Monday, June 18, 2012

Why I use TweetDeck?

I have made couple of TweetDeck post before: 


TweetDeck & 100s of Twitter tools for Teachers and  All Features of Tweetdeck part 2 so this one must be the last part of TweetDeck trilogy. Here is a short tutorial explaining why I like to use TweetDeck. 




Thursday, June 7, 2012

Experimental Physics and iPads

In Voionmaa high school, Jyväskylä, Finland,  physics class groups had task to find out with pen laser the wavelength of light. Group made a paper report and whole measuring was documented with iPad. Teacher has easier job to evaluate group later on from iPad videos. 


At this first time they didnt  edit videos with iMovie, it was just document of group work. Teacher Sirpa Suontausta said, that watching those videos was really fun and she could easily evaluate group work. I followed at corridor group work  and it was class of physics, fun and action. 


iPad development is part of six high school project using iPads in high school sport training, classrooms  and team work. Project is funded by  Finnish National Board of Education,  learning environment development programs.

If you are interested about iPads in education, follow hashtag #ifinnpad

see you, @ilotimo



Example of Experimental Physics (in Finnish, girls speak about measuring distance of numbers,  wavelength of light but sadly im not physics teacher:), so no translation, but you can learn our easy and beautiful language) 




  



Tuesday, June 5, 2012

QR codes, iPads and sports in high school


In Voionmaa high school, Finland, Jyväskylä,  was tested use of QR codes and iPads help of better gym training. Our sport teacher and ice hockey trainer Mika Lievonen made five weight training videos  which was linked with QR codes. We added codes in each gym equipment so our sport high school students can watch  example of good performance before training.  


Voionmaa sport high school student Orash Schmidt read codes with iPad.


Next year we have plans to use QR codes in every sport, gaming and geography. These tests related on six high school project using iPads in high school sport training, classrooms  and team work. Project is funded by  Finnish National Board of Education,  learning environment development programs.

If you are interested about iPads in education, follow hashtag #ifinnpad

 @ilotimo
One example video by Mika Lievonen (In Finnish, but body language is enough:))  


Monday, June 4, 2012

iPads and Blogger in French language project

This spring in Voionmaa high school, Jyväskylä, Finland our students used iPads ja Blogger blog in French language learning project. Group started blog with Spanish French learning study group. With iPad  Blogger apps they made blog posts and shoot videos. Good to learn languages in real projects. Thanks for our students and have great vacation!

Blog:http://parlersanssenvoler.blogspot.com/

Video greetings!.