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"The 'app' is more of a enhanced book application called Color Uncovered. It's purpose is to help you better understand everything about colors. How your eyes see colors, how your mind 'sees' colors, how colors play into the impact of a photo and ads. It is actually a very important subject for anyone that snaps a photo from time to time. As well, helpful to our creative and not so creative folks. It's a all-ages, everyone app… and it's free."

" Here's a look at a few free music apps to either keep the kids busy or keep your mind in tune. "

"The ultimate goal of reading is good comprehension. We've gathered information about apps that provide practice with specific comprehension skills, including sequencing, differentiating between fact and opinion, developing word awareness (through antonyms, synonyms, and homophones), as well as several mind mapping apps. "

"When the gift-giving season for 2011 came around, the dreaded word 'iPad' appeared on the wishlist of nearly half the children in America. Parents across the country feared that the expensive handheld would become just another video game console tossed in the toybox. Now, while the flashy graphics and wide array of entertainment apps can paint that sort of picture, many app designers are actually tending toward interactive learning tools for their younger users. Was this portable PC really designed with education in mind?"

"The commonality between all of these apps is that they were designed with teachers in mind. They have a great educational value and can help educators perform a variety of tasks from tracking students behavior to creating to-do-lists. Also some of these apps are free and some are paid ."

"I've been very pleased to have the chance to beta test the upcoming DoInk Green Screen app for the iPad. It's in a word, phenomenal. It's the best of what makes technology so delightful. It just works, and produces great results with very little effort. I think people are going to love it to pieces."

"Today I'm going to recap some concrete considerations you should make in order to make sure your web design is optimized for use on a touch-based tablet."

Today is a very exciting day for us, our vision and mission to empower people with lifestyle friendly applications that offer peace of mind through GPS tracking technology continues to expand. Adding to our existing App on iTunes LOCiME V1.5, now available is iLOCi2 and iLOCi2 lite. With a smart phone and a simple yet powerful App you can now locate people in seconds at the touch of a button-Ask the where question; LOCi® is the answer.

Don't miss the the video! Compares real and concrete.

VoiceThread Mobile for Apple® iDevices VoiceThread bridges the gap between real-time discussions and static multi-media slideshows, making it the platform for on-demand teaching, learning, training, and collaborating. We are working with the lofty goal of true accessibility so that any "door" used to access VoiceThread is equally effective for your means of participation. "We want to serve the needs of a person with dyslexia or ADHD, an outdoor classroom with mobile devices, a user in the developing world without high-speed internet, a kindergartner, or an elderly lifelong learner." (Read more) With that goal in mind, we'll be releasing a Mobile App this fall for the iPad®/iPhone®/iPod touch® that will provide the same experience of creating and collaborating around your content on your Mobile device that you would experience in the web-based application... and we're pretty excited about that! Take a look, and tell us what you think.

"Well, what if I told you that Wolfram|Alpha also makes desktop PC and mobile applications that, for all of the notoriety that their's websites received, I've hardly ever heard anyone talk about? And what if I told you that most of these apps were specifically designed with certain subjects in mind, such as statistics, geography, and chemistry? I don't know about you, but I'd be intrigued!"

"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."

"The tablet market has paved the way for educational resources in the form of slick, new apps, with text-books now being replaced by online downloadable versions of themselves. An array of stunning apps are at your disposal waiting to be exercised, so with this in mind, we decided to whittle down our top 10 iPad educational apps for students."

It is Benjamin Bloom's belief that the entry point to learning is the acquisition of knowledge. He postulates that a solid foundation of terms, facts, theories, and skills is the educational base that will allow the mind to evaluate information effectively and inspire innovation.