The other thing that kept me so busy this year was a special education innovation grant that I authored. It allowed us to purchase 63 iPads that I was in charge of. Our school district is still investigating the concept of 1:1, so this was a trial run. And "trial" it was at times. However what fun we had learning. The princess piloted 1:1 in her classroom for part of the day and the speech room went high tech this year. There are so many awesome blogs and ideas out there. Each Tuesday, I am going to share something we have learned.
Today's app is Perfect Captions.
This free little app is designed to add fun captions to your photos. It is super easy to use. Open the app and either take a picture or use a picture from your camera roll. Use your fingers to open a text box. Type in your caption and add an arrow. Super simple!
A first grader showed me this app. He was taking a book and looking for nouns. He snapped a picture ("See, I don't even have to open the book because the cover has nouns!" Such a cutie.). He made a text box and wrote out the nouns. He then selected send and emailed it to his teacher. Our teachers took it a step further and used it for literary responses.
This from a second grade classroom.
This is from Princess's third grade class. Don't you just love the spelling.
This is also from Princess's class. She had to have a little meeting about just what makes a good response. Technology does not mean immediate improvement in skills.
Then she got this...overachiever or just maybe if "I write more, I get to keep the iPad longer!"
I love the questions about words in this one. I hope to introduce this app to our speech centers next year.
If you would like more information and ideas for this app, here is the handout created for our teachers. If you have other ideas for ways to use this app, we would love to hear them!
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