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"Thanks to a moment in time--February, 2012--chief technology officers from several districts presented at two concurrent events, TCEA 2012 System Administrator Academy and Texas Chief Technology Officers (CTO) 2012 Winter Meeting. With the help of a colleague, the audio recordings from those presentations are available as a podcast series!"

"This app offers selected articles from "The World in 2012". It also includes video and specially curated snapshots of people, events, landmarks and data to watch in 2012. In short, it provides a concise tour of the future."

Part 1 Writing and Reading on the iPad http://www.joachim-scholz.com/academipad/2012/09/10/best-ipad-apps-college-academics/ Part 2 Conceptualizing and Presenting ideas http://www.joachim-scholz.com/academipad/2012/09/20/best-ipad-apps-university-students/

"These are my notes from Chris Thompson's breakout session, "Why Every Teacher Should Become an App Creator" at the 2012 Mobile Learning Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 11, 2012."

"Do you look forward to the Olympic games every time they come around? Use the London 2012 app to try your hand (literally) at several summer Olympic events, including: 100M, 110M Hurdles, 100m Freestyle, Double Trap, Triple Jump, Pole Vault, 100m Butterfly, Kayak (K1) and Archery."

An idea each day for all of 2012

"The iKeyboard was another Kickstarter success story at Mocworld / iWorld 2012, garnering over 6 times what the required threshold was for funding. Its mission is to "addresses the one drawback of a tablet computer" which is the inability to touch type on the iPad's virtual keyboard. Again, I'm not a fast typist - I definitely need to work on that to improve my overall productivity when writing. The iKeyboard gives me the opportunity to work on that on what is often my primary writing tool."

"Regarding our 1:1 iPad Program commencing at the beginning of 2012 in our year 6 and 7 cohorts, i have attached all relevant documents which have been part of informing parents and our community about our iPad happenings so far. All documents are in PDF format and can be downloaded."

How to get your Gmail contacts to come up on the iPad Mail App.

"Chad Criswell, author of the MusicEdMagic blog, as well as the contributing author/tech editor for several music education magazines, including Teaching Music, has written an excellent column on apps for Music Education which appears in the October 2012 edition of the magazine. It is going to be a great starting point-with 23 listed apps-for music educators getting into the iPad for the first time."

Show What You Know with Web and Mobile Apps Recorded Wednesday, November 14, 2012 3:30 - 4:30 pm (EST)

""The outcomes at Longfield clearly demonstrate the value of the iPad as an educational tool and the role that it can play in learning and teaching." (P4, NAACE, 2012)"

"Education got a lot more mobile in 2012 as in-school iPad initiatives, the iPhone 5 launch and online learning providers in general made classroom experiences more interesting-and don't expect to see teaching head back to desktop PC's in 2013. In fact, as MOOCs and hybrid programs continue to evolve, mobile should have an ever more significant role to play."

"Sharing the resources from "iBuild iPad Lessons" workshop, which was offered at Mobile 2012, we (Yolanda and I) created multiple documents and PDF handouts to share."

iPad drives tablet growth in first quarter of 2012