Mrs.+Whyte

=Mrs. Whyte's iPad Page = You are welcome to read my included blog.... It gives you an idea of how we are utizling the iPad in Social Studies.

**July/August 2011** __7/28/11__ - Well I have my iPad and I've attended the iPad Boot Camp that our district provided for us. I've got my Google.docs up and running, I've installed calibre, I've explored some apps and I'm starting my wiki. I'm overwhelmed but so excited at the same time. I'm glad I have a month to explore. So far I really like the goodreader app, it allows you to take a PDF to highlight, make text notes on the page, draw, cross out, make notes that are accessible in a variety of ways, bookmarks and more. Stack the States is an addictive game. I've also tried paperdesk, a notebook app, while the lite version worked great I didn't have so much success with the paid app, I'll try again tomorrow.

__7/29/11__ - I uninstalled the paperdesk app and reinstalled it and it works perfect! I'll have to remember that for the future. The only bad this is that is erases all your data within the app, so the notes I took aren't there anymore.

**September 2011** __9/21/11__ So far things are going really well as I start to integrate the iPad into the social studies curriculum. I have introduced the [|Photo Card Lite]application. We are going to be using the Photo Card Lite to do our current events. Our iPad group helped to come up with the current events guidelines together. I am hopeful that once our group has become familiar with the Photo Card Lite application we can create a how to video. My plan is to utilize the “iPad Cart” and the how to videos to introduce the students who are not involved in the program to the iPad as a tool for creating and learning. I haven’t yet introduced the [|State the States]application, but the kids found it and are having fun with it. We are in the process of creating a Google doc spreadsheet that we can all edit so we can keep track of our scores.

**October 2011** The social studies book //__The Western World__// by Holt McDougal is officially on the iPad. We used an ePub version so it can be accessed in our iBooks. This gives us the ability to highlight, take notes, look up words and make book marks. It also allows the students to e-mail me their notes right from the book. It is going to enhance the way the students interact with the text.

__10/10/11__ - The iPad class was assigned the project of either making an iMovie or 2 Comic Stripsto describe the geography of Pennsville. Currently we are studying what makes up the study of geography. It is amazing to see what the students can do with the applications on their own. I didn't have to explain it to them they just got right to it and started creating!! Below are some example of the students work. All of them were great but I could only post the ones where the students didn't star in the video.

Rubric for Geography Project

Geography Project Example Geography Project Example Geography Project Example

__10/13/11__ - Using the comic strip applicationthis month to do our current events. They can use five pictures from the news and add captions to explain the picture. There are two news applications on the iPad, we have ABC news and [|USA today].

<span style="color: #8f2ecc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**November 2011** <span style="color: #8f2ecc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__11/11/11__ This coming week the iPad students are going to be assigned a research project. Each group will research a culture of their choice and create a presentation to explain that culture. They can use any application they want for their presentation. I'm really excited to see the finished projects. <span style="color: #8f2ecc; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">__11/17/11__ The culture project was assigned on Monday 11/14/11. Below is the link for the rubric I will be using to grade the Culture projects. I will be providing one 55 minute class period to work on the project on Monday 11/21/11. I am finding that it is good to do things as a whole group sometimes, as we are all good at solving different kinds of issues that arise. This group of 24 students is the perfect example of the benefits of collaboration. <span style="color: #8f2ecc; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Rubric for Culture Project

<span style="color: #258325; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">__11/16/11__ This week we are using our iPad’s as a research tool, in the computer lab!! We have a subscription to an awesome interactive map website, Stratalogica. The students are using Google to identify and research major geographical features around the world, and then they are using Stratalogica to physically locate them and create a presentation about 7 geographical features around the world. They will be including a sentence or two about each, describing the feature or expanding and giving some factual information about the geographical feature. There are several ways they can do this, they can add text right to the map, they can use a “push pin” to identify the location and when you click on the pin it will open up a new window to the information the students added. The students could also embed videos that offer an explanation or some factual information. I have no doubt at least one group will come up with a way to do it that I have not discovered yet. I’m very excited to see the final presentations. I’m hoping we will finish up our presentations on 11/18/11. As soon as I review them I will add some examples here on the wiki and my PSD website. Below is the rubric for the Stratalogica for project.

<span style="color: #7878ed; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">11/29/11 We had some apps added that ehance our 8th grade social studies curriculm. All of them were FREE! A few examples: Westward Expansion, American Revolution Lite, Civil War Lite, The Revolution, US Congress Watch, [|My Congress],

<span style="color: #602684; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Stratalogica Geographical Features Presentation

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__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">01/03/12 __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> I utilized the iPad cart to introduce the iPad to my 8th grade social studies class this week. I found it interesting that students who said they were confident working with te chnology were very quick to say "it's broken" or "it doesn't work". I explained that 9 times out of 10 it is operator error and to try doing it another way, or double check spelling. It didn’t take long before they began doing some of the trouble shooting on their own. =====

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Our assignment was to create a timeline for the American Revolutionary War. I used Zapd.com to create a webpage that included all of the links the students would need to complete the assignment. Zapd.com is really easy to use. =====

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I then created a QR code (click here to create your own QR code) to direct the students to the Zapd page that included the links. It was a quick and easy way to get everyone where they needed to be. I make a few copies of the QR code and the students passed them around. Just as a side note: you can put the QR code on the smartboard instead of making paper copies. The application we use to read the QR codes is called Qrafter. =====

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The students reviewed the various websites and collected information to use on the timeline. Most students used @DoodleBuddy to create slides that they then used to make an iMovie. Other students used a “theme” in iMovie which allowed them to add text and music to pictures they chose to better help the reader understand each event on the timeline. =====

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Since this was my first time using the iPads with my 8th graders I asked that they use iMovie. Next time I will give them the option to choose which application they prefer. I have been finding the more choices you give the more creative the students get! =====

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