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"Walk into our school library and you're bound to see scores of iPads propped up on the tables. Our students at Westlake High, a large suburban school on the outskirts of Austin, TX, are using them to read ebooks, download assignments, edit videos, write blog posts, and to do much more. Since we rolled out our 1:1 iPad program a year ago, more than 4,100 teachers and students, including eighth graders at the nearby middle school and even some of our elementary school classes, have taken advantage of these devices. In fact, they've become as much a part of students' everyday lives as their notebooks, backpacks, and textbooks."

"The first purpose-built solutions for charging, syncing, storing and protecting iPads and tablets. With the release of Apple's new iPad, schools, libraries and other organizations are looking at e-Readers and tablets in new and innovative ways. DATAMATION SYSTEMS, the nation's leading provider of netbook and notebook security carts and cabinets, introduced the first of a series of secure, compact, efficient and affordable solutions for Apple iPad sync and charge applications. Now, those carts and cabinets are part of an extensive ecosystem that allows you to create the right environment for your specific deployment. If you are deploying iPads, you have to figure out how to recharge, store, protect and sync the devices so they can be used properly. Datamation Systems carts, cabinets, cases and accessories do just that . . . all in a compact, secure and affordable way. "

"In this day and age of digital books, library attendance is falling as people pick up their Kindles instead of paperbacks. One library in Illinois decided to win back patrons by embracing this technology instead of fighting it, says a report in Winnetka Talk."

I like the idea of Book Crawler so you can carry your library collection with you and know what's there while you're out on a buying spree

"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.

"This week's App Synergy ties in quite well with Lenny's previous piece about apps coming together towards creating a digital comic library. Similarly, I'll also be talking about a digital library, only it's of the non-comic kind."

"Many libraries and educational organisations across the world see the benefits of including your community in understanding how latest technology can enhance learning. A number of libraries have what they call a 'Digital Petting Zoo' where you can go and find out more about the technology, find out what it can do, how to use it and feel comfortable with the technology."

""The Avid® Scorch® app transforms your iPad mobile device into an interactive music stand, score library, and sheet music store. "

"One of the nifty features of iOS 5 is that the Usage area of Settings now provides a good amount of information on how much space is being used by your music library and by all of your installed apps."

Ideally, I would like to merge his apps with my apps. Is there any way?

Now supports ePub books from the library!!!! "Download OverDrive Media Console v2.0 for Android or iPhone today! * Read Adobe® EPUB eBooks. * Find libraries using the new 'Get Books' feature. * Listen to MP3 Audiobooks. Choose OverDrive Media Console for your computer or mobile device… * Download content on your Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, or Windows Mobile device. * Play audiobooks on Mac & Windows (plus music & video on Windows). * Burn audio to CD on Windows & Mac. * Transfer titles from Windows & Mac to most devices."

"About a year ago I was introduced to the MeeGenius library - this is a company that is celebrating its second birthday on Thursday, April 26. A very young company! Besides accessing their large digital book library (currently over 700 titles) via a web browser, they also now have apps for both Android and the iPad."

"Knowing that the second grade would be studying the phases of the moon in December, I suggested making ePub books on the iPads illustrating those phases. After a careful examination of the apps available at the time, I decided that the best app for our purposes would be Book Creator, which has a super-simple interface and easy exporting to iBooks."

Comprehensive instructions about setting up a group of class/library ipads

* Teachers use our Web site to select existing courses or to create new courses by mixing and matching items from our library with their own educational material. * Students use our iPad app to download and use these courses, filled with videos, slideshows, e-books, PDFs, text, audiobooks, and Web links. Whether reading the latest e-book that has been assigned, or watching a video for the next homework assignment, students will feel more engaged and in charge of their learning.