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Visualizing muscle groups in relation to activity.

Kevin Honeycutt watched as a group of students at the Turning Point Learning Center, a K-8 charter school in Emporia, KS, took turns with an iPad, rocking out on a virtual guitar as they rehearsed for an upcoming spring concert.

"Zip! Zap! Zoom! My library is anything BUT quiet during our recess time. Of course students are visiting and sharing about books they love. But they've also had a great time exploring iPads this year. Students read picture book apps, explore nonfiction book apps, and play math games to practice basic math facts."

"Last week Amazon dumped an avalanche of new Kindles on us. Huzzah for reading! Except, um, who wants to buy a whole library of ebooks? Here's a list of 375 free books formatted for iPad/iPhone, Kindle, or for your plain old computer screen."

Great lists of iPad apps 

Some interesting management comments re accounts and syncing.

A student just turned me onto this. It's a nice little ppt/keynote inspired online application. It also has a corresponding iPad app

"The iPad, iPod touch, and iPhone make excellent toys and learning tools for kids, but if you've seen a youngin' with an iOS device you know it's only a matter of time before the inquisitive mind of a child escapes the current application and ends up elsewhere. That inevitable sequence can be stopped in its tracks thanks to Guided Access, a great new feature brought to iOS in 6.0 that basically functions as "Kid Mode", whereby any iOS device can be locked into an application with the hardware buttons disabled. This is one of those must-have features for teachers and parents, and using it is easy."

"Footsteps2Brilliance, Inc.™'s Academic Language Program for Students (ALPS) delivers a robust library of stimulating ebooks and educational games to parents, children and teachers anywhere/anytime through innovative mobile gaming technology. Developed by educational experts usingthe latest research on cognitive development, ALPS provides young learners with 1,000 essential vocabulary words through interactive eBooks that are sure to engage today's digital students whether at school or home."

Great tool for developing rhythm skills and composition. Excellent potential for use as an instrument to score original tracks for movie sound beds in GarageBand.

Excellent daily writing application!

If you've tried to install the Diigo tools in Safari, you'll likely have found that the instructions on the website are missing important info. This GDoc provides the secret to the sauce.

"International Journal of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (IJDIWC) 2(3): 256-269 The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications, 2012 (ISSN: 2225X-658X)256When is a student-centered,technologysupported learninga success?"

A stroke of genius.

looks promising