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"Free posters for your school, office or home! Just download and print! No registration required."

Is this the direction textbooks will take in the near future? The content is important and is the center of this idea. It's also slightly portable (downloadable, accessible on up t o3 computers, and able to print 30%). This site makes annotations possible and more importantly sharable! The content is supported by learning communities! I like this idea; you even have the possibility of sharing beyond your classroom walls.

Learning in Hand Podcast Episode #24: Project Based Learning demonstrates how iPad and iPod touch can can play a role in the the planning, research/investigation, and presentation of projects. View the 18 minute video on Vimeo, on YouTube (Part 1 and Part 2), or in iTunes (#24) or download the video to learn about practical ways handhelds can fit into learning through projects. A transcript, resources, and links to apps can be found at learninginhand.com/pbl. This video is part of the 2010 K12 Online Conference where you can also view and discuss the episode.

will explain the process of making a custom book from a series of wikipedia pages. The process produces a pdf, (other choices are available) downloads it you your desktop... and just waits for you to insert it into the iBooks library..... and you can custom create your chapters/topics etc.

Nice list of resources that provide free e-book options for your reading pleasure.

"We have downloaded, and tested these apps for the iPad. Please contact me if you would like to add apps that you have tested"

Decades worth of historical video footage available for download.  Could be good green screen video options. 

"There are a lot of amazing new educational apps out there, whether you're looking for native apps or Web apps, apps for your mobile phone, for your tablet, or for your laptop. There a number of app stores too where you can find and download them: Apple's iTunes and its Mac App Store, the Amazon Appstore, Google's Android Market, the Chrome Web Store, the Google Apps Marketplace, GetJar, and so on."

"Please join us in discussing how the National Educational Technology Standards for Students are being implemented in classrooms around the world. Please feel free to comment on another's ideas, ask a question, and develop ideas together by selecting "Edit This Page." To be kept notified of the changes and updates to this page, use the Notify Me option. NEW! Download, give ISTE feedback, and test the draft NETS for Students Summary Rubric on the Rubrics Page. Help ISTE develop what you need: NETS Adoption Survey: Tell us if your school, school district, or state/province has adopted the refreshed NETS. NETS Resources Survey: Tell us what resources you need to implement the NETS. "

iPad Multimedia Tools for Creativity, Collaboration, and Publication This seminar will cover some of the best audio, photography, and video apps for use in education. There will be hands on opportunities to learn to use a variety of apps. Examples of creative and collaborative ways to use the iPad i learning will be shared along with suggested ways to publish student work. During the seminar, we will be doing hands on activities with the following apps (most of them are free). It is suggested that you have them downloaded onto your iPad in advance if possible (use links on sidebar to locate the apps):

"he latest phase in the I.T. revolution is being driven by the convergence of social media - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Groupon, Zynga - with the proliferation of cheap wireless connectivity and Web-enabled smartphones and "the cloud" - those enormous server farms that hold and constantly update thousands of software applications, which are then downloaded (as if from a cloud) by users on their smartphones, making them into incredibly powerful devices that can perform myriad tasks. "

Great post on the use of apps based on SAMR levels. The post also shared downloads of dice (when folded properly) displaying various apps and color coded for SAMR. The dice could even be used for app smashing too.

I learned of Twine from Richard Byrne's Free Technology 4 Teachers blog post. It is great to see an opensource option that one can download and run locally or remain on the web to write.

From PBS Learning Media, this 5 minute video relates the history behind single women homesteaders and the 1862 Homesteading Act. You can opt to stream or download the video. You can also see the standards tied to this content.