Just for the record I have never received
a grant for any type of hardware technology for my classroom. I have received software based on a grant
that I wrote from Donors.org. I have not
successfully written a grant that resulted in receiving any type of hardware
technology.
The title of this blog is to
hopefully generate comments from people who have been more fortunate than
myself in receiving equipment.
Currently, my classroom has a Promethean board, docu camera, Epson
camera and iPads (iPad 1 & 2) that I have checked out from our school
technology library. This is more than
some teachers have in their classroom and I am fortunate enough have what I
have in my classroom.
Everyday, the staff in my classroom
tries to think o ways that we can get an iPad 2 for each student in our
classroom. I would like to have 15 iPad 2;
this would result in letting each of my students have their own iPad. In addition, I would like to have a MacBook
computer that would have the software to coordinate the iPads and make sure
that they stay where they should be and not going somewhere else.
(POINT: I do know about guided access that iPad 2
have in their settings and I use this on some iPads, however, iPad 1 do not
have the same type of settings where I can lock the apps on the iPad 1 as I do
on the iPad 2s)
My dream is to have the ability to
plan my lessons and develop a blended learning environment in my
classroom. Although, I do know that
flipping the classroom is the current vogue for many teachers, I am not convinced
that it is the best environment for all teachers and it is something that each
teacher needs to think about for their classroom.
In the meantime, I am continually
searching for help in raising money from grants or donations in order to buy
the 15 iPad 2 and MacBook. In addition,
I hope to learn to use the technology in efficient manner so that I work in
directly with each of my students.
Eventually, I will transfer this knowledge to an online environment where
I will instruct future teachers.
