The training sesson on Nearpod went well yesterday afternoon. I had elementary teachers who came in to experience it and take their first steps towards creating their own presentations. Everyone who attended signed up for their free account and that is about as far as we got so we decided to continue the session next week Thursday after school. I expect to create a page of instructions so they will have both audio and visual instruction during that session.
I have two classes working on presentations using Haiku deck. This is a nice free app that allows students to select a theme, add text and pictures to create a slide show/presentation. The kids are enjoying working with it because it comes with its own photos. One class is using Haiku deck to create presentations on classifying triangles. One girl found a wonderful picture of triangular slices of watermelon to illustrate isosceles triangles. This is the first time I've had them work on any projects and they did a great job getting started.
The kids love using the iPads in class. Several students snap pictures of the warm-ups on the board and then copy the material from the photo to their warm-up sheets. They do the same thing for standardized test questions and for notes so the whole class does not get held up because they copy at a slower pace than others.
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