iPod+Touch

iPod Touch in the 3 – 8 classroom Craig Lawson Lucas Gillespie

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Ideas:
 * Students set up e-mail in iPod Touch. E-mail assignments
 * Download book
 * Dictionary
 * Find favorite Amendment to Constitution. Twitter (140 words or less) why it's their favorite Amendment
 * Buy iTunes card for purchasing Aps
 * One Application can be loaded on as many iPod Touches as possible

iPod Touch Applications
 * Interactive Periodic Table
 * Convert – convert currency, measurements
 * Art
 * News
 * Graphic Novels: Bones
 * Math Drills
 * GFlash – create flash cards
 * MadLib
 * NYTimes
 * Today in History
 * Pocket Constitution
 * WhiteBoard – create a whiteboard space – all students have it in their hand
 * Stanza – get books
 * Sketches – make quick graphic organizers (Word Charts)

Games on the iPod
 * Sims3 - literature: characterization and plot. Make bubble map. Create a character in a virtual environment - had to be the opposite of who you really are. Write an essay about your character. Pass iPod and play with student's character. Create a circle chart with the character traits
 * Strip Designer - Make student Comics: make panels for rising action and add dialogue. Can take screen shots of character in Sims3 and paste in Strip Designer.
 * Word Fu: Spell words (Bell Ringer) Has a "versus" mode where they can challenge other students.
 * Spore Origins: start as one cell organism. Studying diseases - create your own disease
 * Sandbox time: can do what they want
 * Civilization Revolution: Create society - Develop Culture, society grows, out for world domination. They have to journal about their experience.

Initially - students were way more excited than the teachers. Teacher Training: Moodle - iPod Touch class - highlight a new ap every week