This document discusses using iPads to promote collaboration and literacy in libraries, classrooms, and computer labs. It provides examples of how a literacy coach, first grade teacher, and library media specialist collaborated using iPads for a student research project on nocturnal animals. Students used apps like PebbleGo, Pic Collage, and Chatterpix to research animals and create presentations. The document also lists standards for collaboration and technology integration and recommends apps to support literacy like Epic!, Rocket Speller, TJs Art Studio, and BrianPOP Jr.

1. Wonder Centers: Research,
Collaborating and Creating in the
Library, Classroom and Computer Lab
with iPads
Dare To Innovate
MASSCue October 2015
Kim Keith

2. Goals
1. Add to your personal repertoire of
strategies for collaboration in your
building.
2. Deepen your understanding of what
literacy, collaboration, research and
technology might look like for your
personal and professional
experiences.

3. Standards
CC.1.R.I.10 Range of Reading and Level of Text
Complexity: With prompting and support, read
informational texts appropriately complex for grade
1.
AASL 1.1.6 Read, view, and listen for information
presented in any format (e.g., textual, visual, media,
digital) in order to make inferences and gather
meaning.
ISTE 1a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new
ideas, products, or process.

4. What is collaboration?
“Collaborative teaching is a service delivery
structure in which teachers with different
knowledge, skills, and talents have joint
responsibility for designing, delivering,
monitoring, and evaluating instruction for a
diverse group of learners in general
education classrooms”
DeBoer & Fisher, 1995.

5. Successful Collaborations
Establish a rapport-the first step is to establish
relationships.
Identify teaching skills and use them to create
cohesive lessons.
Discuss strengths and weaknesses.
Formulate a plan of action and act as a team.
Take risks and grow.

6. “By using these strengths, you can
differentiate your instruction to
meet the needs of a larger group
more frequently within the
classroom as well as allowing for
individualized instruction.”
Natalie Marston, elementary special educator, Charles
County, Maryland

7. Practical ways to incorporate technology
into our literacy instruction
ISTE Standards
 Collaborate to produce original works or
solve problems.
 Locate Information and communicate
ideas.
 Apply existing knowledge to generate
new ideas, products, or processes.
 Interact, collaborate, and publish with
peers.
 Contribute to project teams to produce
original works or solve problems.

9. Literacy Coach, First Grade Teacher
and Library Media Specialist
Wonder center-inquiry based research on nocturnal animals.
First grade class took books from the library to put in the wonder
center and decide what animal they would research.

10. The class came
into the computer
lab and used the
database
PebbleGo to
gather
information.
The next class period they came
into the library and used non-fiction
books to gather more facts and to
illustrate their animal.

11. App Smashing
Pic Collage
Chatterpix
Perfect Video

12. Nocturnal Animal
Collage

13. DY Educational Foundation
Grant
Perfect Pairs-Pairing Fiction and Non-Fiction books.

14. How Animals Can
Change an
Environment

16. Final Product
Wrote a letter to an animal telling them about
how either the gopher tortoise or the mole
changed their environment.

17. Collaboration with
the Art Teacher
Big Books

18. Fish
Sketched with pencil, colored with
water color crayons, applied clear
water with a brush over the crayons
and the crayons turn to paint.

25. Our favorite apps
Pocket Zoo
Two students share an iPad and go
to the Pocket Zoo app. Choose Live
Cams and choose an animal to
observe. Fill out the animal
observation sheet.
Epic! Books
For kids
i-nigma QR
Code generator

26. Rocket Speller An alien theme
that the kids are
very engaged
with.
TJs Art Studio
BrianPOP jr.

30. Symbaloo

31. keithk@dy-regional.k12.ma.us
@capecodlibrary
www.slideshare.net/kimfkeith