Students learn while they play, intently focused on the task at hand.

The iPods have been going home since the beginning of march. I am happy to report that NOT ONE iPod has been lost or damaged!! Our system is working!! Teachers have created a calendar with students names . The calendar is sent home so parents know which day they get to take the iPod home. Two iPods from each classroom go home Monday through Thursday. Parents come to pick up the iPod that night and bring it back the next morning. Our ADA has been very helpful in making in keeping track of all everything. A success!!

Parent Meeting-iPods go home

Can I take one home? Since we began using iPods at our campus students have expressed an interest in being able to take one home. Since our students are only 4 years old we decided that if an iPod was to go home, it would have to be picked up an dropped of by the parent. On February 17th Panda Path held both a morning and evening a meeting for parents to learn find out how to get the opportunity to take an iPod home for the evening. Over 45 parents came to our meeting. They all signed a contract agreeding to be responsible for the iPod. A short presentation was made to the parents about how to care for the iPod. Beginning on March 1st the iPods will begin going home. We know the students will be thrilled to have a chance to work with them at home.

Although there are thousands of apps on itunes, there are not many apps that are both appropriate and follow our curriculum. I have sent many hours looking for apps that students can use. It was well worth the effort when I see the students and the ipods. The apps are organized on the ipods by content area or because they are similiar. There is a page for letter recognition, songs, math, puzzles, misc etc. This helps teachers guide students to a page during the different instructional periods. They are a hit!!

video comment on digital storytelling training

This is my first attempt at using imovie. Ms Donalson filmed her pumpkin lesson using the flip video camer. We decided to try and down load it to the ipods. Since it was 24 minutes long I wanted to see how difficult it would be to edit it on imovie. Can't say it was complicated, but I will admit that it took me four hours one night to get a final product. The final product included adding music and titles. I was excited about how it turned out and couldn't wait to take it to school do down load it to the ipods. This would be the first video students would watch on the ipod. They took it like fish to water! Ms. Donalson has promised to film them watching the video and post it.
Posting the video on the blog was not as easy as the other videos I posted since it was larger that 100MG and it wouldn't load. I went to the Apple store and had a tutoring session. We tried saving it as "tiny" but that was to fuzzy so we tried "mobile". That is what you see below. Next step is to have the teachers try using imovie and of course my ultimate goal is to have the kids use imovie.