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"This is Auburn's iPad's in the Kindergarten Classroom Initiative Auburn School Department is working to improve the literacy and math achievement of early learners by leverage iPads and their apps through an initiative called Advantage 2014."

"Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has already reviewed some web tools that allows users to create and manage their gradebooks.Today, however, we are going to provide you with some iPad apps that can do almost the same job. With these apps you can :"

"Since November I've had the privledge of teaching with an iPad in my grade one class. Along the way I have discovered a lot of great ways to use it to help my students have their individual learning needs met.  Having just one iPad did bring about its own set of challenges but we were very lucky to have access to some additional iPads in the final term of school.  Next year we will have  iPads again thanks in part to my participation in my school's successful innovative learning grant application and another special project I'm involved with at the school district level.  Needless to say my head has been spinning all summer with ways I can integrate this technology into my classroom with out loosing sight of the important non technology based teaching and learning my students need too."

"Using rubrics and providing student's feedback via the iPad has not been an area that has received a great deal of attention. This is, however, starting to change. I have recently spoken to a number of teachers who have developed apps that will allows teachers to use the iPad as a viable way of assessing student work. Some of these apps actually do more than just mark work. Check out the list and see if any would work for you and your students."

"Every Friday, I share a website (or app) that I've heard about, checked into, been excited to use. This one is a math app. Since 'math' is by far the most popular search term of readers who seek out my blog, I know you're going to enjoy this review."

Calgary Science Academy

"One of the things that I always do in my Google Apps workshops and webinars is teach people how to create self-grading quizzes through Google Forms and Spreadsheets. Depending upon the pace of the group we'll often look at creating image-based and multiple page quizzes too. I've recently put all of the screenshots of those processes into one PDF. You can view the PDF below. (If you are viewing this on an iPad, you might not be able to see the guide)."

"Well its been just over a week since my classroom went to a 1:1 iPad classroom. We have had a lot of feelings during this week. We have been excited, confused, busy, amazing, engaged, loud and sometimes lost. But overall it has been a fantastic educational experience!"