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1:1 Kick Off

Our iPad/1:1 initiative is just a few days away. On Thursday we will be working with about 50 teachers (another 15 at the end of the month too) to get them started on what our bosses are calling a "digital transformation" of their curriculum. My role is to walk the teachers through the nuts-and-bolts (buttons, swiping, double tapping, pinching...) of the iPad after the Keynote Speaker. Then after lunch my session is on using the Evernote app. I get about 40 minutes to give an overview on tagging, sharing, emailing into Evernote. What sold me on taking charge of this app is when my wife came home from a professional development session at her school about it. I never saw her so excited about something technological. The organization piece, where you forward emails to Evernote with the @ symbol to designate what notebook to send it to and # to assign a tag (already created) really resonated with her. As a yearbook advisor she saw instantly how she could make her inbox less of a mess come Senior Ad time.

So here I am a few months later putting the finishing touches on what I want to cover. I'm using Paper as my presentation/medium to explain things. Thought I'd try something new myself. I thought by drawing I can better explain what things like "your notes everywhere" means or how tags work.

I'm looking forward to it all. A very exciting time to be in education!
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