So I’m getting ready to configure my third round of iPads with Apple Configurator. This time I got smart and decided to be more organized by making myself an Apple Configurator Checklist. This checklist is a “pre-configuration checklist” designed to help you be ready to go through the actual process of configuring the iPads. I’m […]
Guest Posting at I Can Teach My Child Today
I’ve gone on a little field trip today! I’m over at the fabulous website, I Can Teach My Child, writing about how parents can know which apps are best for their kids. Whether you’re a teacher or a parent, this website has all sorts of resources to meet your needs: crafts, information about developmental stages, […]
Technology In Early Childhood: One Year Anniversary
One Year Anniversary! It was as I was watching the Super Bowl last year that I first dreamed up the idea for this website. We’d just gotten our classroom iPads. I’d googled excessively trying to get ideas for using iPads in early childhood classrooms, and I’d come up with very little. I knew there had […]
Sharing Great Tech Stuff
So much of my traffic on this website comes from people who have shared my work with their readers and I am so grateful for that. First, I want to say a public thank you to some of my biggest sources of traffic over the last 9 months or so. Below are five great sites […]
Using Apple Configurator to Set Up Classroom iPads
We decided to use Apple Configurator to set up our classroom iPads. Honestly, I didn’t expect it to be quite so much work! In the end though, I think it was worth it. Apple Configurator is a free, Apple product that allows schools and businesses to manage multiple iPads using an Apple laptop. You can […]
I Went to iPad School!
A co-worker and I attended an iPad conference yesterday. My co-worker called it “iPad School.” I like that term, so I adopted it. There was so much information to soak up! My biggest take away was a greater understanding of all of the ways we can take the ipad to the next level, and use […]
When Technology and Good Old Fashioned Play Collide
I love it when technology makes it easier for us to help kids do what they really need to do to grow and develop: Play! This blog focuses on all of the fun technology based things we do in our class each day, but really, the technology makes up such a small part of our […]
