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Eschool news shares their best apps for education. Unfortunately, they named WordLens #1 and I've had a horrible time making that app work. When I take it into our Spanish teacher's room where she has handwritten posters, it just won't translate. Maybe it is working better for others.

"TouchFire is a new keyboard made exclusively for the iPad. Made of lightweight silicone, the add-on sits directly on the iDevice's virtual keyboard and can also attach to the iPad 2's Smart Cover for easy storage. "

"This is a great site for locating apps for special needs education. a4cwsn is committed to helping the families and carers of children with special needs and the wider community of educators and therapists who support them, by producing videos that demonstrate how products designed to educate children and build their life skills really work from a user perspective. They have an easy to use apps index. "

"There isn't an iPhoto application on the iPad and while it might be nice to have iPhoto for iPad, we have to ask do we really need it. There are available a number of iPad applications that do allow you to edit and adjust your photos, you don't necessarily need to look for a free photo editing online application."

"One challenge for teachers with students using devices like iPad and iPod touch is collecting student work. Unfortunately, there is not one consistent way for apps to export what a user creates"

"Everyone knows that Apple creates products that are great for creating. But part of what makes that statement true is the deep selection of third-party gadgets that make the most of artistic impulse. We've painted this next section, Gifts for the Imagination, with examples that'll help nourish the next Pissarro, Satriani or Cartier-Bresson."

"One of the classroom tasks that has been transformed the most with the introduction of the iPad is making music. The intuitive interface of many of the apps developed for music means that even a determined amateur can easily produce music of professional quality. Expensive as these apps may seem they allow you to create professional quality music for a fraction of the price of actual recording equipment. "

"It is Advent season again. This means that BlackSmith Games has launched their app-a-day Appvent calendar. Each day a new app is released and is downloadable all day for FREE! Very cool. Not every app released is appropriate or useful for the classroom, but they are always fun! "

"Dolphin Browser HD for iPad, the excellent alternative browser for the iPad, has been updated again today, to Version 3.0. This update adds polish to some of the unique features of Dolphin Browser HD - namely its webzine pages and its gestures that are used to access frequently visited sites."

"For today's Weekly App Series we've found eight great apps to add to your iPad collection. We have included eight apps for staying healthy in this week's bundle. Our editorial team goes through the data, picks the best and most interesting apps and then brings them to you on a regular basis."

"Taking this as a starting point, some individuals and organisations have come up with a number of applications that can be used to assist children with learning difficulties. The apps currently on the market cover a variety of developmental issues - including emotional, social, organisational and basic skill learning. Below is a selection of apps I discovered and tested that are available for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. For the full selection, view the gallery."

"In the long-term we're looking at a one-to-one kind of thing where every student has some kind of computing device with them in school all the time cause it can really extend learning in school beyond the school day," Fry said. For now, though, the teachers will share the carts among themselves. Except for Wagner, who loves using the iPads so much that she asked for one of her own this Christmas.   

"Maths is one of the most fundamental skills that any child needs to succeed at school and life in general. Make the learning less of a chore by implementing gaming elements into the learning process. Lots of kids chose to play these games even knowing that they are maths based. That says something about the concept on which these types of games have been developed. See if any might be suitable for your class or perhaps just for one or two struggling students."

"As Apple enthusiasts and app lovers, we here at PadGadget play a lot of iOS games. For this list of must haves, we've chosen some of our absolute favorite games in a wide variety of categories, so there's sure to be something for everyone. As with our must have apps list, we've avoided duplicating the games that you will find in Apple's Games Starter Kit."

There are a number of apps that are available that let you record your voice in order to convert it to text. I find this helpful when I need to transcribe longer pieces or even if I need to transcribe multiple entries. This technology is not yet perfect but it has improved considerably since these apps first came on the market. The first time I tried these app I got about 30% of the words correct, that figure is now more like 85% and with some effort on your part can be as high as 95%. Even with the minor inconsistencies it is still a quicker way for me to do larger pieces of text. I find these good when I want to just get the text down for a piece that I will spend some time formatting later. These are great for students as well, especially those kids who display great verbal intelligence but struggle with the written word.

"In this technology era we have lot of Tablets, Apple Inc have famous iPad with all advanced features. This is a famous and ultimate gadget for school child's, college youth, school teachers, college professors, top air lines, some of major country defense departments also using this famous gadget. In this ultimate roundup we're sharing must have apps of iPad for increase your productivity as newbie and professionals, all of these are on top download app categories, hope you'll enjoy with these of all and also share your own experience if we miss some other major iPad productivity apps, take a look:"

"With an iPad there's not much you can't do. You can take photos, write documents, and more so it makes sense that you might need to print something occasionally. Here are some of the best options available if you're in the market for a printing app for your iPad"

"Popular text reflow service Readability has announced that its app will be available on iPhone and iPad for free beginning March 1st. The service is designed to reformat any webpage that you're viewing into a pleasantly readable experience with nicely rendered text and images."

"Thermo is about as simple an iPad app as you could ask for. It does one thing and does it quite nicely - with a bit of big and bold thrown in for good measure. Its App Store page describes it as a 'little pocket thermometer', which is a throwback to its days as just an iPhone app."

"a few new language learning apps are moving in on the "gamification" trend in education, making a game out of learning phrases and words. For young students accustomed to playing games during their off-hours from school, or for adults who have a few minutes to kill on the bus, these game apps are meant to help with casual, conversational language learning in languages like Spanish, Italian, French, German, Mandarin, and Portuguese."