This presentation was used as part of the panel discussion on the same topic at the Mobile 2011 conference.

1. From Implementation to Device
Management
A Panel Discussionat #Mobile2011
Suren Ramasubbu Phil Hardin
CEO Exec Director of Education
Mobicip.comHuffPost Technology
Blogger
Jennifer Wivagg
Technology Susan Wells
Coordinator Principal

2. Agenda
• Overview
• Initiation
• Budget
• Leadership support & approval
• Deployment challenges
• Acceptable use, security, device management
• Loss / damage
• Student tasks and projects
• Impact on student achievement

3. Jump Links
• Title
• Agenda
• Comal
• Rowan Salisbury
• Culbreth
• Appendix

5. Individualized Instruction and Learning
Using The iPod Touch
How ELL Students Use the iPod touch as a Tool to
Help with English Language Acquisition
A Joint Presentation
By
Jennifer Wivagg Jose Salazar

6. • Located between
Austin and San
Antonio
• 600 Square
Miles
• 17,000 students
PreK-12

7. ELL Student Trends at CISD
April 2009 April 2009 April 2009
April 2009 Reading, Grade April 2009 March 2009 April 2009 April 2009
Mathematics, Mathematics, Mathematics,
6 Reading, Grade 7 Writing, Grade 7 Science, Grade 8 Reading, Grade 8
Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8
Canyon Middle School 90.26% 79.85% 85.17% 85.66% 95.40% 85.30% 88.52% 66.67%
Limited English 40% 50% 50% 62.50% 87.50% 66.67% 50% 100%
Church Hill Middle School 94.96% 91.86% 82.68% 90.91% 94.25% 88.33% 88.89% 62.50%
Limited English 80% 100% 40% 20% 57.14% 60% 60% 50%
Mountain Valley Middle School 94.14% 81.33% 77.06% 85.71% 92.45% 77.14% 83.41% 52.63%
Limited English 80% 40% - - - 50% 25% 0%
Smithson Valley Middle School 99.23% 93.10% 93.33% 95.56% 97.73% 93.43% 92.73% 66.67%
Limited English 100% 75% 100% 50% 100% 0% 33.33% 50%
Spring Branch Middle School 98.80% 86.80% 90.15% 94.70% 99.19% 88.89% 90.62% 100%
Limited English 50% 100% - - - 0% 0% -
• Consistently score lower on standardized tests.
• Often have few learning resources at home.
• Limited exposure to academic English outside of
school.

8. ELL Program Goals
• Increase English language acquisition and
fluency
• Provide students with anywhere/anytime
learning
• Improve standardized test scores

9. Proposed Solution
• Provide all ELL middle school students with a
mobile device with the following access:
• Audio Textbook in English
• English Music and Videos
• Internet Access
• Voice Recording Capability
• Learning Tools such as translators, dictionaries,
encyclopedias, etc.
• Educational Games
• Students will be able to take home the mobile
device.

10. 32GB
Third Generation
iPod Touch
32GB
Fourth Generation
iPod Touch

11. Implementation
• Parent Meeting (Required)
– Outline program guidelines
– Permission slip
– Student Responsibility
– Overview of the device
• Teacher Training
– Individual/Group
– In-class with students
– Ongoing

12. Activities and Outcomes
Voice Recordings
• Students use Voice
Memos and read or
respond to prompts.
• Helps improve fluency
and comprehension.
•Provides instant feedback
•Helps teachers with
progress monitoring.

13. Activities and Outcomes
Research/Reference Tools Provides
• Dictionary • Instant access to
• Thesaurus information
• Internet through Mobicip • Student-centered
• Glossaries • Multiple modalities (text,
• Maps images, sounds)

14. Activities and Outcomes
Audiobooks
• Textbooks and novels are
available to students in an
audio format.
• ELL students can listen as
they read.
• Helps with English
pronunciation and
comprehension.
• Provides textbook
support at home.

15. Activities and Outcomes
Apps
• Educational and Games
reinforce concepts.
• Game apps used as
rewards for meeting
educational goals.
• Individualized
instruction
“I like Word Warp because they give you letters and you discover words with the
letters they give you.”
-Karina, Grade 6

16. Activities and Outcomes
Videos
• Teachers download
videos that correspond
to topics in their core
classes.
• Provides student with
additional instruction in
a different format.

17. Activities and Outcomes
Creating Media
• Audio and Video Podcasts
• Students take pictures of
words they need to
identify.
• Students create an video
oral history of their live.
(Interview with family
members)

18. Sample Activity-Comic Touch
•The teacher assigns a list of
vocabulary words to the
students.
•The students first must find
a picture on the Internet
(Mobicip) that represents
the vocabulary word in
some way.
•The student then uses the
application, Comic Touch, to
create a comic panel that
represents their assigned
vocabulary words.

19. iMentor Program
Mentoring program
with high school
students and middle
school ELL students
Students use video
downloaded on the iPods
to facilitate discussion.

20. Application Task Cards

21. Challenges
• Time
• Management
• Loss/theft of devices
• Lack of curriculum integrating the iPod touch
• Lack of framework
• Few educational reviewed applications
• Training teachers

22. http://www.comalisd.org/mobile_learning

23. Contact Information
Jennifer Wivagg, instructional media specialist
jennifer.wivagg@comalisd.org
Jose Salazar, bilingual/ESL coordinator
jose.salazar@comalisd.org

25. The Mobile Learning Environment
Phil Hardin
Executive Director of Technology
Rowan-Salisbury School System
Salisbury, NC
hardinpj@rss.k12.nc.us

26. North Rowan High iPod Project
Background
710 Students
0.8% American Indian
2.5% Asian
3.2% Multiracial
4.6% Hispanic
42.1% White
46.6% African American
63% Free/Reduced Lunch

27. North Rowan High iPod Project
Background
8th grade End-of-Grade test scores for the
current NRH 9th graders:
• 36.4% were at or above Level III in reading
• 39.42% were at or above Level III in math
• 26.2% were at or above Level III in reading
and math

28. North Rowan High iPod Project
• Dropout Rates & Engagement:
Most students report that dropping out of High School is a
gradual process of disengagement that results in the lack
of connection to school.
Student engagement is one of the areas addressed by the
NRH project.

29. North Rowan High iPod Project
Mobile Learning Opportunities:
1. Encourage “anywhere, anytime” learning
2. Reach underserved children
3. Improve 21st-century social interactions
4. Fit with learning environments
5. Enable a personalized learning experience
Pockets of Potential: Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children’s Learning, January 2009

30. North Rowan High iPod Project
The Beginning: 2008-2009
•Freshman Academy
• 200 ninth grade students
• 10 core subject area teachers
• 4 resource teachers
• Principal & Assistant Principal

31. North Rowan High iPod Project
2009-2010 School Year:
Expanded to 10th grade - August 2009
Expanded to 11th & 12th grades - February 2010

32. North Rowan High iPod Project

33. North Rowan High iPod Project
Wireless Internet Equipped Buses

34. North Rowan High iPod Project

35. North Rowan High iPod Project
Benefits:
• Engaged Students
• Students Excited about Learning
• Students Use Educational iPod Applications
Outside of Class
• Teachers Excited about their Teaching
• Decrease in Discipline
• Increase in Attendance Rate for 9th Graders

36. Expansion
Overton Elementary: Spring 2010
iPod touch devices and iPod carts provided to:
• 70 fifth grade students
• 5 fifth grade teachers
• School administrators

37. Expansion
North Rowan Middle: Fall 2010
iPod touch devices and MacBook carts will be
provided to:
• 205 eighth grade students
• 8 core subject area teachers
• School administrators
This is a feeder school for North Rowan High

38. Expansion
Knox Middle: Fall 2010
iPod touch devices and MacBook carts will be
provided to:
• 252 sixth grade students
• 9 core subject area teachers
• School administrators
Overton Elementary is a feeder school for Knox Middle

39. Expansion
Thirty-eight 21st Century Model
Classrooms
iPod touch devices, iPod carts, and MacBook
carts provided to:
• Thirty-eight 21st century model classrooms
• Model classroom teachers selected
by an application process

40. Expansion
Spring 2011
iPod touch devices and MacBook carts will be
provided to:
• 450 seventh grade students
• 80 fourth grade students
• 20 core subject area teachers

41. Funding & Partnerships
Funding:
Local, State, & Federal Funds
Grant Funds
• The Blanche & Julian Robertson Family
Foundation
• Golden LEAF Foundation
Working Partnerships:
Apple, Inc.
Mobicip

42. 3 Years of iPod 1:1

43. Staff collaboration--
Examining our own bricks
and mortar

44. Teachers embrace new
technologies

45. Changing teaching and learning-
customized, personalized,
individualized

46. Moving to mobile,
universal deployment

47. iPod touch at hand- every student, every
day

48. Across conten
Science Class areas
Social Studies Class
ESL Class

49. Managing the technical end

50. Mobicip- internet
filtering for the iPod
touch

51. “It’s changing everything.”
“Information no
longer belongs to
just a handful of
kids, or just to me.”
- Culbreth teacher

52. Appendix

53. Managed 1:1 Learning Platform
✓Network
✓Classroom Equipment
✓CIPA Filter - Mobicip
✓Configuration &Deployment
✓Device Management & Syncing

54. CIPA-Compliance
Safe Browser Web Monitor
App www.mobicip.com

55. CIPA-Compliance
• Replacement for Safari Mobile
• Same rich UI, look and feel
– Bookmarks
– Multiple Tabs
– Pinch & Zoom
– Landscape Mode
– Send Email
– URL History / Suggestions
– Cookies
– Save Images

56. CIPA-Compliance
• Account Configuration
• Apply Global Filtering Level – Elem, Middle, High School
• Allow/Block Categories
• Allow/Block Websites
• Add/remove Devices
• Manage Users
• Setup Time Limits
• Internet Activity Reports
• Allowed Websites
• Blocked Websites
• Receive Email Reports

57. References
Comal ISD Mobile Learning Project
http://www.comalisd.org/mobile_learning
Grey Culbreth YouTube Channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/greyculbreth
North Rowan High School iPod Project
http://www.rss.k12.nc.us/21stCentury/ipodMain.html
Mobicip.com
http://www.mobicip.com