iPad Scout- Week 5

Last week saw fewer new activities with the iPads, but we are again getting better and more confident with what we are doing.

Here are a few highlights from our week:

- Printing: Mrs. Handley got us set up to print directly from the iPad Minis. This is huge, as it took a lot of steps earlier to save things to the Dropbox, open on a computer, and then print. Since we are using the iPads more often as word processing devices, this is very handy. We have already printed poetry and letters to our fifth-grade buddies, and it went very smoothly.

- Music Class: This should have been in the week 4 update as well. Our students have brought their iPads to music class for the last two classes. They have been working with Mrs. St. Clair to learn to use GarageBand. This has been a huge hit so far.

- Research: As I talked about in my post on butterflies, we did our first mini research project, in which students worked together to find answers to their questions about butterflies. What I like best about this is that students did the research, typed their findings, inserted pictures, and printed it all directly from their iPads. This was great practice for some future work I hope to do.