Policy,+Model+Schools+and+Rollout

Policy, User Guides and Rollout

GFW High School - iPad Policy, Procedures, and Information. [|gfw_ipad_policy.pdf]

GFW Schools iPad Initiative Resource Page

MREA - PowerPoint Presentation - Rollout objectives, strategy, infrastructure, staff training, devices, policy development, iPad student pledge, logistics. [|mrea_presentation.pdf]

iPod User Group Wiki - Resource Website - Managing major deployment, device usage scenarios, curriculum uses.

To start...let's talk about
 * 1) what an Ipad is and how it differs from a computer/laptop/netbook
 * 2) what apps are and how they are different from software

Management (Tony Vincent's Do's and Don'ts: [|Tony Vincent]) Talk about uses in the classroom (content consumption vs content creation)
 * 1) purchasing applications
 * 2) rolling out applications
 * 3) making the devices access the wireless network
 * 4) using the devices without a wireless network
 * 5) etexts (example: [|TED Talk, Mike Matas], [|Inkling])
 * 1) teacher led discussion, content, practice
 * 2) using it like an overhead projector
 * 1) students working on their own
 * 2) reading, e-books, [|http://www.epubbud.com/]
 * 3) online researching
 * 4) playing educational games
 * 1) students working collaboratively
 * 2) composition
 * 3) research
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">multi-user games
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">Progress monitoring/assessment
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">response systems/clicker/lan school: e-clicker, Lan School
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">teacherpal (gradebook, attendance, student info)
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">surveys

talk about applications
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">e-books: Toy Story, Homer, Shakespeare Bits
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">literacy: FW Animals
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">math: pizza fractions
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">science: periodic table
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">social studies: the Revolution
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">communication: Skype
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">media: photobooth, my pictures talk
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">online field trips: MoMA,