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32 interesting ways to use an ipod touch in the classroom and tips ipod touch cake by ccyhan this work is licensed under a creative comms attribution noncommercial share alike 3.0 license.

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#1 maths apps add some math apps to the ipod touch and let students who finish early use the ipod touch to play mathletics and other math games if you have more than one available you could have students competing against each other for high scores some apps i use are basic math mathletics math quizzer popmath lite brain jo fothergill @kiwijoe90 room 10 rbs

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#2 fantastic contraption fantastic starter gets all the class involved you have to build a contraption to get from ab pupils all get involved trying to improve and adjust the contraption and make it work cost £2.99 but you only need 1 copy if you have a visualizer

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#3 voice memo collaborative story building get a pupil to record the first line of a story pass it to the next pupil to listen to and add to continue with each pupil adding a part until the story is complete.

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#4 collect data with google forms create a google form and email it to your ipod touch when you click the link it will take you to the form formatted for the touch with multiple choice scroll menus text boxes etc use the touch as a handheld data collection device that automatically populates a spreadsheet with your data.

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#5 conduct assessment with online polls using poll everywhere students can access polls online and vote for the correct answer poll everywhere is free for up to 30 users per poll additional users can be added at a fee using assessment apps like qwhiz responseware teachers pick iresponse that work like traditional clickers paul hieronymus @hairynomas

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#6 create custom flashcards using the free gflash app you can create sync custom card decks using your google account the gflash app is best suited to provide a skill and drill approach to memorizing vocabulary math facts and other learning content complete app review instructions more educational ipod app reviews at www.iear.org

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#7 create a collaborative context touch pets dogs free is a great app to use for creating a context pupils adopt a puppy and are responsible for its needs ranging from food exercise and training to building a career and socializing earn puppy bucks by caring for your puppy then buy treats careers and accessories progress through careers by successfully completing challenges can be used to develop skills in literacy maths and health and wellbeing food is refilled every 15mins for free jenny @relativism

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#8 typedrawing use an app called typedrawing to create a visual message in response to a current event share to folder and create a slideshow to post on class website this is a great way to display a reaction to an event or text dana zora stevens elementary http dzora.weebly.com by ophelia

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#9 create a mini listening centre use a belkin rock star to turn one ipod into a mini listening centre for 5 pupils download or make your own or student voice recordings of favourite stories/rhymes get other pupils teachers parents or principal to read as well create listening skills activities to develop auditory discrimination or meet student esl/special needs @louwinsr

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#11 magic wallet -app http web.me.com/jenashby/ipodtouch_project/blog/blog.html some say it s a party trick app i say it s great for coin recognition and for counting coins i have worked out some games when the i is showing you can get more info and select the type of currency you require how much is in my wallet 1 fill the wallet with coins and then take a screen shot use in comic touch and label coins 2 open the screen shot and record in a table how many of each coin 3 start with the largest value coin and count next add on the next in value etc until you have a total of the wallet 4 give your partner a turn and see if they can get more money in the wallet money grab 1 fill the wallet and then take turns to double tap and take a coin 2 fill in the chart as you go 3 at the end when no more coins come in the wallet you find out who got the most money this could be limited by just allowing 5 grabs each also it could be the person with the least amount wins for more ideas visit my blog jenny ashby @jjash on twitter

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#10 design a new book nook nbn begin to create blended learning spaces and experiences in your classroom create a small area where 3-5 children can engage in a variety of literacy experiences include traditional children s literature materials and digital media items to consider bookshelves books ebooks ipod touch ipad touchsmart computer consider the seating floor cushions small chairs rug table/chairs consider the viewing distance accessibility [children will need to touch consider safety

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#12 practice descriptions in a foreign language working with a partner create something that the other person needs to describe create an alien with martian app and describe the creature dress up a character with dressuplite or other clothing app and describe clothing customize the face with picbook and have students describe facial features and emotions draw with doodlebuddy or any other drawing app and describe what is happening using verbs and adjectives

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#13 bump children can work collaboratively on say a research task and pass images to each other with the free bump app images can be gathered from the web annotated with one of the many comic apps eg comic twist or strip designer and collected via bump on on touch the images could then be strung together with a slideshow app sonic pics adding audio @johnjohnston ipod touch posts ipod touch pilot blog

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#14 image search auto attribution http johnjohnston.info/flickrcctouch children can use images for lots of learning tasks using as stimulus for writing supporting research etc etc images can annotated with one of the many comic apps eg comic twist or strip designer or strung together with a slideshow app sonic pics adding audio the above ipod optimised a bit webpage will search photos on flickr than can be edited and stamp them with attribution @johnjohnston ipod touch posts ipod touch pilot blog

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