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Aurasma allows you to see and interact with the world in a new way. With Aurasma, every image, object and even place can have its own aura. Auras can be as simple as a video and a link to a web page or as complex as a lifelike 3D animation.

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Touchiest allows educators and students to easily create comprehensive and engaging interactive videos. Users can role play;broadcast a lecture,a debate, an interview or document a process.

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Haiku Deck is the easiest way to create an amazing presentation on the iPad. There is access to over 40 million free creative commons images. Your presentation will use images to amplify emotional impact and keep formatting clean and consistent.

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Puffin is a super fast browser that has no ads. Use Puffin for a flash player on the iPad.

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A free iPad App that helps you create stunning, animated videos in minutes. No filming- just talk to tell your story, one line at a time.

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Thinglink allows you to make your images interactive by embedding music, video, and text right into any image.

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Free tool that creates citations, footnotes and bibliographies in seconds.

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Canvas makes graphic design amazingly simple for everyone by bringing together a drag and drop design tool with a library of more than a million stock photographs, graphic elements and font. Start with Canva's thousands of layouts or easily create your own.

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Quick response (QR) codes are easy to create and have many uses in the classroom. With the posting of a QR code, you can lead students to information by just using the iPad's camera. The best App for reading a QR code on the iPad is Qrafter.

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There are tons of quick and easy ways to integrate technology into your instruction -- with powerful results. I've been a fan of Quick Response (QR) codes in education for years and even wrote a book all about how they can be used to promote deeper learning in your classroom. When speaking to teachers about these black-and-white squares, it's so much fun to see the "aha" moments as we explore different ways to use scannable technology in the classroom.

This list of five things that you may not know about QR codes contains some simple ideas that definitely pack a punch. These tips include strategies for differentiating instruction, distributing materials, and keeping families up to date on classroom activities. If you've tried one of these QR tips or have another to add to the list, the comments section of this post is the perfect place to share!

1. Add Your Voice

QR codes can talk! Many teachers have used QR code generators like QRstuff.com to link an article or piece of informational text to a QR code. When students scan the code, they're taken to a website with something to read. Instead of linking to text, teachers can connect QR codes to audio messages. This might include an audio file saved on a cloud-based service like Dropbox, where a link connected to an audio file can be connected to a QR code.

Another quick option is using a web tool like Vocaroo, which lets users record their voice with the microphone on their device. A simple tap of the screen lets you automatically turn your voice recording into an audio recording. This tool can be used to give directions at centers or audio support for English-language learners -- great for differentiation!

2. Attach PDF Files

Since a QR code is connected to a web address, you can take a scanner to any location on the internet. This includes files hosted on cloud-based services like Dropbox. Instead of copy-and-pasting a shared link into an email, take the Dropbox link and add it to a QR code generator. When students, parents, or other teachers scan the link, they'll receive a prompt to download or view the document. Try this tip when sharing documents.

3. Collect Information

There are lots of reasons why I love Google Forms, including how easy they are for collecting information. When you make a Google Form instead of sending the link to someone via email, copy the link into a QR code generator. At an open house night, families can scan the QR code with their mobile devices to access a Google Form. This is an easy way to collect information from parents at events.

In addition to trying out Google Forms with families, you can place QR codes linked to Google Forms in different locations for a scavenger hunt. When students scan the form, they can submit information. Once their submission is received, a note will pop up on their screen. You can customize this note to give instructions for the next part of the scavenger hunt.

4. Send a Tweet

I mentioned QRstuff.com as an option for creating free QR codes. If you take a look on the left-hand side of their screen, you'll see an option for Twitter. By creating a Twitter update, families can scan the QR code and automatically tweet a message that you've written. For example, clicking this link (which is the same as scanning the QR code) will take you to a page from which you can tweet the message, "I'm reading an article on @Edutopia by @ClassTechTips on #QRCodes and #ScannableTech."

Creating a QR code connected to a tweet is a great way to have families connect to your school's social media platform or generate excitement about a special event at your school.

5. Change Locations

Most of the QR codes that you've probably created are called static QR codes. This means that it always takes you to one place on the internet. A few websites, such as Kaywa, let users switch from static to dynamic QR codes. This requires a login and lets users change the location of a QR code. If you have a daily Do Now activity connected to a QR code, or a code you'd like to update each week on a monthly newsletter, dynamic QR codes are worth exploring.

Let's hear about your QR code teaching adventures in the comments section below.

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Allows students to create digital posters or collages easily and effectively. Can save to Photo Library, then add to another App like Telegami.

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Keep students engaged and motivated with Quizlet.  Create your own flashcard classroom sets, collaborate with other teachers, post to Canvas and give your students materials to help them learn/study in a more fun and more efficient way.

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This is a collaborative and interactive whiteboard which allows teachers and students to  "Create, Collaborate, Share and Discover.  Explain Everything is the most versatile interactive whiteboard available for your device - use it for sharing knowledge, building understanding, personal productivity and much more."
https://explaineverything.com

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This is a great app to have the students use in their projects and also for teachers to use in instruction.  An avatar can be customized to speak or display writing.  Students can incorporate the short, animated videos into individual or collaborative projects.  Tellagami is extremely user friendly, so beginning techies will feel very comfortable.  Great as a teacher tool to use with students for reminders or part of longer instructions.
https://tellagami.com

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This is a terrific game-based platform that is free! I use this to create reviews and quizzes. The students really like it because it's so interactive. There are two different platforms - individual and group (Kahoot Live).
https://getkahoot.com/

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Create ebooks right on the iPad. Ideal for children' picture books, photo books, chapter study guides, art books, science lab reports, manuals, textbooks, etc.

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Recap is a free student video response and reflection App for education. It helps even the quietest students find their voice in the classroom, while offering teachers a way to get to know students and see how they think. Educators create assignments, watch student video responses and share videos with their students.

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This week, we'd like to show you a few ways you can use our free video response and reflection app, Recap, for formative assessment. The big question on many teachers' minds is "where do I start?"

You've probably heard about Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK) model. According to Karin K. Hess, the schema "has become one of the key tools educators can employ to analyze the cognitive demand (complexity) intended by the standards, curricular activities, and assessment tasks." We'd like to show you how you can use our simple tool, Recap, to understand how your students are progressing.

If your aim is to measure cognitive depth at any of the four DOK levels, use the question stems below to create your next Recap assignment (many of these questions came from the charts published by the Spencer Valley Elementary School District and the Oregon Department of Education).

DOK 1
* Can you recall______?
* When did ____ happen?
* Who was ____?
* What is____?
* Can you select____?
* Who discovered___?
* What is the formula for___?
* Can you identify___?
* How would you describe___?

DOK 2
* Can you explain how ____ affected ____?
* How would you apply what you learned
to develop ____?
* How would you compare ____? Contrast ____?
* How would you classify____?
* How are ____ alike? Different?
* What can you say about____?
* How would you summarize___?
* What do you notice about___?

DOK 3
* What conclusions can you draw _____?
* How would you test ____?
* Can you predict the outcome if____?
* What is the best answer? Why?
* What conclusion can be drawn from
these three texts?
* What is your interpretation of this text? Support your rationale.
* What facts would you select to support____?
* Can you elaborate on the reason____?
* What would happen if___?
* Can you formulate a theory for___?
* How would you test___?

DOK 4
* Present a thesis, drawing conclusions from multiple sources.
* Connect common themes across texts from different cultures.
* Design and conduct an experiment. Gather information to develop alternative explanations for the results of an experiment. Students can actually show the experiment as they explain it on video in Recap.
* Critique experimental designs.
* Apply information from one text to another text to develop a persuasive argument.
* What information can you gather to support your idea about___?
* Synthesize ideas into new concepts.

Once the students submit their video responses, you'll be able to see their comfort level with the topics, give them feedback, adjust and personalize your lesson plans. You'll also be able to share their responses with the class, so students can receive feedback and ideas from their peers. Additionally, all of their responses will be stored in the app, so they can always go back and review their body of work and see what they've accomplished over time.

Check out the charts from the Oregon Department of Education and the Spencer Valley Elementary School District for more Recap assignment ideas.

About Recap

Recap is a free Q&A platform where questions go to flourish. It comes with a question gathering queue that helps you privately collect, give feedback on, share and drive dialogue from student questions. It also has tools to help you ignite curiosity and assess students that help you overcome anyone's apathy to learn.

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This week, we'd like to show you a few ways you can use our free video response and reflection app, Recap, for formative assessment. The big question on many teachers' minds is "where do I start?" You've probably heard about Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK) model. According to Karin K.

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Popplet is a great resource for brainstorming. The free version allows students to create a variety of thinking maps in order to further explore complex ideas and concepts.

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Here are my notes on the most striking apps I learned about at 2016 FETC. These were most helpful to me as a high school English teacher. However, many of these are excellent note-taking or presentation apps for any subject.

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"55 Digital Tools and Apps for Formative Assessment Success" by Kathy Dyer

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There is no shortage of formative assessment strategies, techniques, and tools available to teachers who use formative instructional practice in their classrooms. Here is an extensive list of 75 digital tools, apps, and platforms that can help you and your students use formative assessment to elicit evidence of learning. We didn't just add any old tool to this list. Here are the criteria we used for those that made the cut:

Supports formative instructional strategies and ways to activate learners to be resources for themselves and peers

Is free or awful close to it (under $10 per year, where possible)

Allows both students and teachers to take the activator role when possible (sometimes teachers need to get things started)

Before you dig into the tools, I encourage you to spend some time thinking about exactly what you want to accomplish with your students. "How to pick the right digital tool: Start with your learning goal" by Erin Beard can help you wrap your head around goals and guide you in choosing the best tool for the task. "27 easy formative assessment strategies for gathering evidence of student learning" can help you decide what strategies work best for you and your students.

Record audio and video

Create quizzes, polls, and surveys

1. Crowdsignal Lets you create online polls, quizzes, and questions. Students can use smartphones, tablets, and computers to provide their answers, and information can be culled for reports.

2. Edulastic Allows you to make standards-aligned assessments and get instant feedback.

3. FreeOnlineSurveys Helps you create surveys, quizzes, forms, and polls.

4. Gimkit Lets you write real-time quizzes. And it was designed by a high school student!

5. Kahoot! A game-based classroom response system that lets you create quizzes using internet content.

6. MicroPoll Helps you create polls, embed them into websites, and analyze responses.

7. Naiku Lets you write quizzes students can answer using their mobile devices.

8. Obsurvey Designed to make surveys, polls, and questionnaires.

9. Poll Everywhere Lets you create a feedback poll or ask questions and see results in real time. Allows students to respond in various ways. With open-ended questions, you can capture data and spin up tag clouds to aggregate responses.

10. Poll Maker Offers unique features, like allowing multiple answers to one question.

11. ProProfs Helps you make quizzes, polls, and surveys.

12. Quia Lets you create games, quizzes, surveys, and more. Access a database of existing quizzes from other educators.

13. Quizalize Helps you create quizzes and homework.

14. Quizizz Guides you through designing quizzes and lets you include students in the quiz-writing process.

15. Quizlet Lets you make flashcards, tests, quizzes, and study games that are mobile friendly.

16. Survey Hero Designed to build questionnaires and surveys.

17. SurveyMonkey Helpful for online polls and surveys.

18. SurveyPlanet Also helpful for online polls and surveys.

19. Triventy Lets you create quizzes students take in real time using individual devices.

20. Yacapaca Helps you write and assign quizzes.

21. Zoho Survey Allows you to make mobile-friendly surveys and see results in real time.

Brainstorm, mind map, and collaborate

Present, engage, and inspire

Generate word or tag clouds

1. EdWordle Generates word clouds from any entered text to help aggregate responses and facilitate discussion. Word clouds are pictures composed of a cloud of smaller words that form a clue to the topic.

2. Tagxedo Allows you to examine student consensus and facilitate dialogues.

3. Wordables Helps you elicit evidence of learning or determine background knowledge about a topic.

4. WordArt Includes a feature that allows the user to make each word an active link to connect to websites, including YouTube.

Get real-time feedback

Foster family communication

1. Remind Lets you text students and stay in touch with families.

2. Seesaw Helps you improve family communication and makes formative assessment easy, while students can use the platform to document their learning.

3. Voxer Lets you send recordings so families can hear how their students are doing, students can chat about their work, and you can provide feedback.

Strengthen teacher-to-student or student-to-student communication

Keep the conversation going with live chats

1. Backchannel Chat A teacher-moderated version of Twitter.

2. Chatzy Supports live, online chats in a private setting.

Create and store documents or assignments

1. Google Forms A Google Drive app that allows you to create documents students can collaborate on in real time using smartphones, tablets, and laptops.

2. Piazza Lets you upload lectures, assignments, and homework; pose and respond to student questions; and poll students about class content. This tool is better suited for older students as it mimics post-secondary class instructional formats.

Learn more

There are several resources for learning more about formative assessment and responsive instruction strategies. Consider our formative practices workshops, where school and district teams can gain a better understanding of the role formative practice plays in instruction and the four foundational practices to use in the classroom. Or for a quick start, download our eBook "Making it work: How formative assessment can supercharge your practice."

Jump in, try new tools and methods, and have fun!

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"14 Tips and Tricks That Will Change How You Use an iPad" by Lisa Eadicicco

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Google Drive provides a streamlined, collaborative solution to writing papers, organizing presentations and putting together spreadsheets and reports. But besides the basic features, there are lots of little tricks and hacks you can use to make your Google Docs experience even more productive. Here are 100 great tips for using the documents, presentations and spreadsheets in Google Docs.

Keyboard Shortcuts
Navigate your documents and screen a lot faster when you use these keyboard shortcuts for formatting and more.

Productivity Hacks
These hacks will make your Google Docs experience even more efficient and streamlined.

Templates: Use Docs' 300 templates to get started on different types of documents.

Work offline: View and edit documents even when you don't have access to an Internet connection.

Create shortcuts: Create shortcuts and bookmarks for new documents, Google Docs home and more frequently visited pages.

Save as different file types: Instead of converting docs to different file types, you can simply change it to HTML, RTF, PDG, ODT and more whenever you save it.

Features and Tools
Make use of features and tools like Docs Translation or CSS Editing to customize your docs and make them work for you.

Polyline: Draw shapes and lines in Google docs to make graphs, images and examples.

Docs Translation: Find the docs translator under Tools.

Snap to Guides: With this Edit feature, you can line up shapes in your doc automatically.

Reference tools: Google docs comes with access to a dictionary, thesaurus and encyclopedia that you can use within the document.

CSS Editing: Change the display of your doc by manually plugging in your CSS text.

HTML tags: Docs supports, or partially supports, some HTML tags, shown here.

Collaboration
One of the best things about Google Docs is that you get to share and collaborate on projects with others. Learn how to make the most of these features here.

Files, Folders and Filters
Find out how to use files, folders and filters for optimum organization and a clearer display.

View and unviewed: You can mark new shared documents as viewed or unviewed, like an inbox.

Create subfolders: Make subfolders for better organization. Create, then choose to move it wherever you want.

Drag-and-drop folders: Drag-and-drop folders and docs to spreadsheets, documents and presentations.

Tag: Tag items with certain keywords instead of going to the trouble of moving them to a folder.

Star: You can also star documents, like you would in Gmail.

Upload multiple files: Click "select more files" to upload multiple files in Google Docs.

Organization
These hacks are designed to organize your Google Docs, from starting a new assignment to sharing and publishing.

Color code folders: Color-code the names of folders.

Insert bookmarks: Insert a link to another part of your document, like in a table of contents.

Zip archive: Export Google docs, spreadsheets and presentations in a single ZIP archive.

Block quote: Use this setting to automatically indent and set aside a long quote in your document.

Minimize: Star only the docs you want to see at one time, and minimize everything in the left pane for a minimized view.

Annotate with footnotes: Insert annotations as footnotes to your document easily.

Preview templates: Preview a template before committing to it.

With these editing tools, you'll track comments, save editing history and more.

Color-code comments: You can color-code live comments in Google Docs.

Revision pruning: When you have too many revisions, they'll automatically collapse, or prune, but can still be viewed in revision history.

Track edits and changes: In Google Docs you can go back and forth between edits that you or collaborators made.

Revision history: View older versions of your document, and choose to "revert to this one" if you choose.

Find and replace: This version of find and replace lets you match cases, match whole words, find previous words, and more.

Synchronization
Make your Google Docs work with other tools too.

Google Docs uses Google search to find documents and more.

Search PDFs: There's a search box in the upper right corner of your PDF document.

Search for docs using keywords: If you don't remember the title of a doc, type in keywords from the document instead.

Advanced search: Find documents by selecting who you've shared with, keyword, title, and more.

Search the web: Highlight a word and search the web for matching websites and images.

Search operators: Search operators will help you find starred, hidden and other documents quickly. Example: [is:starred].

Presentations
Learn how to make and present projects with videos, images and more.

Spreadsheets
With spreadsheets, you can create forms, reports, invoices, portfolios, and other docs that solve problems, save email addresses and more.

These tasks, from printing to tracking tournaments, are examples of other ways you can use Google Docs.

Print as a webpage: You can print your doc so that it displays as a web page.

Insert mathematical equations: Insert Equation makes an equation editor dialog box appear to add an equation to your doc.

GoogleTournament: Create brackets, and let Google automatically update data according to the Men's and Women's NCAA Division I Basketball Championship.

Enable offline access: You can install offline access for Google Docs to edit existing documents anywhere.

Track analytics: Track visits to published documents.

Update posts: You can republish posts that are already on your web page if you want to make edits and support an updated version.

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Yesterday, I got Apple Classroom up and running at school thanks to the release of Casper 9.9, which supports the new features of iOS 9.3. Here are some early impressions. I'll mostly focus on the technology and how well it works, rather than how effective it is for teaching since I've only had a day or so to play with it.

What is Apple Classroom?

Firstly, Apple Classroom is not like Google Classroom. Google Classroom is roughly equivalent to Apple's iTunes U - a service that lets you share materials and content with students and receive, mark and grade assignments.

Apple Classroom is more like a basic Apple Remote Desktop for iOS. Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) was a Mac app that allowed administrators to monitor and manipulate multiple Macs remotely over the network. ARD was mostly a sysadmin tool but occasionally teachers would get into using it because of its ability to monitor and lock computer screens in a lab scenario. ARD was really too complex for classroom use.

ARD was also able to gather and report statistics about Macs on the network. These included disk space usage, device identifiers and so on. In the iOS era, all of these functions are handled by your MDM server. Still, we have been missing the screen monitoring features of ARD in iOS since day one.

Apple Classroom brings the 'teacher features' of Apple Remote Desktop to iOS, and it's fantastic.

Features of Apple Classroom

Apple Classroom can do a number of things with a class of iPads:

Lock and unlock the iPad screens

Navigate the iPads to a web page or a chapter in a book in iBooks

Open an app on all devices

View a device's screen remotely

Initiate an AirPlay session between a single student device and the classroom Apple TV

These are all very useful capabilities! In a Shared iPad deployment, Apple Classroom can also assign a student to a specific iPad, log a student out of a shared iPad and reset the student's Managed Apple ID password (which is their login password to a shared iPad).

Setting Up Apple Classroom

Classroom is powerful and it's obvious that it's not a capability that should be in the hands of just anyone in the school, so how do we deploy it correctly?

Firstly, Classroom is freely available from the App Store. Anyone can download it, but it does nothing until it is configured by an MDM server. Additionally, while the teacher's iPad does not need to be Supervised, the student iPads do. You can't use this to just wander around peeking at strangers' iPad screens.

Classroom configures itself automatically when your MDM server sends a Configuration Profile that contains an "Education Configuration" payload. This is a structure in a Configuration Profile that contains information about which teachers have which classes and which students are in those classes. This ensures that a teacher only sees those iPads that are actually in front of their class at any given time, instead of all the iPads on the network.

The Apple Classroom Interface

Classroom basically has two views: the My Classes and the in-class screen. My Classes is a very simple interface that lets you pick from a list.

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2. iPad for Classroom

3. How to Use Notability iPad App in Your Classroom

Notability iPad app creates notes that integrate handwriting, typing, drawings, audio, and pictures. Use Notability for iPad to create lecture notes and other classroom materials. Notability for iPad can also be used to annotate PDF documents, such as student assignments and PDF forms.

To create a new note, tap the Compose icon in the Library. Tapping the Bookshelf icon at any time returns you to the Library, and your note will automatically be saved. Choose a paper background by tapping the Page icon on the top toolbar. Examples include graph paper, lined paper, canvas, colored paper, and so on.

Notability has a powerful set of tools that can accommodate all your note-taking needs and preferences:

Text: You can type text notes using the following techniques:

Tap the Text icon in the top toolbar; then tap in the document wherever you want to type.

Tap Outline to select your outline style: bullets, numbers, or plain text.

Tap the Font icon (Tt) to select your font, color, size, and style.

Create a text style by setting the font size, style, and color, and then tapping and holding a font preset button (Aa, Bb, Cd, or Dd). Tap the Keyboard icon to lock it.

Note that the keyboard needs to be closed for the button to appear.

Finger or stylus writing: Double-tap the Pencil icon to select color and line width; then proceed to write with your finger or stylus.

Notability improves the look of your handwriting, giving you smooth and organic-looking strokes. It mimics the way a marker writes by creating lines with varying thickness that give you the tapered look of a natural marker stroke.

Highlight: Tap the Highlighter icon to draw attention to information in your note. As with the pencil, tapping it a second time will display options for color and width.

Eraser: Tap this icon to erase handwriting or drawings. It removes whole strokes as a single object, which makes it quick to erase but doesn't allow fine control.

Scrolling: Use two fingers to scroll through a note.

Cut/copy/paste: Tap the scissors icon and circle an area with your finger or stylus to cut, copy, paste, and restyle content you have handwritten or sketched. Move the selected object anywhere on the page, or tap it to display menus with options to cut, copy, or change styles such as color and line width.

Left-hand capability: Don't fret if you're a lefty; you haven't been forgotten. Tap the Library icon and then tap the Settings icon on the bottom toolbar. Scroll down to the Other Settings section and turn on Left Handed mode.

Synchronized audio recording: The audio recording feature really makes Notability stand out from many other handwriting apps. It's a simple way to listen to important audio that's synchronized with the notes you were taking at the very same time! To use this feature, follow these steps:

1. Tap the microphone icon to start recording at any time.

2. Tap the Stop button when you're ready to stop the recording.

Any notes taken during a recording are synchronized to the audio taking place at the same time.

3. Tap the Playback button to listen to the recording.

4. Tap any text or media object to hear what was said at that point in the recording.

Playback options include volume control, fast forward, rewind, and deletion of recordings.

Whether you have attention deficit problems, difficulty hearing or processing audio, or just plain don't understand anything being said during an important class, you'll absolutely love the recording option.

Media insertion: Tap the Insert Media + icon on the bottom left to insert web clips, photos, figures, text, and writing boxes into your note:

You can write or draw over the top of any media. It's a great way to add notes and little captions for additional detail on images. Text will automatically wrap around images.

Tap with two fingers on any media object to select it and display the menus. Tap Edit to enter the figure editor, where you can crop, use prebuilt shapes, or use a pen to edit your media.

Tap the caption field at the bottom of any image to insert your caption text.

Tap the Web Clip icon to open a browser and select a page to insert into your notes. Once you've inserted it, you can add notes and highlights.

Use the Text media object as a great way to fill out forms, annotate PDFs, or move text anywhere on the page. Tap the Insert Media + icon; then tap to select Text. You can tap anywhere on the page to insert your text box and then start typing in it.

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How to Use Notability iPad App in Your Classroom - dummies

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Notability iPad app creates notes that integrate handwriting, typing, drawings, audio, and pictures. Use Notability for iPad to create lecture notes and other classroom materials. Notability for iPad can also be used to annotate PDF documents, such as student assignments and PDF forms. To create a new note, tap the Compose icon in the Library.

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http://safeshare.tv/v/ss579afce138ca9 - What the Cloud actually Is...

http://safeshare.tv/v/R2t8hf_p8wg - How to set-up your iPad to back-up to the Cloud

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Apps were combined with the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy Wheel

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INTRODUCTION AND LINKED ONLINE RESOURCES: This is a short introduction to the Padagogy Wheel. A graphical way for teachers to see the mapping of Bloom's Taxonomy from cognitive domain categories to action verbs for writing learning outcomes and from there to activities designed to achieve those outcomes.

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Great resource for learning and teaching with iPads.

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Hopefully your tablet is set up and ready to use the way you want. For help using it (like sending emails and adding new users), we've written a Apple iPad Air 2 User Guide.

Or, if you'd like speak to a Team Knowhow Expert, you can do it here.

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Hopefully your tablet is set up and ready to use the way you want. For help using it (like sending emails and adding new users), we've written a Apple iPad Air 2 User Guide. Or, if you'd like speak to a Team Knowhow Expert, you can do it here.

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Setting expectations for your classroom starts before you meet your students. Make sure your students understand your expectations. List these policies and procedures regarding the iPad in your syllabus.

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Tech Classroom Management Tips - Forrestville Valley Instructional Technology Department

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Remember, as the teacher you are the adult in control. Communicate to your students that not meeting appropriate use expectations in your classroom will result in loss of privileges, detention, communication home, or whatever logical consequence you see fit. Although technology is often one of the best tools we have for instruction, it isn't the only one.

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Guided Access helps you to stay focused on a task while using the iPad. Guided Access limits your device to a single App and lets you control which App features are available. Guided Access is a great tool to use with assessments on Canvas. Guided Access may be used in conjunction with Apple Classroom.

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Procedure to add free Apps grades 8-12 on iPads

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Procedure to add free Apps grades 8-12 on iPads

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Teachers have the students download the App on their device using their Apple ID.

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The core Apps on student iPads are iMove, Pages, Book Creator, Keynote, Notability and Explain Everything.

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Canvas is our LMS (Learning Management System) that connects students with all of the digital tools teachers use in one easy place. You can login at mckeel.instructure.com and use your McKeel Wildcat account. If you have questions about Canvas, please use your Canvas Essentials course. If you can't see your Canvas Essentials course click on "Courses", "All Courses" and click the star to add to your "Dashboard."  If you have never attended the training please enroll at http://tinyurl.com/SherryJorris.

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You can input student names to make a seating chart.  Use your iPad to take pictures of your students to add to the seating chart.  You can email the seating charts to yourself and print them out for your substitute.

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‎Over a million educators worldwide trust TeacherKit with managing their time and activities. TeacherKit helps you organize classes and students easily. Create a seating chart, record attendance, log behavior, and track grades all with few taps. TeacherKit lifts the headache of routine administration...