April+Journal

Pet Shop Story, Donut Maker, Cupcake Maker, Restaurant Story, Icee Store, Fashion Story, Cake Maker, Pizza Maker and Glogster
Working on elapsed time, students created a Glogster poster using one of the following apps posing a question for the rest of us to solve. They chose which app they wanted to use to represent a certain store or to create a specific type of food. They then took a screen shot on the iPad that they could use on their Glogster Elapsed Time poster.

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Strip Designer



Students used Strip Designer to create a very short comic strip of a monster each of them created. I just wanted to get them used to the comic strip design so we could use it to create more in-depth comic strips at a later time. Once I showed them the basics of this app, they went to town! They wanted to put each other in the design, so they took pictures of each other and they also put each others monsters in the strip.

PaperPort Notes PaperPort Notes is awesome and has such great potential. The first activity we did with PaperPort was to create problems involving money. We were working on making change and deciding the best buy. With a gmail account that I created just for our class iPads, students were able to send their notebook pages from PaperPort to the email account. Other students could then open the email and solve the problems other students created. Students also sent me a copy of their problem, so I could display it on the SmartBoard and we could check answers.





The following website has a great idea for for using PaperPorts, PuppetPals, and illustrated story prompts. [] You can open the story prompts in PaperPorts (or use any other story prompts or have the kids just write a story) and the students can type in their story they create. A nice feature of PaperPorts is the voice recognition. Students can say their story and PaperPorts recognizes their voice and types in their sentences. What I really like about using it like this, is that it is great for editing skills as sometimes the voice recognition types in the wrong word or phrase or spelling. The kids have to reread and edit...a skill we are ALWAYS working on! Another feature of PaperPorts is that the students can then record their voice, reading the story they created, and then play it back.

iF Poems Students can pick a poem from this app, read it aloud, and record it.

Map Draw

We are using Map Draw to follow where our Flat Stanleys are traveling. Students sent their Stanleys out to friends and relatives around the country. When Stanley comes back to us, we use Map Draw to locate where Stanley's destination was. The pins we drop have different icons. We try to find an icon that relates somehow to the location. For example, for Lousiana, some student marked it with a musical note for the Lousiana Jazz Festival. Silver City, New Mexico is very sunny, so we used a sun. We looked up the city on the internet and find what the cities or towns are known for.

Coolibah

= Coolibah is a free scrapbooking app. We are using Coolibah to make an album of our Flat Stanleys' travels. Each student, upon Stanley's arrival, will make a scrapbook page for our digital album. The students are also placing these into their writing blogs. =



Animoto Sign up for Animoto on the web. Make sure you sign up for the Animoto Education account so you get more features. It is free! It is so easy to use. Take pictures with your iPad and within minutes transfer them into a slide show with music. media type="custom" key="19216596" media type="custom" key="19216622" media type="custom" key="19216686"