Guanjun Fang
Why iPad?
 Accessibility – Thousands of apps, many of which free
 Portability – light, anywhere, anytime.
 Individual screen and much bigger.
 Draw with your fingers, not the mouse or cursor!
 Enhance learning autonomy!
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Activity 2
1 Transcribe the Chinese
2 words in Pinyin with
3 tone marks as you 4hear them.
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ShowMe (pros)
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Easy to use
Turns an iPad into an interactive whiteboard.
Share your lesson or presentation.
Students can review the presentations any time any where.
Keep recording, and drawing.
Draw with your fingers!
Voice-over any time.
Three ways to add photos: from your album, take photo or search
images on the web with your iPad.
 Can have multiple layers of photos with options of “Rotate”,
“Move to front”, “Send to back” .
 Very good for visual learners.
 No limitation and absolutely no charge!
Use in language learning?
 Good self-review tool for students.
 Good for speaking homework.
 Wonderful tool for first semester students
 Teach grammar. (e.g. preposition, comparison)
 Character writing. (Keep writing)
 Pronunciation and tones. (Keep practicing)
 Good for practicing OPI tasks:
 Giving Instructions of How-to’s.
 Describing a person, a place or a structure.
 Showing direction.
Activity 1: Underline the Pinyin you
hear.
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1. lǎo---- liǎo
2. dōu----duō
3. lèi ---- liè
4. gāi ----jiā
5. guāi----guī
6. gōu---- jiū
7. diē ---- tiě
8. chōu----cuō
9. shuí --- suí
10. zāi ----jiā
Activity 3
Fill in the blank with the initials you hear.
1. __u __i
2.__i
__e __a
3.__e __a
4.__i
__u __u __i
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__ai __a
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__u __e
__ao __ai
ShowMe (Cons)
 Limited use for higher level.
 Cannot edit the content once it is posted.
NearPod (pros)
 Interactive (draw, survey, poll, open-ended questions and
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answer, multiple choices quizzes, )
Teacher sees the results in real time
Can share individual answers and overall results with the class
Teachers can get reports after quizzes,
Teachers can see all the drawings, and share student’s drawings
with other students in the class
Give reasonably rich feedback to students
Teachers can make sure that students are not using their iPad to
play around for entertainment.
Individual screen.
Can share links and use video.
Nearpod (Cons)
 Better for delivery of content and check student
understanding
 Can not control if students want to drop from the
presentation.
 Student cannot view the presentation at their own
pace except for self-paced quizzes.
 Not all content tools are free.
Socrative
Socrative (Pros)
 Allows you to engage students with exercises and
games (and check understanding)
 Can create multiple choice questions or a short answer
questions
 Can select “student paced” or “teacher paced” or “space
race” for students to compete in the quizzes.
 Students only need to download the app and have the
teacher “My room number” to join in.
Socrative (Cons)
 No images, no video.
Features
ShowMe
Socrative
NearPod
Free
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YES
YES & No
Image
NO
YES
Recording
YES (Choose Photo, Take
Photo, Search Images on Web)
YES
NO
NO
Draw
YES (7 colors)
NO
YES
Student Account
YES
YES
YES
Individual Screen
YES
YES
YES
Quiz
NO
Survey/Poll
NO
YES (Multiple Choice,
YES (Q & A, and Multiple
True/False/, and Short Answer) Choice)
(Student-Paced, Teacherpaced, or Space Race -- Run a
quiz as game)
YES
YES
Video
NO
NO
YES
Report Results
NO
YES
YES (Real time)
Interactive
NO
YES
YES
Share
YES
YES
YES
Video
VOICE OVER
NO
YES
Questions?