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"10 Great, Free Apps for Students for Notetaking and Class Planning "

10 Great, Free iPad Apps for Students for Notetaking and Class Planning

Two business men who are creating education apps and supporting students who are creating education apps have begun "The App Evaluation Program for Schools" which allows teachers to test educational apps for kids for free. "The apps, which cover everything from math, spelling, and reading to language learning, storyboard building, and puzzles, are provided by developers around the world and sent to teachers two or three times per month. Teachers receive a questionnaire after testing the app as a way to help developers improve, but Larsson stresses they are not required to fill it out."

Seems like a nice way for teachers to get new iPad educational apps free to evaluate and then use if they find them valuable

According to their "About" page motionbox provides, free, 750mb video storage (free account), Easy-to-use online editing tools, Large file uploads, HD player and full-screen playbac. High quality downloads to a computer or iPod, DVDs and Flipbooks of your videos/\n

About the Khan Academy: The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We are complementing Salman's ever-growing library with user-paced exercises--developed as an open source project--allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World.

Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything for free. With a library of over 2,700 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 276 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.

It is in Spanish. 10 sources of free electronic books.

Ad free interactive touch typing program that can track student progress. 

Teachers' Domain, a free digital service produced by WGBH Boston, has embarked on a series of new efforts to bring award winning digital content to students and teachers involved in the design and production of user generated content using Open Educational Resources (OER).

Teachers' Domain is a free digital media service for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners. You'll find thousands of media resources, support materials, and tools for classroom lessons, individualized learning programs, and teacher professional learning communities.

Most of them free. Many might be really good.

Like Garageband, but online and free.

Very cool - Thanks for sharing

This is a great resource to share with teachers

Developed by NYC teachers. Free registration. Excellent video tutorial.

Free downloadable online safety ebook. This would support the online safety initiative that is part of the Connected Learning grant.

Online video library with student produced videos that are all under 5 minutes. Students can produce and submit multimedia presentations to Next Vista and if they are accepted, they would be featured on the site. And it's free!

Check out this article about Lure of the Labyrinth a middle school math problem solving game. This is getting great reviews.