I have been a huge fan of Read Write Think’s interactives for some time. Naturally, I was ecstatic when they started releasing app versions of them. One of my favorites is the FREE Trading Card app. The app allows for multiple student logins (which is perfect for classrooms using a shared iClassroom model) and boasts 7 different templates (fictional person, real person, fictional place, real place, object, event, and vocabulary.) Naturally, one can see the potential for this app across the curriculum and with multiple grade levels.
Trading Cards app
Vocabulary Bulletin Board
Vocabulary Connections: One of my English teachers here at Hill Country MS, Dixie McGrath, used this app with her students to demonstrate their knowledge of the week’s vocabulary. While this can obviously be achieved with other mediums (see visual cue cards on the bulletin board to the right), this app provides an easy template with further vocabulary connections (e.g. definition, part of speech, synonym, antonym, other word associations and clues, where it would be used in everyday life as well as people who might use it, and personal connections). The completed card can also can be saved to a photo roll to be shared with other students or collected to create a class set.
Below are a few student examples:
WME050 - Student Created Books in the iClassroom
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Jennifer Auten
December 15, 2012 at 6:27 pm
I love this app. My 2nd graders have used it for describing book characters and talking about a favorite place they have been on vacation. We do a biography/hero unit in February and I plan to update my lessons to include this app. The guiding question pop-up makes it easy for them to understand what to write in each box. I can’t wait for more ReadWriteThink apps.
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