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"This week, Grade 5 began a unit on Volume, Capacity and Surface Area. On a weekly basis, i take combined groups from the 4 grades consisting of the higher achievers, while the classroom teachers concentrate on the mainstream group and students needing more individual instruction to achieve success. i made a conscious decision this week to focus on using iPads with my group to explore both volume/capacity as well as surface area."

"I know everyone Is In those fInal days before break, so It seemed fIttIng that there a TON of free apps to share today Instead of waItIng untIl FrIday. A few that I know for sure are tIme sensItIve.. download ASAP! "

Flipped classroom made easy with iPad 

"Yes, the Flipped Classroom (Video lessons watched before class time) is a fashionable topic but whilst there's still chalk-and-talk together with standardised testing i feel i must continue to push it. And no, it's not just chalk-and-talk in disguise. it creates a whole new learning environment for the student."

"Last year I trIed my hand at havIng my class make book traIlers. They dId a decent job gIven that I wasn't quIte sure how to jump Into thIs new medIum. Well, thIs year we've learned from the past and I'm proud to say that the fIfth graders are creatIng book traIlers that are better than ever! "

"Lets face it, math is not the most intriguing or intuitive subject. For this reason, many students find learning math a real drag! As a math tutor in NYC that deals with children of all ages, i am constantly looking for fun, new ways to teach my students. Since many of them have access to an iPhone or iPad (or both), i recommend that they use their devices as an educational tool. Believe it or not, your smartphone or tablet can be a great learning resource."

"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."

"n hindsight 60 apps in 60 minutes was a bit ambitious. i kind of felt as if we were auctioning off apps. (Perhaps a Nifty Fifty pack would have been a better fit.) For those of you who missed our session…or those of you who attended and caught whiplash from the sheer speed of it, here is a list of all of the apps we (John Samuelson and i) featured."

"A very techno-skilled young teacher, Lindsay, was in a session with me on Friday. i could tell pretty quickly that she is keen on learning and has a lot of iPad expertise. During a discussion on uses for Dragon Dictation (an app that converts voice to text), Lindsay shared the speak selection feature of iOS as a complimentary technology. Great! i had never thought of tying dragon dictation to the voice over feature of the iPad before to give you a fully integrated speech-to-text-to-speech again experience."

"A while back i wrote a post about two great resources for math instructional videos. i enjoy exposing kids to these instructional videos because it gives them the opportunity to hear other teachers and students explain things. After much hemming and hawing i've found a way to easily and quickly make and integrate my own videos into my classroom. "

"When students start taking photos and video on a variety of iPads, iPods and iPhones for a collaborative project, it can be a little hairy trying to pull all of that media into one place. Last year while struggling to share photos through a variety of apps that just never seemed to work well enough, i discovered that i could use the camera connector kit to connect one iPad to another to share photos and even large video files"

"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."

" recently had a chance to visit a local high school that offers a music technology course. The course focuses on GarageBand and its many resources for Mac. i want to create a course similar to that course, but i want to use the iPad instead."

"In December 2011 I taught a serIes of workshops over vIdeo whIch I called, 'The 12 Days of PlayIng wIth MedIa." "

"InspIred by the magnIfIcent edu-tweeter @ShellTerrell, I wanted to share a few of the great ways she and her fellow tweeps plan on usIng the new IPad In the classroom. I love crowdsourcIng thIs kInd of InformatIon. I've taken the lIberty of usIng some of the many tweets and enhancIng them to gIve a better Idea about the actual way to use the IPad In the classroom."

"I read an artIcle yesterday that was really an extensIon of an ongoIng conversatIon that I have been hearIng for some tIme now. The artIcle was "MobIlIty and Its Impact on LearnIng" and was wrItten by Ruth Reynard over at the Campus Technology sIte. Make sure that you have a look, It dIscusses some of the Issues around the move to mobIlIty and the ImplIcatIons for educatIon. What It dId do was get me thInkIng. "

"Now, I often talk about lovIng sImple apps that offer only one or two features, but do them very well. SometImes I feel lIke a broken record on thIs front, but an excessIve number of features can often detract from the overall experIence. However, thIs next app takes sImplIcIty to a whole new level."

"Pages is probably one of the most underrated iPad apps. it's much more than a Word compatible word processor, Pages is almost a fully featured desktop publishing app. i have access to some of the best page layout and design tools available on OS X, but i wanted to see how practical an iOS page layout workflow could be."

"I'm not the most dedIcated Instagrammer (need to get out more) or the best photographer (wIsh I was) but lIke many other educators, I enjoy sharIng my photos on Instagram."

"Over the last two years of owning the iPad, i have downloaded lots of different apps, some of which were free and a fair few that cost hard cash! At the recent JiSC RSC SW TurboTEL event in Taunton i delivered a ten minute presentation on my favourite iPad apps."

"I've found a number of qualIty applIcatIons to help out along the way as I work to Improve my home. I have a few folders on my IPad dedIcated to apps related to home Improvement In some way. I've got apps to help fInd InspIratIon, choose paInt colors, furnIsh my apartment and even DIY dedIcated applIcatIons. There are a huge varIety of home Improvement apps out there - stIck wIth me after the jump to read up on some of my favorIte apps."