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Ideas on ways to better utilise this ipads in the classroom. Looks at a range of inquiry processes and suggest apps to enable the learning.

Presentation by Michelle Jensen on e-books and ipads in the NSW DEC system. May 2014

If you are looking to be inspired and motivate your students to think and express themselves creatively through visual design, these resources will assist for Mac and iPad users

There are very few iPads apps which specifically target critical thinking skills. Those listed here provide an interesting mix of literature, gaming, conflict resolution, etc.

The Interesting Ways series continues to be a great example of crowdsourcing good quality classroom ideas. Includes using Google Earth and Maps, Google docs and forms, devices such as ipads, ipods, IWBs and mobile phones and audio and visual tools

There are many possibilities for using apps in creative ways in libraries. In Nicole Hennig's online course, "The Book as iPad App," 60 one of the assignments is to participate in a virtual brainstorming activity about this topic. Librarians are from school, academic, and public libraries, and this list is based on the many creative ideas they came up with. Since this course was focused on interactive book apps, the ideas are mostly about those. Feel free to imagine using these ideas for all types of apps.

This brief article looks at using Edmodo for students to operate literature circles. Main reasons provided relate to organisation and preparation, how they actually discuss the books and prepare their group response to the text is not covered.

Practical resources for delivering the Australian curriculum including units of work, posters, web 2.0 tools and apps to support delivery.