Truly Inspired!!!

Throughout the past week, I watched the Learning Disabilities webinar and was truly in awe of the easily accessible technology available for all students in today's classrooms.  The iPad apps were so cool!  Each new app that I was introduced to I thought of a student at school that could benefit from its use. 

I spent hours downloading these new apps to my own iPad and playing....housework was definitely neglected...LOL....but I learned so much.  I was soooo excited and super inspired to learn as much as I could so that I could share this information with my staff and work cooperatively with them to help implement these new apps with their students.  Paperport Notes, Book Creator and Readiris were three apps that I dived into and learned how to navigate since I thought of students at my school that would truly benefit from them and all the services they offered for them within the classroom.

 



https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/readiris/id465616942?mt=8

http://ipadagog.com/book-creator-app-significant-update/








https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/paperport-notes/id476134017?mt=8






I approached the staff members who taught the students who I thought would benefit from these apps and chatted with them about each one.  They too were in awe of how amazing these apps were and saw how beneficial each was when it came to meeting the needs of students.  Like me, staff downloaded these apps and played around; learning how to navigate them so that they could show their students. 

I've been having a blast playing and learning this week!  My goal this weekend....to watch the webinar on Executive Functions.  Last night's presentation peeked my interest, especially after seeing all the great apps available to assist all students in classrooms.  Again, I thought about different students who would benefit from specific apps and will spend some time playing this weekend.  I THINK I MIGHT HAVE TO LOOK INTO HIRING CLEANING SERVICES!!!  LOL!!! 

The presentations in class last night were great.  Very informative.  For me, I was interested in how each province, school board, etc is implementing technology in their schools and classrooms.  It was very apparent that this 'roll out of technology' varies.   I was very envious of my colleagues in other places who have access to such resources as class sets of iPads and AT mentors.  My small rural school has me...YIKES!!!  If only money grew on trees....then perhaps all teaching staff and students would have the most up to date AT tools and resources at their finger tips supporting them in their classrooms on their educational journey.

For me, I have to accept and work with what I have readily available to me and try to do my best.  My moto this week is ....

    
...therefore, I am going to try and learn as much as I can and support my colleagues with the resources we have.  By doing so, we are working cooperatively to ensure we are providing learning experiences that are fun, engaging and accessible to all and for all. 

Have a super weekend everyone.  Chat soon!