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Going from the heel to the toes, you can see the calcaneus, the talus, the lateral, intermediate and medial cuniform bones; the navicular; and the cuboid bones. Called the tarsal bones, they are the bones which make the transition from the leg to the foot.

The next five bones make up the body of the foot and are called the metatarsal bones. The first metatarsal lines up with the big toe, the fifth with the little toe. The final group are called the phalanges as are the equivalent bones in the fingers. The big toe, like the thumb just has only a proximal and distal phalanx as the other toes have a proximal, medial, and distal phalanges.

One of the things we need to be doing as educators is to critically evaluate the resources and learning experiences that we provide for our students. This is even more important when we are spending vast sums of public money to implement new or innovative hardware devices into our schools. At the moment only short term studies have been released showing the benefits or not of using 1:1 tablet programs.  There are few that are easily accessible to teachers or that outline specific strategies for implementing tablet programs.

It would good to create a collection of these if people are aware of them. Send them through and I will add them to this article. These could even be cited when making the argument for implementing such programs.

Here are some of references to existing research that I found interesting.

http://ipadpilot.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/research-and-evaluation-a-work-in-progress/

http://www.leishman-associates.com.au/ascilite2011/downloads/papers/Brand-full.pdf

http://www.nngroup.com/reports/mobile/


This site has a collection of links to what other research institutions are also doing:
http://researchguides.dartmouth.edu/teachingwithipads


Articles:
http://thejournal.com/articles/2011/09/06/ipads-make-better-readers-writers.aspx

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2011/02/02/evaluating-the-ipad-for-education.aspx

http://www.convergemag.com/classtech/iPad-Studies-Abilene-Christian.html

This issue will become more of a requirement as legislators start to ask educator to justify continued financial support of such programs and as parents and the community ask to see evidence of the benefits of these changes to their childrens schooling. Some people have started this process.



As a start we should be evaluating the apps we chose to use with our students. Kathy Schrocks has started to put together a couple of scaffolds for doing just this. Her site, always a source of fantastic resources has a great section on iPads.

Another fantastic is resource is Apps+Taskonomy. The guys at Balancedtech have put together this PD Session that could be completed by anybody in their own school. They have hyperlinked all the necessary resources into the PD material. They also have a plethora of iPad resources on their site.

Contrary to humans (where females use their ornaments and beauty to attract males) Males of these birds put their bright colors and unusual ornaments to good use when
they display for females.







Their elaborate dances, poses, and other
rituals accentuate their appearance and put on a phenomenal show for
both female birds and any humans lucky enough to be in the vicinity.
Such displays can last for hours, and in many species they consume a
significant part of the males time.





The trade in their skins and feathers has been going
on for more than 2000 years, and the birds have been of considerable
interest to collectors.

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