{"id":2423,"date":"2013-10-30T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2423"},"modified":"2021-06-26T10:47:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T09:47:37","slug":"ipad-playflow-at-tmtablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/ipad-playflow-at-tmtablet\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad Playflow at #TMTablet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I went along to the High School of Glasgow this evening for TeachMeet Tablet 2. Work and traffic conspired to make me pretty late and I had missed the first set of presentations, arriving in time for the round tables.<\/p>\n

At the last minute I had volunteered to organise one of these, on workflow, handing out work and gathering it in on iPads. I demoed showbie<\/a> and we had a chat about some edge cases and how these could work.<\/p>\n

After that we had some more presentations:<\/p>\n

Sally Foster<\/a> talked about using one iPad in class, with more ideas than I could take notes for. I liked, in particular, the idea of a the teacher moving round the classroom and showing pupil work on the smartboard via Apple TV (you could use a computer and AirServer too). <\/p>\n

Paul Casey<\/a> showed some apps for teacher workflow, Planbook, Gradebook, HanDBase, and iBooks (and Author). All of these apps look as if they can help with teacher planning and organisation.<\/p>\n

Both Sally’s and Paul’s presentations were of interest to anyone with an iPad, you didn’t need to be in a 1-2-1 classroom to get some great ideas. <\/p>\n

David Muir<\/a> then started what looks like a long term view, over several teachmeets at the SAMR moodle. Using iBooks he too us from substitution to augmentation, demoing some nice features of the iBooks app an a few minutes.<\/p>\n

My own presentation was the last. I was showing an example of using several different apps in a row do preform a task. I’ve found myself often doing this in iOS and noticed in classroom visits that primary pupils seem to pick this up naturally, more so perhaps than with traditional desktops.<\/p>\n

I’ve seen this referred to as app smashing or chaining, I prefer the idea of a playflow<\/strong>, having fun with a series of applications. (I do not want to smash or chain anything up;-)). Here is a quick and dirty screencast of the process I demoed, the only difference was at teachmeet I recorded an audience produced series of croaks as an audio track to the final movie. <\/p>\n

This particular flow is adapted from one shown to me by my collegue Ian Sorensen.<\/p>\n