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"My Interesting Ways to Use series has been really successful. I measure their success in how useful they are to teachers and other educators in helping with professional development. I say "My" in the loosest sense of ownership really, as with all of the presentations they belong to us all. I just kickstart them and point them off in the right direction."

This article will get you thinking about the iPad as or not as a creation device.  The author does provide points that make you think twice. 

3 good points that support the shift to digital textbooks.

"Use your PC long enough, and it will get littered with duplicate files of all kinds. Graphics files, .doc files, media files, .dll files, you'll be amazed at how many duplicates you have. They clog up your hard disk, take away precious hard disk space, and make it hard to find the files you want. This simple freebie will find duplicate files, then let you delete the ones you don't want. Point it at your hard disk or selected folders, and it goes to work, finding duplicates. It then gives you a full report, and lets you clean them en masse, or just selected ones. There's some nice intelligence built in as well. It tells you how much disk space duplicate files take up, for example, and lets you protect system files so that you don't accidentally delete any important files your PC needs in order to run properly. "

Documents via website have annotations. Documents, images, and audio can be searched by time period starting with the earliest of times. Site recommended by Turning Point Learning Center.

"This site contains tools and guidelines to use as a starting point to getting your students, faculty, and alumni ready and excited about what's coming."

SoundNote is the best way to take notes on your iPad. It tracks what you type and draw while recording audio, so you'll never worry about missing an important detail. While playing back your recording, just tap a word; SoundNote will jump right to that point in the audio. Use SoundNote's powerful drawing tool for quick sketches. It's easy to edit them, too. Tap a drawing to select it, or tap twice to select an individual stroke. From there, you can drag it to wherever you want, or tap "Delete" to get rid of it. Use two fingers to zoom and scroll.

This is another great thought and debate provoking article. It brings up the point of how cursive handwriting is not part of Common Core standards and may have little impact on future jobs.

Interactive web based timer.

"Everybody needs a stopwatch at some point -- and there's never one around! Well... Now there is! Online Stopwatch! A Simple, Fast Flash Online Stopwatch and Online Countdown timer always available when you need it."

Very interesting points and great Web 2.0 tools shared within this article as it explains why social networking is a positive for education.

Mathematics game: arrange the vertices such that no edges overlap.

This blog post does provide some good points in opposition to IWBs. Good conversation piece.

Jon Becker raises some good points about Marzanno's research on IWB enhancing learning.

Debate topics provide with points made pro/con of topic.