“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.”

~Louis Sebastian Mercier

The BISD Platforms for Learning

BISD Learning Platform BISD Digital Learning Platform

Digital Learning Platform

http://bisddlp.weebly.com/

What is professional learning?

● lifelong learning

● continuous growth and development

● can be face to face, online, or in the

form of a book study

Turn and Talk

Please share with those at your table one new discovery, ah-ha, that you had while looking at the Digital Learning Platform. Had you seen it before, perhaps used during the 2014-15 school year or was this your first look?

iPad Beyond the Basics: PROFESSIONAL LEARNING AND PRODUCTIVITY With iBooks, iTunes U, Pages, and Keynote

Learn to navigate, enroll, and participate in self-paced, online learning using iTunesU and iBooks….Create new content using the Apple suite of Apps such a Pages and Keynote.

What other learning would you liketo gain today related to iPads in teaching and learning, the DigitalLearning Platform, and other topicsrelated?

Twitter Chat: Digital Learning is the Accelerator

Login to Twitter to sharewhat you are learning.Post image(s) and/or text.

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Apps iBooks - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8iTunes U - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itunes-u/id490217893?mt=8Pages - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pages/id361309726?mt=8 (free for Project Innovate iPads)Keynote - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/keynote/id361285480?mt=8 (free for Project Innovate iPads)

iBooks: K-W-L

What do you already know? What do you want to know?

Activate Speak Selection on the iPad

➢ Settings - General - Accessibility - Speech➢ Turn ON Speak Selection➢ Turn ON Speak Screen➢ Voices - download “Alex” for a more normal

sounding voice➢ Speaking Rate - move toward turtle

iBooks Navigation

➢ My Books - view All, Books, or PDFs from top center

➢ Featured - browse or search➢ NY Times, Top Charts, Top Authors➢ Purchased - see All or Not on This iPad

iBooks: Tips & Tricks

➢ Refer to iPad User Guide, iBooks, for more personalized learning

➢ Two-finger swipe down from top opens controls to have iBooks read to you

iBooks: ExplorationBrowse iBooks to find:➢ Topics of interest➢ Topics related to your teaching assignment

○ One Best Thing➢ Topics related to Professional Learning

○ Pages○ Keynote○ Discovering iTunes U Collections○ and more!

iTunes U: K-W-L

What do you already know? What do you want to know?

iTunes U➢ Tap the iTunes U icon and your bookshelf appears. ➢ In the upper corner, tap the Catalog button and the

bookshelf flips around to reveal the iTunes U catalog. ➢ From the catalog, browse through more than 800,000

free courses, lectures, videos, films, and other resources.○ Tap Featured at the bottom to browse categories or

search for courses○ Select a course; tap Subscribe; tap Get Collection

iTunes U: Course Features➢ Info: Overview of course➢ Posts: Sections headings➢ Notes: for your personal notes as you work though

course material➢ Materials: An easy reference place to find any course

materials

iTunes U: Exploration

Browse iTunes U to find:➢ Topics of interest➢ Topics related to your teaching assignment➢ Topics related to Professional Learning

○ Pages○ Keynote○ iBooks○ search Apple Distinguished Educator

Pages, Numbers, Keynote: K-W-L

What do you already know? What do you want to know?

Pages, Numbers, Keynote

Pages: http://www.apple.com/ios/pages/Numbers: http://www.apple.com/ios/numbers/Keynote: http://www.apple.com/ios/keynote/

I reflect, therefore I learn.“Reflection is not only powerful for learning, but powerful for personal growth,

and should be embedded into all of our professional learning days. Although

collaboration is an important process to growth of an organization, people need

time to process ideas and thoughts, and without actually having that time to

think, we lose out on many voices. Also, learning is deeply personal, and

without reflection time and having the opportunity to connect your own ideas

and personal learning to what is being shared, it is harder to go deep into

ideas.”~George Couros

Reflection

Learning Through Reflection

I used to think…,but now I think…

5 Powerful Reasons to MakeReflection a Daily Habit,and How to Do It

Reflections...

Use the Pages App and spend a few minutes reflecting on today’s session.

How can you use your iPad for PL?

View how others are using their Project Innovate iPad Professionally.

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