iPad PD

I was fortunate enough to get to spend the day at an awesome seminar on using iPads in the k-6 classroom, taught by Kelly Harmon.  (check out her website here: Kelly Harmon) There is so much that can be done with iPads!  I am seriously wishing that I had a full class set in my classroom to use all the time!  Or at least to have available to use whenever we want!
Some of the apps we talked about I've already been using like Nearpod and Kahoots - others I've seen on my iPad or downloaded because they are on people's "Top 10" list, but haven't really known what to do with them.

 One of those is Educreations.  I had played around with it a little before today, but most of the example lessons were geared towards the upper grades, and I couldn't wrap my head around how to use it with my 2nd graders.  Today Kelly showed us a sample of some work 2nd grade students had done explaining how to do subtraction with ungrouping on Educreations.  It was so cool!  I can't wait to get the iPads back into my kiddos hands so we can try this out.  Research has shown that teaching somebody else how to do something solidifies learning.  So we will be making mini-tutorials on how to do subtraction next week.  I will post samples if all goes well!