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An article about how a teacher used iPads in a lesson. It's very creative. Check it out!

It's Your Personal Recordable Whiteboard. Educreations transforms your iPad into a recordable whiteboard that captures your voice and handwriting to produce amazing video lessons that you can share online. It's as simple as touching, tapping and talking. Our handwriting technology renders beautiful digital ink that looks even better than the real thing. Make a mistake? No problem, you can always undo and redo any of your actions.

"In this excellent 3 part article series, Principal David Mahaley shares lessons learned from the 1:1 iPad program that he has overseen in his role as Principle of The Franklin Academy. David has written several excellent articles for EmergingEdTech, and is the author of the eBook Teaching and Sharing with the iPad: Instructor Quick Guide. I am delighted to publish this series of posts in which he shares the perspective of the Administrator, the Teacher, and the Student, after nearly 3 years of experience with integrating the iPad into the Academy's curricula. "

Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Creating a great video tutorial is as simple as touching, tapping and talking. Explain a math formula... Create an animated lesson... Add commentary to your photos... Diagram a sports play...

MindSnacks Spanish is a one-of-a-kind language learning game\n\n * Six games covering vocabulary, reading, writing,\n listening and conversation skills\n * 50 Spanish lessons designed by Ivy League instructors\n * 1400+ words and phrases to master\n * 1400+ native speaker audio clips\n * Full library of images\n * Personalized learning algorithms to maximize retention\n * 16 fun challenges to keep you motivated\n * Keeps track of your high scores and learning progress

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\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

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store eClicker is a personal response system that allows teachers to poll their class during a lesson. It provides teachers with the real-time feedback they need to be sure their messages are being received. Developed for smartphones and laptops, eClicker leverages the hardware already in the hands of many students providing a low cost polling solution for the classroom. All you need to get started is the eClicker Host app running on an iOS device, a Wi-Fi network, and students with internet-enabled devices to participate.

"The truth is that the iPad is not destined to change the face of education. Nor is it just an expensive toy bought only by Apple fanboys, as some anti-Apple bloggers hyperbolize. It's a tool, like any other, and in the classroom it must always be thought of as being in the service of pedagogy. The pedagogical foundations must be solid, because the tool will achieve no heights the underlying pedagogy will not support. "