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Nice info-graphics that can lend themselves to workshop presentations

an app for making books for the ipad (requires OS Lion) 

Most of them free. Many might be really good.

This certainly will make me think twice about using iBook.

Apple has also announced iBooks Author (more details below) which lets you create your own textbooks. Users can even insert custom Javascript or HTML5 code into eBooks using iBooks Author.

Great apple/iPad ccss focused teacher blogging her day to day exPeriences in concise form. 

Suggestions for iPad use from an apple certified educator, broken down by subject and app type.

Great apple/iPad ccss focused teacher blogging her day to day exPeriences in concise form.

"What does the iPad have to teach educational technology about how a phenomenon becomes popular and adopted? Quite a bit. First, acceptance is high, with a half-million units sold in the first week of release. Six weeks later, Apple was selling twice as many iPads per week as Mac computers. Given some recent history, this should be surprising-the idea of a tablet device has been around for at least a decade or two, but most such devices have not experienced anything close to wide adoption. However, some specific factors have paved the way for the iPad's adoption. And these factors harbor advice that educational technology would do well to heed. Prime the technology pump. The iPhone, direct predecessor to the iPad, came onto the market amid a wave of technology that permitted small packages to deliver powerful computing. This hardware, including GPS location sensors, fast and efficient microprocessors, and the evolution of touch screen technology was a necessary condition for the emergence and success of both the iPhone and the iPad generation of devices. Define (and answer) the problem. The hugely popular mobile smartphones had an equally huge problem. People hated their interfaces. A decade of frustration with labyrinthian voicemail menus and inscrutable settings had created an army of frustrated mobile phone users with enough pent-up rage to fuel a revolution. By providing a device that was easy to use, the iPhone had identified a core problem and set a new bar for its solution, one that was quickly taken up by many others. Whet undiscovered appetites. The explosion of mobile devices also created for millions the idea of constant, away-from-home connectivity. The iPhone upped the ante significantly by providing a full browsing and even computing experience, giving consumers the expectation that they should be only inches away from powerful, networked computing at all times. Provide the practice. The iPhone defined a new set of touch-based interactions. Whi

Redefining 'schools'? Breaking down walls?

I read the first ACOT report a long time ago... it was a great planning document. This looks like it would be too.