Plenty of great discussion at our recent group session on 29 August.
We covered a lot of ground in this session:- talking about the potential of using tablets in the classroom
- different ways to store passwords
- what to do with the teacher resource wiki
- the network drive for students is UP
- an idea of using google+ communities to connect different groups of students
Tablets
- How to choose (android vs iPad vs microsoft). Criteria could include, for example:
- battery life, apps, fitzroy readers (available on iOs only).
- What could we do with them?
- read (web, articles, stories), write (documents), listen (mp3), speak (eg skype),
- make things like video, presentations, documents,
- take photos, record audio, share documents,
- Will they suit our learners?
- What about this idea of getting 1 or 2 rather than a full class set? The idea is to explore possibilities, and then make a business case for getting the full set.
Related resources: someone in Queensland created this collection of mobile apps for language and literacy learning: "Love Apptually".
