Technology Resources

Powerpoint [click here]: Making technology effective in elementary classes (TLC class)

SmartBoard Resources

Intrdoctory Videos:

Smartboard uses in Elementary School, click here; Smartboard uses in Middle/High School (English), click here; Smartboard uses in Middle/High school (Math), click here

Video resources for Flipped classrooms: Click here. Click here for a "Flipped Learning Community." Another resource for a summary of flipped classrooms, including various technological approaches to creating videos (click here). Check them out!

To what extent are flipped classrooms effective? Click here to read a literature review on flipped classrooms.

Explain everything: Click here for an introdutory video. Explain Everything is an interactive screencasting and whiteboard tool used by over a millon teacher.

Doceri (www.doceri.com)- Application that converts the iPad into an interactive whiteboard, mirroring the teacher's computer screen and the classroom computer screen. Thus, the teacher can move around the room while interacting with an iPad. For example, the teacher could use a stylus on the iPad to make corrections and these corrections would be displayed on the classroom computer screen.

SmartNoteFree – Take notes in class, sketch out the next great idea, write personal notes in your password protected notebook, or simply highlight some text in a pdf. smartNote makes it easy to do just about anything you would normally do on paper on the iPad.

Khan Academy – Khan Academy allows you to learn almost anything for free. Our iPad app is the best way to view Khan Academy’s complete library of over 3,200 videos. We cover a massive number of topics, including K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Spend an afternoon brushing up on statistics. Discover how the Krebs cycle works. Learn about the fundamentals of computer science. Prepare for that upcoming SAT. Or, if you’re feeling particularly adventurous, learn how fire stick farming changed the landscape of Australia.

GraphCalcPro – Graphing Calculator Pro™ is a powerful function plotter and scientific calculator.
Features:
- includes scientific calculator with history tape
- carefully-designed graph visualization with multi-touch support
- customizable graph colors
- function tracing and automatic root, min/max, intersection scanning
- radians and degrees angle modes, support for minutes, seconds, grads
- functions: sin, cos, tan, sec, csc, sinh, cosh, tanh, asin, acos, asec, acsc, atan, asinh, acosh, atanh, log2, log10, ln, logn(n,x) (log x with base n), √, ³√, abs, avg, ceil, floor, round, deg2rad, rad2deg, max, min, sgn

ScreenChomp – Share a great idea... Explain a tricky concept... Help kids with their homework... ScreenChomp for iPad helps you do it all. A simple doodling board, markers, and one-click sharing tools make spreading your ideas and know-how easy and fun! Just: Record It. Sketch It. Share It. - to create a sharable, replay-able video that tells your story clearly.

STUDENTS: Help each other with homework and work together on projects.
TEACHERS: Tutor kids while away from school, or record a few tips to send home with them.
MENTORS: Tutor youngsters from afar, without buying desktop recording software.
KIDS: Share doodles and ideas with friends.

iBooks – iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest bestselling books or your favorite classics – day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages.

Keynote – Incredible presentations, incredibly easy. Keynote’s powerful yet easy-to-use tools and dazzling effects put the show in slideshow. The Theme Chooser lets you skim through an impressive collection of 44 Apple-designed themes. Once you’ve chosen the perfect canvas for your presentation, simply replace the placeholder text and graphics with your own words and images. Easy-to-use tools let you add tables, charts, shapes, photos, and videos to slides—and bring it all to life with cinematic animations and transitions that look as though they were created by your own special effects team. With Keynote, you have all the tools you need to make an amazing presentation amazingly simple.

Pages – Pages ’09 is both a streamlined word processor and an easy-to-use page layout application. It allows you to be a writer one minute and a designer the next, always with a perfect document in the works. Pages starts with an enhanced Template Chooser that lets you skim through more than 180 Apple-designed templates. You can easily create stunning documents, ranging from a simple letter to a professionally polished resume to a newsletter and more. Or start with a blank page and create your own design on a free-form canvas. Whatever you write, Pages puts powerful tools at your fingertips. So you can create beautiful, media-rich documents in minutes.

pdf-notes – Utilize pdf-notes to manage all the pdf files on your iPad. Fast display, quick page-turning even a thousand pages, useful finger-writing and email your notes to your friends.

iTunes U – The iTunes U app gives you access to complete courses from leading universities and other schools — plus the world’s largest digital catalog of free education content — right on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Whether you’re majoring in molecular biology at a university, taking Spanish in high school, or just interested in European history, you now have a valuable tool to help you learn anytime, anywhere.

Student – Socrative brings smart clickers, student response and ease of use to a whole new level. Be engaged for the entire class with educational exercises and games. See all your classmates’ ideas in real time and interact with the responses. Provide your instructor feedback on the lessons and how well you understand the material. Ask your own poll questions for the entire class or build a premade activity for your whole class. Have Fun!

Teacher – Socrative brings smart clickers, student response and ease of use to a whole new level. Engage the entire classroom with educational exercises and games while capturing student results in real-time. Interact with the data to further student understanding in the moment, and review the reports to prepare for future classes. Socrative will even aggregate and grade your pre-made activities! Saving you time, so you can engage more with your students on an individual level. Create a library of activities and share them with your colleagues and learning community. Not a 1:1 school? That’s okay! Have students bring their own devices and join in the learning!

Schoology – Manage your classes, view assignments, track your grades, participate in discussions, and communicate with classmates. Use your iPhone or iPad to create assignments, events, discussions, announcements, view assignment submissions and edit grades.

CampusPortal – Access your (or your child's) schedule, grades, assignments and attendance data using the Infinite Campus Mobile Portal! This universal app gives students and parents the same instant access to their data using an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. Use the Daily Planner to know exactly when and where you need to be today and get a quick view at your next due assignment for each of your classes. Whether your school uses twelve terms or two, with five day rotations or one, your schedule will always be up-to-date with what your administration has created in the district's calendar. Want to know how many times you've been absent? Or which days your child is still marked unexcused? Use the attendance views to see summary and detail information regarding your attendance record. Get instant one-touch access to your grades and dig in deeper to see how your grade was calculated by reviewing the assignments which make up your grade. Forget waiting for report card season to know exactly where your grade stands. In-progress grades display until the teacher gives a final grade.

Sock Puppets – Sock Puppets lets you create your own lip-synched videos and share them on Facebook and YouTube. Add Puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically lip-synch to your voice. Friends can work together with multiple puppets and create hilarious conversations. While recording, simply tap a puppet and that puppet will lip-synch, tap a different puppet and switch auto lip-synching to it. Switch backgrounds to take your puppets to different places, move the puppets, props and scenery to animate them while recording. Cartoon and photo realistic puppets are included.

Daniel C. Moos, Ph.D.

Gustavus Adolphus College, Department of Education