Teaching with Tablets

Teaching with Tablets

• Details about the Teaching with Tablets MOC - what, when, why, how, who etc
• Apps used
• The experiences of our participants as well as our own
• What next for you

Benefits of attending

• Key trends
• Best apps
• New ideas for improving own teaching practice
• Connect with peers

Questions?

MOC Overview

• An interactive and participatory online course on how to make effective use of iPads and tablets for teaching and learning
• 7 week course, Mar–Apr 2016
• Free. Open to all, aimed at educators
• 570 enrolments worldwide
• Based on Teaching with Tablets book

MOC details

• 2 intro weeks followed by 5 topics
• Blackboard open education site - background reading and e-tivities
• Google plus community - sharing
• Twitter chats
• Certificates and digital badges

Manipulating Media

• Using tablets to combine media in new and exciting ways to create shareable digital content such as movies, posters, animated characters, green screen effects or talking photos
• 'App Smashing' with Greenscreen DoInk, Morfo, iMovie, PicCollage, Thinglink, Vintagio, fragment, VoiceThread ...

Visible Learning

• How tablets can help make student's learning more visible by capturing learning activities through film, photos, screencasts and spoken explanations. Plus creating contexts for talk, making it easier to review learning and providing assessment opportunities
• Keys apps: Padlet, PicCollage, Popplet, Kahoot!, Socrative, Tricider, Edmodo, Answer Garden ...

Technology Outdoors

• Using tablets as mobile devices and extending learning beyond traditional classroom spaces.
• Key apps: QR Codes, ThingLink, MadPad, GarageBand, Keezy, MusicMakerJam ...

Digital Storytelling

• How to use apps and tools in combination to create and present digital stories
• Keys apps: Book Creator, ThingLink, iMotion, Explain Everything ...

Talk and Collaboration

• How tablets and apps can promote talk and collaboration via screen casting and image-making
• Key apps: Explain Everything, ScreenChomp, Rollworld ...

Why is this topic important?

• Digitally savvy students
• Mobile learning
• Greater variety of educational apps
• Innovative pedagogy

Reflections from Participants

• An innovative MOOC that prepared them to use tablets and apps effectively in their teaching.
• An opportunity to create reusable materials

Reflections from the team

• How we worked - Google Hangouts, Slack, Blog, Twitter, Storify, recorded intros, Wordless
• Research

What’s next for you?

• Visit the G+ site
• Read the book
• Attend an App Cafe
• Participate in future mini-MOCs

What’s next for you?

• Visit the G+ site
• Read the book
• Attend an App Cafe
• Participate in future mini-MOCs

Questions?