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Create Rich Text With Rich Notes There's not a lot you can do with your notes in iOS for the most part. Most notes apps let you type and that's about it. If you need to call out specific sections of text or give emphasis to certain phrases, there's only so much you can do. Rich Notes is an app that allows you to not only create notes with bold, underlined, and italicised text, but you can also add color and even highlight passages. If you've been looking for a notes app that will let you create rich text in iOS, this may be the one. We'll take a look at it and see how it holds up against the rest. Like this article? Stay up to date with the latest changes by subscribing to our RSS feed or following us either on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or App.net.

"I love PDFs and I favour them over the other document formats and I am pretty sure many of you love then too. There are many things we can do with them apart from just viewing and reading them. Web 2.0 technologies have provided us with some free awesome tools to interact with this document format. We can now annotate, highlight, customize text font, add colours, add hyperlinks and many more, things which were until recently impossible to do on PDFs. "

Vail's List of Web Tools Wabash, IN Heed this Advice... create a document for username and password or put it on a sticky. I have highlighted my favorite tools.

Via Erin Klein

It is a known fact that if you want to commit something to memory, continuous revision is the key. You read something every time you are at your desk and within days it becomes second nature. To be able to revise quickly and often, it helps if the information is terse and to the point highlighting only the important aspects. Something like an application cheat sheet or a poster that you can print and pin to a board or keep on your desk. Here are some application cheat sheets for commonly used software that will hopefully make you more productive.

"Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurence within the body of text."

Why? Because tomorrow will take students to places - real and virtual - we've never been. Because tomorrow they will perform jobs that don't exist today. Because tomorrow belongs to them. Iowa must look ahead to provide what's best for students, not back at how things used to be. That is why Iowa Future is promoting the need for innovation in education, sharing ideas from across the state and nation, and highlighting the work underway to prepare for the future, to help all students realize success and possess the knowledge and skills to be ready for tomorrow, not yesterday.

"Agendas Apps How to Guides Classroom Tools Goals Books on the iPad Classroom Teachers Discussion Board Reflection Request an App Articles and Blogs Student Reflection "The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge." Seymour Papert, 2001 Explore the Apps There is no doubt that the iPad is more than a collection of Apps, but we know you'll want to explore some of the 420,000 apps available. We categorize many educational apps on the iPod/iPad site. Apple Education - iPad Learning An introduction to using iPads in the classroom. Educational apps and success stories are highlighted. iPod and Fluency This 4 minute video helps to begin the conversation on using the iPad for literacy. "

the amazing work of Rich Colosi and his merry band of talented first graders, enjoy his latest video highlighting reading and iOS devices.

Great blog post from Ginger Lewman highlighting an PBL lesson for those learning to design engaging curriculum.

Effective Induction and Onboarding are crucial for both, employees and the business. In this article, I highlight the challenges of ILT delivery and pick 5 examples that demonstrate the impact of blended/fully online Induction and Onboarding programs.