What I would suggest to do on a weekly basis with a 1:1 iPad deployment (Grades K-5):

Have students...

1. Log into Freckle every morning for about 2-5 minutes of math facts practice. A great time for this would be during morning work routines. (Grades 1-5) Kindergarten should do the same, but with the fact practice that is available for K students.

2.  Log into Freckle at least three times a week to work on math standards and at least three times a week to work on the ELA side, Word Study, Skills Practice, and ELA Library. (District Paid Program)

3. Blog and/or use Seesaw, Google Drive, or various apps like Book Creator as a writing notebook, eliminating paper completely for writers workshop and any other journal students may use. (Ex. Math notebook, Science journal, behavior journal, or daily journal)

4. Record reading for fluency using Storytown stories, fluency probes, and other passages at least three times a week. Apps to use: Seesaw, Book Creator, iTalk, Tellagami, Sock Puppets, or Explain Everything. Students should listen to themselves reading and set goals for how they can improve their reading skills by the following week’s recording. Students can keep track of their goals (Fluency Reflection) in a blog article, Book Creator, or Google Drive.

5. Create projects, as needed, using different creation Apps like, iMovie, Tellagami, Skitch, ChatterPix, Explain Everything, Book Creator, Popplet, Toontastic, ComicBook!, Comic Maker, Google Slides, Adobe Spark Video, Apple Clips and PuppetPals. Then have students post projects or the link to projects onto their blogs or upload to Seesaw. The more active the students are with their blogs or posting to Seesaw, the more parents will visit the blog or feel connected to their child’s learning through Seesaw. Then your blog or Seesaw can become your electronic newsletter. You can post videos of plays, other special events, photos, and articles about what is happening in the classroom.

6. Take tests, quizzes, and exit slips using Freckle or Synergy, rather than a paper and pencil test. These programs will grade all exams for you and collect data. Another option is to use Google Classroom or Edmodo for all quizzes and turning in assignments. With Edmodo students can receive immediate feedback on their quiz and you, as the teacher/coach, can have students doing different activities based on the student’s quiz/exit slip results. An easy way to Customize Learning.

7. Use the iPads to enrich learners and differentiate instruction, through different practice and productivity Apps.

8. Cut down on even more paper... have students email you their math message answers and other daily routine work that requires only a short response or post their answers on Seesaw or in a shared Google Doc. Students could use drawing Apps like Explain Everything, Skitch, Draw & Tell HD, Whiteboard or Seesaw Apps if the work requires drawings to solve or answer the problem. Students could save the picture and then email the photo to you, airdrop it, or upload it to their Google Drive and “share” with you.

10. Occasionally create and watch podcasts/videocasts that meet student learning needs, for example a music video teaching about a science concept or a book trailer summarizing a book. Good Apps to watch videos on = Vimeo, YouTube and BrainPopJr. Good Apps to create = iMovie, Educreations, and Splice 

11. Take a screen shot of any work on the iPad that can not be shared within the App and then have students email/airdrop the screen shot to you, upload it to Seesaw, turn it in via Edmodo, add it to their Evernote notes, or their Google Drive Docs.

Organization…

1. Have students use a selfie for their screen saver and home screen. (Useful for you and students to quickly identify an iPad.)

2. Have students be in charge of keeping their iPad charged. Good rule of thumb... if their iPad is below 50% at the end of the school day they should plug the iPad in to charge. Do not plug in iPads every night. Link to iPad battery tips from Apple - http://www.apple.com/batteries/maximizing-performance/ 

3. Have students run their own software updates and make sure automatic App updates is on. Students should run the software updates before they go to lunch/recess or at the end of the school day so that they can use the iPads during the school day.

4. Create a class SOP for iPads.

Nicole Gleason

(For more info.)

https://sites.google.com/site/sad6k5technology/ipods-in-the-classroom

http://mrsgleason.blogspot.com/

http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=221080

Created

October 8th, 2012

Revised 

November 8th, 2012; December 14th, 2012; February 15th, 2013; August 7th 2015 : September 14th 2018