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"Using Google Apps on the iPad can get sticky! Historically, Google and the iPad have not played well together. But we have come a long way in the last couple years! There are now tons of apps for iOS devices that integrate well with Google, and Google has release several official apps for the iPad. There is hope, Obi Wan, Google and Apple can play nice! The infographic embedded below details the most useful Google apps for the iPad. These are the apps that I find most useful not only for teachers, but any Google user. Take a look, download, and explore the wonderful possibilities of using Google Apps on the iPad! (Note: There are a few apps that were designed for the iPhone, but worth mentioning for the iPad as well.)"

"With over 300,000 apps it's easy to become overwhelmed by the number of app choices. It's also easy to spend a small fortune on a lot of useless apps. As a special needs parent I wanted to get right to the "good stuff" and figured you did too. Check out our guide that breaks down the best of the apps by skill set so you can easily find and buy apps that most benefit your child. Great for kids with autism, ADHD, apraxia, learning disability, sensory issues and more. Included are apps for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and some Android apps. Get started right now by clicking on a category. "

"The UDL Placemat of Core Apps Serving Learning for All is a starting point to utilizing the exceptional universally designed iPad to meet the needs of a wide range of learners. The iPad's versatile settings and wide range of Apps is also an exceptional tool for representing information in a wide variety of formats to meet the needs of all learners. The list of Apps provided are by no means complete and they will, no doubt, be added to and change with time. The App icons provided are clickable links to descriptors of the App and what the App can do for various users. Further explanation of how to use the App in the classroom will be provided in other published documents"

The Moms, Dads, and Teachers also deserve great apps! So here's a collection of apps for the grownups which are FREE for a limited time. These are updated daily so you get a new Paid app for FREE - EVERYDAY! These are mostly games, productivity apps, and other Unique apps that have good Ratings which lots of people have enjoyed

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nGet 13 great educational apps for FREE with Kid Apps: 13 in 1. This application was designed with the help of parents just like you.\n\nAre you looking for the perfect application to teach your young children fundamental reading, writing and math skills? Well, look no further, because Kid Genius: 13 in 1 brings the classroom to the palm of your hand. We have designed the perfect app for both parents and kids.\n\nKid Genius: 13 in 1 contains 13 different applications ranging from math games, over 600 flash cards, interactive tracing drills and more! You will find the following full featured kid apps inside:\n\n1) Kid Genius: ABCs, Counting and Words\n2) Flash Math\n3) Sight Words\n4) Math Whiz\n5) Math Match\n6) Music Instruments\n7) Around the House\n8) The Outdoors\n9) My Pets\n10) At School\n11) The Zoo\n12) At The Farm\n13) Food Words

"Looking for some good iPad apps to teach STEAM in your classroom? This collection created by We Are Teachers is definitely a must see. It provides about 60 iPad apps categorized under different subject areas, all of which are geared towards enhancing your kids' STEAM knowledge. The app recommendations are also arranged in such a way that you will be able to access apps for different grade levels (k-12). I have spent sometime going through this collection and find it really worth sharing with you here. Have a look and share with us what you think of it."

"Creative Book Builder is a fantastic app that allows students to create books in epub format, which can then be exported to iBooks and shared with others. There are a variety of instructional uses for this app, from using it as a publishing tool for project-based learning to a summative assessment at the end of a unit.  Students can embed images, audio files, video files, and write text.  The advantage of an epub document over a PDF document is that all of the media will be preserved and available for readers to interact with when the final product is published.   Depending on how you use Creative Book Builder with students, this app can help students complete tasks that align with every level of the revised Bloom's Taxonomy.  Explore the different ways this app can be used at each level of Bloom's Taxonomy."

"App review websites that cover the age or topic/curriculum areas that you are searching for provide a good starting place for content specific apps. There are many app review websites and here are a few of my go to resources:"

"KinderTown is a newly launched app store for parents which offers a curated collection of kid-friendly applications. What makes the store unique is that it only includes apps which have been deemed to have "substantial educational value" for kids three to six years old. In order to evaluate the apps' quality, each app is first reviewed by early childhood educators, then tested by parents and kids before admission."

"Are you impressed with the Dragon Dictation App? Well, you will love Nuances new PaperPort app that has Dragon Dictation tools in it!"

"The Cuban Missile Crisis is one of the landmark events discussed in nearly every course covering the Cold War. To The Brink is an excellent free iPad app through which students can learn about the causes of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Kennedy administration's handling of the crisis. The app uses archival images, videos, documents, and audio recordings to tell the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The app is arranged as a series of pages for students to flip through. On each page there are icons that students can tap to get more information in the forms of documents, images, and videos."

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\nThe first official NASA App invites you to discover a wealth of NASA information right on your iPhone or iPod Touch.\n\nThe NASA App collects, customizes and delivers an extensive selection of dynamically updated information, images and videos from various online NASA sources in a convenient mobile package. Come explore with us.\n\nFEATURES:\n\n* NASA Mission Information\n* Live streaming of the NASA TV public channel\n* Launch Information & Countdown clocks\n* Sighting Opportunities (Visible Passes for the ISS and Shuttle)\n* Mission Orbit Trackers\n* NASA Image of the Day\n* Astronomy Picture of the Day\n* NASAImages.org collection of images\n* NASA Videos\n* NASA Twitter Feeds/Mission Updates\n* Facebook® Connect for easy sharing\n* Integrated Twitter™ client

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store This app contains a full section from the full Skeletal System Plus app. This section concentrates on the bones of the head and neck. The full version has the entire skeletal system and major ligaments. These apps are powerful reference tools that allows the user to zoom in and identify an individual bone or part of a bone. They have been designed to accommodate medical professionals as well as medical students from basic to advanced levels of anatomical medical knowledge.

for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store Mathematical Formulas is the perfect app for you who likes mathematics and easily forgets formulas which you need in certain situation. Without a good app, it's tough to remember all these complicated and easy forgettable formulas. You don't even want to write down all you formulas on ten or even 20 different post-it papers and loosing them all the time. But hey, why don't have them in ONE place and easily access them whenever you want to? This app is especially made for this kind of a situations. Mathematical Formulas contains all the basic functions you'll need. You won't no more worry about forgetting the basic formulas such as the quadratic formula and etc.

"I updated my Scribd document for iPod touch app tutorials. I updated existing tutorials and added new ones for apps such as Typ-O, Speech with Milo: Verbs, Violet and the Mysterious Black Dog, and Cookie Doodle. The tutorials guide you step-by-step through various iPhone and iPod touch apps for special needs."

"The apps recognized as Best Apps for Teaching & Learning are of exceptional value to inquiry-based teaching and learning as embodied in the AASL's Standards for the 21st-Century Learner. The apps foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration and are user friendly to encourage a community of learners to explore and discover. "

One of the hardest thing with using the iPad in the classroom is finding the time to go through all of the apps in the iTunes Store listed under the education banner. We have started to list some of the apps we've found under each of the Key Learning Areas.

Teaching about sound in the classroom used to involve lots of fiddly bits of kit such as Signal Generators and Decibel Meters that would cost a lot of money and only get wheeled out once a year. Thankfully if you have an iPhone or iPad you can replace quite a bit of that kit with a couple of handy apps which are either free or relatively inexpensive. Read more http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/2013/01/ipad-apps-for-teaching-about-sound/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheWhiteboardBlog+(The+Whiteboard+Blog)