Sixth grade Spanish has turned a new leaf in learning with today’s in-class lesson!  Featured apps in use DRAGON DICTATION, TURBO COLLAGE, and EVERNOTE with website www.spanishdict.com.

This week’s iPad in the classroom lesson had students taking iPad2’s around the library take first take pictures of activities they both like and don’t like to do.  Using TurboCollage, the students label the activity pictures using their Spanish verb vocabulary.  The collage is then put into Evernote where they typed sentences in Spanish about the activities they chose.  After that, they used Dragon Dictation to practice their own pronunciation of their sentences before recording in Evernote to send in to their teacher.

This lesson is so incredible in a myriad of ways that engages the student right from the beginning with the use of the iPad2 to take pictures rather than get started with the educational apps for the lesson.  Students are eager to help each other out with posing for pictures in shots of writing homework or cleaning trash from the ground.  Integrating the iPad2’s Safari browser to use www.spanishdict.com also gave the students a quick and easy way to type in English words that translate to Spanish with audio clips aiding in pronunciation.  Really a very cool lesson that hit on so many great topics of content.  Woot for another great technology integration!