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So, you want your iPhone home button to behave like it did when you got it. This very simple tip is spreading like wildfire through the iPhone networks and just involves a simple recalibration with the power off switch. Try it if you are having trougble or if you have had your iPhone or iPod touch for a while. Very cool.

A nice iPod inspired maths operations game. Practise multiplication, division, subtract and addition. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

Very cool likttle programmable robot for kids - you put your iphone or ipod touch on the frame and you can teach Romo how to do things (and learn programming.)

Optical character recognition (OCR) software for the Apple iDevices that will scan any text, and then output it to text for e-mail, documents, or spreadsheets. Also includes text reading, which would make it very valuable for both students with visual disabilities and reading/decoding problems.

Lots of ideas for using iPad/iPod apps with students by grade level.

Blog with practical ideas for using mobile apps in the classroom.

Nice blog post about some great apps for the itouch. Will be writing more on this next week, but this is a great post!

Anyone with a microphone and an Internet connection suddenly seems to have a podcast, and for good reason: It's very easy to produce and upload audio clips. The tools are cheap, the files are easy to share, and just about anyone can do it. Does it make sense for your classroom?

SpokenText.net allows you to record PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files, ,RSS news feeds, emails and web pages, and converts them to speech automatically. You can download your recording as an iPod book or mp3 file.

Lots of resources from Tony Vincent. This page focuses on the many things you can do with an itouch in the classroom.

With links to other Top 10 Posts for Language Arts and Math!

Blog on using iPod Touches in the classroom

60 second podcasts describing political concepts, realities, and situations. Useful for studying, remediation, or for helping students explore concepts in short, bite-sized pieces they can put on their portable media players or iPods.

For parents who want fun things for their students to do over the summer that will help students learn more and move forward in math and literacy skills - this is a website to check out. "Students enter the tournament by going to www.DimensionU.com/SummerChallenge. Once registered (parental permission is required) they will compete in math- and literacy-based games for a chance to win gift cards and summer-related prizes like inline skates, inflatable pools, beach volleyball sets, or tents. Five lucky players will be randomly selected to win an iPod Nano each. New this year is a social networking component that encourages students to build online "learning communities" of friends, family, community members, or even teachers - basically anyone who wants to help support the child's academic efforts during the summer. Participants who earn the highest number of social network points in each tournament round will win prizes separate from those awarded for game play performance."

Suggest this to parents.

Play a memory game with your evernote notes on your ipod touch or iphone.

this is an observational tool specifically for math coaches and administrators, to be used for the iPad or iPod touch. research based practices, and it's only $0.99 for a limited time.

This program lets you kick up your mp3 player a bit. Not sure that I will put it on my ipod but planning to install on an old iriver.

Great resource for using Tech in an class.

Great resource for using Tech in an class. Please also check out: http://learninginhand.com/class/handoutsspring05/blog.pdf for a link to a rubric for grading student blogs.