2 iPad Tips to Make Your Teaching Day More Efficient

2 iPad Tips to Make Your Teaching Day More Efficient

There are so many things we can do with iPads in the classroom.  I scarcely remember how I even taught B.i. (Before iPads).  Sometimes we work so hard to focus on ways to use them with students, I think we forget that these powerful devices can make our life easier as the teacher using our device.

Here are a couple of my favorite ways to use MY iPad to make my teaching world more efficient.

1. Two Minute Warning - Set the clock for a “two-minute” warning for end of each class period.  My students have become so accustomed to hearing two minute warning, they have stopped watching the clock and just wait for the alarm to go off each day.  Since my class is history, I use a song from the era we are studying as the alarm.  

         

Open the clock + a new Alarm Select the time - I like 2 minutes before the bell. Choose to repeat Name your alarm Pick a fun song that goes with your class.

2. Google Forms - Create and save Google Forms on your iPad Home Screen

OK - So I love Google forms anyway, let me just get that out of the way.  I use them all the time, personally and professionally.

Then, add on the easy tap of  a iPad icon for easy access to a form that I can use in class to do things such as track behaviors (good or bad), book sign out, library sign-out, quick grade sheet . . . the list goes on and on.  Life is good.

Create a form in Google forms (See some of my samples below. Send the form to yourself and open your email on your iPad. Open the form link in Safari to see the full form. Tap the share button and “Add to Home Screen”

Here are some sample forms that would be helpful at the touch of a finger:

Bad Behavior tracking  

Class participation

Training check in

Resource Check out (books…)
Modifications