Wow! So Many Choices.

As I was looking through all the concurrent sessions available to attend at FETC2012, I had some trouble deciding due to all of the choices. So, I decided to chose the sessions that would best benefit my school and our situation. Currently, we have been able to place classroom sets of iPads in each of our science and social studies classes and have a few sets that are shared between our elective classes. Would I have liked for 1:1 ratio for every student? Of course, but it was not feasible for multiple reasons. Lack of funding is obviously one of the reasons. So, it was clear that I needed to attend session CS8066 - No Money? No Problem! Getting Grants for Great Technology. Then I began to think, how could we provide evidence that the iPads would be beneficial as we address the academic needs of our students and support the iPads that we already have in place. So I determined that I would select the following sessions (reasoning):

• CS2059 – The Shift to Tablet Technology:Examples of Student Centered Projects (support PBL)
• CS3520 – Educating Digitally: Classrooms Without Books (support PBL)
• CS4330 – Technology = Success: Technology Tools for Struggling Learners (SPED)
• CS6347 – Don’t Second Guess Your Second Language Learners With Online Support (Large ELL population)

For now, I must go finish preparing for the trip. Be sure to check back periodically to get updates from the Wichita FETC crew.