digital post-its... IdeaBoost iPad app

The IdeaBoost iPad app allows the first graders to create, manipulate, and use "digital" sticky-notes!

With the IdeaBoost iPad app, the first graders...

• compose "handwritten" sticky-notes
• manipulate sticky-notes
• revise and/or edit sticky-notes
• categorize sticky-notes
• analyze sticky-notes
• compare and summarize sticky-notes
• "share" sticky-notes
• create "canvases" for sticky-notes
• import and use custom canvas "backgrounds"
• create custom canvas "backgrounds"
• type, write, draw sticky-notes and/or on canvas
• and...

IdeaBoost supports learning as readers, writers, mathematicians, scientists, citizens, speakers, listeners, and... 

One example of how the IdeaBoost iPad app supports first graders' learning and development...

Using the IdeaBoost iPad app, the first grade Butterflies worked collaboratively with a partner to record information constructed through viewing, listening, reading, and discussing a variety of multi-media and digital texts about Colonial and Pioneer Past on the iPad.

Accessing the informational texts on one partner's iPad and utilizing the IdeaBoost iPad app on the other partner's iPad, the first graders cooperatively and collaboratively created digital sticky-notes. The first graders recorded facts and information learned directly and/or constructed through making inferences, connections, comparisons, summarizing content, synthesizing content, and...

The Butterflies continuously reviewed, revised, and edited sticky-notes.

Importing a custom canvas "background" (I created), the partners examined, compared, combined, revised, edited, and categorized the sticky-notes.

Using the "share" capability of the IdeaBoost iPad app, the first graders emailed and printed copies of the "canvas" for each partner.

The partners used the printed "notes" to compose informational writing to inform the reader about life in the Colonial and Pioneer Past, explain how life has changed, and share opinions on the positive and/or negative effect of the changes.

first graders create digital "sticky notes"
-using the IdeaBoost iPad app

first graders manipulate digital "sticky notes"
-using the IdeaBoost iPad app