Book Creator, Clicker Sentences, Tools4Students and Pages

 Clicker Sentences 

Clicker Sentences- gives a great range of learning levels.  I love how this App allows you to scaffold! 


 








         





       You can create sentences  and put them in sentence order, guided order (in which it highlights the next word for them), Randomly or in Alphabetical order. You can have the words spoken as the student touches each word, or you can turn off, "speak each word." When the sentence is complete it reads the full sentence.  This helps students to realize the connection between words and sentences. You can even create pop-ups that allows the student to view what the sentence should look like before attempting to sequence the words. 
      For reluctant writers, it may reduce a lot of anxiety that they can use words that are in front of them and no longer have to worry about spelling the words. It may help with spelling, because it requires recognition of the words in the sentence set in order to create the sentences.
        This App is a literacy building program.  If you are assessing content, then Book Creator or Video Scribe may allow for students to concentrate more on the meaning of the content.

   Tools 4 Students

           Tools 4 Students has a lot of great graphic organizers for higher order thinking.  Upper elementary or enriched students may benefit from this structure, because it allows them to handle more difficult tasks with independence.  It features, Cause/Effect, Character analysis (identifies how a character acts, looks, and feels), and another four windows (identifying what the character sees, hears, tastes and feels), Pro/Con, Drawing conclusions (by merging from three different sources), and many more.  This would be a valuable tool for many Resource Teachers. 


 

 

Pages is another app that we explored today.  This is a Word Processor.  It can do what other word processors can do, so I have been using it a lot lately.  I just need to learn how to export it to email, since my laptop does not have Microsoft Word on it right now.

 Book Creator is a quick, easy and engaging way to create personalized books on any topic.  You can add pictures from your photo albums or import photos or videos to the book.  You can easily insert text, or you can easily use the sketch pencil to draw any diagrams or make arrows or words to label diagrams.  It can even be uploaded onto iBooks for publishing.

 Helpful Tip to remember: Volume Purchase Program allows teachers to pay half for Apps, when they purchase in bulk.