 Hello, I want to show you Kristen Brooks iPad Lab here at Woodstock Elementary School in Georgia it's a really colorful cool place and Let's take a step inside Hello So, oh we have we got one viewer now when it's during the school day It's hard to hard to get a lot of these but I bet people will watch the replay So you have a whole huge room in here that is your iPad lab this is What the advantage of an iPad lab is that you can have students sit anywhere they want, right? The cafe kind of area so it's laid back and we do projects and an iPad pad an iPad pad That was actually one of the names considered for the rooms to the iPad lab It was considered the iPad pad from Sandy Adams your friend. Yeah, Sandy Is that it kind of looks like maybe a kindergarten room too with the with the bright colors I wanted it to be very colorful because I actually color coded where they sit on the carpet with the boxes up there for the Storage and then the iPads are actually colored to go with it That is a great idea So what happens in this room in this room the students come in and I had the Promethean board with using air server Connected to my iPad and I usually go over what we're going to do for the day while they sit on the carpet Sometimes I have a video from PBS or Brain Pop that you know is a little launching pad for what we're going to do that day and then Show them a quick demonstration And we usually make some sort of project that they can collaborate on and work together to come out with a product So how long are do you get to see the students and how often I see them about once a week? And it is usually for 45 minutes for each class, and I see 1150 students That's that's a lot of students like this is like a like a Starbucks for kids It kind of is like a little cafe for children with their iPads and here. This is our yeah show it show me right here It is here's the cart. So we're all the magic happens and Everything's color-coded everything's color-coded it makes it easy to for me because I do teach so many students And I really try to use every minute that they're in here I know when I have them all back like if I just look in the bins I see six red ones back I know I have all of them back before they leave students have iPads in their classrooms, too Or is this are these the only iPads around? They have different ones that they can check out big carts like this from the media center that they can check Out and then most of our teachers have at least one so there's usually one in each classroom for sure And then we have different sets that they can check out so this the reason that the iPad lab became What it is is that our students the title on school so they didn't all have devices at home So I wanted them to be prepared when they got to middle school to know how to use one Terrific, okay, so You're using these for storage here You know different with sometimes different manipulatives that I might use with the kids with certain apps I store them in the bins and again, it's kind of color-coded over in that area. I've got the same colored bins So yeah, so the kids sit down they get their assignment And then they kind of are dispersed to go where they would like to around the room So they might want to sit in the beanbags with their friend. They might want to sit at the small table We have our Osmo area in the back over there So sometimes students are working with their partner using Osmo if you've never tried it check out Osmo Here This is one of their favorite stations. I started with one station last year and Osmo and now I have Six complete stations. So we'll just go through one so this is Osmo tan gram and I love Osmo because it is using the iPad, but it's also Encouraging the children to work together Sometimes they're competing against each other. Sometimes they're collaborating together So Osmo is one of my favorite things and now it's become the students favorite activity. They love playing with Osmo so basically you've got some different levels and We'll do this one. So it shows you the picture that you're making which for anyone that is My same age. This probably looks familiar except for when we did it. It was on just like this colored matte So those of you not familiar with Osmo There's there's this little mirror reflector you get here is so that the iPad can actually see what's in front of it So you manipulate things in front of your iPad But the iPad can tell through its camera mirror what what's placed where it's really innovative. Yes They I think my students sometimes think Osmo is a real person because they talk to him. Hey Osmo. Do you see it? Building and Osmo gives you little hints as you're playing Kind of gives you little sounds and then once you pass a level it gives you a check mark Which is nice reinforcement and you hear them. Yay And then the way that they've set up 10 grams once you get them correct You can get into different levels and so this one is in the castle and it's a little bit different because it shows you the Negative space so it's you know kind of exciting. They love it I had 10 grams in my fifth grade classroom before Before iPads and so it couldn't tell if you're right or wrong You just had to keep keep trying and and do it visually and there are other apps for Osmo too with the letters and Drawing it's pretty neat. Yeah little pieces fall down and they're trying to hit the bull's eye and They're trying to figure out, you know slides and planes and what they can use So it's very exciting and the words I love words where they are usually competing against each other to create a word And you can make the words whatever you want them to be so this year I actually got this idea from Tony because Tony made one with his name I made some with all of our staff names So like the specials teachers and the office staff because a lot of the specials teachers They just say hey computer teacher. Hey iPad lab teacher. And so I felt like they should know our names a little bit more respectful So we made one that had the Faces of the teachers and then their names and the kids loved trying to compete to spell the teachers names So so a few questions that one was asking do you do any green screen work in here? I am starting green screen this year I'm actually working on it now. I've got my Legos all set up over there and little stacks So it's coming So you said Osmo is a favorite app Somebody asked what's their favorite creation app? My kids love chatter picks for kids They love where they take a picture or find a picture online They draw the line and then they speak into the iPad and then that comes back out and their favorite thing to do is to Especially with historical figures like they'll say I'm George Washington and then it's their voice coming out But it's the mouth of George that chatter picks kids is an excellent app And it has no in-app purchases and it saves to the camera roll. It doesn't have any advertisements I don't exactly know how they make money, but I'm glad it's around Yeah, it's a favorite and pick collage. My students love pick collage Yeah, there's there's several that they really enjoy creating with Anything else we should see in here No, I think that's pretty much it just you know It's a fun place to be and the kids are very good with they know how the room is set up And so one of the rules is when they're finished all of the iPads go back in the boxes up here All of them asleep and they have to set the room back the way it was because it does get very Disorganized while they're in here for 45 minutes, but they're really good during our cleanup time to set it back And if they do it all correctly quickly they get to do a go noodle. So they get excited about that nice Well, this has to be a room that they love to come and visit You know you introduce me to the art teacher next door And I know kids love coming to art and because it's so hands-on and they get to make something and that sounds like What your room is like too? Yes, we are definitely trying to focus more instead of playing games on the iPad Because I don't think they really need a teacher for that. It's more of creating items on the iPads And a room without desks is pretty refreshing Yes, and it's funny because they do tend though We have just a few tables and they do tend to sit there Even though they have the entire carpet that they can lay down on it's kind of funny to see who picks what And questions asked, how do you keep the iPads updated? Actually, that is something that I have a wonderful person in the county who comes and helps me update all of them And we do one mass update. So like right now the new iOS 9 I don't have iOS 9 yet. So I will get it in probably a month or so What about putting on apps? Are you able to do that yourself or do you have to like do them in a big batch? Yeah, she prefers like kind of when I first started I made a list of ones that I wanted for sure and then we put all those on in a big batch And then as the year goes on if there is something that I find I usually put it on my personal iPad first to test it To make sure I really love it and then I will go and add it to one iPad And it will duplicate itself as it moves along Oh and there's somebody does this for 450 of their own devices. Oh, yeah I bet she wishes she has someone from the county to help out that way We call her iCarol very lovingly iCarol comes and helps and takes care of all the big stuff that I need help with So yeah, it's great anybody wants to come visit Woodstock elementary the iPad lab the door is always open It's a very friendly school flip around since Kristen hasn't been able to see your heart But they've been giving you a lot of thanks for the hearts And I met you at JETC the Georgia ed tech conference which is which still really starts today with workshops and goes on the rest of the week So I will see you a few more times this week I hope hopefully I was glad you invited me to your school to check out your lab and Look at all those hearts. That's so nice of them. They really like the space and they like the organization That's I love classroom routines where it can keep things nice and neat and students just know what to do When and everything flows smoothly. I love that. Yeah, we really we do we focus very much on having a routine And we kind of keep the same routine every time if they pull out a chair and move it or move a beanbag or a stool They always put that back. So it's really nice. It's nice that I'm not the one constantly cleaning up after them because like I said 1150 kids is a lot of students But they are very good and very respectful and I have to give a shout out because a lot of this furniture was donated So the kids at the beginning were very aware that if the furniture was messed up, we would not have it any longer So they're very good about keeping it nice That's terrific All right. Well, thanks for joining us. Thanks for your questions And there's lots of encouragement and that people like what they're seeing if you would like to follow me on Twitter I do post different items that my students make and different things if you want some ideas So it's just at Kristen Brooks 77. Yeah, and if you click on her Twitter profile You can go to the page that she's made for the iPad lab. I stalked your app lab a little bit So I see this stuff there There's some videos and projects and and lots of great stuff there So and I put her a Twitter name in the title of this broadcast to so people can click on that. I try All right. Well, thanks for joining us and I'll see you later