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"inClass is a fantastic free iPad app that students can use to take and keep track of the notes they record in all of their courses. inClass allows students to organize notebooks for each of their courses. Within each notebook students can include typed notes, audio notes, video notes, and pictures. The ability to store those four types of notes makes inClass a great app for students to use in a science lab where they might want to have a little video clip of an experiment along with their own typed notes about the lab experiment."

"StudyBlue is a service for creating and sharing flashcard sets. The free StudyBlue iPad app allows you to create flashcards in three ways. You can enter text, take a picture, or speak into the app."

"A good friend of mine, Mary Fraizer, is the Tech Integration Specialist in the Buhler School District. The Buhler School District is implementing iPads fast & furiously. Mary created this absolutely wonderful resource to help her teachers. I thought it might be useful to many of you, feel free to share the link with anyone you think would benefit. Our iPads Launchpad http://buhleripads.wikispaces.com/Home"

"GoClass is a free iPad application for creating short lessons and delivering them to your students. The lessons can include annotated images, free hand sketches, text, and video. GoClass gives teachers tools for creating class rosters that they can use to keep track of which students are using the lessons when"

"Sylvia Duckworth is a French teacher who has started a new blog about iPad and iPhone apps that are available in French. Slyvia reviewing apps and making suggestions for apps that students can use in French."

"Thank you for your interest in the "Help, My Students all Have iPads, Now What?" webinar where presenter, technology teacher Brad Flickinger shares how his students at Bethke Elementary in Timnath, CO use iPads in his lessons."

"There are page turner Magazines on the iPad that are basically PDF versions of the print version. Becoming more popular are the magazines that have hot spot areas, video, scrollable articles and inter magazine linking. While these interactive magazines are being produced by large magazine publishers once a month, Engadget is creating their full featured content "Dristo" weekly. Grab the app and you will get an overview page of all of the 'magazines' published. Tap the ones you want to download and read within the same app."

"Creating picture stories can be a very effective activity in unleashing students creativity. There are now some great apps that students can use to create and narrate their stories on iPad. I have picked for you two of the most popular apps in this regard. related: Excellent iPad Apps to Create eBooks To create a picture story, students will either use the pictures they have in their camera roll or take new ones and do some customization to them then add audio narration and text before sharing them with others via emails or through social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Here are the titles I have for you today:"

"Simple Physics is an iPad app that presents users with fun and challenging engineering problems. The app has twelve challenges that progress in difficulty as you move through the app. The premise of each challenge is the same. The challenge is to create a structure like a bridge or staircase that can support a given amount of weight. You're given a budget for materials for each structure and you have to stay under that budget. When your structure is complete, test it to find out if it will wor"

"In case you hadn't noticed, I'm quite a fan of the iPad (the Lollipop Nexus 9's not too bad either). Not because of its design or because its by Apple or any of that, but because of its keen heritage in the learning arena. Any one who knows me will tell you that I am not one for using tech for tech's sake, despite my evangelist moniker. Use of technology in a cross curricular sense should be measured and done with consideration for the best potential learning outcomes. With all that said, I've been doing this for quite some time now and I thought it time that I shared some of the Apps that have stuck by me or have struck me for their ease of use and impact upon learning in the classroom. Rather than blog about each one however or write in depth about each one either, I've done this in the form of a small poster, with the apps icons on."

"When it comes to creating videos in elementary school there are some qualities needed in an iPad app that aren't needed in apps for older students. For example, it's helpful to not require that students register to use the app. It's also nice if the app has a child-friendly interface. The following three apps have those qualities and more."

"Last week I led a 3 day iPad Media Camp at my school in Oklahoma City for K-12 teachers. I introduced participants to green screen videos and a production workflow including: the iPad Camera app the Green Screen app by Do Ink iMovie for iPad"

"Did you know the Messages app has a Search function for iPhone and iPad? Many people don't realize that you can easily search through iMessages and text messages on the iPhone, you'll be able to quickly find messages by name, word, phrase, or other search terms. iOS Message search is fast and easy to use, but like many other iOS features it's a little hidden so don't be surprised if you have never seen it before. This guide will show you who to use the Messages search feature for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch."

"Creating poetry on the iPad is the perfect way to celebrate National Poetry Month and there are many engaging and useful apps for creating poetry available!  Slip some technology integration into your poetry activities this month with these 10 iPad apps for creating and sharing poems."

"An exciting new feature on the TPACK iPad Project is "Teachers' Voices", featuring teachers` stories and experiences with iPads in education."

"Part of the benefit of jumping forward with a 1:1 iPad deployment like we have tried is that we get the opportunity to impart knowledge to other districts looking to do a similar initiative. While that might not seem like a benefit, it actually also means we can make some mistakes because there is not a long history of this type of deployment in the world. "

"I have been culling through iPads apps since October. Many I have found are useful tools in the classroom and many are a waste of time. Mr. Kuropatwa suggested a website called appolicious.com to cataloge my apps and I have since uploaded all of the apps currently on our class set of iPads."