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Technology Integration

My opinion: we have to prepare our students for the 21st Century, 24/7/365 connected, global economy that they are part of and we cannot do that properly without integrated technology, social networking, and Web 2.0. That’s it.

Here’s an example grant proposal for iPads and for social networking for teachers: WA STEM Grant Proposal & here’s another Sample Grant Proposal

Here are some other blogs I’ve written about technology integration and use:
Technology as a Tool

Goals for my Students

iPads Promise and How to Use Them Now

iPads in Science and iPads in Science 2

Play First, Work Later

The Need for Protecting Your iPad

But iPads Can Survive a Fall

iPad App Reviews

Office2 HD

Office2 HD and Google Docs

Uploading Photos with the iPad

Star Walk iPad App Review

Limited by Four Walls? (Just some thoughts about blended learning.)

Save Icon Needs Updating

iPad Friendly Sites

Unstructured iPad Time

Evolution of 1:1

Lessons from my Student Bloggers and one year later More Lessons from Student Bloggers

Connecting

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  • Emaggioli

    I enjoyed reading through your site. I will be using both ipad2 and MacBooks in my classroom this fall. I plan to use my class wiki space site as a base for students to collaborate from and post their work. Problem with the iPad is it doesn’t work great while editing wiki pages. Do you have any experience with this? I have spent considerable time developing my wiki site and hate to have to redo. I want to have student make podcast both video and audio, work in google docs, post pictures etc. What do you think?

  • http://educatoral.com/ Alfonso (Al) Gonzalez

    I think having a combo of iPad 2′s and MacBooks in your class is awesome! I’m not familiar at all with the iPad 2 but knowing that iPads still don’t show Flash content and that HTML 5 content is sparce and that a lot of great Web 2.0 tools require Flash having the MacBooks means that your kids can still do anything. I’ve never tried editing Wiki pages with the iPads but just in the span of one school year I’ve seen the iPad go from not being able to work on Google Docs very well to showing much improvement in that area. I don’t think you would need to redo your Wiki but I really don’t know. As for making podcasts, video and audio, working in Google Docs, and posting pictures, all those things are completely doable with an iPad. My students did most of those (no video cause we have first gen iPads). Your kids are going love them and they will be doing great stuff! Good luck!

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