Guanjun Fang

Why iPad? Accessibility – Thousands of apps, many of which free Portability – light, anywhere, anytime. Individual screen and much bigger. Draw with your fingers, not the mouse or cursor! Enhance learning autonomy!

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Activity 2 Transcribe the Chinese words in Pinyin with tone marks as you hear them

ShowMe (pros) Easy to use Turns an iPad into an interactive whiteboard. Share your lesson or presentation. Students can review the presentations any time any where. Keep recording, and drawing. Draw with your fingers! Voice-over any time. Three ways to add photos: from your album, take photo or search images on the web with your iPad. Can have multiple layers of photos with options of “Rotate”, “Move to front”, “Send to back”. Very good for visual learners. No limitation and absolutely no charge!

Use in language learning? Good self-review tool for students. Good for speaking homework. Wonderful tool for first semester students Teach grammar. (e.g. preposition, comparison) Character writing. (Keep writing) Pronunciation and tones. (Keep practicing) Good for practicing OPI tasks: Giving Instructions of How-to’s. Describing a person, a place or a structure. Showing direction.

Activity 1: Underline the Pinyin you hear. 1. l ǎ o---- li ǎ o 2. dōu----duō 3. lèi ---- liè 4. gāi ----jiā 5. guāi----guī 6. gōu---- jiū 7. diē ---- tiě 8. chōu----cuō 9. shuí --- suí 10. zāi ----jiā

Activity 3 Fill in the blank with the initials you hear. 1. __u __i __u __u __i 2. __i __e __a __i __e 3. __e __a __u __u __e 4. __i __ai __a __ao __ai

ShowMe (Cons) Limited use for higher level. Cannot edit the content once it is posted.

NearPod (pros) Interactive (draw, survey, poll, open-ended questions and answer, multiple choices quizzes, ) Teacher sees the results in real time Can share individual answers and overall results with the class Teachers can get reports after quizzes, Teachers can see all the drawings, and share student’s drawings with other students in the class Give reasonably rich feedback to students Teachers can make sure that students are not using their iPad to play around for entertainment. Individual screen. Can share links and use video.

Nearpod (Cons) Better for delivery of content and check student understanding Can not control if students want to drop from the presentation. Student cannot view the presentation at their own pace except for self-paced quizzes. Not all content tools are free.

Socrative

Socrative (Pros) Allows you to engage students with exercises and games (and check understanding) Can create multiple choice questions or a short answer questions Can select “student paced” or “teacher paced” or “space race” for students to compete in the quizzes. Students only need to download the app and have the teacher “My room number” to join in.

Socrative (Cons) No images, no video.

FeaturesShowMeSocrativeNearPod FreeYES YES & No Image YES (Choose Photo, Take Photo, Search Images on Web) NOYES RecordingYESNO DrawYES (7 colors)NOYES Student AccountYES Individual ScreenYES QuizNO YES (Multiple Choice, True/False/, and Short Answer) (Student-Paced, Teacher- paced, or Space Race -- Run a quiz as game) YES (Q & A, and Multiple Choice) Survey/PollNOYES VideoNO YES Report ResultsNOYESYES (Real time) Interactive NO YES ShareYES VideoVOICE OVERNOYES

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