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Best Practices and Strategies for iPads in the Elementary Classroom
Poll - pollev.com/chrisuva

Tips for iPad Classrooms:
1. Unlimited free apps, but be thoughtful 2. Apps can work like IEPs 3. Students have more ownership with creation-based apps 4. Let your classroom go through "stages of implementation" 5. Work hard to change up usage, i.e. - individual, pairs, groups, whole class 6. Be a part of a professional-learning group, even if you are passive (Twitter, etc.)

Google Form Example
@http://tinyurl.com/smelem

Lessons learned from Digital Textbook Pilot
http://www.lwbva.org/beyondtextbooks.cfm http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/04/ipads_in_the_classroom_the_right_way_to_use_them_demonstrated_by_a_swiss.html

Classroom Strategies
http://www.teachthought.com/apps-2/62-ideas-for-using-the-ipad-in-the-classroom http://learninginhand.com/ios/ http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/12/top-7-guides-on-how-to-use-ipad-in-your.html

Classroom Ideas - Innovation Award Summaries:
http://wiki.canby.k12.or.us/groups/innovation/wiki/9249c/201011_Innovation_Grant_Awardees_and_Research_Projects.html QR Codes - http://insidetheclassroomoutsidethebox.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/ways-to-use-qr-codes-in-the-elementary-classroom-and-using-google-docs-to-create-them/

Identifying Apps
http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps.html http://ipadapps4school.com http://learninginhand.com/ios

iPad Teachers Network
http://ipadeducators.ning.com/forum

Apps for Teachers (**note - this link will open up iTunes)

iPads in the Elementary Classroom - Overview
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