Wednesday+Symposium

__**Wednesday Symposium**__
In today’s session of the summer symposium, I found attended several more technology based presentations: “Building 21st Century Skills with Web 2.0 Tools” and “iPod/iPad Classroom.” In the “Building 21st Century Skills with Web 2.0 Tools,” one great resource introduced was the website, SumoPaint.com. SumoPaint functions similar to Adobe Photoshop without the cost of Photoshop. Currently, I do not have any lessons that use Photoshop but lessons could now be added in the future with this tool. The second session, “iPod/iPad Classroom,” demonstrated some of the endless uses for iPads in the classroom. The greatest selling point for this equipment in the classroom for me was that new apps for the iPad are always being added. Both of these tools introduced were more complex ideas that were slightly more difficult to envision implementing into my curriculum next fall but still worthwhile ideas for the future.

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