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Edmodo is a free social networking/blended learning platform for schools. It now has an app as well.

This app supports math instruction by providing students with an opportunity to have virtual manipulatives similar to the blocks frequently used in classrooms.

This free mind mapping tool includes the ability to integrate photos, prioritize tasks, and auto-sync to Dropbox files.

eBackpack offers storage and collaboration features to individuals, classes, teachers, and schools. Now, there is an iPad module to help manage workflow and student portfolios. The pricing is quite affordable.

DocsTeach is a great site from the National Archives. Now it is available for iPad.

This is an interesting article from the Phillips Exeter Academy Bulletin about the schools' use of iPads with the Harkness Method.

Practice Math Worksheets on the iPad through Math Pentagon. Though the app is free, you do have to pay for the service. It definitely has a lot of potential.

This is a great site from the UK for investigating and review apps.

Vernier offers a host of products to support physics instruction, and for $2.99 there is now an app. Students can perform hands-on experiments and collect real-time data through the iPad.

Created by the people who made Vimeo, DIY is an open tool for kids to make their own digital portfolios and for parents to have a login to the account. Using the app and the web, kids can save all that they create. This is definitely worth exploring when thinking about extended learning environments.

"Mathtoons Media creates high level math learning tools that use wacky animation, humour and music. The Mathtoons Log App helps students learn how to change between exponential and logarithmic forms of an equation with the animated guidance of Captain Calculator and his assistant, Corporal MiniCalc."

This is a great article about mobile learning, collaborative learning, and general good practice.

This site offers tools for studying vocabulary. There is also a selection of apps available. What makes this interesting for students is the visuals provided by both images as well as video to give additional cues for learning words.

"A simple Decimal/Roman number converter that will calculate whole numbers from 1 through 3,999,999. Additionally, there is a Quiz mode that quizzes the user - available in either decimal or roman numeral mode."

This free graphic calculator can also serve as a Scientific Calculator, has graphing capabilities, offers a unit converter, and can create a table of functions from values entered. It also has a set of references for formulas.

This blog from Middletown City Schools is another good example of iPads in practice.

"CCL4s provides an interface for entering observation data as well as access to all the Content Standards for Mathematics K-12 and the ISTE NETS.S. The collected observation data can be shared via email or with our unique built-in instant meeting. The graphs are very interactive and allow observers to merge different observations to compare and contrast different teachers or the same teacher over time. Using the Timeline feature, observers can track the observed Look-fors through time."

We use VoiceThread in a lot of our EdTechTeacher workshops as it is completely web based and now includes an iPad app. As a tool, it can create digital stories, be used for foreign language exercises, or support the creation of collaborative study aids. This library is a database of articles about successful VoiceThread projects.

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This is a great post full of presentations and documentation about going 1:1 with either iPads or laptops.

This free app is designed to specifically address middle school math skills. Topics include negative numbers, absolute value, and order of operations.