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Great suggestions for setting up an iPad & Greenscreen - with examples of student work.

Here is a chart of possible tools/apps to enhance classroom instruction.

How many school districts are going to allow you to jailbreak their ipads?

Not compelling at all. When a company tells you how a technology will revolutionize education, think very carefully, deeply, and critically.

Agreed. I'll consider the iPad an educational resource when Apple starts giving some serious grants for it. Till then, it just seems like Jobs wants schools to join the bandwagon the way consumers do.

Third-grade students at the Upper Pittsgrove School mastered fractions in Mrs. Markert class Friday afternoon not by memorization or flash cards, but with Apple iPads. School districts throughout Salem County have now entered the age of technology using the touch sensitive innovative device as a learning tool for students. Superintendents say they are attracted to the devices for two reasons: It's user friendly and inexpensive compared to other technology like laptops.

Kidd, who also moderates a district-wide blog, said he was amazed with how user friendly the technology is, even for severely challenged students. He said he remembered the first time he let one of the autistic students in the school use the iPad. "One of the students showed interest and when I gave it to her she sat for over 20 minutes engaged in the device," said Kidd. "Her teacher said she has never sat for that long in the classroom."

Great list of apps to use in the classroom. Categorized by what you want students to do.

UKEdchat Summary focuses on the impact of tablet computers in the classroom, includes an infograph from the session.

I am a teacher in a Mod?severe special needs class and the IPad is an amazing tool for communicating and engaging students at all levels

"Showbie lets you and your students get more done with classroom iPads."

Showbie makes it easy to assign, collect and review student work in iPad classrooms.

The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) iPad Project seeks to dramatically transform the classroom.

"Teaching about sound in the classroom used to involve lots of fiddly bits of kit such as Signal Generators and Decibel Meters that would cost a lot of money and only get wheeled out once a year. Thankfully if you have an iPhone or iPad you can replace quite a bit of that kit with a couple of handy apps which are either free or relatively inexpensive. Here's a couple to get you started:"

"If however we assume that interactivity and communication are important objectives of the modern classroom, then there's one feature however that's particularly interesting. Explain Everything links to a wide variety of cloud storage services thereby enabling screencasts to be uploaded and exchanged between students and teacher. For example, a student can create a screencast and the teacher can respond verbally within the same screencast while highlighting and marking it up for clarification"