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Tutorials, lesson ideas, and examples for using Thinglink (app and webtool) in education.

Presentation on technology infusion and technology as assessment tool.

Interesting use of Smore as a presentation tool.

Attached find a printable QR-coded periodic table with links to online periodic table data. QR codes are 2-dimensional bar codes readable by, for instance, some Apps on iPhones and others.

Blooms and apps

Create color coded QR codes that will open an email message, open app store, post to Twitter-Facebook-etc., contact info, google maps location, and so much more. Sign up for an account to save codes and get reports.

An iPad, iPod touch, or iPhone can be so many things: a camera, a book, a canvas, a calculator, a timer, a reference, a notebook, an audio recorder, a word processor, a camcorder, a video editing station, a videoconferencing device, a movie player, a scanner, a student response system, an instrument, a flash drive, a presentation station, and much more. Follow Tony Vincent on Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest for the latest apps and app sales!

Ideas, Tips, and Tricks for using QR codes in your classroom

Check out this blog from two teachers in Michigan that have an iPad classroom implementation.

This teacher's blog post not only gives tips for setting-up a 1 iPad classroom (with a teacher laptop also) but a huge list of apps and ideas for using them all.

Visual representation of apps/Web 2.0 tools and Bloom's

Pondering this article.  One of the beauties of the iPad is all the possibilities!  this may be a good way to load up a new users iPad.

Qualities for an iPad ready classroom. It isn't about the tech!

10 lessons from an iPad pilot 

The Padagogy Wheel takes an expanded approach Bloom's Digital Taxonomy and offers 62 iPad apps that fit into the organized chaos that is Bloom's. On Allan's blog (check it out, it's great!)

"All my teaching is now one-to-one and not surprisingly, my grades are soaring. In the classroom I only teach individual students the specific points they highlight as unclear after watching the video lesson and I monitor progress on the projects they've designed to prove understanding of the content. This I've done within a traditional exam-based school structure and have students who are not focused on grades but more on what they can best do with their time at school, especially now that the time is very much theirs not mine."

Not sure that I love his instructional practice completely but he makes some good points and there are instructions at the bottom of the post to help someone "flip" their classroom.

Postach.io is a new blogging platform that allows an Evernote Notebook to be turned into a blog.

Videos on text to speech, ipad basics, and more

There are dozens of other sites specifically devoted to education app reviews for teachers and students. This blog post highlights a list from Listly of all the great places that review apps for educational applications.

How about using iPad to create awesome sketches and paintings, wouldn't that be awesome ? Well,  I have curated a list of some excellent iPad apps that can allow you and your students to tap into the artistic capabilities of iPad. Wherever you are with an Internet connection, just tap on one of these apps and give vent to your imagination and creativity, capturing the world around you in beautiful sketches to share with others.