One iPad in the classroom

[DrMcDreamysWife]

Unbelievably I and the rest of the teachers at my school have just been given an ipad each. It's to use for teacher work and in the classroom.

But I'm not really sure where to start?! Does anyone use an ipad on lessons?

The kids don't have them just teachers so I guess kids could use then but there would only be one ipad and 30 teenagers!

Any app recommendations or ways to get the most out of it?

Are you primary or secondary? Some staff have them at my school (secondary) and started off all enthusiastic about using them for learning but now generally only use them for registers and taking notes. If your school has the IT to support it (ie can project or whatever) then I think there's loads that can be done, but in ours, we still have to use a lead to attach it to the wall so that it can attach to the projector, so it's no more useful than the clunky laptops we already have. oh and I don't have one. But I'm not bitter

I have one - I'm Primary.
I find useful apps and connect it to the whiteboard (borrow a colleague's cable.)
It's also handy for taking pictures of the kids and printing them quickly to go in books.
And it's a good bribe.

start using idoceo as your grade book, teacher planner as your ......., if the kids have access to pcs get them to submit work to showbie, then you can mark it electronically (much lighter than a class set of books), yes to photos and quick videos of what the kids are doing, but tbh you really need one per person

Can you tell me how you print from the ipad?

I use mine to take pictures of pupils' work and then upload to my laptop and display on the IWB - takes about 10 seconds. Makes for good mini plenaries and pupils love it - we get some good discussions about whether the work is correct/good and why. Secondary English, by the way.

Depends which age you teach. My primary has them in each room. We're connected to Apple Tv's so you can display straight from the iPad, or link to the laptop wirelessly and also display that on the TV.
The children love them - there are some great free apps out that consolidate all sorts of things. Mine love the camera and I have some brilliant photos they've taken. They are Year R and very au fait with how it all works. Our unit has 6 altogether because the staff also use them to gather Early Years evidence which we upload immediately to cloud based Learning Journeys. I'm finding it difficult to remember what I did without my iPads!

Printing - I connect to my laptop with the cable, upload and print from there.

Thanks everyone. I'm a secondary teacher. Mainly geography. We have pcs in the classroom. I like the ideas of photographing kids work and showing it on the smartboard. It's been all set up today so I've brought it home for a play and will have a look at the apps mentioned above, we can't download anything that costs anything though.

I'm just looking forward to having a play with it really!

Airplay is useful for showing on the whiteboard. We have a class blog (primary) so have a wordpress app which we can upload photos and text from instantly. Also use it for photos. We have a class set now but initially had one. My statemented child used to to verbally record what the other children would write when working independently. And def use it as a bribe!

I have an iPad for my class and love PicCollage. It's super simple to work and you can create a photo montage of a practical lesson with a few key points written printed out and stuck in their books. Great for evidence.