1.Technologies: UsingiPad/iPhone Apps to FosterLiteracy LearningRichard Beach, University of Minnesota,rbeach@umn.eduGoogle Docs Version of handout:http://tinyurl.com/778odqpUsing iPad and iPhone Apps forLearning with Literacy Across theCurriculumhttp://usingipads.pbworks.com

2. QR code: Google Docshandout 3. Backchannel comments:Writing to learn:http://todaysmeet.com/WisconsinReading 4. Backchannel comments:Writing to learn:http://todaysmeet.com/WisconsinReading 5. Affordances of iPads/iPhones Touch: Intuitive navigation of texts and virtualworlds Portability/storage/ownership Personal learning device Social reading/writing Multimodality Collaboration/communication 6. App Activity 7. Activity App 8. App Affordances Affordances: Those literacy practicesfostered/mediated by uses of appswithin authentic, engaging activity 9. App affordances: Six literacies tolearn (app examples on handout) Accessing/Analyzing Information toLearn Reading Digitally to Learn Writing to Learn Discussing to Learn Games, Simulations, and Drama toLearn Reflection to Learn 10. Underlying app affordance:Images/video/audio to learn Multimodal processing and production oftexts Images/videos oral/written language iPad: touch/drawing/video/audioaffordances Draw Something app (matchword/image) http://tinyurl.com/6wewqco Lets Sing! Free app (identify song fromone player humming the song) http://tinyurl.com/ck2ue8w 11. The Dot Project: Multimodalresponse to literature Students construct dots in responseto The Dot by Peter Reynolds http://www.thedotproject.org 12. Google Images/Earth/Lit Trips 13. Accessing/AnalyzingInformation to Learn:Wikipedia Qwiki includes videos, images, graphs, andentries for millions of topics Articles for iPad Wikipedia Mobile Wikipanion Plus Simplepedia iWiki 14. Social, collaborativereading/writing to learn Social reading/writing: Study: two 7th graders reading eachothers annotations (Coiro, Castek, &Guzniczak, 2011, 61st LRA Yearbook) Exposed to alternative response practicesthat may differ from their own Acquiring new ways of interpreting texts 15. Collaborative TaskWhat caused the downfall of the Mayan civilization? 16. What will happen when Abby and Starfishwork collaboratively?In what ways might their patterns ofstrategy use remain the same or change? 17. Findings: Shifts in Abby and Starfishs Individual and Collaborative StancesThoughtful Gather Purposeful SummarizerAesthetic SummarizerReflective Analyzer 18. Social reading/writing approach:Context: Romeo & Juliet(Enciso): six lines of the prologue to Romeo & Look at the firstJuliet. How would you teach this given everything weknow now about strategies, text structures, childrensinterests, and the fact that a whole lot of kids are in theroom? Now imagine how an actor would approach thistextsay, a single actor on stage who has to make theselines meaningful? And then imagine what the directorwould do to make the meaning come to life. Thats thedifference in teaching the text... and its quite a leap inpedagogical skill, dependent in large part on theteachers ability to form an ensemble of readers(community of readers or the reading club as F. Smithdescribed it)The point about complexity isnt just thetextits in the experience of and motivation to read thetext. Were approaching the text in the way that actorsin the Royal Shakespeare Company learn language and 19. App affordances: Socialreading/writing shared responsestoKobo Pulse texts http://tinyurl.com/6v7oy9w Readmill http://tinyurl.com/6tldeng Video demo http://readmill.com Subtext http://tinyurl.com/6v6fgxg Video demo:http://www.subtext.com/education Students share annotations, chat withother readers, and view what peers arereading 20. Using Diigo social bookmarkingfor sharing annotations1. Add Diigo to your toolbar2. Find an online text3. Highlight sections of the text4. Click on the icon to add a Sticky Noteresponse5. Have other students add their responses 21. Diigo annotations: Pro-conreadings: benefits of energy fromwind power th 7 grade students iMelanieSwandbys Lighthouse School Community CharterSchool, Oakland, California Students posed questions for eachother What does that mean, virtually free? What are some things that use energy orpower? 22. Adding sticky-noteannotations 23. One students annotation: Prowind turbine essay 24. One students annotation: conessay 25. Students responding to eachothers annotations 26. Dialogic interactions throughannotationsThere is a bad and good thing about this. Bad is it kills birds passing by. Good it makes energy cleaner. Tarnished with wind turbines? Arent wind turbines supposed to be a good thing? Why are they complaining about the turbines? it doesnt even look bad. 27. Use of annotations for summarywriting I am perplexed in choosing if wind energyis a good courses or bad source. While,wind energy is a good source becauseits renewable and needs nothing morebut construction, it can also causeirritation and attention of some people.Wind turbines are loud, noisy, and risky.Even though, it doesnt cause anygreenhouse gases in the air, windturbines are harmful to wildlife andspace. More birds die by getting hit bywind turbines which is very dangerous toour wildlife. 28. Backchannel comments:Writing to learn:http://todaysmeet.com/WisconsinReading What are some ways you could useshared annotations in yourclassroom? How might you conduct research onstudents social, collaborative use ofannotations? 29. Accessing/Analyzing Informationto Learn: QR reader apps Create QR code images by enteringin a URL in a QR create site such asQrafter, QRstuff.com, Kaywa, Tec-IT,QR-app You or your students insert QR codesinto texts provide other related texts or posequestions 30. Digital concept mapping iPad apps: iBrainstorm, MindMeisterfor Ipad,, Sundry Notes, Idea Sketch,Total Recall, inShare, iMindMapMindNode, iThoughtsHD, Popplet Lite http://tinyurl.com/3o6a3wy Hierarchical/logical relationships betweenkey concepts 31. 5th Grade Students: PoppletLite for Concept Mapping 5th grade studentsin LauraKretschmars classat LighthouseCommunity CharterSchool, Oakland,California Lesson on rareearth metals toaddress thequestion, What isgold? 32. Mateos initial map: What isgold? 33. Mateos revised map 34. Blogging apps BlogPress or Blogsy to export theirblog posts to Blogger, Wordpress,Posterous, Edmodo, Live Journal,Private Journal, KidBlog 35. Twitter apps Twitter Apps such as Twitter,TweetCaster Tweetbot, Tweetdeck,Twitteriffic, HootSuite 36. Twitteriffic 37. HootSuite 38. Writing to learn: Essay/reportwriting apps Pages, IA Writer, My Writing Spot foriPad, PlainText, Manuscript for iPad,Notebooks, Clean Writer, StoryistiPad, DraftPad OnLive Desktop, DocumentsToGo CloudOn (Word, Excel, & PowerPointediting) 39. Collaborative writing/datacollection: Google Docs forms 5th graders: Weaver Lake School,Osseo, MN Data on parasite presence inMonarch butterflies 49% had parasites 40. Reading/Writing Digitally toLearn: Interactive literary texts:Younger students The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. MorrisLessmore (301 MG)The Dr. Seuss Beginner Book Collection #1(The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red FishBlue Fish, The FOOT Book, Mr. Brown CanMoo! Can You? and Fox In Socks) The Dr. Seuss Beginner Book Collection #2(Enjoy Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seusss ABC,The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, Theres aWocket in My Pocket! and Hop on Pop) And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street The Monster at the End of This Book...starringGrover! Sir Charlie Stinky Socks on his Really BIGAdventure 41. Graphic novel app: Teacherguide: http://www.freespirit.com 42. Tools4Students (25 graphicorganizers): Second graders:Lorax Garden app 43. Story/childrens book writing StoryKit, Storyrobe, Book Creator,Bookemon Mobile, Picture Books,Writers Studio, StoryPatch,Demibooks Composer, StoryBuddy,My Story, MoglueBooks, myebook,StoryJumper (for younger students),Tikatok 44. Comics/graphic novels Comic Life, Strip Designer,ComicStrip CSShttp://tinyurl.com/6or7bvz, ComicsCreator, PhotoComic, Comic TouchLite 45. Apps for Sharing/PublishingWriting ePub: Mac Pages (soon to be on iPadPages) Apple Author (requires OS Lion): iBooks Dotepub or Inkling books Human Biology Inkling textbookMoGlue Bookshttp://tinyurl.com/88pbgau ebooks for reading on eReaders bysubmitting properly formatted Word filesto Smashwords.com, Bluefire ReaderApp, or Book Creator 46. Discussing to learn: CMSplatform options OpenClass (free; linked to GoogleApps) http://www.joinopenclass.com/open/view/t1 Edmodo (free; also an app) http://www.edmodo.com/ Schoology https://www.schoology.com/home.php rcampus (cloud-based) http://www.rcampus.com/ 47. Discussing to learn: CollaborizeClassroomhttp://tinyurl.com/7xdcejl Free platform for classroomdiscussions App/Web-based Extensive curriculum resources Focus on fostering studentscollaboration Professional development on leadingdiscussions 48. VoiceThread: Multiple audiencesshare responses to the sameimages 49. 5th Graders: VoiceThread forStudying Dinosaurs Extinction of the dinosaurs: supernova, volcanoes, or an asteroid. Volcanoeshttp://voicethread.com/share/2454743/ Supernovahttp://voicethread.com/share/2544219/ Asteriodhttp://voicethread.com/share/2545658/ 50. VoiceThread affordances:Literacy practices Collaborative shared reading Mediated by focus on same images Learn from each others focus/practices Scientific thinking: claims/counter-claims Exposure to competing arguments The asteroid couldnt have caused the dinosaur extinction because the asteroid only landed on one spot and there were dinosaurs everywhere. 51. Screencasting app: Doodles andaudio voice-over for collaborativereading/writing/video ShowMe, Explain Everything,VoiceThread, Screenchomp,Educreations 7th grade students at LighthouseCommunity Charter School Mendelian genetics Created ShowMe presentations 52. Students ShowMes: Genetics:dominant vs. recessive traits If a brown eyed and a blue eyed parenthad a baby, what color eyes would the babyhave? http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=ibbycYS Mother and father birds and baby bird http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=RNKspgu Pea plant genetics http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=GC6q3nM 53. ShowMe affordances: Socialreading/writing/video synergy Unfolding doodling voice-overtalk Use of ShowMe for prewriting/revision Testing our/erasing doodles Collaborative focus on same images Video: Rhetorical sense of audience Use science disciplinary literacy Images, charts, figures as data evidence 54. Screencasting: Students or youcreate how-to tutorials for peers VoiceThread, ExplainEverything,Screenchomp, ShowMe,Educreastions Snapguide http://tinyurl.com/ctkslx8 Students: 55. Screencasting: feedback VoiceThread, ExplainEverything,Screenchomp, ShowMe,Educreastions Video response to writing: Jing http://tinyurl.com/3kkw4am Speeches/drama: FormativeFeedback for Learninghttp://formativefeedbackapp.blogspot.com 56. Peer feedback: Reading/writingconnections Video: Better Reviewers are BetterWriters http://tinyurl.com/c36bv96 ELI review: Web-based review 1. Select peer reviewers 2. Reviewers reader using criteria 3. Reviewers respond 4. Writer strategizes revisions 5. Teacher obtains student work/reviews 57. Backchannel comments:http://todaysmeet.comWisconsinReading What are some ways you do/coulduse these apps(VoiceThread/ShowMe) in yourclassroom? How might you conduct research onuse of these apps? 58. Discussing to learn: Google+Hangout: Up to 10 people 59. Discussing to learn: Teentexting: Pew Research 63% text daily versus 39% cell phones,35% face-to-face socializing, 29% social-networking messages, 22% IMing, and6% emailing. The median number of texts sent dailywas 60 in 2011. The heaviest texters(more than 100 texts a day) are also theheaviest talkers; 69% of heavy texterstalk daily on their cell phones versus 46%of medium texters (those exchanging 21-100 texts a day) 60. Texting/message apps iMessage (iPad or iPhone), Messages(Mac), AK Messenger!, textPlus FreeTexting + Group Text, TextieMessaging, Textfree, TextNow + Voice- Free Texting and Calling, iPushIt,,Text Me!, gText Classroom-based texting systems:Class Parrot, Kikutext, WeTxt,Remind101, Sendhub, Class Pager 61. Class Parrot: School texting 62. Toms Messengerhttp://tinyurl.com/7v7klxw 63. My message on TomsMessenger 64. Another message 65. Games/simulations/drama tolearn: Game/simulation/roleplayapps Tiny Tower, CityVille Hometown, MyTown 2, Trade Nation, Farm Story,Epic Citadel (medieval fantasy townwith a cathedral). Students creating characters andstories based on the Epic Citadelmedieval settinghttp://www.porchester.notts.sch.uk/citadel 66. Interactive fiction Zenonia series Terra-Eternal Chaos, Vanquish: TheOath of Brothers Rimelands series Fighting Fantasy series Gamebook Adventures series LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 Hunger Games: Girl on Fire Avatar 67. Critical literacy: Sexism in role-play game (RPGs) app: Saturday Morning RPG a high school student must makedecisions to cope with the threat of an evilvillain to attempt to save the world, agame that draws on Saturday morningcartoons Surviving High School a new female high school student copingwith getting to know students in her schoolor a male assuming the role as a memberof the high school football team 68. Apps for planning/organizinginstruction Nearpod http://tinyurl.com/6ts55kp http://new.nearpod.com videos, polls, sketching tools, or featuredpresentations GoClass http://tinyurl.com/chbmeke http://tinyurl.com/blgogqs SHOW (online resources), EXPLAIN (addnotes), ASK (questions for students) 69. Reflection to learn: Self-assessment forms Google Docs Forms iResponse 70. Open-ended feedback Essay Grader Easy Assessment Collaborize Classroom Pro student online discussion participation 71. Record keeping/grades The TeacherTool, Super Duper DataTracker, Teachers Assistant Pro:Track Student Behavior, EasyAssessment, TeacherPal,PowerTeacher Mobile, Gradekeeper,iHomework Students reading performance:Reading Log, Reading Record iPad recording changes in students readingscores over time. 72. e-Portfolio apps Three Ring Teachers Wire Use blogs, wikis, websites 73. ELA professionaldevelopment NCTEs Connected Community English Companion Ning National Writing Project Connect/DigitalIs Classroom 2.0 Curriki IRAs Engage ReadWriteThink School 2.0 Sophia #EngChat (Twitter feeds) 74. App uses/recommendations EdReadch channel (MobileReach,MacReach) Appy Hours 4 U The TechChef4u app The iPad Show The Daily App Show TWIT channel Tech Chick Tips