Frog Dissection offers a scientifically accurate and greener alternative for teaching dissection in the classroom. It’s suitable for middle school students (and up) who are learning about organs and organ systems as part of their life science curriculum. This app offers 3D imaging, step-by-step instructions with voice over, and information about frogs’ organs, organ cycle, classification, lifecycle. This app is available on iPad for around $3.99. Find more information at http://frogvirtualdissection.com/.
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Recommended App: GeoBee Challenge
From National Geographic comes the GeoBee Challenge App! Available for iPhone®, iPod touch®, iPad®, Android™, and NOOK Color™ this app allows students to try their hand at answering geography questions from around the globe! Complete with beautiful maps, students will have a multiple choice round, a map challenge round, and a bonus round! Some of the very same questions that are asked during the National Geographic Bee contest are on this app! This app generally costs around $1.99. Find it at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee/apps/ or in your app store!
Recommended App: Splashtop Whiteboard
Splashtop Whiteboard allows teachers and students to turn their Android tablet or iPad into an interactive whiteboard. Once connected to their computer over Wi-Fi, they can watch Flash media with fully synchronized video and audio, control PC and Mac applications, then annotate lesson content from an Android tablet or iPad. Splashtop Whiteboard offers users of existing interactive whiteboards—such as Mimeo, Mobi, Promethean, Polyvision, or SMART Technologies—a way to extend their investment by accessing their tools from anywhere in the class (all four corners of the room!) without using wireless slates. This app costs anywhere from $2.99 to $9.99 and can be used with iPad iOS 4.0 & up and Android 3.1 & up.
Free Website & App – Tracking the Change in Seasons
Have you heard complaints from your students about the change in the weather and the decrease in daylight hours? Use this conversation to your advantage on show off a few great resources that help users to track and understand the change in seasons… Check it out!
Journey North is a free Internet-based program that engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K–12 students in North American can track the coming of fall and spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes, gray whales, bald eagles, and other birds and mammals. They also observe the budding of plants, changing sunlight and other natural events. Find migration maps, pictures, standards-based lesson plans, activities and information to help students make local observations and fit them into a global context.
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Plus: Students can take Journey North outside with the new citizen science app for their mobile device. They can report their sightings from the field, and they can view maps, take pictures and leave comments. The free app is available for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. An Android version of the app will soon be available.
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TIES Conference Summary: A CMLE Scholarship
The following was submitted by a CMLE scholarship recipient.
Submitted by: Mark Krueger, North Junior High School (St. Cloud) Media Specialist
The TIES Conference 2012 was an excellent conference. There were many great sessions to take part in. It seemed like the focus was mostly on mobile devices and less on interactive whiteboards. In past years interactive whiteboards were a major focus and drive of education. Such devices that were discussed in many sessions were iPods and iPads. One main session that I went to was Tips and Tricks of Mac OS and iOS for iPads. There were many tools that were discussed, such as using Preview as an interactive tool. They also discussed mini tips on ease of use of both operating systems.
I also went to a session called How to Use iPods in ELL Classrooms. This was informative because it allowed me to see what other schools with large ELL populations are doing with mobile devices. Some schools are using iPods as tools for reading fluency by using specific apps that record student’s voices as they read, and then the student can play the recording to hear their own reading of the passage. Teachers use these recordings to modify their teaching and will have students read the passages again later to see their progress. Teachers also have used the iPods and the recording feature to make a slideshow with students narrating the text for the pictures to create a story. These were just a couple of the ways that iPods were used with the ELL students.
Overall, I thought TIES 2012 was worth the trip. It is always a good experience to meet with other professionals in the area of education and technology. It is also a great time to talk with vendors about individual school needs. For example, I talked with numerous vendors for multiple hours about what they have that could contribute to my school’s success. Such tools include projectors, document cameras, and iPad carts. I would recommend the TIES conference in the future for any teacher or media specialist interested in technology and education.