Some of our teachers recently started giving very quick, five question quizzes over the content the students were supposed to have learned the year before. These are done every day and last no more than five minutes. Works great for getting a quick glance at where the students currently are with past skills, and one of the teachers using this strategy hit me up for creating a more streamlined method that would give her all of her answers in one spot. The solution? Google Forms + iPod Touch = quick, …

I generally don’t make a habit of blogging about ideas that I hadn’t already done in the classroom, but I’d like to expand upon a twitter conversation from early and see where else the community can take it. I won’t get into a lot of detail, but if interest persists, then this will become a series as I journal the experiences of my first year of LOTRO in the classroom. Please feel free to comment with thoughts, ideas, critiques, etc. And of course there a COPPA concerns, that I will …

iDevices are getting picked up left and right by educational institutions all over the place. Coming in all flavors, some are being used as 1:1, checked out devices, intervention tools, learning centers, etc… but the one thing I’ve picked up most on doing several pilots is while there may be an app for something, it is way more important to focus on routines, than one-off apps.
One of the biggest selling points, beyond their mobility, is the abundance of apps that can be downloaded and installed. Want something for multiplication? Fractions? …

Coverage of the iPod Program wouldn’t be complete without mentioning some of the apps that really make it happen. One of the biggest things we have to consider about apps to sync on the iPods is that not every student has WiFi at home. Wifi can be easily added at home by purchasing one to go with their existing internet connection. (Here are some wireless routers at MISCO for home or school use). With this being the case, we were in need of apps that will work both online and …

It’s really easy to get caught up in the excitement of purchasing your first set of iPod Touches and forget about some of the necessary hardware that might be necessary to get your program up and running. This was an area that we had to learn as we went along. With that in mind, there are at least three things that you should definitely consider having as a part of your iPod program.
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Almost regardless of the amount of units you plan on deploying, you are going to want to …