Peter Pappas »
22 May 2013 »
In Ed Tech, How To, Literacy, Visualizations »
Haiku Deck visualize
Haiku Deck is a great iPad app for building academic vocabulary - and its free. It provides a student-friendly tool for teaching common core vocabulary standards with motivation and creativity. Good defining skills are rooted in collaborative negotiation of meaning rather than memorizing glossaries and testing via two-column matching questions. The genius behind Haiku Deck is its simplicity - just type in text and use its built in search tools for related terms and images. With minimal design choices, student can focus on visualizing vocabulary and sharing their thinking with peers.
Haiku Deck add text
I'm not going to offer a Haiku Deck tutorial. It's easy to learn, and has some thoughtful online help. Instead let's look at the steps a student might use to visualize the term "freedom."
- Create a new Haiku Deck.
- Type in the term or phrase.
- Tap the image icon and Haiku Deck displays a selection of high-quality and copyright-free images. Scroll down for more.
- Don't like the images? The "similar tags" column offers related terms. Tap on one and the image selection updates.
- Select an image and the student is offered a chance to "add some additional text." They could use that space to explain the association between the image and the term.
- Tap the + sign and create another slide following the same process.
Haiku deck search
I see so many options for using this app. Create decks of synonyms vs antonyms. Let students explore terms for a close reading, defend their choice of images, or contrast multiple meanings. Only have a few iPads? Let the students collaborate in a collective deck. Perhaps the first student picks the image and the next student curates the choice of image in the "additional text." Have a term that doesn't turn up any good image matches and you've created a chance to explore synonyms in the "similar tags." Still can't find relevant images for the term? Then you have a chance to speculate why the system isn't turning up usable images. BTW - don't worry about student using inappropriate words. Haiku Deck does a great job of screening those out.
There are lots of options for sharing student work. Completed Haiku decks can be saved to the web and viewed on any device. You can share decks via email or social networks. They can also be embedded in a blog or exported to PowerPoint or Keynote.
Common Core State Standards (CCSS) divide vocabulary among a variety of disciplines and grade levels. The standards focus on multiple meaning, context clues, figurative and connotative meanings and the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone. Haiku Deck could be used to support all of these goals.
Tags: Close reading, Common Core, Defining, Haiku Deck, iPad, Visual Literacy
Peter Pappas »
24 March 2013 »
In Ed Tech, History / DBQ's, How To, PD, Presentations, Publishing, Web 2.0 »
Our goal was a practical hands-on workshop that fused technology, critical thinking, and strategies for students to be the “historian in the classroom.” We were focused on ways to use iPads for content creation, feedback and reflection. Plus we showcased a variety of other critical thinking digital tools for the classroom – iBooks Author, Haiku Deck, Evernote, nGram Viewer and GapMinder.
Tags: Apps, Common Core, Critical thinking, ebook, Engagement, Essential questions, Evernote, GapMinder, Haiku Deck, Higher-order thinking, iBook, iBooks Author, Innovation, iPad, Learning Catalytics, Ngram Viewer, Relevance, Rigor, SMES, Summarizing, US History, Writing
Peter Pappas »
13 March 2013 »
In Ed Tech, History / DBQ's, Visualizations »
I’m prepping for an “iPad in the Classroom” workshop and I thought I’d try Haiku Deck – a free presentation app for the iPad. It’s an impressive and easy to use tool for creating a knock-out presentation on the iPad – a great way for teachers and students to quickly share their ideas with the classroom and the digital world beyond. Here’s a deck I created in a few minutes.
Tags: Apps, Artist, Creative Commons, Haiku Deck, Information landscape, iPad, US History, Visual Literacy
Peter Pappas »
05 March 2013 »
In Ed Tech, History / DBQ's, Literacy, Publishing, Strategies »
My latest multi-touch iBook “Progress and Poverty in Industrial America,” is now available for your iPad – FREE at iTunes. Critical thinking questions based on Common Core skills help students “think and write like a historian.” It’s a great resource for use in the classroom, and serves as a model for teacher or student curation of historic content into interactive digital DBQ’s.
This 18-page iPad DBQ guides students through the historian’s process. “Stop and think” prompts encourage a deep reading of many notables of the Gilded Age – including Russell Conwell, Henry George, Andrew Carnegie and Stephen Crane. Visual source material includes posters, 1908 Sears Catalogue, a gallery of photographs by Lewis Hine and video of one of Edison’s early Vitascope films.
Tags: Andrew Carnegie, Common Core, Comparing, Critical thinking, Curriculum, Deep reading, ebook, Essential questions, Henry George, Higher-order thinking, iBook, iBooks Author, iPad, Lewis Hine, Russell Conwell, Stephen Crane, Vitascope, Writing
Peter Pappas »
22 January 2013 »
In Ed Tech, Guest post, History / DBQ's, How To, Leadership, Publishing, Teachers »
Two years ago, three junior high teachers were thinking about how to better motivate their social studies students. They decided one way to get kids more excited about learning was to get rid of their traditional textbooks. Here’s a guest post on how these teachers teamed with their school and district leadership to create their own textbook.
Tags: Beth Williams, Common Core, DIY, iBook, iBooks Author, Innovation, iPad, Jeffrey Taylor, Joe Welch, Larry Dorenkamp, MacBook, North Hills JHS, Rich Texter, Textbook, US History, Writing
Peter Pappas »
23 October 2012 »
In Commentary, Ed Tech, How To, Literacy, Publishing, Strategies, Students »
For years progressive educators have known the textbook was dead. Apple’s latest iPad Mini / iBooks Author event (October 23, 2012) suggests we are closing in on the tipping point that should hasten its demise. I’ll let others focus on the viability of the iPad as a textbook replacement in this era of shrinking budgets. Instead I’ll focus on three reasons why teaming iBooks Author (iBA) with the iPad can turn students from passive consumers of information, into active researchers, thinkers, designers and writers.
Tags: Common Core, Creativity, Critical thinking, ebook, Engagement, Higher-order thinking, iBook, iBooks Author, Information landscape, Innovation, iPad, Motivation, Visual Literacy, Writing
Peter Pappas »
13 September 2012 »
In Ed Tech, History / DBQ's, Publishing, Strategies »
My iBook Why We Fight: WWII and the Art of Public Persuasion is now available at iBookstore. Designed as multi-touch student text, it focuses on the American response to WWII – especially the very active role played by government in shaping American behavior and attitudes.
It features 13 videos including rarely seen cartoons like “Herr Meets Hare” (1945) starring Bugs Bunny, government films “What To Do in a Gas Attack” (1943) and Hollywood wartime flicks like the “Spy Smasher” cliff hanger series (1942).
View naval deck logs detailing the attack on Pearl Harbor. Listen to FDR’s “Day of Infamy” speech while you read his handwritten notes on the first draft of the speech. Listen to man-in-the-street interviews recorded the day after the Pearl Harbor attack. Swipe through an interactive timeline map detailing early Axis victories of the war. Use an interactive guide to interpret over 40 wartime posters. Students can use an iPad-friendly historic document guide to analyze all the documents and share their observations with peers and teachers.
Tags: Common Core, Critical thinking, ebook, Essential questions, Evaluation, Higher-order thinking, iBook, iBooks Author, iPad, Motivation, US History, Visual Literacy, WWII
Peter Pappas »
15 May 2012 »
In Literacy, Publishing, Visualizations »
A recent report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project entitled “The rise of e-reading” details the profile of the e-reader and contrasts that profile with readers of printed books.
The rise of e-books in American culture is part of a larger story about a shift from printed to digital material. Using a broader definition of e-content in a survey ending in December 2011, some 43% of Americans age 16 and older say they have either read an e-book in the past year or have read other long-form content such as magazines, journals, and news articles in digital format on an e-book reader, tablet computer, regular computer, or cell phone.
Tags: E-book, Hardware, iBook, iBooks Author, Infographic, Information landscape, iPad, Pew, Textbook
Peter Pappas »
29 February 2012 »
In Ed Tech, History / DBQ's, How To, Publishing »
Here a great how-to video which explains using iBooks Author to make and and sell a multi-touch iBook for iPad. Plus links to my resource collection “Publishing with iBooks Author”
For years, I’ve posted pdf versions of my lessons and made them available for free. Here’s some screenshots of a document based question (DBQ) I’m working on that explores the American Homefront in WWII. I’ve download iBooks Author and I think it’s time to turn some of my PDF lessons into iBooks. Apple’s new authoring program, certainly lowers the barrier for doing that. I look forward to the day when a student asks a teacher if it’s OK to turn in that project as an iBook.
Tags: Creativity, ebook, Hardware, iBook, iBooks Author, iPad
Peter Pappas »
29 April 2011 »
In Commentary, Ed Tech, Publishing »
I just went to the iTunes App Store, and in one impulsive click, downloaded Al Gore’s companion app to his book “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis.” It’s an immersive learning environment that begs the question – $4.99 iPad app or $49 textbook? Watch this video and you decide.
Tags: 24PageBooks, Apps, Artist, Data, Hardware, Innovation, iPad, Push Top Press
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