Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

The Continuous Learner

My life is a continual learning process.

Sharing Matters

Sharing

Way back in the beginning of this year I got my hands on an original iPad.

I promised I would do a workshop for the consultant who graciously loaned me the device to test and discover the possibilities for using it with special needs students. She shared so I would do likewise. The result of this process was the creation of the iPads in Education Livebinder linked here.

As my interest grew and as we received one of two iPad2's for our work unit, I felt that there was so much information to be shared that the LiveBinder wasn't going to be as interactive as I wanted. That's when I discovered the curation tool Scoop.It

Soon after that discovery, I created and began curating iPads in Education on Scoop.It. It is really been an exciting process discovering iPad news, tips and ideas on a daily basis since then. I'm proud to say that since creating the topic the sight has over 12, 000 views and is being followed by over 200 folks as well. My hope was simply that the site would make it a bit easier for folks to find information on the use of the iPad in schools.

My wife shakes her head when she sees me settle down with the iPad2 as she heads off to bed. "Why do you do that?" she asked one day. I could only truly answer that I hoped it would make a difference to some teacher and his/her students somewhere. That's what it is all about after all.

I was extremely fortunate to participate in the recent  Unplugd11 Educational Summit. Before arriving at the conference we were tasked with writing an essay to bring to the conference on a topic of our choice based upon the theme "Why ________ Matters." The topic I decided on was "Why Sharing Matters!"

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It was a natural choice for me.

Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben_grey/4582294721

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