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A teacher shares her favorite apps for a 21st century classroom. evernote, Skitch, and Socrative top the list.

Another goodie. For those of you using the iPad who love pinterest, you'll want to install this add in to the safari web browser so you can pin from your ipad.

Make inspiring, informative or just plain fun digital posters with this easy to use Apple app. Enter your search term to find a suitable photo, add your text and publish to the world. Download the app at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quipio/id593799205?ls=1&mt=8 http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+%26+Images

While most teachers will not understand what this means, an API is something that lets other websites interact with a main website. OpenEd has released an API to allow others to interact with their resources and find things based on standards or keywords. What this means is that OpenEd is going to be a very useful tool for all of education in the future because of this technological tool. It also means that if you're developing for a state or for an organization that provides educational resources, you should tap into this for a huge repository of almost a quarter of a million standards aligned resources that your teachers can search. This is great news.

There are many text editors you can use with Dropbox on your ipad. You can export and import from Pages now, which is one of the ways I most often edit the files, however, if you want to make sure that all of your files are saved in dropbox and you never have to look, you might want to choose one of these apps.

I've been playing around with Flare on my blog. 5 of the 10 top sites in social media use Flare. Here is the instruction for how to activate and use it. Oddly I got some malware alerts from Malwarebytes so although I'm using it, I'm contacting the developer to try to understand why.

How cool. Ardulab is an open source platform powered by Arduiono to help monitor and control experiments sent to the International Space station. As I talked with Kaci Heins this week on every Classroom Matters, she has her students designing experiments to go onto the space station. This is doable. We have an ardino in my classroom. Very cool.

lots of "food for thought" With implications for education

"Two child-friendly music Apple apps. A sound sampler which record sounds and play them back to make interesting 'music', the other is drum machine. Supply your own earplugs!"

"A wonderful resource which for educators to present lesson slides and resources to a class on their own Apple/Android devices. The teacher can set the pace and chooses when the slides move on. This tool allows you to show images, text and set tests/quizzes in real time and collects the data."

"This is a great iPad, Android and web app which lets users design and play simple games by drawing the character and backgrounds."

"you can easily remove old Twitter posts, limit what others can see of your life on Facebook, delete your Google search history, and purge all of Amazon's recordings of your conversations with Alexa. (Data privacy controls for your Instagram and Tinder accounts are "coming soon.")"

40 ipad apps for language learners that teach language and culture. My top complaint continues to be the lack of feedback to parents and teachers, however, if you're implementing iPad 1:1, this is a must review list.

"A video clip editor from Apple with filters, graphics, emoji, music and more. Use it to make video feedback, short instructions for flipped learning, and whatever else your imagination can create."