The iPad2 and Apps: How They Fit into a Support Plan for All Students and Make a

Connection to Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Differentiated Instruction

FHUHS, March 16, 2012.

A copy of this Powerpoint will be available to you via e-mail or on the web: http://fhuhs-at-assessment-team.wikispaces.com. Click on the iPads in the Classroom link on the left- hand-side.

iPad Changes Everything

Immediately after the iPhone was first introduced Steve Jobs went to Alan Kay - grandfather of mobile computing and asked what he thought of it...

“Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world” Alan Kay (http://bit.ly/dAXgsQ

Count of Active Applications in the App StoreTotal Active Apps (currently available for download): 588,492 Total Inactive Apps (no longer available for download): 168,562Total Apps Seen in US App Store: 757,054

“Plumbing” for Prior Knowledge

“To differentiate instruction is to recognize students' varying background knowledge, readiness, language, preferences in learning and interests; and to react responsively.” (NIMAS Center, 1/17/11: Tracey Hall, Nicole Strangman, and Anne Meyer)

• Plumbing for Prior Knowledge - Go to: http://tinyurl.com/72t2k6g(Do this First)

• Google Forms Results – Go to: http://tinyurl.com/7bvg2b4

Pre-Assessment

Music to Buy a Billion Apps By!!(How Apple has Connected with Popular Culture)

Mac Book Air Ad iPod Nano Ad

Jet iPad Commercial

The New Paradigm

Digital Natives

Universal Design

Learning Styles

Cartoons

Board to Page! One Size Fits All Testing!

Where does the iPad fit? Allows the transformation of material from text to audio, audio to text, pictures, cartoons, web clips.

Natural work, pulling out a pad of paper or text book (Connects to World of Work)

Creativity (drawing, recording, photo editing)

Less anti-social information gathering, no physical barrier, easier to share view of screen

Manipulatives, Problem Solving, Strategy gaming

Productivity (communication, presentations, collaboration)

Goals and Instructional Design for Today

Model the use of multi-modal content, process and assessment in the PD activity.

Access prior knowledge digitally to prepare and share as a group.

Connect instructional design to UDL and DI.

Investigate models as exemplars; connect these to personal practice; practice as a group on skills and essential learning.

Have some fun.

Quick Fun Five: Let’s list five-to-ten cool things you’ve learned to do with iPad2, iPhone, iPod or other mobile

• Examples: Use VGA Adapter to connect to SmartBoard.

• Use picture copy and save on WWW by pressing on a picture.

• Learned to sync my e-mail.

Agenda for Today• Lessons we’ve learned

• Basic iPad2 Skills: Practice and Apply Them; Do Some Self-Assessment

• Content Specific Apps for Reading, Math, Writing and Study Skills

• Tips & Tricks: Inside Baseball – How/Where Do You Get This Stuff?

• Fun Apps for Your Student(s) and Classroom

• Data Gathering and Sharing Collective Knowledge

• Some security does and don’ts

Where’s Your Stuff Located?(Your folders are located on Page Two of Your iPad: Click the Home Button Once to

Get There)

Two Folders on Page Two (Cart I) Page Three (Cart II): March Inservice and Fun Stuff

What the Inside of the Folder Looks Like.

Ten Tips & Tricks

Tips and Tricks

Friday, March 16, 20121. Turn it on, turn up the volume, mute the sound

2. Open a program, scroll up/down, swoosh left/right, Home Key3. Screen Shots pictures to be used in other applications

4. Making Folders5. Click, Click then Click, Click-Click, Click-Click-Click

6. Screen orientation lock

1)Turn it On, Volume and Mute2) Open a Program, Scroll Up-and-Down, Swoosh

Left-and-Right, Home Key

3) Taking a Screen Shot with Your Camera

4) Making Folders

5. Click, Click then Click, Click-Click, Click-Click-Click Click - takes you to the Home Screen Click then Click – toggle between Search Page and Home

Click-Click - Double-click the Home button to view the multitasking bar, then flick from left to right. Tap to lock the screen orientation; Hold down an App (the minus symbol) to close it.

Click-Click-Click – Takes you to the Accessibility Menu: Zoom, Voice Over and White on Black.

We’re going to take a look at the Text-to-Speech function built into iOS 5, called Speak Text. This function allows text from Notes, web pages and books to be read digitally.

Speak Accessibility Feature in iOS5

Connects with Recognition Networks in Universal Design for Learning – How kids access information; Connects to Content and Process Features of Differentiated Instruction: How information is presented and accessed.

Tips and Tricks (continued)

Friday, March 16, 2012

7. Troubleshooting Apps: preference setting, quitting, reboot, reinstall

8. Add web short cuts to homepage

9. Deleting & moving apps

10. Scroll to the top of a web page quickly

11. Speech accessibility with Speak Text

12. Search Your iPad

Shutting off the iPad is just a matter of holding down the On/Off Button at the top and sliding the white/red arrow to the right.

To add web short cuts on your Page Screen or Home Page open up Safari web browser to a web page, click on the

Button and scroll down the menu to the “Add to Home Screen” button.

Deleting and Moving Apps A very good skill is being able to delete and move Apps from page to page or into folders. To move an App, hold down on it for a few seconds until it and all of the Apps on the screen start to “shake.”

Now, move the App up/down, left right on the screen to move it. If you want to change the Page of the App, bring it to the center of the Page left/right and it will “move” to the proper spot.

Say it With Me Now: The Cloud is My Friend!

Some Self-Assessment Time to Play!And a little God Father of Soul!

Starting on Apps

As a way to change the pedagogy we’re going to do some investigation - some inquiry - around some of the more common Apps that are used throughout our building.

In order to do that we’re going to break you up into groups of 4/5 and have you act as software evaluators for specific applications. Each group will have at least (1) specific App with a possible (2nd) App as well to investigate, review and comment on.

Some source sites for review will be provided – YouTube often works well – but part of your job will be to use your Safari browser to help you locate info.

Of course each App has a help menu embedded in the program so that is a good source as well.

Dialogue as a group as you fill out the Software Review sheet.

Apps We’ll Take a Look At for Review

iBooks – iBooks is the digital book library for Apple. Here you can download digital books, magazines and documents to your iPod, iPhone and iPad. Syncs also with .pdf(s).

Dragon Naturally Speaking – One of the premier speak to text Apps; transfers spoken language to text. Great for students who struggle with written language – pen to paper.

Drop Box – An excellent digital repository for all of your photos, videos, documents, etc. Put anything into drop box and access it at home or on any computer online.

Apps for Review (Continued)Notability – Notability is an excellent multi-model App for note taking. You can record a class lecture, import photos or make a drawing. You can also import web clips into your notes.

Paper Desk Lite – Another note taking App with multimodal capabilities. Notes can be printed or sent to Drop Box to store or sent to an e-mail account.

Popplet Lite – Popplet is a mind mapping program similar to Inspiration that let’s kids show their ideas and connections amongst ideas with pictures, animations and text.

Apps for Review (Continued)

Verbally – Although defined as an Augmentative and Alternative Communication Device (AAC), this program can also help struggling writers with sentence construction and grammar through word prediction.

Word Cloud is similar to Wordle and other word mind map programs. Word Cloud uses different floating collections of text to help you get your ideas and thoughts across.

Apps Continued After you dialogue and feel confident discussing the App to your peers we’ll meet back and you can use whatever technological tool you want or “not” to prepare a short summary of your App and it’s use for kids. You can select a “spokesperson” or do a group summary – whatever works.

Notability App Notability App for the iPad is made by

Ginger Labs and sells from the App Store for the very affordable price of 99 cents.

Simply Googling a term such as “Best

Note-Taking Apps for iPad” will take you to reviews from legitimate sources such as Gizmodo, Life Hacker, PC Magazine, etc.

At a recent webinar on Assisitve Technology, Therese Willkomm from UNH had a slide for web sites and apps that review apps. I will provide that as a resource if you’re interested.

A Short YouTube Video on Notability

Notability User’s Guide

One of the things I liked about the User’s Guide is that it is short and to the point (about 3 pages)

Enter Notability in the YouTube Search box for all kinds of “How To” videos on basic things you can do.

iBooks, App Center & the Cloud

• It’s important to remember that as we add books to our fhuhssped@arsu.org account through gift cards that our account is e-mail address specific.

• Remember that if you purchase a book on an iPad with a different Apple username – a common early error.

• The good thing about Apple’s use of Cloud computing is that once we purchase a book, we can install it directly to an iPad through the “Purchased” icon.

• Or sync a number of iPads through the Mac Book.

How to Use iBooksHow to use iBooks on the iPad• Open up iBooks to view the app's main virtual bookshelf • Tap a book to start reading it. It'll open up to fill the screen • Swipe or tap on a blank area of a page to turn the page • To view two pages, just turn the iPad to landscape mode • Select the A icon to change the font or font size • To see what a word means, you can press and hold to look it up, as you

would with copying and pasting in other iPad apps • You can search for a word in the book by pressing the search icon on the

top right hand side of the page. Type in a word and the whole book will be searched. You can also look the word up on the internet

• The table of contents allows you to jump to a particular chapter. Access it by tapping on the contents button (second icon along the top of the page)

• Although the iPad automatically adjusts the brightness according to how light or dark it is, you can change the screen brightness by tapping on the icon next the the font menu at the top of the screen

Online Resources to iPad AppsAutism Plugged In Blog - http://www.autismpluggedin.com/2011/09/10-free-ipad-apps-for-children-with-special-needs.htmlApps in Education Blog - http://appsineducation.blogspot.com/2011/06/apps-for-teachers.htmlTeaching and Learning in the Digital Age - http://marynabadenhorst.global2.vic.edu.au/ipad/The Kids Blog - http://theikidsblog.com/blog/2010/06/14/top-10-educational-ipad-apps-for-kids/Mashable Tech - http://mashable.com/2011/07/25/ipads-disabilities/Live Binders - http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/26195

Additional Online ResourcesScoop It - http://www.scoop.it/t/helping-children-with-autism-with-an-ipad/p/58700879/special-education-apps-best-ipad-apps-for-kids-education-ipad-appsApps for Children with Special Needs - http://a4cwsn.com/Ed Reach - http://edreach.us/2011/12/20/ipad-edresources

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Check out this cool video from Professor Therese Willkomm from UNH: