I was so excited about all the new technology tools that I learned at NCCAT … Arusma, Twiducate, Foursquare, pheed, Poll Everywhere, Socrative, Educreations just to name a few.  I returned home and my enthusiasm to implement some of the new technology this year in my classroom was tempered with the reality of no hardware.  This is the biggest challenge for using technology in my classroom!  My school does have laptop carts, but it’s difficult to consistently have these available in the classroom and I’d love to have technology in my students hands on a daily basis.

One solution to this problem is to have students bring their own devices (BYOD).  I started this as a trial in 4th quarter of last school year with some success.  I also plan to look for grant money to purchase either ipads or chrome books to have available for each lab group in class and hope to eventually build so that we have hardware available for each pair of students.