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ISSUE #1
April Edition
ROME CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT/MODEL SCHOOLS/MORIC
iPad Workshops For the remainder of the school year, each school will be having workshops on how to use the iPad in the classroom. These trainings will take place throughout the day at specific schools. Learn the many ways this new piece of technology can enhance and motivate your students to learn in a way never seen before.
A new reality!
WHAT THE WORKSHOPS COVER
There is new type of technology out called augmented reality. Have you ever looked at a picture and wonder
just actual image or you can subscribe to the Rome School location by scanning the QR code below.
-Cart procedures -App Request process -Planning -iPad lesson integration
how to make it come alive? You can now make that happen with an iTunes app called Aurasma. If you are wondering how this works, just go to
Something will happen and you will get a tour of the library during a regular class period. Don’t believe me, try it for yourself.
the iTunes Store and upload this app (for free.) Once you get it, open the app and look at this picture of the
For more information on trainings and iPad’s, visit us at www.romecsd.org/Modelschools/
library. Make sure you are at RFA when you try this (no picture needed, NEXT EDITION - See how one class went on a wild goose chase and loved every minute of it. They even did it using iPads.
COMING SOON QR CODE MANIA Everywhere you look now all you see is QR Codes. They are on Billboards, magazines, coupons, even the KT paper uses it .... How can you use them for education? Use this code to see more information.
This training will show you the basics of My Big Campus, a Resource Library, where you can share and access videos, web sites, documents, PDFs, and more. It also includes a Collaboration Site, where teachers and students can communicate and collaborate within a safe environment.