobabble for recorded story sent to parents by email
• Storybird make student accounts within classroom
• Animoto accounts only last 9 months but can set up for class
• Prezi
• Voicethread - kids can do presentation online instead of being live (differentiation)
• Sliderocket- in google apps marketplace- has voice record, can embed twitter feeds (latest 20)
• Storify
• Paper.li - newspaper generator with embedded social media

Alice, Mike and I had a chance to visit with many colleagues from around New England.

Apple Review of iPads in Schools

• Exploring the impact of Apple's iPad on schools & schooling.
  tags: iPadApps iPads elementary

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

New England Apple Tech Update Spring2012

• Class Widgets - Custom Widgets for iBooks Author
  tags: iBooks gadgets Apple
• New England Apple Tech Updates
  tags: Apple tech 2012

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

It's been a few years since I attended an Apple Update. Mike, Alice and I all chose to attend this one due to the agenda items. It was helpful to hear about the development of management tools for iPads for schools adding large numbers of iPads. As long as we are adding a few iPads at a time we will be manually setting up iPads with either personal, institutional or hybrid accounts for each iPad. It is somewhat complicated as exploring apps requires access to iTunes cards or Apple Voucher provided apps. Another item on the agenda was the new option to create multimedia texts in iBooks. The limitations are that books can only be created by teachers and they belong to the teacher not the school. This is going to take some working out as we see what the potential is for iBooks and other epub options. In Yarmouth we are often looking for a tool that students can use as a multi-media creation tool. Most teachers are using sites, wikis and blogs for their own curriculum development online.

Google Docs for Teachers eBook

Many thanks to Richard Byrne: Free Technology for Teachers

Open publication - Free publishing - More google