iPad4Ed

One of our elementary librarians and I spent time recently exploring apps for her students, and found some excellent apps that would work well for reading/learning stations in the library.  She envisions setting up stations where younger elementary students could record themselves reading,  read an audiobook and follow along, or learn the alphabet, among other things.

You cannot get the most out of an iPad without letting the student own it, and harness their personal accounts, tastes and media for some creative learning. Putting it in a lab like this takes away from the iPads principle boon: it helps us move further away from the office metaphor of learning and into new, personalised, anytime anywhere learning metaphors.

Details how to use the Kindle app for annotating text, going to the Amazon account and then pasting it into a document for either saving to Evernote or use as otherwise needed.

iPad apps listed by subject areas

From the blog - "I have been asked time and time again by students, teachers and technology specialists just what I am installing on my class set of iPads.  Well, here's the post you've all been waiting for.  Below is the list of all applications that I am installing to start off my iPad project.  At current prices the total cost of the apps came to just under $200 per 'set' of iPads. (with Apple's new licensing rules)"

Updated tips for IOs4

lists a range of ways schools are using iPads

Sharing your iPad screen through projection, a range of apps for projection

"Welcome to the world of the iPad! I hope that you, like I have, will find this amazing device transforming in your approach to the utilization of technology for teaching and learning. Hopefully, we will soon be saying goodbye to the fifty pound backpacks our students carry around, and all of their textbooks and learning resources will be available on this one, small device! Whether you are currently using iPads in your school or for yourself...or if you are just beginning to explore the possibilities, I hope you will find resources here to benefit you in your journey. Enjoy this site, share the information with others, and feel free to contact me with any questions or to share your experiences! Below are some of my "musings" as I reflect on where we currently are in our journey with the utilization of technology with our students. Enjoy!"

"Meet the iPad" Below is the agenda used for introductory iPad workshops given by Julene. There are additional workshops that are more curriculum and integration-specific as well.

We welcome you to our wiki and blog for supporting iPod & iPad devices in education. Although our focus is K-12, many of the techniques should work for you at any level and with any number of devices. On the wiki side of this site are the deployment and management articles, and on the blog side, you will find the classroom activities (written primarily by teachers) where iPods are supporting achievement improvement for our students. We are posting as many help and how-to articles here as we can and as quickly as we can so you can continue to be successful using iPod devices in your classroom. Please let us know if there are more or different things that you would like to have included here.