Today was the big day for Mrs. Wolff's four Scribble Press trainers that I met with last week as they took on the task of passing on their newly acquired knowledge of the Scribble Press app to their fellow table members. 

They started by showing their friends how to login to Mrs. Wolff's classroom account and start a blank book. Then they quickly moved on to the how to's of adding sentences and illustrations to their pages. It was so much fun to see these 4 slip so easily into teacher mode as they walked around their tables offering pointers and advice and answering questions that arose. Mrs. Wolff did a great job of mentoring her 4 trainers and encouraging their efforts. By the end of the hour, most of the students had completed 4 of their 8 pages!

I think that Mrs. Wolff would agree with me that this was a highly successful experiment - well worth trying again. 

Thanks to Margie Brown for the fun stop motion video that she made of her visit to Jennifer's class!

When campuses first began having access to shared iPads, I started using this model with Sandy Crump's class. The two of us thought that this approach to teaching a new app made the most sense in a room with only 4 or 5 iPads. So, I would teach a small group of students how to use the app and then Sandy would call another small group of students to the table and the student trainers would teach the new students while Sandy and I looked on. 

So, today I got to try that model with Mrs. Wolff's First Graders. Though she has an iPad for each of her students, Mrs. Wolff thought it would be interesting to see how her students fared with this approach to teaching and learning. 

I worked for about 45 minutes with 4 student trainers showing them how to use Scribble Press, an app that allows you to create your own books and share them with your class, your parents and/or the world! I developed a First Grade friendly step set for the boys to use today in hopes that that step set would be helpful to them when it was their turn to be the teacher. 

For the next few days, the students will work on completing their animal research. When that goal has been accomplished, the boys will try their hand at teaching. I will keep you posted on the results!