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"Stylizing text with bold, underline, or italics in the iOS Mail app is easily done with the same tap-and-hold contextual menu that also allows you to select text, block quote, and insert photos. "

"With so many schools adopting the use of iPads I find it strange that we aren't hearing more about the incredible opportunities available in iTunes U. Well I suppose it isn't that strange given that schools in the early stages of transitioning to an iPad platform are extremely busy and learning one more thing can seem overwhelming. Trust me, I understand that, but I believe if you were to learn one more thing it should be about the power of iTunes U. The possibilities of this incredible tool are endless. I'd like to provide you with just a few examples of the many uses of iTunes U in the hopes that more schools will join this incredible network of learning resources."

"With its large, crystal-clear screen and inviting touch, the iPad is a great tool to use with kids to explore art and music. Here are five top-notch apps to help get kids' creativity juices flowing."

"There is nothing much rewarding for students than to see their accomplished work being published and celebrated with others. This is very much motivating and is a strong impetus for them to achieve more and work harder. Can you imagine how happy a student would be to share his classroom work with his parents in a neat and clean online platform that they access anywhere and anytime ? "

This looks like a really useful app. Free and when paired with its other free companion with a similar name, you'll have much better understanding and control of your data usage...and maybe save some money on the process.

"From the day New iPad take his first foot everyone of us is looking for some best apps for new iPad or iPad 3 or iPad HD at least I do that .But there are a wide variety of New iPad apps available for you on iTunes .How do you know the which one is best for your New iPad. So to make that easier I complied a list of best apps for new iPad for 2012 under the same hood which are also compatible with Retina Display of iPad 3."

"One of my favourite apps to sit down with and learn is Qwiki. Qwiki must have millions of 'articles' that are actually interactive videos. Using the simple english from wikipedia and a series of photos and videos from wikimedia, Qwiki generates videos that you can watch, pause, interact with, and explore new learnings."

"Be forewarned, then: The Fourth Dimension is an app which will mess with your head. Deliberately. Even though the aim is education and expansion of knowledge, it will still mess with your head. You will emerge from the experience only fractionally the wiser, and quite a lot more confused than you were at the beginning. Don't worry, this is perfectly normal. The aim of the app is to explain four spatial dimensions to creatures like us who live in a stubbornly three dimensional universe."

"Transferring photos from a computer to the iPad is very easy with the help of iTunes."

"Sketchshare is one of those apps that strives to make the iPad a perfect companion and supplement for your "full-time" computer. It's designed to do one thing well, collaborative sketching, with added features that make it attractive for a variety of different work and business environments."

"In DigiDesign club at the end of last term, ten of our Grade 6s were tasked with creating marketing videos for our school. They had to plan their videos by brainstorming ideas with Popplet and then they had to film the video of our school and use iMovie to edit and create the final videos - all on the iPads!"

"Tapose is a fantastic (currently the BEST I've seen) journaling app for the iPad. Tapose goes above and beyond the other journal apps that I've seen with a few key features:"

"Yesterday after school my fourth-quarter filmmaking group made up of fourth and fifth grade students, met for the first time to start filming "The Ghost of Bethke." Although we have been writing the script and planning the movie for the past few weeks, this was the first time we met to start filming, but this time there is a twist. This time we are filming our movie exclusively on a new iPad (the iPad 3). I was impressed with the new camera on this iPad and I wanted to see if a movie could really be shot and edited on it."

"For the past two days, I've had my 7th graders working on a screencasting project. We're currently working in a unit focused on prisms and calculating the surface area and volume of prisms. I gave each pair of students a rectangular prism (a box of some sort), and had them measure its dimensions, calculate the surface area and volume of the prism, and screencast their work--complete with pictures of each of the 3 views of the prism as well as their narration of their work."

"Granting access to all of the latest videos being shared by your friends, a constantly updating featured stream of their own, and your entire catalogue from your computer. Boxee is a great way to avoid finding yourself stuck with nothing new to watch. So let's find out how to liberate you from those storage space restrictions with Boxee for iPad."

"Earlier this school year I began volunteering in my child's Kindergarten class with my two iPads and a suite of apps that focused on early literacy skills. Now half way through the school year, I've discovered more about engaging kids with learning apps. You can read my first post, "iPads in Education - How you & your iPad can volunteer together in your child's classroom" here: http://digital-storytime.com/wp/?p=916."

"When you cross this free-sometimes-crazy-expensive-the-rest-of-the-time approach with education you end up with iTunes U, the free service and app that puts you into some of the world's greatest classrooms that would cost tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars to normally attend."

"So, even if you have no experience with video editing hopefully by the end of this article you'll be able to edit like a pro. If you haven't bought the app yet I would suggest getting it so you can follow along. Let's get started!"

"Conducting Literature Circle with mobile devices such as the iPad, not only provides immediate access to a diverse selection of books, but also to reference materials, research tools, interactive maps, and a slew of creation and dynamic notebook apps. Within this single device, students can quickly check the meaning of a word, run a quick background check on a historic event, or articulate their understanding of text with a range of multimedia apps. Teachers can now easily differentiate the processes students can use to demonstrate understanding. "

"This was our first year with iPads in the elementary classrooms, purchased with Title funding."