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= Mobile Technology = ==== Mobile technology is quickly becoming an important tool in the educational community. In an effort to keep faculty and students current with today's technology tools, the School of Education iPad training will focus on helping faculty and students to use the Apple iPad as a productivity tool. With instant access to the web, email, calendar, notes, contacts, and other applications, the iPad is one of the best ways to move faculty and students into the 21st Century. There are thousands of apps made just for the iPad with more coming every day. ====

= The iPad = ==== The Applie iPad is more than a music player, the iPad functions as a dictionary, textbook reader, and a fully functioning library for fiction and non-fiction. Faculty and students can use the iPad as a video player, podcast viewer, and an audio/lecture recorder. Organization is easy using the calendar/todo application to keep track of lesson plans, administrative items, and notes are easily kept in the notebook application using the built in touch keyboard. The applications are endless: Note organizers, built in platforms for ideas, Homework Helper, Graphing Calculator, Foreign Language tutorials/translator, Phy for Physics formulas, Common CORE Prep, Art for artists pictures and information, Virtual Sky for Astronomy…..the list is literally endless! ====