During these meetings, we focused the the ISTE standard "Creative Communicator". We introduced the Apple Learning verbs, discuss the purpose of memes in education and introduce Google Drawings.  Memes in an educational setting can be used for classroom expectations, vocabulary, and a lesson introduction tool. If you are interested to see our presentation, click here.  Teachers created a meme using Google Drawings to demonstrated on our the Apple Learning Verbs. There was a building contest to build a little incentive into the activity. One of the winners was Meredith Doyle, OJH, that focused on collaboration.  Additionally, teachers began working to become an "Apple Teacher". The program helps teachers unlock the magic of iPad, Mac and built-in apps in the classroom.  If you are interested in this FREE opportunity, sign up here. By signing up, you'll get access to the Apple Teacher Learning Center where you can build skills, collect badges, and earn recognition as an Apple Teacher.

During various K-5 peer coachings, we focused on the many intuitive Apple iWorks applications built in right into the student's iPads.  Many classroom and interventionists began working with their students to set goals for reading fluency or math facts using Numbers to track their data which includes tables, charts and videos.  Here is a link to the Reading Fluency Numbers & Math Mania Numbers: https://goo.gl/mijJFj & https://goo.gl/Agd1iG. Let us know if you have any questions and how to try this out with your own students!