Summary

I thoroughly enjoyed taking this class. I love learning about different types of technology that can help people perform to their fullest potential. There are so many apps coming out all the time and I just love searching through different ones and trying them out. I thought the Dollar Store 'off the shelf' activity was really great - I often go to the dollar store to buy obvious things for my classroom like stickers and little prizes. Now I look at all the items to see how I could use them with students. I also really enjoyed making the Dollar Store modified low-tech item. Ideally, I would have liked for my scissors to have had a spring so that students would just have to push down and not worry about pulling up, but I feel they turned out pretty well all the same. The spring will be the next step :) The case study project was another great activity. I really enjoyed finding apps that would help my student, and was lucky that she had an iPad available to her. I look forward to continue working with her and finding more apps to help her with her math course this summer, and into Grade 11 in September. She was surprised with what was available in the app store as she had previously only used her iPad to play games. I hope to have my own iPad soon (fingers crossed!) so that I may try apps with other students who do not readily have access to an iPod or iPad.