Show Me App

 Show Me

Ipad Pods

I love this app and strongly recommend using it. I will attach some links to this post so you can explore what others have done. To me this is what all the LwICT is about and this is where real learning happens. 

This month our virtue is Thanksgiving so I demonstrated how to use the app and sent them off to show me something they were thankful for and to tell about it. Here's an example--one of the students went to the word wall and took a photo of the words that said-mom-dad-sister-brother etc. and then said he was thankful for his relatives and for all the fun things they do together. Another printed mom and dad on the board and took a picture etc. Another took a photo of their shoes and said they were thankful for clothes. When we did the feedback part at the end of the day we talked about what we liked and again the children thought it would be nice if there was more detail in the talking part. We'll see how that goes this week. 

Pros

• lots of enthusiasm from the children
• lots of learning--planning-gathering-producing and communicating
• exciting to see what they create and exciting to see success in so many
• easy for children to use 
• I love watching others help with ideas
• I was impressed with how independent they were

Hurdles

• some are less creative than others and like writing some are a little more reluctant--but I know it'll come even if it's a little slower at getting there for some than others
• I will explore how to share with others such as on our wiki but for me it was fine just to share with each other. Sometimes that's all that needs to be done. If I can share, I will on this post later.

links to other sites for show me

http://www.iear.org/iear/2011/6/24/showme-app-for-ipad-review-by-melinda-waffle.html

show me as a tutorial

http://www.showme.com/topic/language

the flipped classroom

http://www.showme.com/about_classroom

great ideas

http://www.mrswideen.com/2012/09/creating-videos-with-showme-app-on-ipads.html

Teach Me Grade 2

 Teach Me Grade 2-

Pod Feedback

This was probably our favorite app that we tried out in our pod of 4 ipads for the month of September.

Pros

• I loved that they could each have their own account and be able to track how they are doing
• It has lots of activities and lots of incentives to keep them excited
• They could work on independently without having to come to me for help while I am focusing on a reading group.

Hurdles

• I wasn't fond of the math section. They have lots of double digit adding and it was too advanced for some. There is no way they would go back to Teach Me Grade 1 either. The math section made it discouraging for the children who stuggle with math. The helpers in the room that were good at math made a difference but the app requires the student to do a fair bit of the math activities.
• I wish you could select the activity as it progresses but it randomly selects what you have to go through to get to the next level--or collect coins. So there is no way to get past the math activities. 

Feedback from the students
This is something new that I thought I would try. I am going to reserve this section for the students to give their feedback on how they felt about the apps we're trying out. We do this a lot for writing and reading activities in our room and I find it is so effective. 

Tues. Oct. 9
What we like about Teach Me Grade 2.

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What would make this app even better.
Do you want to keep this as a choice for our pod?