Ipads: Online Resources and Tips for Teaching with Ipads

Here are a couple of other useful references/tips I gathered during our Apple workshops:

Online Resources

You may not know how to get started and may not have the money to get the Apple experts to come to town.  No worries -- if you go into the itunes Store, in the iBooks section, you will find a bunch of useful reference guides created by Apple for free.  Look for the Apple Learning Series with such giudes as Pages fo iOS, Keynote for iOS, iPhoto for iOS.

Especially for Math and the natural sciences, check out the CK-12 iBooks that give a whole range of materials, examples, and ideas for those subject areas.

Tips for Teaching:

How do you get your students (all with their mobile devices) onto the same web page at the beginning of class?  Post on the classroom door a QR code, for example:

 so that students can scan this code on their mobile device with one of the free apps out there to do this.  That way, everyone is indeed on the same page.

Apps to do this would be, for example:
QR Reader for iphone or Scan - QR Code and Barcode Reader.

In order to create these codes yourself, check out a site like http://www.qrstuff.com/.


When you create an iBook, keep in mind that a tool like Google Sketchup allows you to create 3d files and images that can be embedded into your iBook -- together with your videos, text, image galleries, self-quizzes, and graphs.

If you want some more ideas about student learning, check out https://challengebasedlearning.org/pages/welcome for Challenge-based learning -- the key difference between it and problem-based learning is that PBL tends to stop with coming up with a solution, while CBL makes you test whether the solution actually works -- it challenges you.

Australia -- the people on the trip

lunch outside

Heather on the hill

Shannon and Emily petting the 'roo

Brittney Herring holding an owl at the Wildlife Preserve near the Blue Moutnains

Emily Grace

Heather with coala

Jo, Keith, Wiebke, Heather on the way to the Australia-South Africa soccer match

Ben and Ellen at lunch in Tasmania

Sheri Downer

enjoying the view in Tasmania

Heather and Heidi

Lee and Jo

enjoying fish and chips

at the Three Sisters

ready to go

Bonnie Sullivan is an assistant principal for the Elmore County Public School System. She has earned a bachelors in Early Childhood Education, masters in Elementary Education, Instructional  Leadership Certification, and Education Specialist in Elementary Education. She has experience in teaching second and fourth grade.