ipods in literacy
DESCRIPTION
This presentation was given for an Apple User group meeting in November 2009. It goes over how we use Apple iPod touches in the classroom to achieve various goals specializing in literacy instruction.TRANSCRIPT
Reading and Writing: It’s Not Just for Books Anymore
Improving Literacy Using the iPod Touch
Kathleen Risolvo- Schiller Park School District 81
Content DeliveryOutput Mobile Devices
Audio
Interventions (RTI) Listen Retell Reread Comprehension
activityITUNES University of South
Florida iTunes U PodcastsAutomator Create audio from
text
Apps for Literacy
Dejal Narrator iPhoneTypingTest iWriteWords Letter Tracer Rulla SpellingBee StoryNory The Caterpillar’s Dream TypingWeb TypingTutor Word Scramble Wurdle
Videos
CLONE HIGH- FOOD PYRAMID
Songs Volume Off Watching other
students’ work Individual
Accountability
Internet Access
AFFORDABLE SOLUTION Accelerated Reader Study Island Starfall.com Research
Content CreationInput through publishing content
Using GarageBand
Writer’s workshop publishing
Literary element identification
Content area writing
Fluency practice Teacher read-a-
louds
iPhoto
Photo stories Language
Experience Approach
Pictures retelling a story or event
Create class books/slideshows