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for iPad on the iTunes App Store\niAnnotate is both an elegant PDF reader and a powerful annotation tool that finally lets you work with your PDFs. You can open documents from email, sign and send out contracts, enter notes for edits, sketch diagrams, copy text, and add highlights or underline with the drag of a finger!\n\nUnlike other apps that only let users draw on top of a PDF, iAnnotate fully integrates its annotations directly into the PDF such that they will be available to any standard PDF readers like Adobe Reader or Preview. You can transfer PDFs via email, iTunes sync or even clicking any PDF web link in the integrated web browser. Marking up and emailing it right back out couldn't be easier!\n\nThe intuitive drag and drop interface offers customizable toolbar locations, and an easy to access contextual menu makes it possible to work with the toolbars completely hidden. You can search your entire library for documents containing any keyword, view which documents are "new", "unread", "recently viewed", or "annotated", and tabbed browsing makes it easy to work on several documents simultaneously.

"The iPad has found yet another great use in the classroom - as a document camera to record and/or project just about anything."

"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."

"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."

With our website, www.projectnoah.org we continue to build an active community where users can view submissions, help identify species, choose their favorite photos, follow their favorite contributors and discuss their encounters. Users can also make submissions directly from the web. ✔ Our ultimate goal is to build the platform for documenting all the world's organisms and through doing this we hope to develop an effective way to measure Mother Nature's pulse. By encouraging the mobile masses to document their encounters with nature, we hope to build a powerful force for data collection and an important educational tool for wildlife awareness and preservation. We hope you'll support us by joining Project Noah today.

" At the end of the year, a final conference would provide a holistic view of their work over entire course. By creating a math portfolio in iBooks, the students also gain a customized exam review system in addition to the documentation of their learning process."

For a global view of the landscape - at least for iOS devices - start with this Google Docs spreadsheet curated by Scott McLeod. Updated regularly, the document breaks down the major online sources of reviews and of the apps themselves, with a few comments to help you browse.

"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"

MLA is tool for creating assessments (e.g., tests and quizzes) that can be distributed to a classroom even virtually via an iPod touch, iPad, or iPhone. The results of the assessment are recorded in the same document as the assessment for easy review and analysis. We use Google Docs to host the assessments and the creator (e.g., an instructor) can even control the experience via their own device (e.g., step the audience through the assessment) which makes this ideal for polling as well.

"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."

Side by Side is a multiple-window reader/browser with offline reading and note taking capabilities. It turns the iPad into multiple resizable reading devices working in parallel. You can browse webpages, download files, read documents, or take notes on each split screen. When reading something on the iPad, e.g. a webpage or a PDF document, you might often need some handy tools on the side, e.g. a dictionary, a notepad, your email inbox, your facebook updates, an IM tool to chat with your friends, or a youtube video with your favorite background music. This app provides you plenty of possible ways to organize your beautiful iPad screen.

An open source spreadsheet allowing you to add which iPad apps are useful for teaching, and why.

Nice list of schools using iPads