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Mobile Apps in Performing Arts

11/30/2016

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Crossposted from Mercy I.T. Blog

 
This is the first in a series of blog "snapshots" of how Mercy students benefit from using iPad technology (and other tools) throughout the school day.

I had the opportunity recently to witness one of our performing arts teachers managing a perfect lesson with a class of interested and fully engaged students. Her scheme was to have students use earbuds while watching oral interpretive speeches. They “split-screen” their iPads and took notes following authentic guidelines like these: http://www.ncfl.org/orginal-oratory

The students accessed all materials including the links to the YouTube videos in Schoology. They used the popular Notability app. 
This lesson had the advantage of achieving 100% thinking and participation before the students shared their ideas orally.

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iPad split-screen from lesson: Notability on the left and YouTube on the right.
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Grace Working with Memorize Anything.
According to the teacher, students in Acting One and other performance groups use iPad apps to assist with script memorization. One of the students (Grace) shared her enthusiasm for Memorize Anything and gave me a demonstration. This app assists with memorization by allowing the performer to by hear her own voice read a selected passage over and over again. The student can select the length of the passage, determine how many words or phrases to mute, and even change the speed of the delivery. Grace found the app so personally helpful that I urged her to add it to the iWizards iPad Tips and Tricks, so that other could benefit from her experience.

Grace had another tip to share as well. She could practice taking script cues from the Quizlet app, the flash card app. Quizlet is a popular app with our students for test preparation. However, Grace has imaginatively added it to her retinue for script memorization.
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It was really fun learning about Mercy technology from Grace and Ms. Moore.

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Connecting and Sharing with Apple

11/19/2016

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Recently I had the terrific experience of accompanying three teachers from Mercy to an Apple Education briefing in Chicago. We were all excited by the presentations. 

I returned very interested in three possible initiatives. 1) Apple Classroom serves as a teaching assistant "that helps teachers guide learning, share work, and manage student devices."  Our I.T. Department is setting up a pilot and if this goes successfully we may very well implement it.

2) A new Apple Teacher program allows teachers to build skills with the iPad, Mac, and workhorse apps. The program is time-intensive, so I was very impressed in Chicago when Fredy Padovan (Florida, Immaculata-LaSalle High School) showed us how he had adapted the program to an iTunes U course

Bottom line: after consulting with Madonna University, I believe we can allow our teachers to earn continuing education credit from the state by taking a modified version of Fredy's course.
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3) Finally, all of us at the briefing got an opportunity to do some coding at the Swift Playgrounds, a new app that makes coding fun on the iPad. 

Chris Janusch was among our Mercy contingent and is certified to teach coding. Apple's many coding resources would make it relatively easy to start a course. Chris and I came back to determined to give our students the opportunity to code. If circumstances allow, we would like to develop a course soon.
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    Larry Baker

    Assoc Principal. ADE '09. Presents on PD, tech teams, admin tech. Moderator of iWizards. Founded Tech Talk at MHS. Love family, sports, cycling, music. @labcbaker

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