iPad for Administrators

This session, designed for school leaders with a basic knowledge of the iPad, focuses on exploring the iPad’s unique features and various apps that will increase school leader’s productivity. Participants will learn how to use the iPad to improve workflow, increase productivity, conduct instructional walkthroughs, organize their time, and improve their ability to communicate with teachers, parents and students.


Workshop sessions include:

• Getting to Know your iPad: Managing iPad’s general controls, navigation and other time saving techniques.
• Managing the workflow: Using apps with cloud-based file syncing programs and services to manage school leader’s work.
• Enhancing Communication: Using email, Notes and other apps to efficiently communicate with teachers, students and parents.
• Selecting and Using Apps: Evaluating and downloading the best apps for productivity, communication and educational use
• Customizing Your iPad: Setting preferences, moving apps, creating and managing app folders
• Classroom Documentation: Customizing classroom walkthroughs and observations for use on the iPad
• Enhancing Instruction with the iPad: Discover how teachers can use iTunes U to create individual classes for the iPad

This is a hands-on, interactive seminar. All participants will need to have an iPad and will need an Apple ID since we will examine and download fee apps from the Apple iTunes store during the session.

Participants will receive a certificate acknowledging the completion of 1 CEU.

Fee:

NCPAPA Member	$125
NCASA Member	$125
Student	$125
Non Member	$195

If you are a NCPAPA or NCASA member and have forgotten your user name and password please contact Hannah Nicely at: 919-828-1426 or at hnicely@ncasa.net.

Due to anticipated interest, all payments are due on September 28, 2012 to the NCPAPA office. If payment is not received your reserved registration may be jeopardized.Suggested Accommodations: NCPAPA does not have a room block at a hotel.  However we do suggest:
Courtyard by Marriott
100 Marriott Way
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
919-833-0700
*We encourage you to secure a refundable rate incase of an unexpected cancelation.

Presenters: Dr. Shirley H. Arrington has over thirty years of experience in public education in North Carolina. Dr. Arrington earned her undergraduate degree in elementary education from North Carolina Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount and her master’s degree, principal certification, and doctorate from Campbell University. She has been a teacher, assistant principal, principal, and Director of Human Resource Services in NC’s public schools.

She joined the Principals’ Executive Program in 1993 where she directed several programs including the Leadership Program for Principals, Assistant Principals’ Executive Program, Developing Future Leaders Program, the Higher School Performance Program, the Instructional Leadership for Reform Program and the Leadership Conference for New Administrators. She currently serves as Executive Director of the North Carolina Model Teacher Education Consortium, Center for School Leadership Development, The University of North Carolina.