“What’s a girl have to do around here to get an iPad?” That question, posed to a friend in the technology department of our district in October 2010, has catapulted me into the realm of iPads in education. 3 months after the initial inquiry, I had 30 iPads delivered to my classroom with no rules, no plan and endless possibilities.
The initial training was brief. I, along with 2 other colleagues in my school, were selected to serve as pilot teachers for 1:1 iPads. We met with a Systems Engineer from Apple and in a few short hours we had our Mac book, our iPads, and our mission: Go forth, be fruitful and multiply…
Wow we have come a long way in a year! Hard to imagine where we started just a year ago! And now we have 5,000 deployed!
Kristen,
We have come a long way. It has been a wonderful experience. Thank you for all you have done to make it happen!
Greatt reading your blog post