A form I just got from the Academic Affairs office, as part of Seton Hill University’s plan to provide iPads to its faculty (along with all full-time students).
This is just my roughest first draft. What do you think? What would you do with iPads in the classroom?
If you wish to receive an IPad, please indicate the
course(s) you will try to use the iPad in to enhance the learning experience:
Fall, 2010
Course Number and Name: LA100 “Basic Comp”
Possible Use of iPad:
Watching instructional screencasts
(for
Turnitin, MyCompLab, course-management tools, MLA formatting)
Course Number and Name: EL200 “Media Lab” (journalism workshop)
Possible Use of iPad:
Copy-editing with Associated Press Stylebook App
(the app is actually more expensive than the paper text)
Reading / analyzing content of online magazines
Course Number and Name: EL266 “American Literature 1800-1915”
Possible Use of iPad:
Reading and annotating out-of-copyright ebooks in class
Reading PDFs of academic articles
Brainstorming and
peer-review exercises
Liveblogging or
livetweeting during selected class discussions
Course Number and Name: EL405 “New Media Projectcs”
Possible Use of iPad:
Programming a simple app in iPhone Software Developer Kit
Watching video tutorials, or viewing instructional guides,
while working on a full-screen project on a laptop or desktop computer.
Spring, 2011
Course Number and Name: LA101 “Seminar in Thinking and Writing”
Possible Use of iPad:
Watching instructional screencasts
(how to use
Turnitin, course-management tool, bibliography & research skills, MLA formatting)
Course Number and Name: EL200
“Media Lab” (journalism workshop)
Possible Use of iPad:
Associated Press Stylebook App
Course details depend on needs of the student paper.
(Our program hasn’t fixed Spring 2011 courses yet, since we have two new hires to place into the schedule, but here’s a sampling…)
Course Number and Name: EL267 “American Literature
1915-Present”
Possible Use of iPad:
Reading and annotating selected ebooks in class
Reading PDFs of academic articles
Brainstorming and
peer-review exercises
Liveblogging or
livetweeting during selected class discussions
Course Number and Name: EL312 “Literary Criticism”
Possible Use of iPad:
Reading PDFs of academic articles
Brainstorming and peer-review exercises
Liveblogging or livetweeting during selected class discussions
Diverse:
+ Use a large clockface app (like “PartyTimer”) to “countdown” time dedicated to in-class writing exercises and/or speeches and/or to limit workshop critique comments.
+ Call up images/slides and put on the Elmo document projector when logging in to the network takes too much time
+ Read lecture notes / meeting agenda / etc.
+ If possible: “GeoCache Exercises” that send GPS coordinates to students who then go out of class, find the location, and write about what they see in a journal entry… then return and report (or leave the writing and then a partner must find and continue “chain” to next location)…
Still musing… I’m getting my iPad tomorrow morning!