Adventures of a first year Earth Science teacher. BA in Geosciences. Working on my MS Secondary Education. Changing careers from government environmental agencies to teaching. Four semesters of Earth Science experience, plus daily substituting.
The views and opinions are my own. I am not a representative of anyone else.
Anybody taking part in EdmodoCon next week?
If you have no idea what I’m talking about…check it out here!
Reblogging so I remember to look into this later. I’m planning to use edmodo for the first time this year!
2) Create desktop backgrounds to show numeration
The cases cover the backs - where we originally had numerated stickers showing which iPad was which. Now we have gone with an idea originated by iPad colleague Carolyn Skibba at Burley Elementary - change the backgrounds and lock screens of each iPad to its number. In cases where the iPads are truly 1:1 - that is a single student is using a single iPad all day, every day - many teachers choose to take a picture of the student holding a number and use it as the background. However, I teach a differentiated classroom so although during each period there is a 1:1 student to iPad ratio, three sets of students cycle through the devices each day. Therefore, I used generic numbers as the wallpaper. To do this, I typed the numbers in a Pages document on my MacBook and took a screenshot of the number. I then uploaded all of the numbers to my Google Site and was then easily able to download the picture and set it as the wallpaper/lockscreen from each iPad.
Some iPad Management Tips, Part 2!
Great advice in here—definitely worth a look!
THIS IS BRILLIANT.
I may need to mention this to our BRT.
This idea could easily be adapted to laptops as well!
