Collaborative problem solving is awesome, and this week I got to experience it at it's best. One of my Kindergarten teachers and I were talking about how hard it is for her students to hold the ipad up and film.
We want them to be able to interview each other in front of their work and film it. Our solution started with her handing me a strip of fleece and saying "Try to do something with this."
The strips were really long, so I cut them in half and fed them through part of our iPad case.
We turned the kids loose filming and they were able to film longer, no iPads hit the ground and the videos were a bit better. The problem came at the end of class. We had to use pens to pry the knots apart! the weight of the device had been pulling on the knot and made it very tight.
We also saw that some of the strips were way too short.
So we revised our deign. The new strips were longer and Sally suggested we tie them in loops first and then use a lark's head knot to attach them to the ipads.
This worked great. We tested the design with the other kindergarten class and then with the first grade.
We are keeping the design on pretty tight lock down until the patent clears. But if you want to be a beta tester, let us know in the comments.
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