iPad Integration

With technology quickly surrounding the teaching profession, I believe that it is important to keep up with how to exactly incorporate these technologies into the classroom. I, myself, have had trouble in the past navigating through blogs, wikis, and iPad applications. Luckily, some fellow teachers have noticed this breakdown and created blogs to help us turn these breakdowns into breakthroughs. Two blogs I particularly like are iPad Apps 4 School and Free Tech 4 Teachers. Both of these blogs are authored by Richard Byrne. Flip back and forth between these two blogs and you'll be a tech pro before you know it.

Teachers Teaching Teachers

When exploring the web for classroom blogs, I found that there are equally as many classroom blogs as there are "teaching" blogs. What I mean when I say teaching blogs are that many teachers are posting their instructional strategies, struggles, and successes through blogs. When investigating these blogs, I found that many teachers are doing exemplar work within their classrooms involving technology. One blog I definitely recommend all teachers to take a look at is Tech for Teachers. Not only does this blog give information regarding classroom blogging, but also talks extensively regarding iPads in the classroom, progress monitoring, student engagement, and how to check website validity before sharing sites with our classrooms. It seems to me that the major setback for most teachers is actually getting the technology into the classroom, not actually using it. So I pose this question. How can teachers be proactive in getting the latest technology within their classrooms?