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Activities Toward iPad and Technology Integration

Buckle your seatbelts; we're about to journey into the world of iPads and technology integration!!!! The following activities we will be doing have been used within many classrooms. Very often you will find that if you know the 'ins and outs' of one technology you can figure out or work with another in a similar manner. This journey will give us a taste of several different facets of iPad or classroom integrated technology and how we can use it in our own lives.

__**Logistics**__
I will try to offer more than one option for accomplishing some of the activities when it's possible. We may run into problems at certain locations due to slow servers, firewalls and filtering systems blocking certain websites. I will either have substitutions or other options to accomplish the task at hand. In some cases you may even want to try the technology at home to really get a feel for it. Some video and photo-imaging sites are blocked, but they are often fun to try in your own time. I like to post various formats when possible (i.e. audio, visuals, etc.) The videos I offer on this site sometimes afford more details in the explanation of the activity at hand, and sometimes humor, but they are not required to accomplish each task. Viewing the videos is not required, so don't worry if you don't have access to them. They will benefit those of you that are visual learners, but I will always have instructions written out or attached, as well.

I will also continue to show you specific sites that you might find useful for certain subject areas and professional development, but the specific activities included in this wiki will give us a chance to collaborate and create together. With numerous sites out there to use this list of activities gives us a real chance to practice //using// technology and make us technologically adept instructors.

These things will be done independently and at your own pace, but I will continue to offer tips and advice for finishing the activities. We will also be sharing when we finish each activity. This is where collaboration really comes in handy. I might tell you how I would use certain features on the iPad, but you could personalize for yourself and your students in ways that I never would have thought of. This makes it a very individualized endeavor that benefits us all.

= The Activities: =

Technology Integration in the Classroom Activity 1- What's it all about??? Meet your iPad Activity 2- An Introduction to the iPad Activity 3- Photostream Activity 4-How do I know if I'll like it?--Choosing Apps and their uses

Effective Collaboration Activity 5- Google Accounts

Activity 6- Sharing Information: Delicious, Livebinders, and Pinterest Thing 6- Share with others Thing 7- Set up a LinkedIn account Thing 8- Share with others

Online Productivity Thing 10- Try out a few online productivity tools for teachers Thing 11- Share with others

Photos, Images, video and audio Thing 12- Flickr Thing 13-Share with others

Thing 14- TeacherTube Thing 15-Share with others Thing 16- Learn about podcasts and webcasts Thing 17-Share with others

Keeping Up Thing 18- Learn about RSS feeds Thing 19-Subscribe to RSS and/or Google Reader Thing 20-Share with others

Organized Techie-Style Thing 21- Check out these tools Thing 22- Share with others

Lifelong Learning Thing 23- Virtual environments Final Reflection