iPad, Boardmaker and Smartboard

Marcia Obukowicz CESA 9

marciao@newnorth.net Marciaoat.wikispaces.com

• Welcome to some of the current big players in Assistive Technology, iPads, Boardmaker and Smartboards. Learn how to use and integrate these tools to create engaging and interactive lessons for your students. We will look at iPads for hands-on access and collaboration, explore apps and learning opportunities on the web, connect iPad as a mouse with the computer and Smartboard, also seeking out some great online resources that work great with interactive whiteboards. We will add to your resource options through the use of great internet aggregators to find lessons that pop. We will try some Boardmaker Plus activities on the Smartboard and learn how to create a great searchable picture base with this software. Plan on a fast paced, fun day with great tools.

How the story is told, how the story is learned, remembered and shared has changed through the generations….

Digital Impact

• Formatable Access to Information

• Formatable Response

• Collaboration

• Ease of adding adaptations

• Portability

Going Digital: Critical Practice

• Learning is multi modal

• Digital tools support a variety of learning styles

• Tools can be individualized to need

• Teacher web space development is huge!!!!!

• Comfort level with digital formats

• Comfort level with mobile devices

• Moving towards paperless

Tool Trends

• Integration between tools

• Internet Portals and Mobile Access

• Personalized learning

• Digital text becomes digital learning environment

• Making and Doing

• Game based learning

Media in Student Hands

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DntAbEah6k4&feature=related

DIGITAL MATERIALS ARE NOT GOING AWAY…..

ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au

E text’s Struggle to go Mainstream

• Need to build an infrastructure to create and deliver it

• Need devices to access it

http://lindenamueller.com/blog/2012/07/the-illiterate-of-the-21st-

century-alvin-toffler-quote/

Thinking in a tech way

• More there than I have time to look through

• Need Techie friends

• Need to understand formats

• Need to problem solve

• iPad Lesson: The tech is constantly upgrading

– Cheat sheets are obsolete almost as soon as they are published.

TOOL Functions

• Boardmaker: Searchable Library

• Smartboard: Interactive work space group

• iPad: Web search, interactive work space local

Finding Materials

• Software specific teacher share sites

• Premade packages

• Vendor driven materials

• Google searches by topic

• Aggregators

• Wiki

• Pinterest

Sorting through Apps

• App Store

• Aggregators:

• Using “digital dudes” to save time

• http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/sptherapy.html#interactive

• Moms with Apps, Best Apps for kids and other groups ( Today is Friday!!!)

Creating Digital Materials

• Photos:

– Sort, catalogue and store in Boardmaker

– Edit on iPad (Photo edit) or computer

– Use in all three programs

• Audio:

– Create on iPad, smartnotebook or computer

– Link in smartnotebook

– Feature that is in apps (Storykit)

The Power of the iPad Video

• Instant Feed Back

• Instant social story (Splice)

• Social Thinking: Analysis of behavior

• Beginnings of multimedia storytelling

Moving Data

• Understanding formats

• Using the cloud

• http://www.zamzar.com/

http://www.featurepics.com/online/Internet-

Cloud-Computing-1740406.aspx

Moving Digital Materials

• E-mail

• Dropbox/ Evernote

• Googledocs

• Teacher workspaces

• If you do not have an account its time to make one! Try Dropbox or Evernote

Linking to Online Materials

• Smartboard Links

– Tying link to visual works well for young users

– Whole visual vs. corner

• iPad “Add to home screen”

Using Videos to Teach

• Schoolhouse Rock

• Pick a topic and find a video that supports your concept.

• Videos should be SHORT!!!!!

• Use the Youtube search on iPad or computer

Managing the “flash” content

• Smartboard plays most everything

• iPad’s do not play flash except through app interfaces. These are slow and can only handle slow moving content.

• Rover is an app that can play some flash

• Common EC websites like starfall and Mr. Nussbaum are starting to convert. $

Technology is about Doing

Your Assignment

• Use the camera in your iPad to capture shapes or colors

• Edit with photo-edit or ? App if needed. Or use Smartnotebook/ PPT

• Upload photos to Dropbox or Evernote

• Open smartnotebook and add images to a new activity called shapes or colors that you are making on the smartboard.

• Add these photos to your Boardmaker Library or my content in Smart Notebook.

It’s a lot of work…..or is it?

http://deskquixote.wordpress.com/

Boardmaker

• Typical activities:

– Scripting for schedules and behavior

– Social Stories

– Black line colored picture library

• Pictures copy/paste directly into Boardmaker

• Boardmaker Share: www.boardmakershare.com

Adding to Boardmaker’s Library

• Paste photo directly into symbol box

• Label ( this is a form of tagging)

• Select a group of photos and drag into symbol box

• Use import.

• Take your time and tag well

http://www.boardmakershare.com/SingleNewsArticle/7db7e96c

-40a3-4513-8f78-3769ac46781d/User-Tip-Importing-Multiple-Pictures-into-your-

Boardmaker Library: Pick a topic and

build a photo array for it in Boardmaker

Importing Exporting Boards

• Communal Sharing in district

• www.theoatc.org/.../ImportingActivitiesintoBoardmaker_002.pdf

• http://www.boardmakershare.com/SingleNewsArticle/5c3d0e0a-5105-4d65-9bcb-7e4835305778/User-Tip-Importing-and-Exporting-Boards

Moving Boardmaker to Smartnotebook and iPad

• Make picture in Boardmaker

• Copy/paste into smartnotebook

• Use picture transparency to get rid of white background

• Open my content and pull picture onto the content page

• Right click pictures and save on desk top

To iPad

• Upload saved desktop folders into Evernote or Dropbox

• Open dropbox on iPad and add photos to camera roll.

• Make a short story in splice

Pictures to move

Create these pictures in

Boardmaker. Then copy

paste them into smartnotebook.

Playing Boardmaker Activites

Smartboard

• Interactive lessons

• Shareable with a group

• On the fly multimedia player

• Player of online content

• Recordable lessons

• Smart Exchange: http://exchange.smarttech.com/

• If you do not have an account make one.

A quick run through notebook

• EC sampler:

• New Features in Smart Notebook 11

• Widgets and Avatars

Using avatars in smartnotebook

Voki Widget

• Go to Voki and make a free avatar

• When ready download the voki widget at smart exchange and add your voki to a notebook page.

• Think about using the voki for directions or encouragement

Online treasure trove

• Content specific

• Check out textbook supports

• Video and media options

• Searchable and editable.

http://www.goodsitesforkids.org/Early.htm

• Check out some of these resources

• Some require downloads

• Can link to items on the computer as well as internet

Assignment:

• Access the Google doc I have linked you to called EC Interactive iPad checklist

• Work in groups of 2 to find out which sites work on an iPad. Let the rest of us know what you find by sharing on the Googledoc.

Smartboard interactives

• http://www.uptoten.com/kids/uptoten-home.html

Storytimeforme

iPad

• Feels like an individual tool

• Kids are fascinated

• Need to check apps

• Free doesn’t always mean good

• Using folders to hide/ restrictions to prevent

• Turn on Speak select

Training Needs

http://www.snotr.com/video/8965/

SETT: Finding Tools to Match Need

• Student

• Environment

• Task

• Tool

Evaluating Apps

• Let’s look at a few early learning apps and find if they fit this continuum.

Free/ Lite Apps

• Tend not to be robust

• Loaded with adds and inapp purchases

• Developers are hearing us more purchase options arriving

iBooks

• Kids ebooks:

– Limited at the EC free level

– Other forms can be transferred to epub using Calibre

• PDF work

Read, Record and Share

• Read and Record

• Stories Before Bed

http://www.astorybeforebed.com/schools

• Videotaping with iPad

• Ruckus

Avatar Books

• Student becomes the story’s main character

Social and Feelings Stories

• AngryOctopus

• Hallmark series

• Peek a zoo

• Kindle editions:

Story Chimes: App

• Highlighted text as you read

• Mix of fairy tales and lesson stories

amathdictionary

http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/

PDF Annotators: Worksheets

• Type on PDF

• Looking for a new options

Don’t be afraid to use the video features with kids

Creating albums

• On the iPad

• Group photos needed for a project

Editing photos on the iPad

• Photo Edit App

• With the holidays there are often

Mr. Nussbaum

• Mobile and Online

Bo’s Bedtime Story

• Good for getting them off to bed

• Compare game quality of this paid app

iPad interactive

• iPads interactivity is through apps

• Camera and video WOW!

• Use audio programs like Hokusai or Doodlecast for kids

• Videos and games the biggest draw

• Think construct for photos, video, audio and comics.

Cause Effect

• Sound Drop

• Hearts and Stars

• Halloween (Blow)

• Ponds

iBlower

• Halloween is free/ Leaves .99

• Cause and effect

• Blow into the mic to make them go.

Timers/ Buzzers/Counters

Whiteboards:

• Doodle buddy

• Show me interactive whiteboard

• Whiteboard lite

• For teachable moment free hand draws

Sequencetial play

• Toca Series

• Cookie Dough

• Swapsie/ monster mash

Integrating Social Thinking

• Using comics:

– Toontastic: Free base package, additional play sets for a fee

– Puppet pals: Free (Use own photos)

• Demonstrate unexpected and expected behavior

• Defeat unthinkable moments

Big Nate $2.99

• Whole body listening

• 4 Steps of communication:

Social Express

Itouch learnfeelings

• Use as part of a discussion on feelings

Using speak select

Splice

• Social stories on the fly

• Find some pictures of

“Going to the pumpkin patch”

Save them to camera roll

Open splice select pictures in order

Record narrative over the top.

Story Kit

• Use media options to create a story.

• Great way to work in media that works best for the student

Sock Puppets

• Generate a story that you would share with your kids.

Hokusai

• Audio capture similar to audacity

• Capturing early reading

• Capturing speech

• Great Edit

A side note about taping

Project make the thinking card

• Get pictures from BM

• Transfer to Smart

• Load to iPad

Streaming Interplay

• http://support-remote.splashtop.com/access/unauthenticated

• Splashtop or Doceri

Snycpad

• Collaborative work space

• Drawing works

• Sign into a room and go

Classroom Behavior: Class dojo

• Positive and negative behavior

• Chart all the students

• Show on the smartboard how they are doing during work time

The Halloween Group

• We are going to look at a group of Halloween apps to see if they meet our student needs

Halloween sound shelf

• Halloween soundboard

Monster mash lite

• Describing clothes, changes in head body and legs

Spooky Playtime

• Nice early learning games

• Lite version and

Carve a Pumpkin

• Working on face parts

Spooky Henry

• Visual Attention

• Think how we could do this on a smartboard

• Let’s make one