Mrs.+Jackson

= 8/14/12 = = I decided that I would sit down and do some housekeeping things with the iPad today. After attending the two day boot camp training, I am not as anxious as I was, however, I am still uncertain of so many things. I am excited to jump into this and am already thinking of ideas for projects and assignments with the 7th grade Connected Math program. It will not be much longer before school starts, so enjoy the remaining days as much as you can! I am going to continue exploring and playing with the iPad, so that I am prepared as much as possible for the new 7th graders this year! = = 10/6/12 = = Well, after a few weeks of school, I feel much more in tune with my 4th period iPad class. They have been very helpful, not only to me, but to the rookies in the program. I feel we have established our daily routine, where they find what they need in PDF format on my webpage and then use the app of their choice. It seems many of the students like Notability, as do I. Tests and quizzes will continue to be done on paper, while classwork assignments will be completed on the iPad and emailed to me to be graded, and homework is checked at the beginning of the period while they are completing their warm-up. We are also looking for educational games/apps for the students to play after their assigned work is completed~suggestions are welcome! A small project encompassing the major topics covered in our first book, Variables and Patterns, will be given soon. Students will need to choose a situation, create a table, a graph, and write an algebraic rule. Students will be permitted to use any app, as long as it is approved. This will be part of their assessment for the first book, or chapter. Here are some examples of projects submitted: =

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=** 11/12 **= =** During down time (i.e. when completed tests/quizzes/classwork), students are permitted to play math/logic/puzzle games. Some of these games are Unblock Me, Minecraft, Flow, Sumon, Pocket Tangrams, and Glass Tower 2. **=



11/12 Students are currently working on Phase 1 of their Stretching and Shrinking projects. In groups of 3, students needed to create a character on grid paper and then list the coordinate pairs for all the points in a table. When creating the table, students used Pages to create the table and then emailed it to me. I then uploaded it to Dropbox in PDF format and now, students will begin the individual part. Each group of three got another group's table and need to apply a similar and non-similar rule to the original coordinates in the table and then graph their new characters and prove how they are similar and non-similar. Students may use any apps necessary for this project. However, many, if not all, prefer to use Notability and may do that. Students will be starting Phase 2 in December.

Marking Period 1 I have become very comfortable in the day to day operations in my classroom with the iPad class-much better than I felt just a couple months ago. The students have been very helpful when I have questions. Students utilize my website to get their daily warm-ups and the reviews that go with them, our textbook, and any worksheets that may be needed-all in pdf form. When it comes to projects, students can find the information needed in Dropbox. Students will begin using the Apple TV that was recently installed by Ms. Burris.


 * December 5 **
 * Students had to create a Doceri presentation for homework. They had to choose one problem and narrate/explain how they would answer it. These questions involved finding the missing side length between two similar shapes. **

December 11-13 Students worked on iMovies on the 11th and 12th and presented them using the Apple TV on the 13th. The general theme was math, however, they needed to show/demonstrate two things learned from Variables and Patterns or Stretching and Shrinking. Students did a great job. Stay tuned for some iMovies...

December 17 Students are starting Phase 2 of their Stretching and Shrinking project - origin stories. Students need to use one of their characters and create a story about where they came from. Students may use any app they choose, but it must be between 200-300 words.

January/February Students worked with ratios and proportions. Their project was to conduct a survey of 50 people and then create an imovie or keynote presentation using the 5 comparison statements (ratio, difference, fraction, percentage, scaling) using the information from their survey.

March Students were required to use the EduCreations app to explain the rules for multiplying and dividing integers. They had to narrate multiplication and/or division and have an example of each. Once the short video is created, an email link is sent and the other person can view it in the app. After learning integers and the order of operations, students created a short video showing their new saying for PEMDAS (Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally). They had to create their own problem and solve it using the order of operations using keynote or imovie.

April We have started Filling and Wrapping which involves volume and surface area of three dimensional shapes. A Minecraft project involving volume and surface area of rectangular prisms is coming soon...stay tuned! END OF THE YEAR!!! Students were required to explain 5 new things they learned this year and provide a picture with each. A majority of the students used Keynote, with one using iMovie. They came out very nice as students used the internet, notability, whiteboard apps to help them create their pictures as their support for the explanations provided. I want to thank ALL of the iPad kids from my 4th period class AND colleagues that helped me out this year. It was a great experience and I learned a lot. I look forward to a second year.