Last week I said that I was submitting a proposal to present at Bowling Green's M Learning Symposium in May. Well I found out that I was accepted to present. I will be presenting on making mobile learning work within the resource room. I am very excited.

I often use my class as test subjects with things that relate to technology. This year is no exception as we went to one to one devices. Once we started the year (and overcame some of our hurdles), the tech committee realized we needed something better than just Google to give and get papers and assignments to our students. One of the apps/sites we have been testing is Schoology (@ schoology.com). Both my 8th grade math class (small class with only 7 kiddos) and my iPad class (23 kids) are using schoology. Saturday afternoon I was sitting around playing with it and putting some upcoming assignments into their iPad course. I had three different students on schoology at the same time. One asked a question in response to my discussion question, two others submitted an assignment. So even though it was the weekend, learning was still happening. The iPad class has only met about a half dozen times as of last week. Last Monday was the first day I introduced them to schoology. Tuesday I was asked to speak to the elementary tech committee on using this LMS, so I left the kids a video to watch with a question to respond to and another assignment using an app on their iPad. While I was presenting, my students were still learning and I was getting notifications that the kids were responding to my questions and also submitting their assignments. I was impressed.

Our next test is with virtual classroom via progressbook. I am planning on showing my reading class this feature tomorrow.