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I just recieved this in my inbox today.  This would have been helpful for the extra credit this week.  IThe website is a great tool for educators looking to integrate iPod touch into their classrooms.

Great video on apps can used in classrooms

Nice guide to different varieties of apples, with information about each and photos to distinguish one from another. Characteristics of each, with info (scroll down past first chart!) as to how well this variety keeps, cooks, crispness, etc.

If you have class iPads or MacBooks, try using iBook author to create ebooks! You can include videos and other interactive content.

Anyone who has a disability and uses a Mac, wants to buy one, or who teaches or assists others with disabilities who use a Mac can benefit from Apple's list of Accessibility features.

Did you know all of the accessibility features already built in to your Mac, iPad, iPhone, or iPod? Cool!

Intuitive by design, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch also come with assistive features that allow people with disabilities to experience the fun and function of iOS. With these innovative technologies built right in, iOS devices become powerful and affordable assistive devices.

A really cool app for the iphone and ipad that will do video analysis for motion problems in physics.

Learn about QuickTime Player's media sharing, flexible recording capabilities, and simple media trimming and combining features. How to use QuickTime Player to play media files on your Mac QuickTime Player is a great application for playing media content, including HD (high definition) video in OS X.

A great app for iOS devices that allows teachers to set up grade books. I use it to grade homework for completion simply by walking around the room with my ipad.

Step2Step Physics is an iPad app that was put together by a group of physics teachers as they were beginning a one to one iPad program in their school. It is a physics tutor in an app!

GarageBand is a useful tool that allows musicians and "non-musicians" to create music. It features deep instrumental customization as well as pre-made loops. Users can create simple songs quickly, or complex songs with custom instruments and vocal. This tool can be integrated into various multimedia, art, and music curriculum.

Just ahead of the back-to-school season, Amazon plans to make a major foray into the education technology market for primary and secondary schools, a territory that Apple, Google and Microsoft have heavily staked out. Monday morning, Amazon said that it would introduce an online marketplace with tens of thousands of free lesson plans, worksheets and other instructional materials for teachers in late August or early September.

news, reviews, and tutorials on operating platforms for smartphones, tablets, and desktops. range of info appropriate for beginning to advanced users.

A game based learning app to teach students about world geography.

A free game based learning quiz style app that teaches students the continents and oceans.

This is a podcast of a lecture that George Siemens gave at the Ann Ferren conference. He talks about connectivism, learner self-organization in online courses and social networks he has been involved with as well as his efforts to connect open free personal learning networks of our social lives with a more rigorous university setting.