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Airwatch is a powerful MDM (mobile device management) tool. With the most recent upgrade between Airwatch and iOS, there was an understanding that password boxes would disappear when attempting to download apps to a class set of devices. After further investigation, I have found that this only works with apps that are already in the classroom accounts. So the desired application must already be in the account in order to push it out through Airwatch to all the devices without an Apple ID password box appearing. The password box limits my ability to recommend new apps and distribute them in a timely manner. So here is the protocol that I have come up with in order streamline the process. 1. Download the desired app on a student device. 2. a. While the description of the app is open, click on the export button and email me the link to the app so that I know the name of the app and can find it on Airwatch. Please also specify the teacher name.     b. If you would rath...

Khan Academy   has been around for several years now, but I unfortunately had neglected to promote it too much to my teachers. This is partially to my districts adoption of Everyday Math. Khan academy does not always lend itself as helpful. However, a few teachers recently contacted me about extra resources for students not mastering a skill. Khan Academy can help in that department. It is for students third grade on up that provides instructional videos for concepts in mathematics, science, social studies, and the humanities. For elementary teachers, this would provide opportunities for differentiated instruction as students can independently learn and master concepts above or below grade level. Teachers could implement this two ways. First they could just send recommended videos to students when they need to supplement a lesson. Second they could create student accounts and monitor students progress as they participate in Khan Academy. If you are interested in creati...

Scribble Press happens to be one of my favorite all-time applications for the iPad. Unfortunately, it is too robust to function on the iPod Touch. Two years ago, I came across this app when it was free. At the beginning of this year, the app turned up to be a paid app. In East Noble School Corporation, we had some trouble accessing the apps that we had downloaded when they were previously free through Airwatch (mobile device management tool). Due to many changes made in Airwatch, my teachers can once again have students utilize this tool. Students can be extremely creative as they make their own digital books that can be shared among their entire class and read in iBooks or straight from Scribble Press. In order to export these text, an account has to be created. In the past, students had created their own accounts. However, the terms of service has changed and they no longer allow students under the age of 13 to have an account. I created this video to recommend a different w...

Ms. Ruse and Ms. Doyle of Rome City got their class into the holiday spirit by having their first graders at Rome City Elementary  create poems. Last week I setup accounts on Pic Collage for both teachers, logged each iPod into the accounts, and downloaded all the holiday themed backgrounds and stickers that were available for free this month.  (I will explain the advantages of creating a class account in the near future.) This week we took the poems they created in Pic Collage, and imported them into Shadow Puppet. ( Shadow Puppet also has advantages to creating class accounts .) Each student not only titled their Shadow Puppet by their first name, but they also included a "selfie." This helped them quickly identify their work if they happened to forget to include their name in the title. (It also helps the teacher find it on their device.) This is a great way to share writing and work on their speaking skills. Here is a fun example:

I love to take time out to post the fun and cool ideas my fellow teachers are doing in their classrooms. It is always a great way to inspire and encourage one another as East Noble Staff. Please comment if you have other ideas or are inspired by these samples. Mrs. Erexson Second grade teacher at Wayne Center, Mrs. Erexson, has been really excited about the possibilities that her iPads hold for gathering information about her students' learning. Through her classroom set of iPads, she's able to essentially able to meet with every student because she gets to see their responses all from the convenience of her iPad and PC. Using 30 Hands , her student was able to take a picture and report a quick summary about the book. This allows Mrs. Erexson to conference with more students than ever before. Does she have to listen to every video? That's probably not even necessary, but it allows her to do quick and regular checks with students. This activity of taking a picture of t...

I'm extremely excited about the potential ChatterPix Kids holds for students as they can use it to respond to learning in a quick and engaging way. Here is the basic process for ChatterPix Kids: Take a picture Draw a line for the mouth on the object Record your voice for up to 30 seconds Add stickers if necessary Save to the camera roll In reality, we are looking at a project that shouldn't take much more than five minutes to complete. I bet the kids will enjoy using it!  Here is an overview of the whole app: : Here is the final product using the app to report the author's purpose for Tough Cookie: There are lots of ways this application could be used, but here are a few ideas to get your creative juices flowing: Take a picture of an object an add adjectives to describe it. Take a picture of geometric shape and have the shape give its attributes. Take a picture of a character in a book and have them introduce him/herself.  Take a picture ...

Alert, alert, alert! You may want to go and update pic collage on your student iOS devices. If you update now, you get some free holiday backgrounds as well as some sticker packs! This would be espcially fun with Christmas break rapidly approaching. Some sticker packs require that you create an account. If you really want your students to have those stickers, we can create a teacher account, log each device into it and have the students download the stickers. Once they are downloaded, we can then have the students log out of the account so that you do not have to worry about the students posting collages under your name to the entire world. The stickers are still usable even once logged out of the account.