A few picks from my visit to Taiwan with the school I work for. Amazing experience.
His ICT website is an excellent resource and well worth bookmarking. I came across his fantastic Photoshop graphic listing the best iPad apps for educational use as a period table.
I found an excellent blog post about using iPad technology to enhance the your lesson plans and provide some truly unique project ideas that would be very difficult to implement with PCs alone. I’m happy to say that I have tried most of these ideas already and you can tell that the article was well written and thought out.
http://ipadeducators.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=5840223%3ABlogPost%3A76763
Here are some great new ideas to use your iPad in your classroom, K-12 and beyond! The iPad, as we all know, is a great tool for education. We are hoping that you can use at least a few of these new and creative ideas.
Taken with my Canon 5Dmkiii, 24-105mm L Lens. Unfortunately I didn’t have a polariser or neutral density filter with me, but I did have a monopod and tried my best to use HDR to fill some of the gaps in exposure.
I used this website as a starting point to make a class project for my Music Composition class:
Soon I’ll upload the lesson plan and mp3.
This is a decent reference for ESL games, if you need reminding of the rules before class, or want to try something new.
http://www.eslkidstuff.com/Gamescontents.htm
Students have been hard at work devising a science theme based rap. There are many good starting points on but I purchased the following file and the quality is good and includes lesson materials already made.
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