Textbooks of Tomorrow

Via: OnlineEducation.net

Amazing Resources at your disposal.

To date, we have been selfish in Grade 6A knowing that we have the ipads daily at our disposal. Home groups have enjoyed Boggle and Scrabble, humanities classes marveled at the ease of use for blogging , a math support class has used them for remedial lessons and during team time 6A students spent some time exploring math and game apps. In October after one more month of piloting, testing network settings and adding apps we will be releasing the set of 25 to classes in the middle school.

I will still be facilitating, updating and adding apps, but now it is the middle school faculty's chance to start doing some research and create their wishlists, that is apps that they would like added for use in their classroom.

As a starting point for research, here are some amazing sites:

1. ipads in Education.

2. Digital Presentations in Education.

3. TCEA - Recommended iPad Apps.

4. Edudemic - 10 must have back to school apps.

5. Teachers' Lounge, Must have apps for the Classroom.

6. Jog the Web. Social Studies / History Appy Hour

Lastly, once you have your wishlist, please come and chat with Bron!

A new year, new challenges.

I am constantly amazed at the huge amount of resources readily available on the World Wide Web, particularly in relation to ipads. Recommend apps for elementary schools, middle and high schools, apps for educators, apps for administrators; the sites are endless.

For our Middle School, the journey began in Grade 6 in May last year, with approx. 40 apps. As a starting point, please refer to the images on this blogpost for visuals of the apps that were selected.

Enjoy