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October 5, 2010 Going through the surveys was helpful to see what types of technology my students are using. The fact that they like the classes that they are in is good to know. Working with Alison was useful in finding applications for earth science. It is a bit frustrating too. It is difficult to see how some of the apps will work. I am really looking forward to visiting other schools to see what they are doing with the iPad. It was difficult to figure out everyone elses schedule to set up visits. The students are looking forward to using the iPad.

I am working with Amy K. in global9. She is very excited about this project. Many opportunities to use the iPad in global it seems. I work with awesome teachers!

11/1/2010 iPad observation with Miss Fergeson Biology class.T

The class is using the ipads for food analysis. They will fill in the foods they ate by recording daily meals. They will use to compare what they need with what they ate. After they do that step they will use the app Go meals.

I liked the way the students have to sign out an iPad

Helped students use the go meals app. It was interesting, helping students look up the foods they ate. They recorded info and continued on to others days of food consumed. Students were on task and were for the most part focused on the information. It was not hard to find information, they were concerned if the food didn't match perfectly. Students enjoyed the activity.

Observation of Global class. Students are using the teachers webpage to begin activity. Group project using google earth to start. Students typed in Venice, Italy. Look at city and how it becomes the most important trading port city. why does it become a trading center. Mr. Violanti had their interest right away. Next he had them type in Florence. shows a different geographic factor for trading, shows largest church in relation to topic of study.

they have iPad assignments linked onto their web page that made it easy to find.

12/10/10 I have had the opportunity to use the ipads several times now. Sorry have not journaled. Alison has been great with showing me how to use clicker. She is a pro at. The students really like to use it. The only thing they dont like is that they can not change their answer on it. In US history we used them to look up images on the industrial revolution. Students were engaged to talk about the images. Most of the work done with these have been research based, not use of too many apps yet.

12/15/10- At Depew today working and learning about new things to do with the iPad. Learning how to take video and download.

12/21/10 Alison Moran and I did a web quest today using the ipads. It went really well. Students worked at their own pace and were able to work with a partner to find information on spring and neap tides. We ended the activity with students writing a poem and presenting it to the class. Students really enjoyed the activity. I think they like the quickness of the iPad and the information is right at their hands. At the end of the unit I feel the students understood neap and spring tides very well. The visuals we had through the web quest were great.

1/7/11 Used the ipads in us history to get visual documents on life on the home front during world war 2. Students had many questions about the pictures which spun to different conversations about the war and what went on during that time here in the states. We will discuss more on Monday about what they found and the different types of rationing, propaganda they found.

2/17/2011 Today we used the ipads for review. We went onto clicker with some questions from the test. Students enjoyedit. They liked seeing the results.

2/28/11 Used the ipads for review for exams at the end of January. Most students did well on exams. One failure in us history, all passed global some with variance.

Have not had the chance to used in march yet.

April: Used the IPad in Global 9 with eclicker to reivew before vocab quizzes and tests. Students were able to use google earth on the Ipads to locate Constantinople and the Haiga Sophia. Students were able to see all of the ports and little water ways used for trade.

May 5 2011, students were researching the Byzantine empire and completing a short webquest.

May 16, 2011- Using the Ipad today in Global 9. Students are completing a jigsaw activity on West African Kingdoms. They will use the Ipads to go to our teacher pages to find more information and answer questions on worksheets.

May 20, 2011- using the ipads in Global 10 for the Cold war. Students will be in groups of three, and research information on their Cold War topic. After they are finished collecting information they will present their information to the rest of the class. The students will get their information from the other groups.

May 24, 2011: Going to BOCES to present with Alsion our lesson on Tides and the use of the Ipad. Just copleted lesson and posted on site. (Alison).

June 8, 2011 At Depew for the final meeting. It is hard to believe it is the end of the year. It was a good experience using the ipads. It was nice to have new technology and give the students a great opportunity to use the ipads. I would have liked to try different apps rather than use a browser to look up information. I liked working with my co teachers and sharing this with them. Hope to have them again next year as with a different schedule and possibly do more projects using the ipads. Have an enjoyable summer!