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Clip converter is a free, unblocked website from which you can download youtube videos and clips to your computers. Now that we put everything in the OneDrive we have almost an infinite amount of space. It is easy to do. Some videos have restrictions and they will not work

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They’re Not Paperweights

Redefining Student Growth with an iPad Program that Works

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Small thumb nagler picture  1  1433281281 Michael Nagler, Ed.D
Jun 4, 2015


Simply buying iPads will not transform a classroom, as most educators know. But by understanding the devices’ capabilities and limitations, and learning from others’ efforts, teachers can introduce tablets to their students with expectations of meaningful impact. It has been four years since the Mineola Union Free School District implemented iPads 1:1 in two schools, helping us transform education by redefining the meaning of student growth. We have valuable experience to share, as we also continue to learn.

The Nuts and Bolts

Teachers can use iPads in the classroom in myriad ways. Using educational researcher Ruben Puentedura’s SAMR model as a framework, we have summarized some of the practices that we have found successful in our school district :

1) iPads compiement current instructional practices:

  • Students use educational apps without supervision.
  • Students use generic functionalities of the iPad, such as web browsing, to conduct research.

2) Students use iPads to complete existing tasks, with no functional change in the work they’re doing:

  • Instead of pen and paper, students annotate assignments using a touch screen.
  • Students turn in assignments digitally.
  • Teachers provide feedback on student work using a touch screen.

3) Students use iPads to complete existing tasks, with functional improvement in both the richness of the work and the feedback it receives:

  • Teachers record feedback on student work with annotations and voice.
  • Teachers record lessons for students to watch.
  • Students record audiovisual demonstrations for assignments.
  • Students create movies.

4) iPads allow teachers to significantly redesign assignments:

  • Students work on projects in teams.
  • Students provide feedback to each other.

5) iPads allow teachers to create new and previously inconceivable tasks:

  • Teachers grade student work using automatically generated Common Core rubrics.
  • Teachers group students by ability level in Common Core Standards allowing for data-driven instruction.
  • Teachers source relevant resources for individual students based on performance in formative assessments.
  • Teachers create their own library of original content, tagged and searchable by every educator at the school.

The SAMR model is just one way to ascertain a successful iPad implementation. But skepticism remains about whether tablets can truly increase student achievement. Thus any evaluation of an iPad program requires a careful examination of student work.

Using School4one’s workflow app, we have done just that. The creation of daily digital assignments provides teachers with an overwhelming amount of student material. Moreover, since student work is collected over time, growth is easily tracked. Imagine looking at an assignment in a specific standard in September and then comparing it against that student’s work in the same standard in June. Technology has allowed us to finally realize student portfolios in an easy, efficient and progressive manner.

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Key Steps to Success

Putting a dynamic iPad program in place involves many steps, as illustrated above. A thoughtful progression can make the difference between using iPads as paperweights or as key tools to successfully introduce new instructional methods.

Here is a list of our classroom-tested best practices for a successful iPad implementation:

  • Training: Teachers need to be trained in basic iPad features and the apps they will use to accomplish their goals.
  • Internet Speed: The school’s network needs to be able to handle multiple students downloading files at the same time.
  • Digital Resources: Teachers need to have access to digital resources to share with students. For example, we are building a curriculum using materials from publishers as well as those produced by teachers.
  • iPad Workflow: Teachers need a way to assign, collect and grade school work from students. Do NOT underestimate this step! A learning management system that was designed for the web only will limit what students can do with their iPads at school.
  • Standards and Learning Objectives: All student work is tagged according to school-wide standards, creating individual digital portfolios that students, parents and teachers may examine throughout the year. Educators can easily monitor student growth in each standard, and also determine the need for more advanced instruction such as differentiated learning.
  • Project Based Learning: This is a powerful addition to traditional curricula, allowing teachers to use iPads to easily deliver problem- or project-based lessons. iPads also enable students to collaborate with each other–the ultimate redefinition of student growth.

Guided Access

How to set up and use GUIDED ACCESS on the iPad

1. Tap on your Settings icon.

2. On the Sidebar on the left, tap on General.

3. On the main screen, scroll down and tap on Accessibility.

4. Scroll down to the Learning section, and tap on Guided Access.

5. Tap on the on/off button to turn Guided Access ON.

6. Tap on Passcode Settings

7.  Set Guided Access Passcode.

8.  Type in a 4-digit passcode, and then re-type it. NOTE: IT IS VERY IMPORTANT

REMEMBER THIS PASSCODE. You will need it every time you want to end/disable

Guided Access. If you lose this passcode while Guided Access is running on an app,

YOU WILL BE LOCKED in this app until you are able to type in the correct code.

Using GUIDED ACCESS:

1. Choose an APP for which you want to assign access restrictions. Tap and open that APP.

2. On your device, “triple-tap” the Home Button:

3.  Tap the Start button in the upper right corner.

4. You will briefly see the message: Guided Access Started. All the restrictions

that you have set will then be applied to the app.

ENDING Guided Access:

1. Triple-tap on the Home Button of your device.

2. Type in your 4-digit passcode.

3. Tap the End button on the upper left corner of the screen.

4. You will briefly see the message: Guided Access Ended. All the restrictions that

you have set will then be cancelled.

 

Turn YouTube into a Classroom with eduCanon

This is a truly great site to use and best of all, its free.

My Experience with eduCanon

I opened up an account to play around with the platform, using one of my own videos, and here’s what I can tell you: It’s easy, and it’s fun. In less than half an hour of watching a few tutorials and reading the information on the FAQ page, I got the hang of building a lesson. (Click here to view a sample lesson I created.) From that point on, it was a piece of cake. The whole time I was building my practice lesson, I kept thinking, This is so cool. And once I got past the learning stage, I started to realize all the possibilities this platform opens up. Everything on YouTube. Everything on Vimeo. So much we could all do with that!

Here are some of the best features of eduCanon:

Embed questions at specific points. You decide exactly when a question will pop up during the video. Even better, students will not know when a question is coming. This means they really have to pay attention!

Teachers can monitor student results. When you sign up as a teacher, you create class lists, then assign lessons to these classes. As students complete a lesson, you are given a question-by-question breakdown of their responses (see sample below — green is correct, red is incorrect). This allows you to see in an instant which students are having trouble understanding and which concepts need re-teaching.

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More than simple multiple choice. When building questions, you have the option to add explanations that will pop up when students choose an answer. This means even getting an answer wrong is a learning opportunity. In my lesson builder below, you can see I entered explanatory text to appear for every answer. (By the way, these only pop up after students commit to an answer.)

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Robust re-takes. Students can re-do lessons, but eduCanon offers a way to make the process more than a simple guessing game. If a student guesses the correct answer the second time around, you can set it up so they are prompted to type in an explanation for why this is the correct answer.

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Did I mention it’s free? The site developers are committed to keeping the essential features of the site free. They are working on a premium offering at an introductory rate of $40 per year which will include features like open-ended questions (the free account only allows multiple choice), gradebook download of student scores, and access to a library of lessons created by other teachers, but the basic platform will remain free.

Give it a try!

We’re fast approaching the time of year when anything new will be a breath of fresh air for you and your students, so this is a great time to try eduCanon on a small scale. My advice would be to choose a topic that you have coming up in a month or two, find a video that would support that unit, and experiment with building an eduCanon lesson around it. Maybe you’ve wanted to try flipping your classroom, but didn’t know where to start. This would be a great first step.

 

External Storage?

01-ibridge-boxed.jpgYou can buy the latest iPhone and iPad with 128GB of storage, but many get less due to the high cost. Those with just 16GB or 32GB can quickly find it filling up, especially when shooting lots of video. The iBridge from Leef may be the solution for those storage problems.

This little gadget plugs into the Lightning connector on the iPhone, iPad, or iPod and adds 16 – 256GB of storage. It supports transferring music, photos, videos, and documents between the iBridge and iOS devices.

The gadget has a unique curved shape that is designed to keep the iBridge out of the way as much as possible. It sticks out of the Lighting connector about an inch, and curves behind the iPhone or iPad. It has enough room to fit the iPhone in a typical case.

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The end of the iBridge that hides behind the iDevice has a full USB connector. This is used to plug the iBridge into a device with a USB port for putting content to bring over to the iOS device. Simply copy the files to the iBridge as you would with an SD card and then plug it into the iDevice for file transfer.

The iBridge requires an app on iOS to interact with the device. The first time you plug the iBridge into the iPhone it notifies you that you need the free app and takes you to the app store to get it.

The app has settings for dealing with the iBridge, plus a content viewer, a camera app, and a file transfer app all rolled up into the main app. The settings allow using the iBridge as a local photo backup and to set a storage limit on the iDevice which when hit, starts storing content on the iBridge when present.

The camera app is a basic way to take photos that are stored directly onto the iBridge.

The file transfer app provides quick access to transfer iPhone photos to the iBridge or to go the other way. There is also a file manager with tabbed access to storage on both the iPhone and iBridge.

Here is one for the parents

A Parent’s Guide to Online Education Resources

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Once upon a time, I was a brand spankin’ new, fresh-faced, wide-eyed homeschooling mom. You see, I never ever planned, let alone pictured myself in this role, EVER.  It’s just that unexpected life circumstances practically begged me to start homeschooling my children to create the kind of flexibility my kids and I needed to be able to visit my husband more often, who at that time traveled full time for work.

Who would have thought I’d still be homeschooling seven years later?!  In that time that I’ve been around the block and back — I’ve learned alot, but even more so, I’ve grown a desire to help others who have found themselves on their own journey to provide their children with the best education they can, whatever that may look like for their family.  So I put together a roundup of the types of free education resources I would have loved to have found compiled all in one spot, when I first began combing the ‘net for ideas with only a week to plan the material I would use to create curriculum for our homeschool.

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While each of these resources linked below would work well in most homeschools, most would also work well as a supplement to any traditional school curriculum.  This list is by no means all-inclusive or comprehensive – these are just some of our online favorites and the faves of some friends who I polled for ideas.  I do intend to add to this list over time, but as you can see, it is already lengthy so peruse at your leisure.  My suggestion would be this — Click through to the sites applicable to the current age group of your children, and bookmark and pin this post for later use.  Bonus points if you send it to your mom friends!  ;)

All Ages

Preschool and Elementary

 

Middle School

High School

Gifted Education

Facebook Groups for Parents

What would you add to this list of online resources for parents?  I’m always looking for new ideas and would love to hear YOUR favorites!  If you would like to learn more about how you get help navigating educational options for your child, click here to learn about our educational consulting and parent coaching  :)

50+ Best Websites for Teachers

Which ones are your favorites too?

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These days there are so many websites and resources available to help teachers, but that doesn’t mean that teachers know what all’s available to them.

There’s so many lists of websites out there, but what makes this one unique is that these websites have been recommended by teachers themselves. Thank you to all the teachers who submitted your favorite website!

A disclaimer, though: I have not personally vetted these websites. I’ve simply compiled a list of websites that teachers love and recommend. I hope it will be helpful. And help make this list even better by adding your favorites in the comments!

Best websites for teachers

Websites that Provide Resources, Ideas, or Professional Help

 Great Websites for the Classroom and/or Students

  • Remind.com – a safe way for parents to text message students and stay in touch with parents
  •  Moby Max – integrated curriculum and teacher use system for ELA and math Common Core
  •  Discovery Education – provides high quality, dynamic, digital content to schools
  •  Read Theory – Sign up for free and gain access to over 1,000 reading comprehension exercises.
  •  Read  Works – reading comprehension
  •  FCRR – Florida Center for Reading Research
  •  GoNoodle – brain breaks kids love
  •  ABCya.com – free educational kids computer games
  •  Planbook.com – lesson planning made easy
  •  Free Rice – practice questions in a variety of subjects (and they donate rice to impoverished countries for each answer you get right. How cool is that!?)
  •  Flocabulary – educational hip-hop songs and videos
  •  Reading Rockets – help young children learn to read
  •  CNN Student News  – a ten-minute, commercial-free, daily news program designed for middle and high school classes.
  •  Grammar Bytes – grammar quizzes
  •  AR Book Finder
  •  Utah Education Network – K-2 student interactives & much more
  • Illuminations – resources for teaching math

 Awesome Blogs for Teachers

Is your favorite website not on the list? Add it in the comments below.

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