Motion Math creates movement-based learning games that give players an intuitive sense of math.

Through the use of these math applications, students will improve their skills with basic math facts and mental computation.  Used on a weekly basis, this apptivity has shown documented improvement in students' abilities on timed addition, subtraction, multiplication and division tests.  This apptivity is designed to be used as math centers, which the students rotate through in fifteen minute intervals over a 45 minute math period.

Smarty Pants School enables you to monitor and nurture your children's early reading skills based on the official recommendations of the National Reading Panel.

Another great App list with several free and paid educational apps.

With PhotoCard you can make dazzling, high resolution postcards on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, and send them on-the-spot, through e-mail or the US Postal Service. The app is amazingly easy to use. To create a PhotoCard, select one of Bill's nature photos or use one of your own personal photos. Then, flip the card over to type your message. For a fun touch, jazz up your PhotoCard with decorative stickers and stamps. If you're e-mailing your card, it can even include an audible greeting. When you've finished your creation, send it off to any e-mail or postal address in the world!

Here's a follow up piece to my blog post from last January about 10 Avatar Generators for Profile Pictures, which proved to be very popular. There's obviously a lot of interest in these kind of websites! Here are 5 more sites which let you create cartoon versions of yourself which your students (or you!)  can use as an avatar in place of their own photograph.

Time now for Pingdom's look at the Internet stats for 2010. This will give you an idea of the massive Web presence as it continues its infiltration of our daily lives. I'll be curious to see the differences at the start of 2012. In the meantime, enjoy. posted by Ian Jukes Feb 9, 2011