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 * __ Integrating iPads into the Classroom ~ EDT604 __ **

Instructor: Jennifer Wagner-Myers 7/19/2010 - 8/16/2010



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PBS article “How Will the iPad Change Education?" This blog excerpt was written by Rob Reynolds on the topic of 21st Century Learning: Mr. Reynolds discusses how using the iPad tablets can align with the goals and purpose of technology in education. He lists six attributes that the iPad fulfills in the need for technology in education….. they are about productivity, convergence, mobility, availability and community. PBS TeacherLine. (2010, January 27). How will the iPad change education? [Blog]. Retrieved from []
 * Assignment #1 ~ Websites and Articles **

T.H.E. Journal article "Measuring the iPad's Potential for Education" Ms. McCrea documented the responses of a student, a teacher and the principal analyst for MobileTrax on the day that Steven Jobs introduced the world to the iPad. The high school student said her excitement of the apps and touch screen countered her disappointment that it didn’t have a camera. The fourth grade teacher thought the iPads access to the internet would be an improvement from the notebooks they currently used that didn’t have access, but thought the price of the iPad would be very prohibitive. The analyst for Mobile Trax was enthused about the hardware itself but also for its potential for new publishing and development platforms. All where excited for the potential that the iPad held for education, internet access, portable, paperless textbooks, and the apps. McCrea, B. (2010). Measuring The iPad’s Potential for Education. T.H.E. Journal. Retrieved from []

= = Edstrom Educational Consulting article [|“iPad in the Classroom”] <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The author of this article is not sold on the effectivness of the iPad in the classroom. A number of the concerns where raised. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1. Size ~ iPad bigger then the Nook or Kindle. Not a hand-held sized device. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2. iPhone ~ the author say that the iPad is also an iPhone which is incorrect information so that concern of a phone that size would be irrelevant. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">3. Keyboard isn’t that great, you could get used to it, but….. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">4. Lastly they thought the cost would be extremely restrictive for school wide student use. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Their over all reaction was that a laptop is better at this point in all round “functionality” <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">They did feel that the iPad was a good stage-setter that gives us a glimpse into what the technology landscape of the educational might look like. The also could believe that no one from Apple thought the name iPad could lead to “playground name calling” <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Zemanta. (2010, January 27). iPad In The Classroom. Retrieved August 13, 2010, from Edstrom Educational Consulting: http://ededco.com/technology/ipad-in-the-clasroom

<span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Edutechnophobia article from the blog [|“iPad as an Educational Tool”] <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The author of this blog article lists and summarizes seven of the their favorite free educational apps for high school and college age students and teachers. They are…. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1. Sundry Notes (formally called School Notes Pro) ~ Best free note taking app <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2. PCalc Lite ~ Best free calculator <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">3. Quick Graph ~ Makes 2D and 3D graphs for mathematical expressions. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">4. Periodic Table of the Elements ~ A music for any high school or college chemistry students. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5. Dragon Dictation ~ Records what you say and converts it to typed words. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">6. Presentation Finder ~ Great tool for timed classroom presentations or stopwatch. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">7. iBooks ~ Best eBook reader available for the iPad right now. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">McGarrah, T. (2010, April 21). iPad as an Educational Tool. Retrieved August 12, 2010, from Edutechnophobia: http://edutechnophobia.com/2010/04/ipad-as-an-education-tool/

<span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Stratepedia Blog article [|“5 Ways the iPad and Education Could Go Together”] <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">This article was written day after the iPad was introduced. The author was speculating hypothetically on how the iPad might be put to use in education. They list 5 ways and a brief description of each. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">1. Electronic Textbooks <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">2. New mobile computing labs <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">3. Virtual field trip guides <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">4. Mobile data collection <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">5. New ways to create content <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Summer, A. (2010, January 29). 5 Ways the iPad and Education Could Go Together. Retrieved August 13, 2010, from Stratepidia Blog: http://blog.stratepedia.org/2010/01/29/5-ways-the-ipad-and-education-could-go-together/

<span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">The New York Times article [|“E-Book Sellers Face a Battle to Win iPad Customers”] <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Mr. Bilton looks at the options of purchasing books for the iPad. The iPad does not automatically come with the iBookstore ~ it requires you to download the app. You are also able to down apps from Barnes and Noble and Amazon among others (Stanza and Eucalyptus which are available for the iPhone). Current ebook vendors are trying to keep their current customers by offering apps for the iPad. An example is Amazon Kindle costumers will be able to download the Kindle app on their iPad and have access to al their Kindle purchases. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Bilton, N. (2010, March 24). E-Book Sellers Face a Battle to Win iPad Customers. Retrieved August 13, 2010, from New Youk Times: Business Day Technology: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/e-book-sellers-face-a-battle-to-win-ipad-customers/

<span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Blog; article: [|Practical Facts About the iPad in the Classroom] <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">In this blog article Mr. Martin explores four pluses for the iPad in the classroom. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">1. Battery Life ~ Big seller ~ With his kids, wife and himself off and on it throughout the entire day from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. it has never gone under 35%. He feels you could get two school days use before having to recharge. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">2. The interface is child-simple ~ his 4½ yr. daughter within minutes was going between Uno and Peggle, she created pictures and saved them to iPhoto. His 21 month old figured out how to hit the home button and swipe the unlock slider. School age students can certain use this. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">3. The iPad is fast ~ “Apple’s done a great job of keeping the OS streamlined and optimized for its custom processor.” Kids will spend their time using the iPad rather then waiting for the apps to load. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">4. Syncing an iPad is easy, but…. until I imagine syncing 40 of them for classroom use. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Martin, D. (2010, April 24). Parctical Facts About the iPad in the Classroom. Retrieved August 14, 2010, from iPad Music Education Project: http://ipmep.org/2010/04/24/practical-facts-about-the-ipad-in-the-classroom/

<span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This app is practice/drill for note identification of Treble Clef and Bass Clef on the staff. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">I have already used the app several times this summer with my piano students for practice at the end of a lesson. <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Again practice/drill for note identification of Treble Clef and Bass Clef on the staff but also in relation to the placement of the note on a keyboard. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">This app I would use when I’m working with keyboards ~ either with a piano student or giving students in the classroom individual practice/drill time. <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This app features 5 classical music pieces. It plays the piece, gives you background on the piece and the composer. A listening quiz is offered with multiple choice answers for who the composer is. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">This app would be used with older students while studying a specific composer unit. <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Young children will enjoy this app. They are given a choice of 8 songs, they can dress the animal instrumentalists in costumes and decorate the stage for the concert. Now you’re ready to play, touch what animals/instruments you want to play. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Learning sounds of instruments and creating a sound around a single melody. <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Music/sound and art combine in this app to create designs and shapes that have your recorded music/sound. You are then able to play back the music by tracing the image that was created. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">I would use this app to create a lesson on vocal pitch direction. The students could draw lines going up for ascending pitch and vise versa. It would also allow the student to sing while creating a visual for that sound. <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This app allows the user to sing along with an S.A.T.B. quartet on several pop songs. The display shows four singers lowest to highest and you are able to touch out or in any of the four singers. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">With this app a student is able to listen to and learn a part by ear. They can test their abilities by removing that part and singing it themselves. <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This is a non-instrumental format to create music. The notes you play by touch on the Mandala create ripple like effects that is your unique creation. You can change the modality from western major scale to 33 other scales from around the world. You are also able to determine the tempo, meter, pitch, harmonies, dynamics and rhythm. You are also able to record, save and send your “compositions”. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This is a fun and soothing app for young student with no working musical knowledge to create their own music reflecting mode and personality. The more seasoned musician will find it fun experimenting with the different scales, timbre, harmonies and beats. <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Music and Science come together. Compose your own melodies by “dropping” apples from the tree. The apple hitting the plank creates the music, the altitude determines the pitch, different apples represent different instruments and you can adjust the gravity and frequency to create different sounds for your creation. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">I‘m not sure if I can handle this app in the classroom ~ my son is sitting next to me know driving me crazy with his creation! <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This app creates a “practice pad” of a real djembe ~ different zones create different produce different sounds, there is also a built in metronome. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">This would be an excellent, fun tool for the students to practice rhythm patterns on from flash cards rather then the traditional clapping. The metronome would will also help the students practice keeping and staying with a steady beat. <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Play the top keyboard and you can play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (or any other song you’d like) sounding like pitched farting and the bottom sounding like burping. Combine the two and you have an incredible creation sounding like you had broccoli, beans and burritos for lunch. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Educational? Well? During summer camp it was sure motivation for respectful behavior with the possibility of playing Burt and Fart Piano during break. What 4th grade boy wouldn’t make good choices to play on this app?
 * <span style="color: #00cc00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Assignment #2 Applications **
 * <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Educational Applications **
 * <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1. DoReMemory (free) **
 * <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2. My Little Notes (free) **
 * <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">3. Classical Lite (free) **
 * <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">4. Geni Kids Orchestra (.99) **
 * <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5. SinginFingers (free) **
 * <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">6. Sing Harmonies (2.99) **
 * <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">7. Mandala Music HD (1.99) **
 * <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">8. Newton’s Melodies (.99) **
 * <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">9. DjembePad (.99) **
 * <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">10.Burp and Fart Piano (Free) **

<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I am an avid NPR listener. I often hear of interesting shows but because of schedule I’m not able to listen to them live. This app allows me listen at a later time to shows, music and news. It also provides written background on Arts and Life stories. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This app allows me to access movie theaters, movies playing, times, reviews and trailers. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">It also locates area restaurants and nightlife attractions. Be great for traveling ~ just put in your area code or if in WiFi you can just have the app locate where you are. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This app allows me to personalize my “radio” listening, favorite artists, styles and songs. Pandora then gives me continuous music similar to my initial selection. Another feature I really like is that they give a written “about” the artist and their music. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Relaxation ~ Soft, soothing, relaxing music with beautiful pictures and images. This app is a great way to let the thoughts and activities of the day drift away at the end of the day. The app has a timed setting if you want to fall asleep to the music ~ it also has a setting to wake you in the morning. Great for concert time! <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Make relaxing music on this app with Tibetan singing bowls. Bells, gong, finger cymbals and the insides of the bowls sound like a chime. Tibetan singing bowls are said to have healing qualities when played, I’m not sure if that goes for virtual bowls or if the actual vibrations produced when the bowls are present and played carries that “power”. Either way they are beautiful to hear and play. = =
 * <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Personal Applications **
 * <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1. NPR ~ National Public Radio (free) **
 * <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2. Flixster (free) **
 * <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">3. Pandora Internet Radio (free) **
 * <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">4.Music Healing HD (4.99) **
 * <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5. Bowls HD-Authentic Tibetan Singing Bowls (3.99) **

<span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This app is practice/drill for note identification of Treble Clef and Bass Clef on the staff. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">I have already used the app several times this summer with my piano students for practice at the end of a lesson.
 * <span style="color: #00cc00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Assignment #3 Present an Application **
 * <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">DoReMemory **

<span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">~ There Was An Old Woman Who Swallowed A Fly <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Taback, S. (1997). There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly (Audiobook ed.). Peguin Group.
 * <span style="color: #00cc00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Assignment #4 Audiobooks/E-Books **
 * <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Educational Audiobook **

<span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">~ Little Women <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Alcott, L. M. Little Women. (Audiobook, ed.). Boston, MA: Robert's Brothers.
 * <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Personal Audiobook **

<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">For these podcast I would look for the episodes that use song and music. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Sesame Street has had song incredible musicians on as guests and it is a good setting for younger students to the musicians. <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">http://podcasts.sesamestreet.org/SesameStreetPodcast
 * <span style="color: #00cc00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Assignment #5 Vidcast **
 * <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Sesame Street Podcasts **

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<span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">At this point and time in our current educational climate I don’t see the iPad making an impact in the classroom. Cost will be prohibitive not only for the iPads, but also the other peripherals like personal and devices to sync and charge them. I love the idea have having the iPads in the classroom for each child, what an incredible step forward that would be! <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-top: 0.1pt;">I will be using the iPad for many on the go projects. It’s so easy to put it in your bag and have it available in the Dr. office, resturaunts, soccer field or just the living room. I will need to look into how to better access a writing program for word processing. <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-top: 0.1pt;"> Professional life? <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-top: 0.1pt;">At this I will be using the iPad in my classroom for small group projects or projecting to a screen for whole class viewing and interaction. <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Animoto on the iPad, Tap, Tap Revenge , Alica in Wonderland, Make Dice, Magic Piano, Tap to Talk <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Additional apps to explore. I will really need to spend more time looking into vidcasts and e-books that I can use in the music classroom. I saw several interesting ones in class but nothing pertaining to music. <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In class today I shared what I could find in regards to the iPad in the music classroom ~ <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Article:** [|Practical Facts About the iPad in the Classroom] by Dave Martin he has the blog <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">iPad Music Education Project. He talks about different apps you can purchase for music composition. <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Application:** DoReMemory ~ A note identification app for note identification on the treble and bass clef staff. <span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Video:** I created and shared a 30 minute Animoto video with pictures from Tank School’s summer camp from last week.
 * <span style="color: #00cc00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Assignment #7 Journal Reflection -Ticket out the Door **
 * <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-top: 0in;">What impact do you expect to see as a result of using this technology in the classroom?
 * <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">How do you plan to continue to use your iPad in your personal life?
 * <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-top: 0in;">What have you learned from others' sharing that you would like to try or explore more of?
 * <span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-top: 0in;">Describe the presentation you gave today and the application you shared / demonstrated.