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I was asked to attend Apple's e-learning session over the summer to learn about some of the great teaching apps for the iPad. I learned how to use many for Language Arts and am excited to share! This website highlights a couple of the best apps we went over for all of the subjects! Enjoy!

According to Google, this resource is so easy to use that kids can create their own Apps, though limited to Google's Android OS. Google borrowed some code from a teacher education program at MIT as their building blocks. They hope young people (and teachers) will be inspired to become serious App creators. Critics say it will only add to the hundreds of low-quality, useless Apps that are already out there. What do you think?

Quick of overview of Google Apps for Educators. Good beginning article with links.

Brainshark, a way to upload and annotate presentations, has a free android app.  Worth exploring!

List of educational Facebook applications.

Examples for Mobile Learning

Generational difference in learning!

This is a pretty cool app. I could see using this while at a concert. Some of the plug-ins offer some other options, like simultaneous searches, photo viewing, document viewing, which could be extremely useful. It really makes a phone call more interactive. Check out the article for further detail.

For all you math teachers and parents, MathBoard may help your student learn to love math. MathBoard is appropriate for all ages from kindergarten (with simple addition and subtraction problems) to elementary school, where learning multiplication and division can be a challenge. You can control the range of numbers you want to work with, the amount of questions you want to answer and length of time allowed per quiz. Kids will likely love it. Even if this were merely a calculator, students would be lining up to play with it because it's on an iPad. The fact that it comes through on its promise makes it all the more useful. The random problem generator is particularly handy for creating quizzes. Gone are the days of picking through or creating your own problems and pasting them into a quiz. MathBoard does all of this for up to 250 problems per quiz. Can I use it in my classroom? This tool is designed specifically for classroom use. Students can use it to work on new math techniques, and teachers can use it to generate homework and quizzes. It's a perfect match. I'm providing a link to a youtube demo above. Please click on it and judge for yourself.