School Board May 2012

Albert Lea Area Schools

iPad Initiative 2011-12 School Year

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From Brookside to the Buildings...

The Deployment...!2

Starting Apps...2nd Gr Appetizers

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Centers & Small Group

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Poetry Art Imported into

Pages Exported to

Box.com

Telling Time Math Center

Small Group Bamboo Paper Math Problem

Solving Small Group w/

teacher

Center/Independent Work

• Cash Cow

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• Math Bingo • Chicktionary

Direct Instruction

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Direct Instruction

Projects

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• 2nd grade - Water Cycle with Readers' Theatre

• Direct instruction with some science videos, students helped write the story, find images in print and online, exploration of encyclopedia resources, recorded voices with pictures of students

• Puppet Pals exported through iMessage

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Projects• 2nd grade - Animal Exploration

• Typically a late Spring project, this year started in January; ability to write more often, access images, record voices--accelerated, more projects that were self-directed by students, more exploration of encyclopedia resources

• Book Creator, export to ePub--iBooks retained recordings

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Reading Recording

• Recording voice and keeping a running record on iPad/headsets; fluency

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AL WIKI • https://alipads.wikispaces.com

• Apple training resources

• Barcode listings/district

• Cart scheduling

• Project ideas

• Links & Project Pics

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ALHS Projects

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Explain Everything • 8th Gr Social Studies--Geography app

•Geography projects (movies uploaded to Dropbox)

iMovie •12 Gr Economics--PSA on an Econ topic (Beware of Counterfeit sample uploaded to

Dropbox)

•Spanish--G. Brownlow's WIKI

Others •Entrepreneurship class--searching app store for apps to use in small businesses;

presentations in Keynote and Pages; uploading to Box.com

•Math fact reviews

•Math online textbook--mini-pilot at the end of the year; web clips with test prep links

•Psychology--brain study app

G. Brownlow--WIKI

• https://brownlowesp3.wikispaces.com/iPad+Books

• https://brownlowesp2.wikispaces.com/iPad+Hour3

• https://brownlowesp4.wikispaces.com/arqueologia

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SWMS

All 6th and 7th graders had a two-day intro to iPads

• 7th gr--Maier writing projects

• ELL--writing project

• M. Olson--math facts

• J. Cromwell-Olson--science studies

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Other Uses

• Photo uploaded with the camera doc

• ITV for Cowles Center lessons at Sibley

• Individual uses in small group settings at the HS

• Specialists--OT/PT' other special ed staff

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