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"Small footprint, big ideas. Charge and store your tablets - like the iPad® digital device - in a locking cart or cabinet from Anthro. The 40-unit tablet charging cart is a compact 24" square, and at 46" high, it doubles as a comfortable teaching station. The small footprint and large 4" locking casters make the cart easy to move. The 20-unit charging cabinet is a petite 21"w x 12"d and mounts to a wall or countertop. Each bay in the front User Area is numbered to show which devices are in use. Power cords are clipped at the front of each bay for quick connection. Laptop storage bay is conveniently located in the front. A separate locking IT area holds chargers. Lifetime Warranty against manufacturing defects on the cart and cabinet body; 2-years on electrical. Compare Anthro's Charging Carts (pdf, 573KB) See more Anthro Solutions for Education"

"Keynote for iPad, part of the iWork app suite, is a beautiful and powerful presentation tool, which is almost as good as the Mac desktop version. Users can create slideshows for projects, professional presentations, etc using the built-in templates, graphics, and animations."

"We play with a lot of stands. They are tripods, suction cups, big power stations, little pieces of wood with a cut out… we are talking there are a LOT of different stand ideas. When a new idea comes along, we all like to bang on it for a while. The latest falls in the 'why didn't we think of that' category. "

"Now, more than ever before, reminders are a necessity. Life is busy and it's too easy to forget about what needs to be done. Apple finally brought their own solution to this problem by including the Reminders app as standard in iOS. Unfortunately, Reminders can leave some users wanting more and not being completely satisfied. NotifyMe aims to fill the gap for users who are left wanting more from the Reminders app. "

"Numbers ($9.99), a spreadsheet app directly from Apple, is a worthy Microsoft Excel-like competitor for the iPad. It is a powerful tool for teachers who own an iPad, and can be used for assessment, especially during report card season. "

"Virtually anyone from hardcore geeks to orangutans (no, really) can simply pick up an iPad and start using it immediately. But apparently that's not good enough for Apple, because iOS (and especially the new version, iOS 5) offers a number of shortcuts to make any iPad user into a power user."

"Learn how to setup, use and moderate content on a classroom blog to improve student writing skills. A moderated classroom blog is the ideal platform to use to share announcements, classroom news, and student work for a public audience. In this workshop we'll use several free blogging and learning management tools. These will include KidBlog (powered by WordPress), My Big Campus, and Edmodo. We'll also explore how free Posterous.com sites can be used to share rich media including images, audio and video files from iPads including "cart-based" iPads using a shared student "sending" email account. In addition, we'll learn how to create enhanced/multimedia eBooks including digital text, hyperlinks, images, and embedded videos using iPad apps as well as other software programs. These will include Book Creator for iPad, iBooks Author software, Apple Pages software (part of iWork), and Calibre software (free and cross-platform). Digital Show and Tell from Day 2"

"here are tons of ways to manage business, school, and home projects. Tracking things like timelines and schedules, resources like people, materials and tools, and keeping it all in an easily read format is quite the challenge, however. We took a look at three different types of software for managing projects on the iPad, starting with the powerful (and premium priced) OmniPlan for iPad. We also took a quick look at iScope, a less expensive yet unique piece of software for managing projects with a more personal feel, as well as the free Wunderlist, a great and free app for just managing tasks."

"The tablet PC is very new and leaders in education are only starting to tap into what this powerful device can do. As a pilot program or as a device specifically assigned to each student, the tablet might be the most significant revolution to the classroom ever."

"The iPad has been a huge hit ever since it first hit the market back in 2010. It's an amazing and powerful device, and a joy to use - whether for work or play. I'm hoping this short guide will give you a good jump-start on getting the most out of your iPad."

"Photo enhancing/editing keeps getting more powerful on the iPad. Tapping, pinching and sliding all works more naturally for zooming into spots on a photo for fine tuning."

"To make your iPad even more powerful, though, you're going to need a few apps. It's unusual to pay more than a few dollars for each, but what if an app made life so much easier that it was worth shelling out more? We take a look at some of the most costly apps that are worth buying. "

" Is this device better, more powerful than previous technologies we've had in schools?"

"A dozen Las Vegas second-graders were given a common English assignment one recent morning: Write a story using new vocabulary words. But instead of picking up a pencil and paper, these students launched the Pages word processing application on their iPads and started tapping."

"One academic task the iPad lends itself towards is screencasting. After all, the iPad is portable, powerful, and has been used with other presentation mediums (Keynote, PowerPoint, and Prezi) since its release because users have the option to create, save, and share all in one compact and visually-robust device. However, it's been less obvious how to find screencasting software for the iPad."

"Penultimate is a powerful note-taking app for the iPad, enabling users to create an infinite number of beautiful electronic notebooks using different paper formats."

"Microsoft OneNote for iPad is an incredibly powerful note-taking application that stores all of your to-dos, notes, photos, and clippings in the cloud."

"Finally and I think perhaps more importantly, they introduced the new iBooks Author app. An app which gives educators the power to create their own interactive learning experience for their students, the like of which we have haven't really been able to put together before. The following hits are reasons why iBooks Author tied with iBooks2 is a complete win for schools, particularly in 1:1 type scenarios."