Using Online Resources

Online resources are emerging to have extreme effects on classroom learning. Education has moved into the technological era, and programs and strategies are being designed to fit the needs of this huge shift into how we educate our students. Many new ideas and challenges have been given to teachers, and mastering these challenges can mean the world to the education of our students. With e-learning technologies advancing into all sectors of the classroom, one question is continually asked. How will using online resources make a permanent change in the way we teach?

Making changes is often hard for teachers, but it is as important as hitting the fairway in the US Open. If teachers don’t stay current with their students they will not be able to relate to their students needs effectively. The Tumblebooks resource is a great online strategy that many schools are using as online literacy resource. Tumbblebooks is an online collection of TumbleBooks, which are animated; talking picture books, which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book that you can read, or have read to you. 
Our school has purchased this program along with 25 IPADs for our students to use. Many of the teachers are excited about the addition of the IPADs but our nervous as to how they will use them in the classroom setting. This is a fantastic resource that can be used on the IPADs and the eReaders that our students bring to school with them everyday.