This document discusses apps that teachers can use to integrate technology into their classrooms in order to promote student creation, thinking, and fluency. It provides descriptions and examples of how to use apps such as Air Server, Skitch, Plickers, iMovie, and Padlet to model instruction, assess student understanding, and allow students to demonstrate their thinking. The document emphasizes using apps to focus on student creation and making thinking visible rather than just consumption.

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4. Focus on Creation Apps, NOT Consumption Apps

5. Making Thinking
Visible
Teacher Modeling AND
Student Modeling
Integrate Apps that allow
you and your students to
Make their Thinking Visible

8. Air Server
• Project web and App
content
• Model instruction
• Share student work

9. Stage Pro
• Document camera and
interactive whiteboard
• Create flipped lessons
• Saved to Camera file
for easy uploading to
multiple sites

10. Skitch
• Easily Annotate Anything!
• Taps into your Camera on the iPad
to snap photos for quick annotation
• Teacher can model annotation or
select students to annotate

11. QR Code Scanner
• Scan large QR Codes
for whole class
scavenger hunts
• Model integration
before stations

12. Plickers
• Great Formative Assessment
• Easily Scan Student Responses
• Analyze Data
• Modified Plickers for K-2

13. Thinglink
• Create interactive images for lessons

14. Name one App
that you can
integrate easily.

16. Additional Fluency Ideas

17. • One Touch Recording up
to 5 minutes
• Pause and Resume Feature
• Email Recordings
• Simple Interface
• Powerful for students to
hear themselves
Quick Voice

18. • Built in
• Easy to Use
• Record Video of Students
practicing words, phrases
or passages
• Powerful Playback
• Integrate to other Apps
Camera App

19. • Record Video
Conversations for Fluency
or Comprehension
• Create Videos of Leveled
Readers or Picture Books
• Great way to Make
Thinking Visible!
• Powerful Editing Tools
iMovie

20. • Snap a photo of
anything and record
your voice for 30
seconds
• Practice fluency
phrases or passages
• Great for students
that need additional
reinforcement with
sight words or phrases
ChatterPix
Many Examples of ChatterPix in the Classroom

21. • Select a scene
• Practice fluency
phrases or passages
• Great for students
that need additional
reinforcement with
sight words or phrases
TeleStory

22. • Create a Gami that
looks like a character
or themselves
• Practice fluency
phrases or passages
Tellagami

23. Name one App
that you can
integrate easily.

26. Read to Self Word Work
Writing about Reading
Great
apps for
Math
Stations
as well!

27. Read to Self
EPIC!
Hundreds of
FREE digital
eBooks
Raz-Kids
Login and
Read/Record
Scan QR Codes to
eBooks or Books
read aloud
Record
reading a
passage
Wonderopolis:
Engaging
informational
text articles
Newsomatic:
Current Event
articles for
kids

28. • Respond to text in the
form of a collage
• Practice spelling
words, sight words,
phrases
Pic Collage Kids

29. • Creative
Storytelling Skills
• Describe Project
or Experience
• Making Thinking
Visible with Text
Shadow Puppet EDU
http://puppetfeed.com/in-the-classroom

30. • Teacher or students can create interactive iBooks
Book Creator

31. • Mind Mapping Tool
• Students can map thinking using all types of text
Popplet Lite
App and Web 2.0 Tool

32. • Easily create your own
apps!
• Teach something
• Tell a story
• Access gallery for
apps created by
teachers
Tiny Tap

33. • A Virtual Wall that
allows students to
express their
thoughts on a
common topic easily.
• It works like an
online sheet of paper
where students can
put any content
(images, video, text)
on the wall to
collaborate.
• Have students add to
the Padlet discussion
about a text/math
problem.
Padlet
App and Web 2.0 Tool

34. Name one App
that you can
integrate easily.

36. Running Record Calculator
With the push of a button,
you will be able to see
students’:
• Reading Rate
• Percentage of Accuracy
• Self-correction ratio

37. • Interactive Learning Journal
SeeSaw

38. • Powerful Observation Notes
Bright Loop

39. • START with an area you
LOVE…feel the most
comfortable integrating
• PICK a few apps to START,
add more as you get more
comfortable.
• TEACH basics of app whole
group, then add to stations
or small group
• Students Making Thinking
Visible

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