Session+2

Session 2
December 15, 2010 Starter (10 minutes)
 * Become familiar with a Productivity app**
 * 1) **If you don't already have the app installed, download it from iTunes App store**
 * 2) Think, Pair, Share then Be prepared to present it to the group using the doc camera:
 * 3) What is its purpose? Usefulness?
 * 4) How can it be used in any classroom or curriculum area?
 * 5) How does it work?
 * 6) What are the pros and cons of using it?
 * 7) More Apps;
 * 8) Choose an app in another area other than your curriculum focus and become an expert; select from Reference Apps, Productivity, Video, News, colleges, photography or an app you personally use and is not on the ipods for students
 * 9) Rotate through the group sharing your app

What apps are currently loaded on the iPods?


Ideas for Project Based Learning using mobile devices
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 * Kearns High 1:1 iSchool initiative**
 * wikispace page with resources
 * List of student apps

> Students can be quickly polled during a lecture with true/false or multiple choice questions. The student can respond using the LanSchool Student app. Students can silently send questions or request help. A small question mark appears on the teacher's console when a Student sends a question. The LanSchool logo on the Student display turns from gray to bright green when the Student detects and joins a LanSchool classroom. This is automated although the network channel can be set manually. Student Thumbnails Appear on Teacher Console While the student is running LanSchool Student, the iPhone or iPod touch display will appear on the LanSchool Teacher Console.
 * More Teacher Tool Apps**
 * 1) Clicker apps; eClicker Host ($9.99)
 * 2) [|ASSIST]
 * 3) Utilities; [|Lanschool >]
 * 4) REQUIRES TEACHER DESKTOP to have Lanschool installed.
 * 5) student version is installed on sets of ipods already
 * 1) Atomic Browser lite (free download)
 * 2) [|Firefox home] syncing desktop browser to mobile device
 * 3) New apps to try;
 * 4) [|Mindblowing]
 * 5) [|Animoto]
 * 6) [|splice] ($1.99)
 * 7) [|Pulse news mini]
 * 8) [|SonicPIcs ($2.99)]
 * 9) [|Comic Touch Lite]
 * 10) [|Flipbook]
 * 11) [|Story Corps]


 * Afternoon Session:**

Podcasts
 * 1) **What is a Podcast?** A podcast is basically an audio file (most commonly in mp3 format) that is distributed over the Internet via a technology called RSS (Real Simple Syndication). A podcast is much like an audio magazine subscription. You subscribe once and newly published content is delivered to you without any additional effort on your part. Podcast audio files are available online in a way that allows software like iTunes to automatically detect new files and download them. Podcasts are a new web resource to support life long learning. The WHAT, WHEN, and WHERE under your control!
 * 2) Example: [|Lit2Go] from Florida State University; also go to the [|webpage]
 * 3) [|Massachusetts Institute of Technology]
 * 4) **Locating Education Podcasts:** iTunes Store
 * [|Browse education specific podcasts]
 * [|Education specific video podcasts],
 * [|Education Specific audio podcasts]
 * 1) [|Grammar Girl Podcasts]
 * 2) [|iTunes Staff picks]


 * Or search by keyword**
 * 1) Open iTunes.
 * 2) Look at the left hand side of iTunes. Click on the iTunes store link. (Be sure you do not have your library selected.)
 * 3) Find the search box in the upper right hand corner of iTunes. Enter keywords in the search box. The more general a topic the better.
 * 4) The search box will return music, videos, books, podcasts and much more.

Browse iTunes U
More than 800 universities have active iTunes U sites. About half of these institutions — including Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford, and UC Berkeley — distribute their content publicly on the iTunes Store. In the Beyond Campus section of iTunes U, students and faculty can access a wealth of content from distinguished entities such as MoMA, the New York Public Library, Public Radio International, and PBS stations.


 * 1) [|learn more about iTunes U]
 * 2) [|Find Utah Electronic High School]
 * 3) Find a course that may relate to your curriculum area and explore it
 * 4) Power search iTunes U using the Quick Search box to the right
 * 5) Optional: Use a Podcast Directory (not in iTunes). Information about Podcast Directories can be found at: http://itunes.wikispaces.com/Podcast+Directories
 * 6) Optional: Browse Secondary Topics found at "The Secondary iTunes Podcast Wiki Page". (Scroll to the bottom of the webpage.) http://itunes.wikispaces.com/great+podcasts

Google Tour: Google Lit Trips
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Visit [|Google Lit Trips Website] for completed Google Tours.


 * Google Tours training page by IT department /LMITS**