This document summarizes an presentation given at Lumen Christi Catholic School on using iPads in the classroom to improve student learning through creating and publishing content. It provides examples from different grade levels of using apps like Evernote, Show Me, Explain Everything, AudioBoo, Pinnacle Studio, Book Creator, and Toft's Kid Blog to create eBooks, tutorials, assessments, news broadcasts, blogs and more. The goal is to shift students from content consumers to content creators and have them think critically and collaborate using technology.

1. Lumen Christi Catholic
School

2. iPads in the
Classroom:
“Creating and
Publishing” to
Improve Student
Learning
“Creating and
Publishing” to
Improve Student

3. Collaborate and
Share
Kelly Fyfe (fyfek@lumenchristiparish.org)
Laurie Yingling (lmy@lumenchristiparish.org)
Michele Neuville (neuvillem@lumenchristiparish.org
Kathy Callahan (kmc@lumenchristiparish.org)
Stacy Lesmeister (lesmeisters@lumenchristiparish.org
)
Julie McCarragher (jsm@lumenchristiparish.org)

4. Outline for our
Presentation
Overview
General Philosophy
Lumen Christi iPad Story
Project Examples
K5, 3rd Grade, Middle School
Math and Reading
Resources

5. premise:

6. premise:
“We shouldn’t limit
our students’
opportunities with
technology to what
we know how to do
as adults.”
- Scott Mcleod
Scott Mcleod

7. Computers Allowed Us
To... Process
•Word
• vs print or type
•Create Presentations
• vs show and tell
•Search the Internet
• vs use encyclopedias
•Graph Electronically
• vs markers
article: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/ipads-transform-classroom-ben-johnson

8. iPads: A THINKING Tool
• Always ON / Mobile / Easy
• Student-Centered learning
• students move from consumers of
content to creators
• Our focus is not limited to the ‘BEST’
Content Area Apps:
• Higher-Order Thinking (HOTS v
LOTS)

9. iPads: A THINKING Tool
• Problem Solving
• Authentic Assessments (HOTS)
• Collaboration (Google Apps)
• Students do not work in isolation or
just from 8am - 3pm
• Access to ALL 21st c resources
• Individualized Learning Plans

10. iPads force a
Create and PUBLISH
mindset
mindset
Create VS Consume
Publish VS Print

11. Kelly Fyfe -
Principal
Funding
K3 - 3rd Grade initiative to begin
Started with teachers - key for schools
Move Away From the Textbook
Teach with the Standard in Mind
Transformation of how we ‘do’ school
Assessment - move away from traditional assessments
thinking 4Cs
this isn’t a discussion about technology but how we ‘do’
school
Staff Evaluations

12. premise:
Teachers have the
GREATEST
impact on Student
Learning
...NOT technology
...NOT technology
...NOT technology WORKS
RESEARCH: ROBERT MARZANO - CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION THAT

13. “Nothing in
education puts a
bigger ceiling on
learning than limiting
kids to what is in the
textbook...

14. ...We live in an age of
iPads, Google and
Skype. To the learner
that wants to know
more, do more, and
explore more, the
opportunities are there...

15. ...We just have to
think outside of the
book.”
Dangerously Irrelevant Blog (
http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2012/08/think-outside-the-book.html
) Krissy Venosdale via http://venspired.com/?p=3225

16. Michele Neuville
Kindergarten
Kindergarten
EVERNOTE
FREE

17. Evernote
What is Evernote:
note-taking mobile application
(mobile means that I can access it using ANY device (iPad / computer
/ phone...)
text, images and audio
organizational app
documentation

18. How Do We Use
Evernote:
TEACHERS:
Note-taking
Organizational App
Portfolio Creation
Running Records
Communication with Parents

19. How Do We Use
Evernote:
STUDENTS:
Note-taking
Organizational App
Portfolio Creation
Assessment Option
Communication and Share with Teachers

20. Evernote Example
1. Student Portfolio / Journal

21. 2. Reading Fluency / Running Records

22. Checklist:
3. Student Skill Checklist

23. Kathy Callahan
3rd Grade
3rd Grade
SHOW ME
FREE

24. Show Me
What is Show Me:
demonstration or ‘How To’ app
digital story-telling application
records drawings, images, text
Projects are published to a ‘Show Me
Channel’

25. SHOW ME CHANNEL

26. How Do We Use Show
Me:
TEACHERS:
Demonstration for Students
Record a ‘How To’ (instructions) for
students to view at a center, for
homework, for students who miss a class
Formative or Summative Assessment

27. How Do We Use Show
Me:
STUDENTS:
Book Report
Steps in a Science Experiment
All about ‘X”
Collaborative Project
Authentic Assessment
Storytelling
Library of ‘How-To’s’

28. Show Me Example
1. Authentic Assessment - Collaborative Learning and
Critical Thinking:
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29. Show Me Example
2. ‘Tell Me in Five’ Example
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30. Show Me Example
3. Center Instruction
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31. Stacy Lesmeister
Middle School Math
Middle School Math
EXPLAIN EVERYTHING
$2.99

32. EXPLAIN EVERYTHING
What is Explain Everything?:
Record screen with live audio narration
Import images, drawings, PDF’s, video, PPT’s and
KeyNote
Digital story-telling application
Publish / Upload to YouTube, Dropbox, Evernote,
Email

33. How Do We Use EE:
TEACHERS:
Demonstration for Students
Formative and Summative Authentic Assessment
Tool
Highlights THINKING and Problem Solving

34. How Do We Use EE:
TEACHERS:
Fosters High-Order Thinking - Students make
decisions with regards to designing, planning,
creating, organizing and analyzing
Eventually leads to a ‘Flipped-Classroom’
Repetition to reinforce instruction and learning
Forces individualized student learning plans

35. How Do We Use EE:
STUDENTS:
Content Creation
Authentic Assessments
Portfolio Creation
Storytelling
Book Reports
Creative Writing

36. Explain Everything
Example
Example
1. ‘Math Cast’ library
Mathcasts - Students created screencasts using the
Explain Everything app.
We created a math video library of concepts learned in
6th grade math.
Example: Metric Conversions

37. Metric
Conversions:
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38. Explain Everything
Example
Example
2. Teacher Class Notes Review Example:
• Create tutorials / how-to clips
• Two-step equations lesson review

39. Solving Two-Step
Equations
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40. Julie McCarragher
7th & 8th Reading / LA
7th & 8th Reading / LA
AUDIO BOO - FREE

41. AUDIO BOO
What is Audio Boo?:
Voice recording app or ‘Audio Cast’ app
Mobile
Computer or iPad
Three Minutes
Publish / Upload to YouTube, Dropbox, Evernote,
Email

42. How Do We Use Audio
Boo:
TEACHERS:
Demonstration for Students
Record a ‘How To’ for students to view at a
center, for homework, for students who miss a
class
Formative and Summative Authentic Assessment
Tool
Flipped Classroom
Advances a student-centered classroom
Brings the ‘Power’ of the Voice to the Classroom
Highlights THINKING and Problem Solving

43. How Do We Use
Audio Boo:
Audio Boo:
STUDENTS:
Radio Program
Student or Class Interview
Story Telling
Book Report
Fiction or Non-Fiction Writing
Highlights THINKING and Problem
Solving

44. Audio Boo
Example
Example
This I Believe Project
• This I Believe is a project from NPR
• “A Public Dialogue About Belief - One Essay at
a Time”

45. “This I Believe’
Project This I Believe
TaraK McLain:

46. Lumen Christi: This I
Believe
Julia: This I Believe

47. Laurie Yingling
Technology Integrator
Technology Integrator
PINNACLE STUDIO
$7.99

48. LCTV Daily
Newscast
Daily news show written, directed and produced
by students
News, Announcements, Prayer, Pledge, Sports
and Weather
Feature Interviews
Classroom Highlights

49. LCTV News
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50. eBooks
BOOK CREATOR
$4.99
MY STORY
$1.99

51. Interactive Writing /
Blogging TOFT’S KID BLOG
MR

52. Online School
Newspaper
SCHOOL NEWSPAPERSONOINE PALYVOICE.COM

53. Resources for this
presentation
Convention site
Arch site
Bloom’s
Mapping Media
Facebook and Twitter