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If all you want to do is merge some PDFs into one single file, simply connect PDF Mergy to your Google Drive. You can then select any number of PDF files in Google Drive and snap them into a single, seamless PDF that you can then save to Drive or download to your desktop.

Hook up CloudConvert to your Google Drive and never worry about file formats again. CloudConvert supports over a hundred file formats for videos, music, ebooks, and zip archives.

One of the big names in the CAD application industry is AutoDesk. While much of AutoDesk’s professional-level products are only available for purchase, the company has created a number of free CAD applications that can be used with 3D printers. AutoDesk offers 123D Design to users as a fast and easy tool for creating 3D objects that can be immediately sent to a connected 3D printer. But don’t ignore the company’s other free apps. 123D Creature and 123D Sculpt are two iPad apps that let users create custom objects on an iPad that can be saved and printed. 123D Catch lets users take a number of photographs of an object (from various angles) and then converts it to a 3D model that can be tweaked and then printed. Finally, 123D Make can take a model and slice it into layers that can be cut out in wood, plastic, or cardboard and then assembled.

I use our class accounts for Twitter, blogs, Instagram, Skypeetc almost daily in my classroom. We are engaged in various projects at any given moment and we use these tools as a way to communicate with other classes and people all over the world. Each student in my class has their own iPad which they use at various times during the day to engage with a variety of tools, apps, people (often times using social media), their environment, and each other. What the Apple TV allows us to do is to share what we are doing on our iPads at any given moment with the whole class.

Don’t view technology as just one more thing to add to your day.

If technology is something that you try to add after you have planned your reading, writing and math, you are destined to fail at “integrating” technology.

use technology when it allows you to do something in a better way than you have done before or to do something that was formerly impossible to do.