TLLP Pre- Survey for Teachers Participating

As part of our project we must conduct pre and post surveys to help gage learning. If you could so kindly fill this survey out for us, we would greatly appreciate it. The link was emailed to you, but you can also access using this link.

TLLP Pre- Survey

Thanks so much for all your help and for jumping on board with this.

Techie Tuesday- September 22nd

Recording our understanding of sorting

This was a great example of doing your "best" sorting and taking a pic of your final product.

Using our Apple TV during language

We all worked together today to find our letter App and practice tracing our upper case letters.  This was great to maintain interest and enthusiasm for tracing.

Ordering and Comparing Numbers

Today in math I set up stations around the classroom where students had to represent, order and compare both two and three digit numbers. It was nice to see them trying different things out and pushing their understanding of things. It proved to be a great opportunity for me to sit back and make some observations as students explored the different work stations, as well as an opportunity for me to offer feedback and remedial support to some of those students having difficulty with some of the concepts. I was able to use my google form I created to document notes and make observations in relation to our current learning goals. I was also able to take some photos of some of the work produced. Going to take some video tomorrow as they continue to explore. Awesome day!

Searching For Structures Using Google Images

This week the grade 2/3 class has been learning how to use google to find pictures of structures around the world. After two periods of searching the students air dropped all their pictures to my iPad, we printed them and are now using them to fill our our tables. Can't believe how fast they are catching on! Next step....using google to research information about a famous structure in the world.

Using Technology to enhance our practice!

Since we began our TLLP project, my partner Julie and I have been experimenting with using technology to enhance our practice.  We specifically want to see how we can use the technology to help the students in our room to explain their learning, reflect on their work and give self and peer feedback.

Yesterday we used our iPad and Apple TV to post some pictures of the student's learning throughout the day. The students were then given the opportunity to talk about their learning, make connections, ask questions and give feedback.

We were pleased with  the result and look forward to seeing where this technology will lead us!

Techie Tuesday- September 16th

Just a reminder of Techie Tuesday tomorrow for those interested. Liz's room 12:10-12:50. Bring laptop and iPad.

Files are Ready!

Friday marked our first 1/2 day PD for our TLLP team leads. Accomplished a lot of work! All our files for documentation are set up on our iPads and Airplay is a GO in FDK! Our electronic filing system is going to make reporting so much easier this year!

Techie Tuesday Summary

Thanks to those who came out for our first ever Techie Tuesday at St. Mary's. Hopefully you learned something new. Things we looked at today included:

• Disabling Restrictions
• Setting up a passcode to protect iPad
• Learning how to lock the rotation or sound
• Setting up email and linking it to the iPad
• Composing / Filing / Deleting emails
• How to take and view a photo / video
• Uploading a photo- Email, Air Drop, AirPlay with the Apple TV

The only thing we didn't get to was how to download free Apps. We will cover this next week. Use the handout in case you forget something, or just come visit me and I would be more than willing to help. 

Thank you Grant for your help and use of your room! AirPlay and Air Drop could prove quite interesting this year! If anyone took any good pics of people working while exploring the camera, feel free to Air Drop them to me so I can post them on our blog...or post them yourself!

Looking forward to more Techie Tuesdays! Thanks for being interested in learning!

Testing!

Techie Tuesday- Sept 9th 12:10pm

All staff are welcomed to come to our first Techie Tuesday tomorrow...bring your iPad. Take a look at what we will be doing.

First Air Drop = Success

Today in math class the grade 3s used air drop for the first time to share their work with me. I couldn't believe how fast they caught on. We are currently learning how to represent numbers to 1000. We started with a simple 2 digit number of 41. After exploring all the different ways we could represent a number, they had to choose 4-5 different ways to represent 41. They then had to take a picture of their work with one of the class iPads and airdrop their photos to me so I could file their work electronically. It went really well! Can't wait to talk about these tomorrow and have the students give some feedback to each other, before we dive into some bigger 3-digit numbers.

                              

    

Creating a Google Form

Thank you to all of those who stayed behind on Thursday to check out how to make a Google Form for the purpose of tracking observations of student learning in the classroom. I know it was really fast, so here is a video I made that you can follow along to help you set up your classes for the year. ~Liz~