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The following is a post by Michelle Pacansky-Brock and originally appeared at http://facultyecommons.org/gamify-your-class-with-voicethread-mobile/

Gamification involves integrating game mechanics and design techniques into your class to boost learner engagement and provide problem-solving…

Everything I Need To Know About Education ...I Learned In Kindergarten!

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I published this off my site: teachingwithipad.org about a month ago. I hope you enjoy the read. Please leave any comments that may be useful.…

Screencasting is the process of capturing the screen interactions on your computer - usually along with an audio narrative. It's been a very effective method for creating screen based tutorials on computer for a number of years. With the advent of screencasting apps on the iPad, screencasting has now become a great option for the creation of multimedia student presentations. It can be used for any number of student projects such as illustrating and explaining the solution to a problem in…

One of the great things I’ve noticed in the last 2 years is how my teaching has evolved with the use of the iPads.  It’s been a gradual shift, but the way I am using them now is different than the first pilot year in 2011.

In the beginning, I was focused on integrating the iPads into our day and was very much “app” oriented.  We had a lot of success that first year and my …

**** Interview from THE Journal...

The full article is at http://thejournal.com/articles/2013/04/10/7-tips-for-managing-your-ipad-classroom.aspx

iPads are a great tool to encourage continual sharing and collaboration in the classroom, says…

Obviously this group is dedicated to the use of iPads in education. The iPad has an excellent interface that is intuitive and smooth with an ecosystem that is much more mature than alternative Android or Microsoft. The iPad is surely the leading tablet technology in education for some very good reasons. With that said, there are many discussions that center around the use of technology as a tool depending on how a tablet is integrated into the curriculum. The use of a tablet is a vehicle to…

This is copied from my new blog.

schoolipads.wordpress.com

I have just started my blogging of my school and how I manage the iPads but I plan to try and cover it all. So, check there if you don't see more from me here.

Ok, this is a good one. My school is already setup with a printer in every classroom. They are not AirPrint ready but they are networked or connected to a computer on the…

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Excerpted from new book, "iPad in Education for Dummies" by Sam Gliksman…

We are piloting iPads, but I can already see some dilemmas.  Training is challenging.  Unlike PC/Mac applications, there are no standard menus or behaviors - each app has a different interface.  The relative newness of apps means that the set of apps will change over time - new apps will be introduced, some apps will disappear, and others will overcome their major limitations. The fluid nature of apps worries me given that teachers are not always the most adept at managing change.…

I just bought this app for my iPad/iPhone https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ad-helpdesk/id366597535

It lets you add and remove users, reset passwords, lock accounts, and everything a systems administrator needs. This is very helpful so when teachers or students approach me in the hallways and need their account unlocked or password reset all I do is whip out mu iPhone and reset their password. A great app for…

         So I work at a private High School and we are currently in a iPad pilot program this year (2 classes)and plan to deploy 480 iPads to our underclassmen next September. I have been testing and testing and testing ways to monitor, restrict, and control this many devices. We have a apple server that I just installed Mountain Lion Server on. I linked it to our active directory using the golden triangle.

         I have found that I can add iOS devices to the mac server and set…

Portions excerpted from new book, "iPad in Education for Dummies" by Sam Gliksman…

IPADS are great educational tools to use  when working with children with autism. This is especially true for those children who are not yet using verbal language as their main source of communication. There are several applications that can be found on the IPAD. For example; the Tap Speak application allows the teacher or parent to create a menu for the child to choose from in order to communicate. In my current preschool classroom, we use the IPAD for circle time. The children use the Tap…

I've truly enjoyed using Puppet Pals with our 3rd Grade classes.  Students practiced their scripts in Hebrew before recording their Puppet Pals Movies.  They took pictures of themselves and superimposed them on their Sukkah dioramas, a little shelter made for the High Holiday of Sukkot.  The students had a lot of fun, and the parents got to see these movies for Open House.  We will continue to use Puppet Pals until we graduate into using the Voicethread App.  …

Partially excerpted from the new book, "iPads in Education for Dummies" by Sam Gliksman

In between repeatedly imploring my youngest son to turn off the XBox, iPad, his…

Video on 3 Free apps to make Thinking visual

With touch screen technology, iPad allows you to make your thinking visual. Apps like ScreenChomp, ShowMe and Educreations allow you to record your voice and your annotations on the screen at the same time. All three apps are free and have great potential for use in your classroom. You can record over an image and make…