FaceTime in the classroom
November 19, 2011 in learning, Resources in the classroom, tools
Imagine the scene – a group of students in your class are researching a problem that they have devised and to help them with their learning, you have on your iPhone a group of contacts they could call using FaceTime. Face to face learning with experts in their field, with their peers in another class someplace else in the world, with another educator that could enlighten them further. It is the one app on my iPhone that I do not utilise as much as I could and this idea, using Facetime for collaborative learning, is one which I want to explore over the next few months. My aim is to collect together a group of educators, experts in various subject areas, that would not only be interested in this but mainly participate in FaceTime conversations with students.
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Assessing Pupils Progress (APP) is a great way to keep track of learning in your classroom but if you have ever tried lugging around a full class set of APP grids for reading, writing and maths to keep track then you know it’s a bit cumbersome. There’s also the need of evidence to support your assessments. Some people write this into the children’s books, others photocopy pages of work and cross reference that with the APP grid. I wanted something different, something that would allow me to use my iPhone in class. I had been taking photos of children’s work then attaching those to emails which I would then send to a specially created assessment email I set up in our school Google Apps domain. It works fine but it requires taking the photo, then opening the email then attaching it. Not much I hear you say but then what if an app can do it all in the same instant?
