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This article will get you thinking about the iPad as or not as a creation device.  The author does provide points that make you think twice. 

"There is an ever growing number of teachers and students using iPads for creation projects. Little by little, people are understanding that the iPad is not just a consumption device for reading emails, watching YouTube and checking FaceBook and Twitter. The iPad is a powerful creation device. But an issue arose during the year at my school: How does one share large student videos and other projects with parents? Read ahead to find out."

Since its release the iPad has garnered arguments regarding whether it is primarily a device for consumption or creation. I have always believed that it is a device capable of creation. One simply needs to consider apps such as Avid Studio, DemiBooks Composer, Pages, Keynote, Minecraft Pocket Edition, Art Rage, SketchBook Pro, Comic Life and many others. These and many other apps all allow the user to tap into their talents and produce output of which they can be proud.

"Consumption, or creation? When it comes to notation and musical scores, the iPad (and tablets, generally) has fallen on the side of reading rather than writing, display rather than creation. Notion for iPad, a mobile version of the desktop notation software, looks poised to change all of that."

"In the inclusive UDL classroom, accommodations are made to allow students multiple ways to share what they know and how they feel."

"Tapose is a fantastic (currently the BEST I've seen) journaling app for the iPad. Tapose goes above and beyond the other journal apps that I've seen with a few key features:"

"This is, as I am sure you are aware, a debate as old as the iPad itself. "A computer without a mouse or keyboard," went the argument when the iPad was announced, "is no kind of computer at all." Then people started using iPads to write books, paint pictures, make music, and much, much more. Harry Marks recently summarised the position of most of the Apple blogosphere when he dismissed the "iPad is made for consumption" idea as "thoroughly-debunked"."

"Rockmate is a music studio that can support up to four realtime musicians. Essentially, Rockmate splits the iPad screen into four musical instrument interfaces. "

In contrast to iAuthor, Inkling Habitat allows for collaborative creation of e-books for publishing with Inkling.

"Kristen Paino"

"Since our last post, NYC public school teachers participating in the Arts Achieve pilot have had 3 months to start working with their new projectors, iPads, styli, microphones, and other tech stuff."

An update from a iPad pilot program. Not surprised to see findings emphasizing the utility of iPads as collaboration/sharing and creation devices.

"Sometimes we focus on what an app can't do and forget to look at what it can. That's been the case with iBooks Author, Apple's e-book creation platform released nearly a year ago. Part of the problem was Apple's own hyperbolic statements about its "disruptive" nature to the textbook publishing industry. It failed to live up to the hype for a variety of well-documented reasons. But this post is about what it is, not what it isn't."

Multiplatform modular music creation studio.

"In our chat about Frame Artist, one co-worker said "is a light Pages", which seems to have stuck with us when talking about the app. The app comes with layout templates that you can add images to so that the creation of documents is much faster. Those documents aren't notes, rather colorful invitations, calendars, flyers, time tables, newsletters… pretty much anything you want to assemble to share. "

"The iPad's journey to becoming more of a content-producing and creative tool took another step forward recently with the release of a new app called Pholium (US$9.99). The app is centered around the creation, viewing, and sharing of iPad photo ebooks."