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Kirkus Reviews - iPad Apps | Kirkus Book Reviews - 1 views

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    Top ten iPad book apps
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A Gateway to Great Books on Your Phone - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Penguin Classics, that more-than-1,500-titles collection of English-language literary classics, has a new free app for iOS devices available on Tuesday.
  • a catalog of its titles
  • easily searchable database.
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  • find book information by title and author,
  • searching by subject, genre, time period and region.
  • Each book page contains a summary, as well as a link to buy the paperback edition from Penguin USA’s online store.
  • quizzes contained within the app.
  • 65 books in the app that have quizzes associated with them s
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Books That Build Community - The Book Whisperer - Education Week Teacher - 0 views

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    Book suggestions for read alouds for the classroom. Wonder and "Ask Me" are included
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Best Interactive Books For iPad: iPad/iPhone Apps AppList - 0 views

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    "So, we have collected the best non-fiction offerings right here for you. Whether you love history, science, music, art, space travel or just love the digitally-enhanced written word, there's a book-app just for you. We're compiled the best of the best for you here."
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Middle School Confidential™ - Apps - Be Confident in Who You Are - Praise - 0 views

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    Gr 5-7-Eight short graphic chapters chronicle some of the personal struggles and challenges facing adolescents today. Based on the Annie Fox's blended fiction/nonfiction book by the same name title in Free Spirit's "Middle School Confidential" series, the app doesn't include much of the non-comic narrative, quotes, and quizzes found in the book, but it adds edgy music, sound effects, and simple interaction.
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essential readings | #beyondlaptops - 2 views

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    great book list for 21st century skilla
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    21 essential reading.
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    Future of the book blog has regular dialogue about ebooks.
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Top 10 Apps of 2011 | Touch and Go - 3 views

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  • blog “Touch and Go” last June. Since then, we’ve reviewed more than 80 titles.
  • the selections will amuse, entertain, educate, or challenge kids—even after repeated viewings
  • limited my choices to the apps reviewed in this column over a four-month period.
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  • , Touch Press is unquestionably the front-runner among app producers. The London-based company has set out to “forever transform the act of reading,
  • Gems and Jewels, which highlights holdings from Chicago’s Field Museum
  • The Waste Land, which includes a stunning reading of T. S. Eliot’s iconic poem by Irish actress Fiona Sha
  • The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (Moonbot Studios).
  • Beware Madame La Guillotine (Time Traveler Tours, LLC), an audio tour of Paris that stops at the French Revolution’s most significant sites
  • Jack Kerouac’s On the Road at an impressionable age. The app (Penguin/1KStudios) offers the complete text of the seminal work supported by a rich variety of print resources, video and audio recordings, and visuals culled from Viking’s archives and the Kerouac estate.
  • Spot the Dot (Ruckus Mobile Media/Unicorn Labs) embodies the medium’s potential to create entertaining educational materials for all children, including those with special needs.
  • . Al Gore’s Our Choice (Rodale), which targets the climate crisis, was first published in 2009, and this app (Push Pop Press/Melcher Media) updates the book
  • video introduction by the author sets the agenda, while a cogent text, video clips, fluid interactive graphics, and spectacular photos address our world’s most pressing environmental issues
  • Nosy Crow’s Cinderella: A 3-D Fairy Tale puts a fresh, modern spin on the classic slipper story. The app features animated scenes and reader-controlled text speed. And if it’s interactivity you’re looking for, this one can’t be beat.
  • Edward Bell’s Journey to the Exoplanets (Farrar/Scientific American) explores the little-known planets beyond our solar system. The app offers many cool options, including a regularly updated “Exoplanet Feed,” animated explanations of key concepts, and gyroscopic views of these far-flung orbs
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    insert link onto pictures posted on your blog. Wonder if it can be used in new apple/iPad books created by teachers for students. Click abe lincoln and go to site with hie biography etc..
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Moving at the Speed of Creativity - Lessons Learned using VoiceThread for iPad - 0 views

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    Voice thread for the iPad book report lesson
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Apple - iPad - All-new design. Video calls. HD video. And more. - 1 views

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iPads for Learning - Getting Started - 0 views

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    Victoria iPad implementation. Classroom ideas. Great digital book format.
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Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Automation Release Notes - 0 views

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    "The ability to easily create and share information is an essential requirement for businesses and classrooms alike. Since many computers and mobile media devices now support digital reader applications, the use of digital books as a means of content delivery has dramatically increased."
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Ages 9-12 | Best Kids Apps - 0 views

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    Apps for kids. Search by age educational, free, games, creative, and books
Janet Cerni

Librarian Serves up 'Appy Hour': Iowa educator Kathy Kaldenberg hosts a get-together wi... - 1 views

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  • November Appy Hour did serve up a taste of applications that enable note taking, formatting citations, and streaming news
  • want to filter them out to the departments and people who might make the best use of them.”
  • collection of more than 150 apps culled from Diigo lists, curation sites such as Scoop.it, and Twitter, via #edapps and other hashtags. Her own favorite apps include FlipBoard, EasyBib, and Evernote [all cited in SLJ's productivity apps feature by Linda W. Braun].
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  • She recommends apps in a start-of-school orientation and encourages their use in the library,
  • attaching QR codes to books so students can scan a summary before they check out the title.
  • ProLoquo2go, is being used with a select number of students on the autism spectrum, allowing them to click on pictures and build a sentence.
  • app creation tool Demibooks to make ebooks that serve the specialized reading needs of her students.
  • we have the obligation to try and provide equal access in the school,”
  • starting with teachers and administrators, who can then seed their classes with the tools best suited for the learning needs of students.
  • She also passed out a spreadsheet with information on select apps, including the platforms on which they run. T
  • Now Kaldenberg plans to hold an app session, this one for high school students to get them testing and sharing, too.
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Education Week: Educators Evaluate Learning Benefits of iPad - 1 views

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  • centerpiece of a social studies curriculum that blends online and face-to-face learning.
  • supplement
  • But such rapid adoption of a device with such a short history means that figuring out the best educational use can involve a lot of trial and erro
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  • “Is this the best use of our funds, or is it simply a tool to engage and motivate our students?”
  • “Of course, technology has that capability, but is that always the best angle?”
  • In September, Virginia announced the purchase of 350 iPads for 4th, 7th, and 9th graders in four counties to test the use of the device as a 1-to-1 computing tool in social studies classrooms.
  • th and 9th grade classes used gaming and assessment applications
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  • personalize reading assignments based on proficiency,
  • e-text feature
  • most teachers and students supported continuing the pilo
  • Pearson officials say their material would be more refined a second time around after learning their own lessons about designing content.
  • that can lead you to want to overload the presentation.”
  • Teachers in the pilot also reported having to learn on the fly.
  • For this to work, really, next year, you need to have a team—one or two or three teachers—who will just sit down and go through this and put stuff on there that’s going to matter,” he says. “Trying to do it during the school year is just crazy.”
  • Excluding the fad factor, experts say there are legitimate reasons for educational interest.
  • iPad to help highlight key vocabulary words
  • some apps to help students understand fractions and decimals
  • definitely a work in progress
  • The question may be whether the iPad is best suited as a 1-to-1 device or to be shared as part of a stable of digital classroom tools.
  • students can choose which device to use for an ongoing book-publishing project
  • students rotate between workstations
  • 34,000-student Irving Independent School District, where all high schools follow a 1-to-1 computing model, about 10 students and 20 administrators are testing an assortment of tablet-computing devices to see how they would meet their daily needs
  • administrators
  • tablets to access their calendars and email while on the run through campus, as well as how to use their touch-screen capabilities to check off rubrics for teacher evaluations like they would with an evaluation form.
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