This is a guest news story by Kevin Gray. Each Miami County Library location – Osawatomie, Paola, and Louisburg- received Baehr Foundation grants for iPad labs; library directors and staff participated in training alongside Fort Scott Community College instructors. When people think of the iPad, they seldom think about a multitude of classroom uses. Or library uses. Or museum uses. Most people think iPads, and they immediately see individuals in coffee shops hunched over or leaning back in a relaxed fashion reading. But picture a small scale technology easily used for preparing presentations in class or for large training sessions; collaboration within class among students; sharing notes/lessons/responses back and forth in the classroom; importing photographs/research in collaborative projects with instant access;… Read More »Librarians receive iPads and training