We found this article on educatorstechnology.com, and immediately thought of our educator friends! If you're working with students and iPads, check it out to help you integrate iPads into your classroom.

Atomic Learning is here to help you along the way, from iPad training tutorials to projects and workshops, we've got your iPad resources covered. Or, if your district is embarking on a mobile initiative, check out Atomic Learning's Atomic Mobilize solution to learn from educators and school leaders who have been there, done that.

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Atomic Learning provides special education teachers and paraprofessionals anytime, anywhere answers to questions about the assistive technology tools and devices students are using. Training tutorials also provide a tool to help keep general education teachers informed on the devices students need to be successful in the general ed setting.

Atomic Learning’s Assistive Technology Professional Development Solution provides over 5,000 online video tutorials on common assistive technology software and hardware. Just-in-time training on accessibility features build into Microsoft® Office, Apple® iPad™, Windows® and Mac operating systems is also included.

With over 205 classroom-ready tech integration projects that can be filtered by subject, grade-level or state standard, Atomic Learning extends the Technology Integrator’s impact, and is a valuable resource to direct teachers to. With its anytime, anywhere platform, the teachers can learn new skills at their own pace.

Workshops help teachers learn how to effectively integrate technology in the classroom, while the classroom-ready projects help jumpstart the integration. The Atomic Learning resources can be used as basis for, or to augment, training sessions.

But don't take our word for it, one Customer shared:

 “Atomic Learning is a flexible, low-cost tool for educators and students. Technical support of the tool has been fantastic. It has been an integral part of the professional development we offer our staff,” said Ted, Coordinator of Instructional Technology Library/Media Services, Euclid City School District.

Complete with a custom training tool that allows for uploading and sharing of training specific to a district or school, as well as a comprehensive reporting system that tracks individual activity, Atomic Learning expands training opportunities and simplifies the delivery of professional development.

Atomic Learning’s PD resources can be used as basis for PD sessions and collaborative project work by PLC’s which give PD Directors flexibility and provide variety to participants. Sheri, a District Instructional Technology Specialist at Spring Branch ISD says:

Teachers do not have time to drive across town after school or on Saturdays to sit in a face-to-face skills training class that is totally disconnected to what they are teaching in class. By using Atomic Learning, teachers can access the support and/or training in the context of what they are about to do with their students. Atomic Learning is there when and where the teacher needs it.”

Atomic Learning now provides grad credit options to meet educators’ personal and professional growth objectives. These 1-, 2-, and 3-credit training options focus on the effective application of technology in the classroom.

For 1 graduate credit, Atomic Learning customers complete any of the more than 300 workshops or projects available from Atomic Learning, and then complete additional reflective steps to qualify for credits through Augustana College.  The cost to earn the self-paced graduate credit is $125.

Atomic Learning has recently added new content to its training library. Included in this release are Illustrator CS5 Advanced Training for Mac users as well as 2 new workshops on avoiding plagiarism and internet safety.

Check out all of the new training outlined below.

Training:

As an edtech blogger, Brad Flickinger has the opportunity to review several products and services each year. In his recent blog post, Flickinger shares why he likes Atomic Learning—and you should too.

I have had an Atomic Learning account for the past five years and it has saved my edtech-bacon a few more times than I would like to admit. If fact, I couldn’t really imagine being able to do my job effectively or efficiently without it. I have never found anything that compares to it – in price or product...In the end we are all just looking for better ways to get the job of teaching done, for me Atomic Learning delivers.

Atomic Learning helps lighten the Curriculum Director’s workload in regard to guiding teacher’s integration of technology in their classrooms. Through workshops, projects, as well as PD tools like the PD workbook and ePortfolio, teachers can work at their own pace to achieve the goals the Curriculum Director has set for them.

The library of workshops available in Atomic Learning help teachers understand why to include technology in their instruction.  Workshops can be used individually or through your professional development program.

Tech integration projects give teachers guided practice integrating technology into their classroom while the PD workbook helps teachers analyze their own curriculum and plan how the PD will be written into the curriculum.

Atomic Learning recently added new content to the online professional development suite which includes a new assistive technology project called “Name Activity – Overlay Maker 3”.

The Assistive Tech collection has also grown to include Stages Assessment Software – Stage 6 tutorials. The expanded library further supports the Accessible Instruction Spotlight which helps educators understand the requirements to provide accessible materials and assistive technology under IDEA, understand how to meet those requirements as it relates to classroom materials, practice creating documents and forms that are accessible to students using assistive technology, and build awareness of the barriers assistive technology can help students overcome.

Check out this A.T. TIPSCAST which features the first of two parts of a recording of a discussion at the George Mason University Assistive Technology Share Fair of 2011 about the educational uses of podcasting.

To get you started, here are some related resources from Atomic Learning on podcasting:

• Podcasting and Vodcasting Workshop - iLife '09

• Podcasting Workshop - An Introduction to Audio Podcasting

This A.T. TIPSCAST also features a bumper by Amanda Peters from Atomic Learning inviting everyone to take the Accessible instruction Pledge. Listen now.

Colorado tech teacher, Brad Flickinger, blogged about what he learned when he discovered Atomic Learning Spotlight training topics when he logged into Atomic Learning recently.

"The first thing to impress me were the Goals — they are broken down into three quick-read bullet points of Identify, Reflect and Plan. I could quickly review them and see if this was the right course for me. It was, so I continued."

Read more here.