This free app lets you easily annotate and share images, maps, and ideas. It is part of Evernote, so it is designed to easily help you remember and share your information.
This free app combines the best of Panoramio and Google Maps into one app. Think of using this to export the settings of novels, the geography or culture of a historical location, or a virtual field trip.
This site provides both a social network for your class as well as iOS/Android/Facebook apps to support learning outside of school. Unlike other study apps, this one encourages teachers and students to collaborate and engage via their Study Hall social network
iPad Academy is a great blog, and to celebrate it's 50,000 visitors, they posted this list of "70+ starter apps". It's a great resource for getting started with iPads.
This is a great blog post from edSocial Media regarding using apps as sources. As more schools move towards iPad integration programs, this is increasingly going to be a challenge.
Though this version of the app doesn't have as many features, it's free! With an iPhone or iPad, students can create time lapse recordings so as to improve observational skills, document a laboratory, or create a digital story.
This app takes the book character into the virtual world. Students can create their own Flat Stanley adventures and contribute to a monitored community
Another great digital storytelling app, there is a free version as well as an enhanced service. With the free app, you can create and share stories with images and audio straight from your mobile device
I sent this link to Chris Harrow, a colleague who teaches math at The Westminster School in Atlanta. Here are his first impressions:
Cool = very smooth functionality on the iPad, you can do all the explorations in the most excellent iPad touchscreen environment, a very tactile approach to learning geometry.
Frustrating = you have to create the docs elsewhere, on first exploration, I don't see a way to do constructions directly in this app. If a kid gets a good idea that requires additional "stuff" on the construction, s/he may not be able to instantly follow up on intuition.
Any one else want to weigh in?
This site features reviews of apps from Apple Distinguished Educators. In addition to organizing apps by theme, it also presents them by multiple intelligence and Blloom's Taxonomy.
I have been teaching for over 10 years in a variety of contexts. Most recently, I left my position as Director of Academic Technology at St. Michael's Country Day School and joined EdTechTeacher as their Senior Associate.