Reblogged from Jonathan Wylie: Instructional Technology Consultant: Have you tried Showbie yet? If you have iPads in the classroom, and you're struggling with how to have students submit assignments, you need to take a look at it. This free service lets students submit assignments to the teacher, who can then grade them and return them...
This post first appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. As I wrote in Part 1, a major challenge of working with iPad is actually working with iPad. Unlike a computer, iPad does not function as well in a shared environment because of the challenges of workflow - getting content on and off of the devices.
When using iPads for education in classrooms, it's best to select workflow solutions such as Dropbox or Evernote, that work with your particular students and iPads. For example, sharing a cloud folder with each student is fine if you have to manage only a handful of accounts, but it might become cumbersome if there's no organizational management, and you're dealing with a hundred students.
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier and allow us to focus on the important things. In a paperless world teachers and students can easily find themselves just as disorganized and unstructured as before only with digital piles of things lying around different computers and the cloud.
A look at some ways that teachers can manage a digital workflow for iPads in the classroom. It includes ideas for assigning work to students, receiving work fro
