We have been lucky enough to purchase 10 IPADS for the Middle School! A big thanks to Ray and Phil for the support make this happen. We are going to spend the final quarter exploring their applications to create their own personal learning community and for our classrooms, the implications for teaching and learning. Our intention is to have ten teachers at a time pilot the IPAD for four weeks, taking it home with them each day and on the weekends. The intention will be for you to experience what an IPAD has to offer for you in developing your own personal learning community and to discover what are some classroom applications.
Throughout your four week trial with the IPAD. Bill will be offering a thirty minutes workshop from 12:00-12:30 each Monday. The MS office will provide lunch on these days and we ask those of you with the IPAD come to each workshop to engage in guided discovery of sites, tools and experiences that Bill will provide. The intention is for a portion of this time to instructional and then for the rest to be exploratory and sharing as we are all going to be learning together. Bill has already started with some folks who already have an IPAD exploring IPAD applications and sharing lists, applications and the like, so this will be an excellent starting point for the rest of us.
Paul D., MS Principal
Paul D., MS Principal
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Usefulness: I took the ipad to prizma and volleyball and used it for class oral presentations and was able to video and email photos and videos easily. Instant feedback for volleyball and oral presentations.
ReplyDeleteMost interesting app: Powerschool. Easily, quickly typed comments and updated grades (thanks Jake)
Future with ipad: I would use it mostly in the way I used it over the last few weeks (see above).