#OPSProud
This year, we are working very hard to have teachers make the switch to mobile teaching with their iPad instead of with their MacBook or without any technology at all. We used this activity to show the teachers 16 iPad Productivity Features that will help in every day instruction. These features will personalize the iPad to preferred use and provide ideas to improve student engagement in the classroom. Our district utilizes a "train the trainer" model. The instructional technology team trains Digital Learning Leaders (DLLs) in each building who can then provide staff with relevant, job-embedded technology training. This month, the DLLs used this activity with their building staff.
The object of the activity is to crown one iPad Productivity feature as the champion, March Madness style. For 15-30 days, staff would experiment with 2 features a day and vote on their favorite. At the end of the bracket, the results from individual buildings would be shared with their staff and we, as the tech training team, would compile all the results to compare favorites and see which feature was the most popular throughout the district.
I used Canva to create a bracket. Public link here.
Then, I used Keynote to create iPad Productivity slides with instructions for each feature. To make it easy to share, I exported each slide to a PDF for the DLLs to attach to the emails.
Finally, to make it as straight forward as possible, I created day by day instructions with each day's email already written if the DLL did not want to write one themself. I also included instructions for creating a Poll email and schedule send emails within Outlook.
This idea is a mash up of projects I found on the Apple Education forum:
@felecity - Productivity Playground
@agregoryne - Tech Tips and Tricks March Madness Activity
Attach up to 5 files which will be available for other members to download.