For those of you who are super-confident about your iPad knowledge, I'd like to propose a challenge. Go through and see how many features and shortcuts you didn't know about, leave a comment with the number at the bottom of the post - and be honest!

AirPlay mirror your iPhone 4S or iPad 2 to any Mac running OS X 10.6+, wirelessly. Show your iPad screen on your Mac. 

iPad Learning Objectives I want my students to record and edit video on the iPad.  I want my students to record and / or edit audio on the iPad.  I want my students to read class content on the iPad.  I want my students to annotate course readings on the iPad  I want my students to be able to use audio books on the iPad.  I want my students to use the iPad as a digitial notebook / note-taking device.  I want my students to use their iPads to create screencasts to share and demonstrate their understanding. I want my students to create presentations on the iPad.  I want my students to create digital stories on the iPad.  I want my students to be able to study with the iPad.  I want to use the iPad as a student response system.  I want my students to create written content on the iPad.  I want my students to blog on the iPad. I want my students to create ePubs / iBooks to read on the iPad.

Ed Tech Competitive Grants, funded with ESEA and ARRA funds, support programs that stimulate the use of educational technology to improve teaching and learning. Grants assist schools in developing 21st century classrooms as envisioned by the Educational Technology Plan for Virginia: 2010 - 2015

Synergy lets you easily share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers on your desk, and it's Free and Open Source. Just move your mouse off the edge of one computer's screen on to another. You can even share all of your clipboards. All you need is a network connection. Synergy is cross-platform (works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux).

Sync with Microsoft Outlook

EssayTagger is a web-based tool that helps you grade your essays faster by eliminating the repetitive and inefficient aspects of grading papers. You'll be able to speed up your grading process without sacrificing the quality of the feedback you give to your students.

provide teachers and students with mathematics relevant to our world today …

Get the story creation App that's getting great reviews from parents, teachers and kids all around the world!

Exploriments are simulation-based interactive learning units for enhancing conceptual understanding in Science and Math in an experiential manner. Useful for students and teachers alike, Exploriments provide a highly interactive, exploratory, and engaging experience.

Don't just ask students to "identify the conflict" or "note the setting." Use Respondo! to click up some creative literature response questions.

Notetaking app that includes Dragon Dictate speech to text. 

Teachers, do you... Not have enough time for grading? Want useful measurements on student performance? Need a free solution to help?

You don't have to be a genius either to see that this can be used as a formative assessment tool. ;-)

Gooru is a free platform for 21st century teachers and students. We offer a powerful tool for discovering complete lesson plans and curating content