So far, in science, I have used the apps: Educreations, TouchCast, Explain Everything and Baiboard (see our reviews of the apps we've used elsewhere on this website), in addition to the camera/video functions and general research on the internet. Students used TouchCast to introduce themselves; Educreations to brainstorm "What is Science?"; Explain Everything to chronicle their experiences with a dry ice lab activity and Baiboard to practice creating data tables and graphs. While I had working knowledge of how to use these Apps before we began, the students ultimately found many more "cool" features that they then taught to me...I fully expected that this would be the case and I am perfectly happy to be on the receiving end of their technological savvy -which, for the most part, exceeds mine. During the first week of classes we also had the tech-expertise of our Math/Science/IT consultant and TLLP partner in iPadding, David Petro, to help navigate the occasionally bumpy road of iPad deployment. Whenever anything failed to work properly, we were able to say "...and now Mr. Petro will take it from here...."The students submit their work to me using the iPad via their Google Tools2go accounts (google docs, presentations, gmail, etc) and I evaluate their submissions and email them their results. They have also used their iPads to respond to various Google Forms I have posted (surveys related to Science Knowledge, experimental design, etc).
With respect to charging the iPads, we have found that with our usage between 3 classes (they are not used constantly...but for maybe 20 minutes each period)...they require charging again by Thursday or Friday (charging once a week has been working for us so far).
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