Last year, we reported that Adam Nidey, 3rd grade teacher at Crestview Elementary was selected as the 2012 ITEC Educator of the Year. Even though its been a year since the award, I noticed that I failed to post the actual video of his award. Congrats again to Adam Nidey.
In a few more weeks, ITEC will be hosting the state’s education technology conference – and again West Des Moines will be well represented by a number of staff who are presenting on various topics. I’m compiling the list of presenters over the next few days and will get that posted soon.
Adam Nidey, 3rd grade teacher at Crestview Elementary. Twitter: @mrnidey Email: nideya@wdmcs.org
Adam Nidey, 3rd grade teacher at Crestview Elementary recently presented “Get BIG results from just a few iPads” at the Nebraska Education Tech Conference (NETA). The basic premise of the presentation is to address the challenge related to having only a few iPads, but yet a classroom full of students.
The three main discussion points from the presentation…
1) Rotations
The key to getting results from just a few iPads is to create a classroom structure where the teacher can meet with each student in a small group setting every day. This is accomplished through rotations, which were demonstrated through the following video…
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The presentation also included his classrooms most used iPad apps, including…
Top apps for practice during literacy rotations…
* Bluster
* Word Monkey
* JibJab Books
Top Apps for creating during literacy rotations…
* ScreenChomp
* Tools4Students
* ToonTastic
* iMovie
* Twitter
* KaBaam!
* UPad
2) Communications
Mr Nidey discussed different ways to use the iPad as a communications tool, including: specific examples of how to use a classroom twitter account to:
* allow students to share their writing with a larger audience
* allow the class to share information with parents (24 out of 26 parents follow their classroom twitter account)
* connect with other classrooms to share ideas and collaborate, including a recent blogging project where students reviewed writing from students in a classroom in Pennsylvania.
3) Assessments
He discussed many ways to use the iPad for collecting and recording student assessments, including:
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