Summer, 2013

As it is July between my first and second years of teaching, I can say that I have spent the summer trying not to think about next year while also trying to plan and improve on what I have for next year, and it has been confusing!

My school is one of 11 middle schools in our district that is getting tablets next year. It is an Asus tablet, called Amplify. I have had an Asus tablet for over a year now, so I have had an easier time learning the tablet's functions than people who have worked with iPads or no tablets at all. However, we are all learning how to integrate the tablets into the classroom, and that is hopefully going to be the main focus of my blog: how to use tablets and personal technology in the classroom to implement a Personalized Learning Environment (PLE). I have been doing research all summer (when I'm not avoiding doing research...) and am not quite sure how it will look!

I hope this helps some people and that it can be yet another forum for sharing ideas. Please contact me if you would like to contribute/share something, and let me know if you have any questions!

Thank you for reading!

Ann