1/29 Bristol day! iPad Training.

Spent the day at Bristol Elementary.  I was there to:

• See science or social studies lessons in action
• Help when/where you need it (not necessarily Sci/SS)
• Answer any technology questions you may have/want
• Help you log on to the NEW Curriculum server
• Have curriculum conversations about Science or Social Studies
• Share MAP data
• Talk about the Next Generation Science Standards
• Build stronger relationships.
• Be supportive and collaborative!

See which rooms I stopped in here: https://docs.google.com/a/wgcloud.org/document/d/1uGl49-26yR172YDYT1xRYzt56WVk9fKrZR8YeSGMuEc/edit

I saw 4th grade working on Circuits:

I then started to update my iPad for our after school session.  After downloading software, I ran into trouble...

I was unable to update due to ports being blocked on the WG network.  I figured this out using apple's support communities: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4467602?start=0&tstart=0

This made me miss James' Kindergarten class due to having to run to Bread Company to use their Wifi to update and restore software.  I went back there later...

After updating went back to Bristol.

Saw 5th grade REVIEW game:

Helped students in 4th grade hook up circuits.

 Played in Kindergarten to make a secret decoder necklace (Awesome!):

Met with Gifted ed Teacher to discuss Scratch and found some great resources:

• App for making collages: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pic-collage/id448639966?mt=8
• Programming collaboration: http://www.hitrecord.org/
• Learn Programming: http://hackety.com/
• More Programming: http://www.codecademy.com/#!/exercises/0
• Make a game: http://gamestarmechanic.com/
• Learn to code: http://thecodeplayer.com/
• Like Scratch: http://www.alice.org/
• Make an App: http://gamesalad.com/

I also shared my blog post on how I used scratch and other cool things in my 20% time in my classroom:  http://coachinandout.blogspot.com/2012/05/take-day-off-20-time.html

I met with a Kindergarten teacher about changing her password on her apple ID.  Used this resource: http://support.apple.com/kb/HE36  Then learned how to change the apple id on the ipad here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2693812?start=120&tstart=0


After school facilitated an iPad workshop on iBooks:

• Demo Book: Life on Earth
• tour interface
• browse bookstore
• search for books
• find a book
• highlight
• text size
• read to you
• notes, share
• www.gutenberg.org
• tuebl.ca
• Free books app
• Pictures

After work went home to attend NSTA Web Seminar: Using the NGSS Practices in the Elementary Grades, January 29, 2013

January 29, 2013, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Eastern time