Adam Bellow will be making the Keynote Presentation for this year’s ISTE conference in San Antonio, Texas. Get to know Adam and his many talents with edtech in this week’s episode of The Bedley Bros.
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Adam’s Website, EduTecher
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With over 19,000 followers on Twitter, Erin Klein is a gifted communicator, passionate educator, and curator of excellent EdTech ideas. Watch as Tim and Scott have an EdChat with Erin about social media, PBL, and more!
Coming May 3: Alex Kajitani, Rappin’ Mathematician and 2009 California Teacher of the Year!
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In this 2-minute video, I show how I am currently using Google Drive with my 4th/5th grade class to enhance my writing instruction. My learning environment is BYOD with iPads. I set up an account through Google Apps for Education. I gave each student an account (and one for me.) The students work in groups with a shared document. They also share the document with me. This allows me to monitor each group’s progress right from my iPad. We use the Google Drive App on our iPads.
By Tim Bedley
PhotoString App well worth 99 cents.
If you’re like me, you love creating QR codes but find it very frustrating to keep track of them because all your QR codes look basically the same. One solution is to use the iPad app PhotoString. The app is designed for making photo montages with text, but I’m using it to label my QR codes. Of course, sometimes you want your QR codes to remain a mystery before they are scanned, but when you don’t, here’s how to label them.
Steps to Create and Label a QR Code
Now you can have several QR codes stored on your iPad or computer and actually be able to identify them.
Example of QR Code with caption created using PhotoString
By Tim Bedley
Students use iPads to peer critique.
I use Google forms to help guide my 4th and 5th graders through the writing peer critique process. I have created tailor-made forms for Response to Literature, Summaries and more.
My students bring their own iPads to school. The few that do not own one borrow a class iPad. Students sit in pairs around the room with their iPad and recent writing assignment in hand. Each student is given about 15 minutes to critique their partner’s paper. I set a timer for this.
When the form has been completed, students use their iPad thesaurus to help the author enrich vocabulary.
I train the students to do this independently. It takes several times running through things with a lot of modeling and reflection to get the students able to work independently and effectively at peer critique.
You can see my critique forms at my class website.
