1. iPads and Writing Integrating iPads with Writing in the Classroom

2. History of Technology in the Classroom

3. WHY use an iPad for Writing? Allows for the 4 C’s! *Creativity *Collaboration *Critical Thinking *Communication

4. Common Core Writing Standards

5. iPads and Writer’s Workshop

6. Scribble Press

7. What is Scribble Press? Scribble Press is a multimedia creativity platform for creating, sharing and publishing stories.

8. Scribble Press Independent AND Collaborative Excitement (begging actually) Knowledge/Pride Creative and Critical Thinking Communicate (students, parents, teachers) Edit/Revise/Publish/ HAIKU Individual or Group (new) Accounts

10. Share and Email it!

11. Share with EVERYONE!

12. Ways I Use  Center Rotations (Creating books the students are interested in)  Research Reports (Ocean Animals)  Whole Class Books (OCEAN for Open House)  Published pieces for Writer’s Workshop

13. Educreation

14. What is Educreation? Recordable interactive whiteboard that captures your voice and handwriting to produce amazing video lessons that you can share online. Students and colleagues can replay your lessons in any web browser, or from within the app on their iPads.

15. Ways I Use  Assessments (Writing Sight Words, kids record themselves as they write the words)  Flipped Lessons (Phonics or Reading)  Writing ANYTHING and recording their voice or my voice while writing.

16. Tellagami

17. What is Tellagami? Tellagami is a mobile app that lets you create and share a quick animated message called a Gami.

18. Ways I Use  Writing Projects-read or type it into the app and the avatar reads it back.  Read books into the app and it reads it back.  Presenting research

19. QR Codes

20. What is a QR Code? QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response Code) is the trademark for a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional barcode) first designed for the automotive industry in Japan. Now you will see them everywhere from a McDonald’s Happy Meal to a box of nails. The barcode is an optically machine-readable label that is attached to an item and it records information related to that item.

21. Ways I Use I had fun with these…  Centers/Rotations  Scavenger Hunt  Research Writing Response  Open House “Welcome” After our class Orange Hot Air Balloon field trip, we did a week of “field trip fun zones”. I put QR codes at rotations and the kids scanned them and then wrote information about hot air balloons, then we shared what we learned. They didn’t want to stop.

22. Hot Air Balloon QR Code Centers

23. Create a Hot Air Balloon using only what’s in the bag. You can research. Then when you are done write about what you did. www.youtube.com/watch?v=knOfdBFuFtQ ‎ www.sciencetoymaker.org/HotAirBalloon/ ‎ pbskids.org/zoom/activities/sci/hotairballoon.html ‎

25. Puppet Pals

26. What is Puppet Pals? Puppet Pals is a digital puppet theater complete with a large array of characters and backgrounds. This is another creative app that can be used in your classroom in a variety of ways in all curricular areas.

27. Ways I Use  Creative Writing-I had students write their own fairy/folk tales and then record them.  “Modern” Reader’s Theater  Collaborating on stories together  Present Information

28. Popplet

29. What is Popplet? A popplet is a big pinboard that you can put popples onto. It reminds me of a graphic organizer.

30. Ways I Use  Graphic Organizer  Classify and Categorize  Collaborate on a specific topic

31. iPads and Writing in the Classroom How will you use them?

32. TASK Now it’s time to play…..