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Andrew Kerr

Free Graphic Calculator - PocketCAS lite - 0 views

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    For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\nThis award-winning app offers you the fastest way to input formulas you have ever experienced. With the highest number of available mathematical functions, you will be able to solve almost every mathematical problem you can imagine.\n\nThe most advanced tutorials will introduce you into the application. The contextual help is always available and contains lots of examples.\n\nWith a powerful mathematical keyboard and an intuitively structured function reference, entering terms is a breeze! A unique feature is the integrated support for units and constants in physical formulas.
Andrew Kerr

Skeletal System (Head and Neck) - 0 views

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    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.
Steve Weller

My Ten Most Used Apps to Become Fluent on the iPad | Langwitches Blog - 17 views

  • leaving them in their car or forgeting the device
  • games
  • ids at home to play
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  • after-thought
  • figuring out how to do something the same way  they are used to doing on their desktops or laptops
  • time (consistently) to become skilled to gain iPad literacy and fluency
  • Reading device
  • Highly mobile device
  • Personalized device
  • Consolidation device
  • Productivity device
  • not as a replacement for my lapto
  • such as RSS readers
  • Tweets, blogs
  • return to, refer to, quote from,
  • Annotating device
  • guest post of Annotexting.
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    How to use an iPad effectively in class
Andrew Kerr

Dictionary.com - - 0 views

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    For iPad on the iTunes App Store\nDictionary & Thesaurus - iPad
Timothy Smith

More Schools Embrace the iPad as a Learning Tool - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • The iPads cost $750 apiece, and they are to be used in class and at home during the school year to replace textbooks, allow students to correspond with teachers and turn in papers and homework assignments, and preserve a record of student work in digital portfolios.
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      There taking the full concept of iPads to the level they should be used. A device that helps them manage thier digital lifes! Cool!
  • Educators also laud the iPad’s physical attributes, including its large touch screen (about 9.7 inches) and flat design, which allows students to maintain eye contact with their teachers. And students like its light weight, which offers a relief from the heavy books that weigh down their backpacks.
    • Timothy Smith
       
      Physical Attributes are a big deal. I have not thought much in this regard to "looking at a computer screen" and "looking at an iPad" and how that would change the way we use computers in the classroom.
  • New York City public schools have ordered more than 2,000 iPads, for $1.3 million
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  • 200 Chicago public schools applied for 23 district-financed iPad grants totaling $450,000
  • he Virginia Department of Education is overseeing a $150,000 iPad initiative that has replaced history and Advanced Placement biology textbooks at 11 schools
  • six middle schools in four California cities (San Francisco, Long Beach, Fresno and Riverside) are teaching the first iPad-only algebra course, developed by Houghton Mifflin Harcour
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