These are the class preparation sheets for my EDP 370: Applied Child Development Course. This course is taught as a 'hacked' course. Lectures are prerecorded for students to listen to at home, we complete activities in-class. The culminating project is the Children's Thinking Project (adapted from Penelope Oldfather & West, 1999). Thus, we integrated a series of interviews from American Public Media: Dick Gordon's The Story radio program into the pedagogy for students to develop their interviewing skills.
1. Learning with iPad
(mobile device)
Technology
EDP 370: Heather A. Davis & Dina DeVose (Co-instructors)
Bethany Smith
Nathan Stevens
College of Education Information Technology Specialists
2. Getting to Know Your iPad
• Moving around screens
• Moving Apps to different screens
• Moving between Apps
• Making a screen capture
• Getting to the settings
• Registering your device on the NCSU Wireless network
• Setting up an e-mail account
• Importing the EDP 370 Google Calendar
3. Registering your Device on the
NCSU Wireless Network
• Why?
• All need to be on the same network to make
some of the collaborative Apps work
• On the secure network, can send e-mail from
your iPad
• Won’t have to type in your Unity ID each time
• How?
• https://nomad.ncsu.edu/
4. Setting Up an E-mail Account
• Microsoft Exchange
• NCSU E-mail
• Allows both E-mail and Google Calendar
• Add Personal Accounts
5. Importing the EDP 370
Google Calendar
• Why?
• The MOODLE calendar is ‘unwieldy’ for instructors to
modify if there are any changes to the syllabus.
• Google Calendar allows us to ‘share’ the responsibility for
keeping the calendar updated.
• You can set up alerts so that you are reminded about
upcoming assignments.
• Email
• Pop-up reminders
• How?
• Go to Gmail in Safari and sign into your NCSU G-mail account
• Go to our MOODLE site (in Safari) -> Touch Shared Calendar Link
• Bottom right corner (+ Add this Calendar)
6. Syncing Gmail Calendars
• Microsoft Exchange allows you to sync multiple calendars
onto your mobile device. But you must ‘tell’ it to sync
the calendars.
• Go into your Gmail account
• Top tool bar select the ‘More’ link
• Scroll down to ‘Even More’
• Select the ‘Sync’ link
• Select all the Calendars you would like to sync on your
iPad. Be sure to select our shared calendar.
7. Classroom Apps: Completing
Readings
• Accessing MOODLE
• Via Safari
• Via mTouch+ (YUCK! – but we recommend you try it)
• Downloading Readings
• Via MOODLE
• Via Dropbox
• Taking Notes (options): Pre-installed Note Taking
• Google Docs
• iBook
• .pdf Notes
• Noterize (audio comments)
• Replay Notes (audio comments)
• Evernote (sharing()
8. Classroom Apps: Reciprocal
Teaching
• Reciprocal Teaching: “The purpose of reciprocal teaching is to
facilitate a group effort between teacher and students as well
as among students in the task of bringing meaning to the
text.”
• Students share responsibility for summarizing, generating
questions, clarifying, and applying what they read. They
‘teach’ each other.
• Quick Office / Google Docs
• Word (to create electronic handouts)
• Excel (to create tables / charts that organize information)
• PowerPoint (to create slides)
• Power Presenter to Project
9. Intro to Google FORMS
• "The mission of our partnership is, first and foremost, to create a
transformative experience for the children in Step-UP Children's program
and the future teachers and leaders in NC State's Applied Child
Development (EDP 370) course. Students and faculty in EDP 370 strive to
serve as mentors creating opportunities for children at Step-UP to
systematically reflect on their experiences at school and their
understanding of their emerging identities as students. Children at Step-
UP, by candidly sharing their experiences contribute to developing more
compassionate and effective teachers and community leaders.
The mission of our partnership is also to produce new knowledge that can
be used to demonstrate the impact of the Children's program and to train
future educators and community leaders. As students in EDP 370 develop
their skills as careful observers of child thinking and behavior, they will
collect data that can be used by the Step-UP and by future students in the
class. Moreover, as they learn to evaluate curriculum for its developmental
appropriateness, they create a database of curricular materials that can be
used by co-partners."
10. Intro to Google FORMS
• Why?
• FORMS allows teachers / researchers to create surveys or
observation tools that can be accessed when there is no
wireless internet available.
• Important when access points are restricted, limited, or
non-existent.
• How?
• Practice:
• https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFRyN25YdW
dfY0RpYVh4YjJuMTF1WXc6MQ
• Enable Off-Line Mode & Uploading Responses
• Tutorial:
• http://teachwithyouripad.wikispaces.com/Accessing+Google+Docs+
with+Forms+App
11. Google FORMS
• Pre-Unit Assessments
• Activities for Students (Scavenger Hunt)
• Surveys
• Collect Data & Analyze It
• Observations
• ‘Security’ of your NCSU Account
Editor's Notes
“Swiping” with your finger.“Hold” until app wiggles
Add an account -> Microsoft Exchangehadavis2@ncsu.edu@gmail.comEmail address, user name, and password (leave domain blank)Add a description of you’d like “NCSU Gmail)NextServer: m.google.com
Encourage them to try all three different note taking software. Advantages / DisadvantagesWhich ones are free?
Note that they can project in quick office – but they cannot ‘write’ on the slides so there is an advantage to using Powerpresenter for projecting
It is the second part of our class mission – the mission to produce new knowledge that sends out into the field to collect data that serves our partners.
Be sure to remind them that they must download their surveys and “enable offline mode” when they have wireless access other wise they will not be able to access the survey at their field site.