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Here is a list of potential PDF annotation apps from The New iPad Owner's App Buying Guide.

Common Sense offers great reviews and advice to parents as well as educators. Their new Beta site - Learning with Technology - reviews apps, games, and other media for kids in terms of learning.

This blog post gives a great overview of the new Apple Configurator.

Another great source for learning about apps.

Tech directors have been struggling with managing large numbers of iOS devices in their schools since the iPad bandwagon got rolling. With the iPad3 announcement, Apple also rolled out the new Apple Configurator to replace the previously existing iPhone Configurator that they recommended for also managing iPads. This app comes free for any Mac running OSX Lion and can be downloaded from the App Store.

"The debate over digital learning will soon enter a new phase. No longer will educators debate whether or not digital learning has the capacity to transform the American education system. Just about gone are the anti-technology Luddites who insist that every classroom be self-contained, with students and teachers left to their own devices, save for the help of pencils, chalk, blackboards and weighty textbooks stuffed into 10 kilo backpacks." - from ISTE about the need for the new Mobile Learning Group.

When we teach iPad workshops, we like to begin with "tap and hold" as a skill. While many folks have already figured it out, the concept is new to a majority of the educators whom we work with. This is a great post describing some of the results.

This free app from the National Science Foundation gives you access to images, videos, and science news.

This is an interesting program that combines student response system, content delivery system, and student monitoring all in one. Schools can apply for the new iPad pilot program for free (at the moment).

Part 1 of a new series by Edutopia

Edutopia: K-5 iPad Apps & Bloom's Taxonomy (Part 1: Remembering)

This is one app that almost fully replicates the online version. The mobile version of VoiceThread leverages the built-in capabilities of the device to easily create new projects.