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With the iPad2 on the launching pad, it’s a great time to share this list of useful iPad apps for teachers from guest writer Paula Dierkens.

WebSense launched Defensio 2.0 for Facebook, a Facebook app that can help keep your company's Facebook Page safe and clear from malicious links, spam and profanity

KinKast is both an iPhone application and a web application. Here's what KinKast does; you record a video on your iPhone or on a camera and upload it to the KinKast servers. You can then share it via email with the people you want to see it. You can also post it to Facebook if you choose

enhance their learning experience with the use of some simple and low-cost digital tools.

She says tutors began to create a more effective, time-saving combination of text and audio. "They found they could write quick little annotations on students' essays and then elaborate more in the audio feedback."

The research also revealed that students appeared more willing to listen to feedback via audio than to commit time to reading written comments.

3D is no longer exclusive to movie studios. If you can scrape together two camcorders, some sticky tape and access to a hooked-up computer, you’re just a few steps away from making your own three-dimensional cinematic works of art

Here's what they learned, based on users' feedback, preferences and complaints: Touchable areas are often too small, too close, not easy enough to discern.

iPad users dislike typing on the touchpad.

The Web browser has its limits.