What Can 2nd Graders Do On An Ipad? Lori Kruse 2nd Grade Teacher Discovery Elementary

Apps Used: Book Creator Explain Everything iMovie Keynote Sway Book-style format with turning pages App to create instructional videos Create and edit movies PowerPoint for the iPad PowerPoint like App in Outlook

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Book Creator - Famous Americans Small Group Project – October Objective: Research, collaborate, and share learning Learn to use Book Creator app Research: collaborated with librarian to use books and PebbleGo Materials: Planning Sheet – planned text Storyboard - planned pictures Illustrations - drew pictures and photographed with iPad camera Text - wrote, typed and narrated text Presentation: Students presented videos to parents at American Education Week

Famous Americans – Martin Luther King Jr

Successes and Challenges Book Creator – Creates a nice presentation, easy to create, easy to record narration - Difficulty sharing – only with GoogleDrive, no collaboration How could you use this app in your classroom?

Explain Everything - Daffodil Project Small group collaborative project - November Objective: Challenge high reading group to create a presentation about how to plant daffodils for mini-PBL project Learn to use Explain Everything app Research: Worked together to find and evaluate information and pictures Materials: Planning sheet – planned narration Storyboard – planned slides Illustrations – found pictures on internet (with supervision!) Text - wrote, typed and narrated text on iPad Presentation: Students taught class about daffodils and how to plant them.

Daffodil Project

Explain Everything - Book Trailers Partners - December Objective: Demonstrate comprehension - retell and give a book recommendation Learn to use Explain Everything app Research: Partners read books and wrote summaries Materials: Planning sheet – summary for narration Storyboard – to plan illustrations and written text Illustrations - created illustrations or took photos of pages in books with iPad camera Text – created brief text to accompany narrated summary Presentation: Videos shared with families on webpage

If You Give A Pig A Pancake Book Trailer – If You Give A Pig A Pancake

Successes and Challenges Explain Everything – easy to use, can record while creating page or add voice over, can draw pictures on tablet or add photos - Picture tools are simplistic, created and viewed on iPad or Mac, no collaboration How could you use this app in your classroom?

IMovie – 2nd Grader Authors Partners - December Objective: Read with fluency Learn to use iPad camera to record each other Materials: Stories written during Writing Workshop and recorded during end of the unit celebration Partners recorded each other reading stories Presentation: Videos shared with families on webpage

Authors As Mentors The Monster Story

iMovie – Visual Poetry Project Individual - February Objective: Demonstrate comprehension of a poem through visualization Edit iMovie Materials: Students illustrated a poem and practiced reading fluently Storyboard – planned illustrations Partners recorded each other reading poems with expression Students edited movie and imbedded video into iMovie over top of illustrations Presentation: Videos shared with families on webpage

Rohan’s Visual Poetry Reading

Successes and Challenges iMovie – exciting to use, can add photos, lots of editing possibilities Takes time to develop filming and editing skills Challenges recording - have to be close to get reasonable sound quality How could you use this app in your classroom?

Keynote – Body System Presentations Small groups - April Objective: Research and teach class about a body system Use Keynote to create a presentation Research: Students used books and on-line library resources – GoPebble, MacInVia and InfoBits Access to materials shared through Google Classroom Materials: Planning sheet with storyboard – text and illustrations Illustrations – found pictures & animated clipart on internet Videos – Students video-taped examples of healthy exercise Presentation: Students taught classmates and shared presentations with parents at PBL Exhibition Day

Muscular System Video

Successes and Challenges Keynote – very easy to find and insert pictures, templates available to create presentations - Created and viewed on iPad or Mac, no collaboration How could you use this app in your classroom?

SWAY – Life Cycle Illustrations and comparison Small groups - May Objective: Demonstrate understanding of life cycle of butterfly & deer Use SWAY (or Keynote)to create a presentation Materials: Planning sheet with storyboard – text and illustrations Illustrations – found pictures & videos on internet Presentation: Students presented projects to classmates

Life Cycle of Deer & Butterfly

Successes and Challenges Sway – entirely on line, created and viewed in browser, easy to use, can work on at home, easy collaboration - more than one student can work on it at a time - Compared to PowerPoint features are somewhat limited, Can’t download – have to share with link How could you use this app in your classroom?

Things we found useful: Explicit directions! Story boards for planning Texts written out ahead of time

Things we found useful: Taking pictures of student drawings led to higher quality images Practicing voice recordings & recording close up produced better sound quality Sharing with parents on webpage and Discovery Creates

Exit Ticket Please tell me something you learned that you could use in your classroom. Please share something you liked about the presentation. Please share something you would have liked to see.

Questions! Thank you for coming. My email: lori.kruse@lcps.org