Again, I am a few steps behind when it comes to using different pieces of technology in my classroom. This week was one full of exploration. I made the brave decision to embrace the one-to-one technology available and so far it has been a positive decision. They have been working on a video project for a week and a half. It is finally time to wrap up and turn in their final projects. I realized turning in videos could be complicated, so I taught myself how to use Airdrop on my laptop for students to turn in their TV commercial projects.
I was hesitant to use this technology because my students have misused it so many times before. My only experience with Airdrop before this week was for writing up students for airdropping photos during class and disrupting instruction.
After today, I will only use Airdrop for students to submit projects. They were able to airdrop their video from iMovie to my MacBook Air. It only took a few minutes depending on how long the videos were.
Here are some simple directions:
1. Open Finder
2. Click Airdrop on the left side
3. Turn on Bluetooth
4. Select who can Airdrop to your device
Hi Molly! I love Airdrop. I actually use Airdrop daily in my classroom. I will tell you the few ways I use it.
With students, I have had them submit things this way (like you did), which is great and easy. I have also shared things with my students via Airdrop. For example, I shared an audiobook with my class one time. This way, we all had a great recording of the novel we were reading, if they wanted to use it.
For myself, I upload pictures to my Classroom almost daily. I do notes on the whiteboard often, which I want students to be able to copy down if they are absent or check if they missed something. This allows me to share the photos with myself easily and then upload them to Classroom.