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What would we LIKE to be doing?

I would also like to use youtube as a promotional tool for my choral ensembles. I think it would be exciting for students and for families to see their children singing on youtube. Recording technology would be a great thing to upgrade. I think it has tremendous application to the elementary classroom. Students are not proficient at listening to themselves and other parts at the same time yet, and this could be a great way to build that skill. Finally... it would be awesome to have an iBand. I think my students would love it.
 * Seth Boyd**: Chris Russell (see below) expresses my dream of a paperless classroom. My classroom would be //so// much cleaner! If I had such an environment available to me, I would give all my tests on tablets and have students submit them to me.


 * Chris Russell**: I'm committed to the idea that tablets are going to become common-place in education, and that students may bring them from home instead of institutions providing them for students. My thoughts:


 * 1) I'd like to obtain a set of 50 tablets to eliminate paper altogether from my classroom. I applied for one grant in 2010-2011, for 15 iPads, and did not obtain the grant...another teacher in a "core" area in our school won it (good to see the funds at our school at any rate). I'll be looking for different grant opportunities next year.
 * 2) There are some really promising iPad apps. Maybe other tablets will be the future, but right now, everything else is falling flat. In particular: [|Symphony Pro] (music composition), [|UnrealBook] (music reader), and [|ForScore] (music reader) are great starting points for teachers. As a side note, neither MakeMusic nor Avid have moved into the iOS market (No Finale, Sibelius, or SmartMusic for the iPad yet).
 * 3) One of my favorite bloggers is Fraser Speirs, the IT director for a small private school in Scotland. His thoughts on the iPad really reflect my own (i.e. Something better might come around, but if you always wait for the next thing, you'll always be waiting with technology). []