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Upcoming workshops at TCEA conference

February 6th, 2012 · No Comments · Web 2.0

I’ll be presenting all this week at the Texas Computer Educator Association conference in Austin (as well as learning at Tuesday’s Edubloggercon and other sessions!) If you are interested in following along here are the presentation topics and times: Tuesday, 1:30 – 2:14   Twitterlution:  Changing Advocacy I’ll be talking Twitter, and its role in revolutions, [...]

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Anatomy of an iPad implementation

January 15th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Web 2.0

One-to-one technology implementations often receive bad press in the media.  So it’s been fascinating to be part of a 1:1 iPad implementation at my own school and observe and participate in the process first hand and see the impacts. My recent article in Internet @ Schools summarizes some of my observations.  But I will add [...]

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iPads in the elementary library

January 13th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Web 2.0

One way to use iPads in the elementary library is as part of “stations.”   The touch screen and variety of available apps make it a natural for learning stations. One of our elementary librarians and I spent time recently exploring apps for her students, and found some excellent apps that would work well for [...]

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The nitty gritty details–Implementing iPads

November 13th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Web 2.0

After meeting with my district librarians this week, I realized that perhaps it would be helpful to spell out some details of our iPad implementation (my previous posts about the results of our pilot study and teacher responses are here and here) for both our own staff, but perhaps it will be of interest to [...]

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Piloting iPads in library settings

September 5th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Web 2.0

After I saw our students playing chess on their iPads in our library cafe area last spring, I knew that it was time that we get on board and look at the role iPads could play in our technology/e-book offerings on campus.   Watching students using iPads, I could see the engagement and enthusiasm and interactivity [...]

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