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For iPad for iPad on the iTunes App Store\nArt Authority for iPad transports you to an enthralling, real-world art museum filled with works by over 1,000 of the western world's greatest artists, from ancient times to today. Over 40,000 paintings and sculptures, organized into eight period-specific rooms, each room a gateway to a whole museum's worth of art. Choose an artist by movement or name, and become instantly immersed in an exhibition devoted just to that artist.

Welcome to the iPads for Learning website.  This website is for educators, students and parents wanting to learn about using iPads in education.  Here you will find information about the Victorian school iPads for Learning trial including the specially selected apps, classroom ideas and technical tips.

"Bookry is free for education and this includes use of all Bookry widgets and associated services. When used with Apple's iBooks Author, you have the perfect tool for creating engaging and informative multi-touch books for students of all ages."

"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."

For educators using iPads in the classroom, Happi Papi offers an Education Evaluation Program. Educational institutions that are members of the program will receive free versions of all new Happi Papi apps being launched. When a new app is available, Happi Papi will email a code so that you may install and evaluate the app on your iPad for free.

"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."

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"

"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."

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.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nOriginally developed as a suplement for the iCaramba Spanish Course, this audio dictionary is now available for all.\n\nInstead of cramming every Spanish word there is into this dictionary, it focuses on the 500(*) words you're most likely to use and adds audio to every one of them. It is thus an excellent travel-companion.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\nGoDocs - is an excellent app for your google docs on iPad/iPhone/iTouch. You can view your docs much faster and comfortably, use few google docs accounts simultaneously, download all your google docs files on your iPhone/iPad, send them by mail, share them with your friends and relatives

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.

For iPad for iPad on the iTunes App Store\nEasily teaches kids how to Count, Add, and Subtract VISUALLY using fun Dinosaur animations with a prize reward system for completing each level.\n\n\nSIMPLE RULES:\n1. Visually solve the math question\n2. Touch the correct star answer button\n3. Complete the levels to unlock Dinosaur Prizes

For iPad on the iTunes App Store\nBoost your Math Skills! Math Flash Cards is a fun to use math drill application that looks and works just like the old paper flash cards. Great for Kids and Parents to practice and refresh arithmetic skills.\nWe spend numerous hours searching through reviews and we have listened. This is the most Exciting and Amazing Math Flash Card application produced. You have tried the rest now its time to use the BEST!\n\nDESCRIPTION\n\nThis is a perfect app for you kids to use during the school year. This is a digital pack of Math Flash cards that can be used anywhere! DRAW on the Screen and have your Child show his or her work! Challenge their friend or siblings with this app. See who has the fastest time, but remember they have to be correct as well.

For iPad for iPad on the iTunes App Store\nLearning over 300 Dolch Sight Words or "High Frequency" Words will help your child learn to read better, and in most schools, it is a requirement for the kids to know these without sounding them out.\n\nThe POWER in this learning tool is the ability to change the setting to fit your child's learning level and style and design to grow with your child. Use this to design your own custom learning lesson plans.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\nThis is a free lite version which has a LIMIT of 4 decks and 4 cards per deck. The paid version does not have this restriction.\n\nFlashcards Deluxe is an easy to use, yet powerful flashcard app which you can use to study just about anything you want. I use this app for my own Chinese studies, and am constantly improving it to make it better for myself and others.

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\niStart Spanish!" is an ABSOLUTE BEGINNER app for learning Spanish. If you already know some Spanish, please try the last lesson (#50) first in order to see if the app is suitable for you. Please enjoy this once-only limited-time free campaign!\n

iPad edition for iPad on the iTunes App Store This app has been designed specifically for the iPad to showcase the high quality images developed by 3D4Medical.com. It contains over 200 medical images that can be displayed for presentation purposes, saved as wallpaper or shared with friends / colleagues.