TUESDAY 23rd MAY Technology toolkit: LearningApps
Your Interactive Learning Technology Mentors today… Nichola O’Hagan Stefanie Campbell (@stefedu123)
Intended Learning Outcomes Each person will be able to create a minimum of one LearningApps activity Each person will be able to share a LearningApps activity with a colleague
What is LearningApps.org? LearningApps.org is a Web 2.0 application, to support learning and teaching processes with small interactive modules. Those modules can be used directly in learning materials, but also for self studying. The aim is to collect reusable building blocks and make them available to everyone.
LearningApps Let’s try to identify these pieces of art… How did these superheroes get their powers?? Right hand IMAGE is hyperlinked to: https://play.LearningApp.it/#/k/0312179d-6286-45a9-a693-27c14a472ab0
Learning apps - advantages Free and easy to use Multiple applications Assessment and feedback Fosters social learning Reinforces learning https://pixabay.com/en/photos/?image_type=&cat=&min_width=&min_height=&q=numbers&order= NUMBERS ARE CC0
Meeting our Intended Learning Outcomes. Following our step-by-step procedure, you will now create your own LearningApps activity. Stef and Nickie will be assisting you with this as we go along Each person will be able to create a minimum of one LearningApps activity Each person will be able to share a LearningApps activity with a colleague
Step-by-step to create your own Learning App activity. Go to website https://learningapps.org/ and sign up for a free account Decide to either browse current apps or create a new one from a template
There are multiple types of activity you can create There are multiple types of activity you can create. We are going to walk you through creating a ‘matching pairs’ activity
Add your title and description of the activity for your students.
You can add images, video, audio or text here – and create pairs which match up. Create at least three pairs on your app…
Once you have all your content, you can preview your learning app to check for any errors… …and share your app with your students and colleagues by copying and pasting the link
Have we met our ILOs? Each person will be able to create a minimum of one LearningApps activity Each person will be able to share a LearningApps activity with a colleague
Instant feedback: write/draw on your sticky note… How do you feel after this session?
Socrative – Exit ticket Socrative.com – click on student Enter room number Teacher question: How confidant do you feel in creating and sharing LearningApp quizzes?
Questions? Feel free to ask either of the Mentors, Nickie and Stef or Put your question on a sticky note