iPad App Review

• • Notability by Ginger Labs
  • Skill Area: This app could be used by our administrative team (our principal, instructional strategist, and myself)
  • This app is appropriate to use with all grade levels and subjects. 
  • Description: With this app, you can take notes or pictures, annotate documents or pictures, then share your notes. Notes may be shared on twitter, email, Drop Box, printed, etc.
  • Our instructional strategist went to the Plain Talk conference several weeks ago in New Orleans and learned about an effective observation process for teachers. In summary, the principal, the instructional strategist, and I observed 6 teachers. Using a T-chart we scripted everything the students did/said and everything the teacher did/said. Using the notes, we determined a weakness that we all had observed from each teacher. We divided up the teachers, met with them, and the process goes on from there. Using the app, Notability, we would be able to take notes, capture pictures in the classroom, annotate the pictures, and share them privately among the three of us by printing our notes, using iCloud, or Drop Box. This is a great way to combine our data.