Shelly Fryer
Shelly Fryer has been involved with Oklahoma A Plus Schools as a teacher in their workshops and she provides training for other schools. The focus of A Plus schools includes: Arts, Curriculum, Experiential Learning, Multiple Learning Pathways, Enriched Assessment, Collaboration, Infrastructure, and Climate. Shelly Fryer believes that technology is so important. Teachers need to begin building their own sense of "app literacy" to know what is possible and what apps are appropriate for students' developmental levels and needs. Teachers need to learn "workflows" for using different apps in sequence or together. In addition to developing app literacy and a shared vocabulary which can be used with iPads, teachers also need encouragement and support to create "channels" for saving and sharing student digital projects. These can be channels shared inside the classroom as well as outside. Shelly Fryer has a classroom website that her class uses as a "home base" for technology integration everyday at her school. Shelly Fryer is a very inspirational educator.