I have noticed that with the iPad the class artist sometimes gets too much into drawing and spaces out on the French. In order to fix that, I now ask my artists to not draw the drawings of the story during the creation of the story in class. Instead, they draw them at home. To make that work, I make sure I get the story writer’s work – the new reading translated and posted on my school website – online before dinner time of the same day that the story is created. This allows the artist to go ahead and draw the story on her iPad and email it to me. It also gives the kids a chance to read the story before the quiz and translation assessments in the next class.
(I don’t know if I mentioned it, but we have found that the best interactive white board app for the story writer is Little Story Creator.)