Apps for Teaching and Learning
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This document introduces various apps that can be used for teaching and learning, including iBooks, folders to organize apps, and drawing, ebook, and mapping apps. It provides examples of how these apps can be used for activities in different subject areas like recording lessons, polling students, creating presentations and tutorials. It also lists resources on the RSC Moodle site related to accessibility, flipped learning, and a JISC RSC toolbox for loaning educational technology tools.
Apps for Teaching and Learning
- 1. Go to View > Header & Footer to edit July 4, 2013 | slide 1 RSCs – Stimulating and supporting innovation in learning Apps for Teaching & Learning Insight 2013: Blend IT, Mix IT, Flip IT! Martin Cooke, ILT Advisor www.jiscrsc.ac.uk
- 2. Aims Introduce you to the apps Mostly Apple Mention Windows Show some examples and demonstrate the features Opportunity for hands-on Questions and discussion
- 3. iBook iBook is a great way of accessing your docs on the iPad. Convert Word docs to pdf and upload to iBooks.
- 5. iPad folders Organize your apps with folders tap and briefly hold on any app to enter editing mode where the apps appear to shake or dance Drag and drop one app on top of another. iOS will try to guess a name for the folder, but you can choose a different name as needed. organize apps by task (podcasting, QR code scanning), topic (math, reading), or intended users (art class) You can have up to 20 apps in a folder on the iPad
- 9. varieties of tools ebooks SMS polling Speech recognition Drawing apps – for building e-portfolio Google maps and GPS, Google earth Evernote Wifi or blutooth work to computer Powerpoints as jpgs or pdfs – access on mobiles Record audio ideas, comments, feedback Creativity annotation app, a screencasting app, an audio creation app, a video creation app
- 10. ideas for activities Record lesson and upload it as audio or podcast. Share link Share your number - Ls message Qs while reviewing lesson Ask a Q - Ls use phones to find the answer Create short lists of salient points, eg history dates, exam hints, short summaries, etc share via messaging 5 mins study using Google maps before quiz Daily vocabulary: send flashcards with a new word and definition.
- 11. ideas for activities: design Strip Designer to create the front cover Creative Book Builder to create an ebook with instructions and videos iMovie to plan film and edit an advert Garageband to compose a jingle iPad camera for pictures for a brochure (ebook) using Creative Book Builder, viewed in iBooks Number to create a spreadsheet to calculate costs
- 12. ideas for activities: MFL VoiceThread to record students speaking, or create a collaborative discussion Animoto for a student presentation on vocabulary Socrative for a quiz Explain Everything to create a grammar tutorial
- 18. whiteboard apps
- 26. avatars: Crazy Talk • uses sound and text to animate facial images • import images, specify the facial features • record your voice • automatically generates lip-syncs to create videos for beginners, students, and all Easy to create with instant results
- 28. Way to Go http://wtg.dytry.ch Anywhere food, services. Put in your location and see what comes up.
- 29. resources on the RSC Moodle Accessibility courses http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/category.php?id=11 Xerte for beginners http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=204 Resources from Accessibility Forums http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=113 esafety webinars http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=185
- 30. BYOD and Flipped Learning Bring Your Own Device http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=246 Creating Flipped Learning Resources http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=241
- 31. JISC RSC Toolbox available for loan o Wireless keyboard and mouse o USB camcorder o MyStudyBar on a pen drive o Digital keyring - for reminders o Digital pen for recording notes with synced audio o voice recorder with integrated speech recognition o Games console with educational software o Electronic Dictionary Bookmark o iPad 1 A laptop loaded with Windows 7 and specialist software ·
- 32. July 4, 2013 | slide 32 Insight 2013 All the resources from the Insight series: • Hosted on the RSC East Midlands Moodle platform http://bit.ly/insight-resources • All the recordings of the online webinars are now available
Editor's Notes
- #6: http://itq.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_6
- #10: free: (I think they are all free) CloudOn Evernote Socrative Google Drive iBooks Soundcloud Voicethread Qrafter Dragon Dictation iSpeech WordPress CamScanner Image to Text
- #21: struggle with taking notes ? records both the lecture and written notes in real time, synching up the written notes with the audio. This helps students remember which formula or illustration goes with which part of the lecture, and it keeps notes in their proper order.
- #22: DONT FORGET there are free Windows based voices for all FE and Skills learners and staff so we dont have to use Microsoft Sam. Jess is a northern voice and can be downloaded free from www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/voices
- #23: Speech tech was always expensive so the TTS developments have been a revolution for VI Dragon Dictation: voice recognition App which can be used for ‘writing’ memos, short notes emails and documents. Like most voice recognition software the speech conversion to text should always be checked for accuracy. Dragon Dictation requires an Internet connection to use it.
- #24: An Internet connection is required for the application to work because it compares the photograph a person has taken of an object with a large online database to find out what the object is. VoiceOver should be turned on. Settings General Accessibility Voiceover