Day Four: iPad Apps for Kids Galore!

Sporting our Sophia T-Shirts! 

We had a fantastic time on Day 4 of our iPad courses at Resource Training and Solutions. This afternoon was devoted to iPad Apps with Kids which was filled with many great apps for literacy, math and creation in both primary and elementary classrooms. Normoff has tomorrow off and I think we will both be missing our terrific workshop participants!

Today many of the educators in attendance made note of how they'd like to learn more about creating higher level thinking activities for their students utilizing iPads and technology. A great way to do this is with the use of QR Codes! We have a class next week that isn't quite full yet and we will be discussing many ways to use QR Codes in education for all grade levels. Contact Resource Training and Solutions to sign up!

Here are a few blurbs from some of our wonderful workshop participants today:

Appreciated the laid back style and numerous apps that look to be of great quality.

Exciting presentation, very informative, hands on very useful, answers to many questions. Can go back and start to use.

They provided us with numerous apps that are of high quality and appeal for students.

This class was great because they took fun apps and told us how we can stretch them to make them work for us effectively in the classroom.

Here we are again! Don't forget to share with us your
pic of you rocking your Sophia T-Shirts!

Workshops Day 3: Fun For You and Me!!

Techie teachers give you a ride through technology that is enjoyable, fast moving and applicable. I love useful information, this is! ~thetechieteachers iPad Workshop Participant

We Love Our New TShirts!

Thank you to all who attending our 3rd day of workshops today at Resource Training and Solutions! We had a wonderful time looking at iPad Apps for Teachers and iPad Apps to use with  Daily 5  daily lesson plans! We really appreciate all who are repeat participants and we hope that you have been able to take away useful information from each session.  To those of you who joined us for the first time we hope that you enjoyed the workshops and we would love it if you joined us again! As always, contact us if you participated in any of the workshops and  you have any questions, concerns or comments.

Don't forget that we'd love to come do a techie teacher training for your school or school district!  Let your staff development coordinator know that you'd like to have us join you and they can contact us at normoff13@gmail.com to schedule a training! We can elaborate on any one of our sessions or customize it to your grade level, focus area, or really almost anything else teaching and technology related!

And another great big thank you to all of the developers whose apps we are showcasing in our sessions that provided us with a few free codes for teachers to redeem! They are a huge hit and generating a lot of interest in the apps--apps that thetechieteachers already love!

But by far one of the coolest parts of today was the unveiling of our new t-shirts! They are QR Code ready and techie teacher approved!!!  Woot Woot!

We still have room in both our QR Code sessions and iPads & Formative Assessment! Join us for some awesome prizes and great information!

Here is what a few participants had to say about today's sessions:

Great for any teacher looking to use an iPad for the first time or the hundreth!

This was a lot of information. I would love for you to offer an all day workshop specifically geared k-1 that let's us learn and dive deeper. You are both wonderful!

I am motivated to apply my learnings from today. All the apps will be very useful in my Daily 5 lessons. The organizing ideas are great.

Fabulous information that is not only useful but easy to use.

The information in the session was very helpful. The apps were presented in a very fun way. I loved the free prizes!

Wow! Great class! So many apps that I can start using right now that will increase my efficiency and effectiveness as a teacher using technology! Thanks!

Workshops Day 1 a Success!

Thank you to all of our participants in iPad Basics and iPad Apps for Daily Lesson Plans (Daily 5)! We had an amazing time today and hope you did too! We really enjoyed getting to share our thoughts about technology and teaching with over 40 educators representing over 10 school districts! Some of you even drove 2+ hours-we feel honored that you would come all that way! The best thing about these workshops is that we get to learn something new every session--everything from new apps to investigate to new ways to organize and manage your technology resources!

I think one of the most fun parts of the day for our participants were the prizes they won! A HUGE thank you to all of the generous developers of the great apps we are showcasing in our classes that donated app codes for teachers to explorer! We gave away more than $100 worth of apps today, not to mention $200 in computer software and some pretty cool t-shirts! If you received a free app voucher don't forget to email us and we will get that to you as soon as possible!

We always appreciate your feedback-here is what a few of today's attendees said:

This class gave many ideas for using iPads and usable apps. I have motivation to go from here and try several of them!

As a more advanced iPad user I was delighted to come to a course and learn new and useful things at a quick but easy to follow pace. There was no wasted time. These ladies know their stuff and openly share created items!

I've been to quite a few iPad classes and this one was BY FAR the best in organization and flow. Nicely done!

I thought this workshop was fantastic. I liked the movement between sessions and having both of you present. The amount of information was great.....now I need to find time to play and use it. Being a beginner, I appreciated the encouragement and support.

Sara and Angie were great presenters and well-knowledged on their subject matter. I left with great apps!

GREAT CLASS! Five stars!

If you still would like to join us for one of our 7 remaining courses check our Resource Training and Solutions for sign up information! Don't forget to follow us here and on Facebook and Twitter for all things techieteachers related!

The Tides of Caribou

Angie's Yummy Tropical Tea

We are back at our 'office' space, our favorite local Caribou! We've been meeting here every week to prepare for our upcoming Resource Training & Solutions classes. Although today we weren't able to sit at our regular table---that kinda threw us for a loop! You'd think for the amount of time we spend here they'd designate us a Normoff table! We both managed to start walking toward the wrong table-sorry to those kind people who were probably wondering who we were & why we were looking longingly in their direction. I would say our relationship with that table is much like Sheldon's spot on the couch in the tv show The Big Bang Theory!


To help put into perspective of the amount of hard work & increased time we are doing we have now identified the ebb & flow patterns of Caribou Coffee. We are there for so long during the day that we see the breakfast rush come in, morning lull go out... midday rush come in, afternoon lull go out... after work rush come in, dinner lull go out.... We have yet to stay until close but you never know what the future may hold!

Why are we putting in so many hours?! Normoff is hard at work making sure that the content & presentations of our 9 education & technology focused classes this August are AMAZING!!! We are super excited to be able to share with Minnesota educators & families how to make the most out of incorporating iPads/iPods into students' lives. 

Angie's Tropical Tea after 5 hours!

 Our courses are: iPad Basics, iPad Apps for Kids, iPad Apps for Teachers, How to Maximize Learning using iPad in Daily Lesson Plans, QR Codes and Formative Assessment Apps.  Any of them sound intriguing? Good News! You can still register for our courses! Some of the dates have filled up, but please still contact Resource Training & Solutions to register. They may even add more sessions and dates. If the only date that'd work for you is full just contact us & we'll see what we can do! We've also had the privilege of presenting in local school districts; so if you, your grade level, your school or your school district would like to host your own private session just let us know! Technology & education is what we LOVE and getting to share that with others is the BEST!