Are there any Ray Stephens fans anymore? Admit it. Back in junior high you listened to Ahab the Arab, It's me again Margaret, the Streaker, or as the blog title suggests...Haircut. So, like the musician in the last song, who gets his haircut on the road in a myriad of places and identifies with (or separates himself from) each barber for self preservation, I, too, am a fish out of water. Ray Stevens changes his tune from I'm a logger, to I run this church for loggers. Me? Well, I'm a bu....logger about my experiences with the I-pad with my students. Currently, I have little exposure to either blogging or Ipad, so we'll be learning together.
My school disrict has given us intervention specialists an IPad to use with our students upon the condition that we blog about it. Thus, I find myself flopping on two shores: the blog world and IPad technology, as my gills strike out on air.
As I was saying, I'm a bu...logger, but from Middletucky, Ohio. I'm blogging about ways to increase student potential and achievement using the IPad. So, bookmark me, and stay in touch. One thing I have learned already, since I am over 40 and more of a typist (59 wpm with 80 percent accuracy...I thank God for spell check) than I am a "texist" my next blog will come from my MacBook and not from the quirky qwerty of the iPad's touch screen. I so hate the user unfriendliness of toggling between alpha and numeric keyboards, the temperamental keyboard and the missing arrow and home keys. I don't see students writing term papers on this thingy unless they have mastered the hunt and peck or the modern day technique of thumbing.... and have ginormous hands. Speaking of hands, I'm likely to turn into a germophobic Monk, as I observe students pick their nose returning from the restroom only to leave their dozens of smears on the touch screen. Time to include P & G's antibacterial hand wash in my 403k.
I hope you have enjoyed the first of my bimonthly blogs. Come again and bring the hand wipes!
