Book-creator and Drawing Pad

YAY- so happy today, I get to have a whole day to teach Room 8, so of course I will be teaching them some new techniques to use on the ipad!
I saw a really cool idea on scoop it - which I need to locate to give credit to.
I took the idea and changed it to suit my Year 2 class.

Aim:  Students will respond to a book they read

Outline:

• I shared the title with the students and got them to share everything they new about otters.  (was great to have a totally random topic with little background knowledge)  through images I showed them we came up with a great list of ideas.
• They then did this task at their desks with a partner, including some drawings on paper
• Next step was for them to create a new book cover for the story- they needed to draw an otter in Drawing pad
• They then uploaded their picture into Book creator- and included a title and their name
• We then predicted what the story was going to be about- again  lots of discussion and sharing the students they then went and recorded their voices on book creator on the next page.
• The class loved reading the story- it is very interactive with videos and photos to watch on the way as well as enjoying the cleverly written rhyming story.

• If I had more time I would of loved to continue to add more pages and complete more responses to the story.  I think they did great considering the time frame and especially since it was their first time using both the apps.  Most students completed 3 reading responses, these included, Patterns in the text, Their favourite part, Something they learnt 

Book creator

Fiona's Photo on Wednesday, 23 September 2015

Planning for book creator story

Recording voices- Chatter kids and Aging booth

Today was a real learning curve for me and the whole process of teaching iPad!  After teaching throughout the Junior and Middle school I was left to teach our Senior classes.  Presuming I would need to extend these students I adjusted my lesson plan to the learning needs that I thought I would  be facing with these children.  I was very surprised to find that they were very interested in doing the aging booth app and were quite happy to spend the whole lesson using the chatter kids app.  They were fully engaged and on task and with each new recording their voices became more fluent, expressive and creative.  So I scrapped the iMovie idea and stuck to the first two ideas.  Just made me realise how clued up the Junior classes are as they have more access to the iPad where the seniors only use chrome books.

Tasks

• Students aged them selves using aging booth
• Completed a task card, writing 4 headings with a supporting sentence about what life was like in the olden days
• They then put their face into chatter kids and created a character, recording their voices to tell their story

Grandparents day- Aging app

Check out the video Room 9 created. It's great to hear how they are spoilt by their Grandparents!

Tellagami

Tellagami timelines

 Room 11 have been making a timeline in their class. They had a to pick an event that was significant to New Zealand between 1915-2015. They found out so much. The video shows a small snip it of their recordings. They found a photo of their event then recorded their voices to describe what happened at that time.

Fiona's Video on Sunday, 13 September 2015

Fiona's Video on Wednesday, 2 September 2015

Fiona's Video on Wednesday, 2 September 2015

Fiona's Video on Wednesday, 2 September 2015

Grandparents Day

Lesson Objectives:  We are learning to reinforce prior learning by been able to: 

• take a clear photo
• record voices clearly
• use a range of familiar apps

Apps Used:  Aging Booth, Chatterpix, IMovie

Today I worked with the  Year 0-1 classes.  They are learning about the 'olden days' and we are having a Grandparents Day at the end of term.

We discussed as a class, all the things we love about our Grandparents and brainstormed a big list on the board.

The students came up with lots of different ideas.  The older children wrote down some ideas.

I then took a photo of each child.  I used accessories such as glasses, hats and scarfs to add more affect.  I then used the 'aging booth' app to add 'years' to their looks.

They came up really well and the kids loved looking at their new image as well as their class mates.  There was lots of laughs and shrieks!

I then got the students to record their voices to the photos after we put them on 'chatterpix'.

I finished by putting all the chatterpix photos onto an iMovie for the whole class to watch and share with our Grandparents.

The whole process took a bit of time but the students really enjoyed it and the final results were great.  I'm sure their Grandparents will be very impressed when they see the movie!