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10/5/10

Excited to try new apps and to visit the other schools. Feels a bit overwhelming....hopefully with time to practice,all will go well. Already see my study skills students love to use the iPad.

10/22/10

My iPad has been great for research projects! Kids all want to use it. Almost time for visitations. Cant wait for class set to try in a lesson.

10/27/10 Looking forward to visitations. Hoping for new ideas for using them in classroom. Demand for use of my iPad continues to be high.

11/5/10

Observations this week. Saw some great uses for the iPad. Liked the enthusiasm from the students. Gave us some good places to start when we have the ipads. It would have been nice if we had visitor passwords for the internet so we could have used our ipads to try the lesson too in classes the were using all the ipads. In the classes that had extra it was better learning when I got to try the lesson with the students.

12/7/10

First iPad lesson today. It went really well. Kids loved using them. A little time consuming because it was the first time being used. Excited to write the next lesson.

12/15/10

At Depew today. Interesting to hear about the new cameras. Wonder how will we use it? Today's goal is to learn about eclicker and get it planned in for a lesson. Wish there were more high school level math apps. Thank god for Internet and great web sites. Students are very excited to use them. My study skills class really uses them for vocab and research.

12/22/10

Spent planning day on a new lab. Thank god for the afternoon at Depew to get a jump start. Process is vey time consuming, but excited to see how it works. The iPad will teach most of the stats unit. Hopefully it works out well

2/7/11

New labs are going well. Find it may be easier to link from teacher page then give directions from the lab itself. Seems students have trouble following and locating from just directions.

2/21/2011. Study skills like using ipads for global vocal.,they like seeing pictures and more information about it. Using lower level apps to practice basic math skills has been fun for them.

3/17/11 planning day today and created two ratio/proportion labs. Not sure how much fill in they will need, trying with non blends first to get a feel for it. Hopefully it goes well.

4/7/11. Labs one went well. They really utilized the calculator and seemed to enjoy the lesson. Made the book work more interesting.

6/15- All wrapped up with the school year and the ipads. Really feel all of my students had such a positive experience with them. Excited to develop more projects for next year.