Using their iPads After School

Students often sit on the steps and use their iPads after school.

11:11 on 11-11-11 from the iPad

We had a little fun today in computer class and the girls made screen shots of the date and time.

Teachers and iPads

Two teachers using iPads in art and English.

Absent? No Problem! Facetime works just fine!

Two students at school and another students who is home sick using Facetime to participate in the class.


One of the issues that arises for students who are absent is how to get good science lab notes from other students who were actually in school and did the lab that day. A student who is absent due to mono was able to participate with her lab group by using FaceTime. One student in class set up her iPad so that the student at home could watch and listen to what was happening during the lab. How cool is that!?! She will be able to keep up with her class and not feel so far behind when she comes back to school.

There are several ways that the iPad can be used in the classroom. Teachers can use the iPad in place of a computer to deliver content using an LCD projector and white board or screen. It can also become a student work station as well as a collaboration device between the teacher and among the students.

Below are some of the apps that teachers have been using:




AirSketch Free (free) is an app allows teachers to connect to a laptop that is on the same network and then project what is written or drawn on the iPad onto a screen using an LCD projector. As long as the laptop is able to project through an LCD projector, what is drawn on the iPad can be seen.





Science 360 (free) from the National Science Foundation. These beautiful images and videos can be used as writing prompts in English and be visual aids in math and social studies.



Photos and videos can take up a lot of room on your iPad. Try one of these apps to move photos from your iPad to your computer or another iDevice. After they are moved, they can be saved to a jump drive or CD.


Bluetooth Photo Copy (free) is a photo share app that allows you to move photos from one iDevice to another one. Both devices must have the app installed and running for this to work properly.




Photo Transfer App ($2.99) is another app that allows you to move photos from the iPad to another device including a PC, a Mac, or another iPad or iPhone.

iOS 5

Getting iOS 5 installed on all student iPads has presented us with some issues. Some students just haven't done it, others try and it doesn't work for them for whatever reason. Some have lost notes on the pdf-notes for iPad app after they have updated their devices to iOS 5 because these types of third party apps don't always back up to the "cloud". I would strongly recommend that students use Pages and Keynote to take notes since these are Apple products and they automatically sync to the cloud. The notes can then be accessed by going to iCloud.com on any iPad, computer, iPod, or iPhone. One student lost hundreds of flashcards on an app but was able to recover the flashcards when she reinstalled the app but this wasn't the case for another student when she reinstalled pdf-notes.

Discussion about some of these issues will continue and we will work to resolve whatever issue arise. We have a computer set up in the MLR lab now so that students can install iOS 5 at school if their home computers will now work.

(Sent from my iPad)

Even the Ravens are using iPads

"According to an article in Sports Illustrated, two NFL teams -- the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Baltimore Ravens -- are issuing their players iPads instead of paper playbooks, with another 14 considering the move. It's estimated that the league consumes 7.6 million pages of paper annually (no wonder they can't line up correctly) at a cost of more than $100,000 per team."

Reposted from http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/8-piles-paper-replaced-ipads-175297

I guess Maryvale is a leader in the use of iPads in Maryland.