Best practices of technology used in my teaching area

My teaching area is reading but I have to admit I personally don't use a whole lot of technology in my teaching. I work with small groups of students, using very specific materials. I also work with individual and groups of teachers and what I use more than anything else is a SMART board, and occasionally the ELMO. I really don’t consider the aforementioned “best” practice. Best practice is what I see every day in many classrooms at my school and the technology these teachers are using. Yes, they too use the SMART boards but in much more interactive ways with web tools like http://www.edmodo.com/home (a social learning network for teachers and students) and  http://www.classdojo.com/about (behavior management software). They blog and they tweet. They are using clickers and ELMOs, Mobi pads, iPads and so many things that I have yet to learn about. I learn the most from them. They are the ones who are on the “cutting edge” so to speak. They are my examples of best practice. I can only hope that I will get to that point where I will know how to use these tools and find innovative ways to integrate them into my teaching. I am most interested in ways to use the iPads in reading instruction. This will be my action research this school year. I’ll keep you posted…