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Tool for creating, managing and sharing app lists on particular themes.

Adam Foster of @iPadTeachers has written an excellent guide to using Book Creator in the classroom. 99¢ on the iBooks Store and well worth it. You could do Book Creator activities with your class or workshops for educators for years with the number of ideas packed into this tutorial. Many subject areas. Many of the activities include App Smashing ideas.

Trying out Blendspace as a way of sharing resources. Here's a collection of tutorials and ideas for using the ChatterPix Kids app in the classroom.

Two-page starter-sheets with practical ideas for getting started with web 2.0 apps in the classroom. Format is consistent for all the sheets and learning objectives are indexed to Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. Includes several Google apps, Voicethread, Mindmeister, Mixbook and others.

This is the wiki from the iPad apps session I just attended at CSUN 2011. Great info about good apps for accessibility and great hands-on workshop. They have videos and .pdfs on their site.

Short tutorial explains how to close all the open apps on an iPad...most people don't realize they have to close them.

Free online course taught by top UDL practitioners. Includes webinars for Intro to UDL and all three UDL Guidelines in depth. Also app lists and inventive tasks for participants.

This text to speech app is getting excellent reviews for it's features and ability to extract .pdf content.

Two new free UDL designed math apps from CAST.

This iPad app provides MSWord, PPT, Excel for free. Even includes a Math Editor. Looks like you have to be online to use it. Paul Hamilton is going to review it soon.

At this ISTE sponsored site, teachers upload reviews of apps they are finding useful.

Great examples of ways to use the free app videoscribe.

I've just been testing FreshGrade as a digital portfolio tool and it looks very easy to use. FreshGrade is a free web and mobile based app increasing communication and collaboration between parents, teachers and students through digital portfolios.

I've just been testing FreshGrade as a digital portfolio tool and it looks very easy to use. FreshGrade is a free web and mobile based app increasing communication and collaboration between parents, teachers and students through digital portfolios.

brilliant use of Angry Birds app to teach math/science concepts associated with use of catapults.

This episode shows how Book Creator supports UDL Guideline 5 Provide options for expressive skills and fluency. Part of an ISTE Series in which UDL Guidelines are matched with apps. Would make a great workshop.

Ideas for math and language arts from primary teacher Kristen Wideen

application animates portion of a photo...can also add sound. similar to free app blabberize

Sqworl is a free app that allows you to create a public page on the web that contains thumbnails of several webpages. You can then share the url. This would be useful for making a custom homepage, lists of workshop resources, or safe sites for kids to browse when doing research. It's very easy to set up...you just name a group and then paste in the url's and a short title or description of the links you want. Sqworl creates the thumbnail pics which you can drag around to reorder.

Kelley is starting an ipad project at her school and will document her experiences.

computational knowledge engine. Start by entering your birthdate and see what happens. It is a "cloud computing platform for numerical computation & visualization of data. Numerous vertical apps possible." Also try entering your first or last name.