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Today marks the public launch of Assistive Technology Daily, a blog dedicated to sharing assistive technology solutions. As you will soon see, we share technology in a variety of categories that can be easily accessed by the user. New posts are available each weekday. We encourage you to share your thoughts about the technology featured here and perhaps to contribute some suggestions of your own.

"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. "

Share a great idea... Explain a tricky concept... Help kids with their homework... ScreenChomp for iPad helps you do it all. A simple doodling board, markers, and one-click sharing tools make spreading your ideas and know-how easy and fun! Just - Record It. Sketch It. Share It. - to create a sharable, replay-able video that tells your story clearly.

Express yourself with fewer words, emails and meetings…with Skitch for iPad! Use shapes, arrows, sketches and text annotation to get your point across fast. Mark up photos, screenshots, maps, and webpages then share them with anyone you like. Skitch lets you: - Annotate: Add arrows, shapes and text to existing images - Create: Draw something new - Edit: Reposition, recolor and remove your annotations at will - Share: Send your sketches and annotations over Twitter, Facebook and email - Present: Show your work in real time via AirPlay on Apple TV - Remember: Save everything to Evernote for later

"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."

Introduction Sharing and exporting files via an iPad is not always easy The iPad's proprietary iOS operating system does not possess a file system like the directory and file structure of Windows or the folder and file system found in the Finder of the Mac OS

"iBooks Author is a great tool for creating interactive ebooks. Unfortunately, creating content with iBooks Author isn't always as easy as you might hope it is. Back in June I shared a free 110 page book about using iBooks Author. However, if video tutorials are more helpful to you I have found twenty six videos that you should look at."

"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."

My answer while certainly not ground breaking has worked really well and I thought I would share it: Have the students become the experts and teach the class using their iPads as their tool to create multimedia presentations.

"Diptic helps you easily combine multiple photos and apply artistic effects to create exceptional photo collages that can be shared with friends and family via email, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr or Posterous. With rounded borders, 52 customizable layouts and color effects, there are unlimited options to create unique images! "

"**** Free for a limited time! **** Frame Artist helps you create amazing photo arts by combining and decorating your photos in a very easy way, and share them via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, Tumblr, eMail and Messengers. Since Frame Artist has no limits on layout, you can create whatever design you imagine and save them as your own design templates for reuse! (It also provides 9~12 ready-to-use templates for your convenience.) Furthermore, lots of stickers, speech balloons, background colors and patterns, filters, cell customizing options are supported to help you decorate your photos in an unique way. "

free app for sharing responses to books

Here is another iPad group that would be a great start for our iPad group! Check it out, explore, highlight, and share!

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.

Cinch is a free and easy way to create and share audio, text and photo updates using your iPhone. Cinch enables you to capture and report on your experiences in a way that plain text can't. Using a simple interface, you can make and automatically broadcast your cinches through Facebook, Twitter, CinchCast.com and more.

for iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nDraw Free for iPad rocks!\n\nSketch, Doodle, Draw On Top Of Pictures, Erase, Share on Twitter and Email.\n

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

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 ✓ Get the most out of your iPad with the lite guide to shortcuts, hidden features, tips & tricks. ✓ Learn shortcuts, discover hidden features, type faster, browse quicker, secure your data and maximize battery life… ✓ Be the guru - and share your new knowledge via e-mail. ✓ Snappy Tips that get straight to the point without the waffle.