Teaching with Technology

Welcome!!

Tina Coffey — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:04:21 +0000

Welcome to the Teaching with Technology blog. If you are looking for something specific, use the categories button to the right to narrow down the topic. You can also use the search button. Or feel free to peruse the archives. If you see something interesting or have any questions, please let me know! :)

Signing Out of iTunes Store on SPED iPads

Tina Coffey — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:03:48 +0000

For Roanoke County SPED Teachers Only!

Here is a quick How-To on signing out of the iTunes Store. The steps are simple:

Go to Settings>iTunes and App Stores

Click where it says Apple ID: xxxxxxx@gmail.com

Choose Sign Out.

Remember that SPED iTunes Accounts are not to be used to purchase apps…only to update the existing ones on your iPad. Your iPad should never be logged into SPED accounts in the area above.

Sock Puppet Music

Tina Coffey — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:02:47 +0000

Socks in Mrs. Howell’s class have been singing! Not student’s real socks, thank goodness, but virtual socks on the iPad app Sock Puppets! Take a look:

Sock Puppet Music from Tina Coffey on Vimeo.

First Grade Needs and Wants

Tina Coffey — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:27:04 +0000

Students in Mrs. Atkin’s and Mrs. Glowenski’s classes created Needs and Wants Posters using Pic Collage on the iPads. They used the camera feature to take pictures of items around their classroom. Many students found creative ways to represent concepts, especially wants. I love that most any age can use Pic Collage. It is definitely one of my favorite apps. Check out a few examples of the First Graders’ work below:

Who’s New at the GeoZoo?

Tina Coffey — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:55:40 +0000

Students in Mrs. Sharp’s 5th Grade class created creatures using their geometry skills to populate “The Geo-zoo.” Mrs. Sharp had done the activity years before using paper and shapes, but wanted to engage her students by using the iPads. We quickly were able to transfer the activity to a digital one.

Last Year’s Paper Version

Digital Version

Thanks to the iPad apps Geoboard, Pic Collage, and Dropbox, students were able to complete a project based activity (that normally was done as a homework project) within one class period. By the end of class time, Mrs. Sharp had a great understanding of her students’ strengths with Math SOL 5.13 (The student, using plane figures (square, rectangle, triangle, parallelogram, rhombus, and trapezoid), will develop definitions of these plane figures; and investigate and describe the results of combining and subdividing plane figures.)

Check out the process below:

The best part was that the students were completely engaged and absolutely loved their creations! Many even posted them on their blogs :

Rock Star Laser Robot by Double O Cleo

The Triangle Vampire from by Minecraft02

Tari the Tri-con by I Love Lax

The Tri-Liger by Iron Claw

Here are few examples of their awesome work:

If you are interested in doing a similar activity with your class, here is our STEM (Children’s Engineering) design brief and a couple versions of rubrics.

Design Brief

Rubric 1

Rubric 2

Let me know how it goes! And…if you are at one of my schools, I’d love to come in to help! Ask me! :)