Wow! This is exactly what I have been looking for. Our school, Redwood Christian Middle/High School is in the first year of our iPad integration with all juniors, seniors and faculty getting them in August 2012.
We decided upon a couple school wide apps that we would supply to all teachers and students and would train the teachets on in PD sessions last August. One was Noteability. This was seen as a place students could take nots on classroom lectures, do assignments, etc.
Now... I found Nearpod and I think that we should implement this schoolwide next year. It allows a teacher to import their presentation (powerpoint, etc) into nearpod and add assessments, polls, etc. and share it across all the iPads in the classroom. The teacher can have it on their iPad and show it on the projector, but also have students login with the class pin number and the presentation shows up on their iPad live. Then for the assessments, they can choose answers to the short quizzes or polls and the results show up on the teacher's iPad so they can see how the class is doing and if they understood the last material presented... this can allow the teacher to go back over a section if the class is now showing they, on the whole, are getting it. You can also present a blank white screen and have the students write their input on the screen and the results show up on your portal.
Very cool platform and they just released a School Version. I am inquiring on the discounted cost of this new version, but I think that this should become my next goal for the school technology wise.
We decided upon a couple school wide apps that we would supply to all teachers and students and would train the teachets on in PD sessions last August. One was Noteability. This was seen as a place students could take nots on classroom lectures, do assignments, etc.
Now... I found Nearpod and I think that we should implement this schoolwide next year. It allows a teacher to import their presentation (powerpoint, etc) into nearpod and add assessments, polls, etc. and share it across all the iPads in the classroom. The teacher can have it on their iPad and show it on the projector, but also have students login with the class pin number and the presentation shows up on their iPad live. Then for the assessments, they can choose answers to the short quizzes or polls and the results show up on the teacher's iPad so they can see how the class is doing and if they understood the last material presented... this can allow the teacher to go back over a section if the class is now showing they, on the whole, are getting it. You can also present a blank white screen and have the students write their input on the screen and the results show up on your portal.
Very cool platform and they just released a School Version. I am inquiring on the discounted cost of this new version, but I think that this should become my next goal for the school technology wise.
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