iPadU: Full Schedule

On July 6, 7 and 8, 2016, Grant Wood AEA will be hosting a conference to celebrate and expand upon innovative classroom integration strategies for the iPad. Join us for three days of sessions and workshops that will guarantee exciting, hands-on learning experiences you can use to enhance teaching and learning in a K-12 classroom.

Link to the iPadU Site
Link to Session Resources

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8:45am PDT

Individual, Inc.

In everything we do in education, “personal” is a word, concept, and action that applies to our learning environment. It’s individual. It’s choice. It’s meaningful. At the same time, teachers and students can not live in a silo. We must be “incorporated”: introducing and sharing ideas and products into a body or mass as an integral part of the betterment of society.

Speakers

Clay Reisler

Wednesday July 6, 2016 8:45am - 10:00am PDT
Spring

8:45am PDT

Individual, Inc.

Speakers

Clay Reisler

Wednesday July 6, 2016 8:45am - 10:00am PDT
Revere/Stone

8:45am PDT

Individual, Inc.

Speakers

Clay Reisler

Wednesday July 6, 2016 8:45am - 10:00am PDT
Winter

8:45am PDT

Individual, Inc.

Speakers

Clay Reisler

Wednesday July 6, 2016 8:45am - 10:00am PDT
Autumn

10:15am PDT

iPad 101

Your iPad just came out of the box...now what? We will walk through some thigns that are good for beginners to know: where are the settings? What are the settings? How do I set up email? Where do I get apps? There will be time for some FAQs!

Speakers

Stacy Behmer

Coordinator of Digital Learning/Media Services, Grant Wood AEA

Stacy is a former elementary and middle school teacher and also spent some time as a district technology director. She is currently the Coordinator of Digital Learning & Media Services at Grant Wood AEA in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she works with a team of digital learning consultants... Read More →

Wednesday July 6, 2016 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
Spring

Administrator, Beginner | Elementary, Beginner | High School, Beginner | Middle School, Beginner | PreK-2, Beginner

10:15am PDT

Get Your Game Face On at iPadU - Beginning

Let the games begin! Join the iPad U game and learn how to gamify your classroom. This introduction to gamification will provide you with the skill and tools you need to get your game on.

Find our presentation here: tinyurl.com/ipadugameon

Speakers

Mindy Cairney

Digital Learning Consultant, Grant Wood AEA

Mindy is a digital learning consultant for Grant Wood AEA. She is passionate about helping teachers integrate technology with integrity. She co-hosts the Edtech Take Out podcast and the makerspace show: Think, Make, Innovate.

Gina Rogers

Digital Learning Consultant, Grant Wood AEA

Gina Rogers is a instructional technology consultant at Grant Wood AEA in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Before accepting her position at GWAEA, Gina was a high school English and Language Arts teacher in two 1:1 districts in eastern Iowa. She taught everything from 9th grade ELA to College... Read More →

Wednesday July 6, 2016 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
Winter

10:15am PDT

Organizing Content in a Flipboard Magazine

Flipboard Magazines provide you with an easy-to-manage tool for consuming and curating content for yourself or others. Whether you are looking for historical resources for your classroom or information on a new curriculum strategy for your staff, this multi-platform tool brings web-based content into a single spot. This hands on session will set you on a path to take control of your own learning and give you some tips on sharing that learning with students or colleagues.

Speakers

Josh Allen

Technology Integration Specialist, Lewis Central

Technology Integration Specialist for Lewis Central CSD, Google for Education Certified Trainer.

Wednesday July 6, 2016 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
Autumn

Middle School, A little more than beginner | High School, A little more than beginner | Administrator, A little more than beginner

12:20pm PDT

Showing What You Know Using Explain Everything - Advanced Training

Explain Everything Progression- Discover the "best first experience" with students to the second, third, and fourth experiences. Attendees will create products for their professional or personal life so that they can understand how students can best utilize the app. Learning the technology tool in a progressive manner helps to eventually make the learning not about the technology, but about the content and what the students are learning or creating.
Attendees will also learn about the four different exporting options: images, video, pdfs (eBooks, and projects.

Speakers

Clay Reisler

Wednesday July 6, 2016 12:20pm - 2:20pm PDT
Spring

9:00am PDT

Apps to Create on the iPad

If you are only using your iPad to consume content, you’re missing out on half the power! Having students create a product gives you a much better understanding of what they know than if they filled in bubbles on a worksheet. This session will cover of variety of apps that will allow students to quickly create a product and show what they really know!

Speakers

Josh Allen

Technology Integration Specialist, Lewis Central

Technology Integration Specialist for Lewis Central CSD, Google for Education Certified Trainer.

Thursday July 7, 2016 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
Autumn

9:00am PDT

Sifting Through The Massive Amounts of Information Using Flipboard

Flipboard is an amazing tool on the iPad that can gather resources from around the web: videos, tweets, blog posts, news articles pertaining to so many subjects. Efficiently organizing all the resources into "magazines" for future viewing is easy. Allowing students to be collaborators and contributors to specific magazines leads to concise resources specific to content. See how this process works with students as these resources lead into students creating TEDtalks, on stage in front of their peers.

Leave this session with the one best consumption tool that will help you discover resources for your content area which can lead to your students utilizing this amazing tool to discover their personal learning interests.

Speakers

Clay Reisler

Thursday July 7, 2016 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
Spring

10:10am PDT

Personal Promotion - Students and Staff Telling Their Story

Personal Promotion: of yourself, your teaching brand, and your students' great work! As educator, we need to promote ourselves even if WE don't feel comfortable with it. Otherwise other people will promote us in the light that they want to.

How can we do that? The iPad allows for creation of our own Avatars, characters, and icons using the Adobe Draw app. It's amazing what we can make! Also a general concept of 3-4 tools that should be used to promote themselves and the GREAT things they are doing in the classroom will be provided.

Leave the session with actual products that can be used to promote you, your classroom, and your students' work!

(Free Apps)

Speakers

Clay Reisler

Thursday July 7, 2016 10:10am - 11:10am PDT
Spring

11:20am PDT

Automating Your iPad - Making It Work For You!

Making the iPad Work For You: Workflow is an amazing app that "runs specific steps" so that the iPad really does do the work! Create ""workflows" to accomplish many different tasks.

This is a somewhat challenging concept and may need two hours if we truly want to get the attendees to leave with personal products to make them more efficient.
This is a PAID app, but worth every penny!

Speakers

Clay Reisler

Thursday July 7, 2016 11:20am - 12:20pm PDT
Spring

9:00am PDT

iSmackdown

Come see The Digital Learning Team in a battle of wits and knowledge as they try to outdo, out last and out smart with their iPad prowess.

Speakers

Amber Bridge

Digital Learning Consultant, Grant Wood AEA

Digital Learning Consultant for Grant Wood AEA. Check out our YouTube Makerspace show, Think, Make, Innovate. #havefunmaking

Stacy Behmer

Coordinator of Digital Learning/Media Services, Grant Wood AEA

DLGWAEA

Jason Marshall

Technology Consultant, Grant Wood AEA

Digital Learning Consultant - Grant Wood AEA - @jmarsh77

Mindy Cairney

Digital Learning Consultant, Grant Wood AEA

Gina Rogers

Digital Learning Consultant, Grant Wood AEA

Beth Swantz

Digital Learning Consultant, Grant Wood AEA

Jonathan Wylie

Digital Learning, Grant Wood Area Education Agency

Jonathan Wylie is a Technology Consultant for Grant Wood AEA in Eastern Iowa. He helps schools integrate technology in an authentic and meaningful way. He is also the co-host of The Edtech Take Out podcast. You can connect with Jonathan on Twitter or via his blog at jonathanwylie... Read More →

Friday July 8, 2016 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
Revere/Stone

9:00am PDT

The Why and How of Screencasting

Flipped and blended learning is all the rage in education today, but why? And can I bring it into my classroom without a full TV studio? This session will provide an overview of the benefits and drawbacks of video content in the classroom and how you can easily make your own videos with just an iPad.

Speakers

Josh Allen

Technology Integration Specialist, Lewis Central

Technology Integration Specialist for Lewis Central CSD, Google for Education Certified Trainer.

Friday July 8, 2016 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
Autumn

Elementary, Beginner | Middle School, Beginner | High School, Beginner | Administrator, Beginner

10:10am PDT

Gamify iPadU - Ending

As the iPadU game concludes, take some time to reflect and brainstorm with the other gamers of how this could be implemented in your classroom. We will be awarding winners with prizes!

Speakers

Mindy Cairney

Digital Learning Consultant, Grant Wood AEA

Gina Rogers

Digital Learning Consultant, Grant Wood AEA

Friday July 8, 2016 10:10am - 11:10am PDT
Spring

11:20am PDT

Sketchnoting

Sketchnoting with Paper 53 I presented this before with positive feedback. Sketchnoting is SUCH a versatile and different way for students to comprehend information.

Speakers

Clay Reisler

Friday July 8, 2016 11:20am - 12:20pm PDT
Spring