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iPad App Coffee Chats, author and digital learning consultant Wesley Fryer shares iPad applications useful for business productivity, eReading, multimedia sharing, and other purposes. These FREE coffee chats are shared from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm CST

Jan 2012- three new and / or improved products for the iPad.  Fantastic addition to the iPad!

I was just wondering which google apps people are making use of in their classrooms or for professional/personal use. A couple of questions I am thinking about at the moment are: 1. Should we be giving students experience with public access tools such as these so that they can take the skills they learn with them rather than the skills they learn specific to Myclasses/myinternet? 2. With myclasses etc perhaps being phased out/modified/replaced at some stage is this a viable alternative that could be used instead?

"For students and teachers, the Google Docs collection provides a streamlined, collaborative solution to writing papers, organizing presentations and putting together spreadsheets and reports. But besides the basic features, there are lots of little tricks and hacks you can use to make your Google Docs experience even more productive. Here are 100 great tips for using the documents, presentations and spreadsheets in Google Docs."

"Sync.in is a web based word processor for people to collaborate in real-time. When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate with text documents, useful for meeting notes, brainstorming, project planning, training, and mor"

Hi Steve, it looks like its based on the old etherpad code, a great tool until you hit 15 users.

Mark, Even the interface is very similar. PiratePad (http://piratepad.net/) is another alternative Google have now included the EtherPad feature in its new version of google docs (It' still in preview and you need to tick a box in the document editing settngs). I'm yet to try it out with a class. Found that EtherPad also had issues with the 15 users. In a class I would often make more than one pad.

Great website for learning about writing letters. Goes through requirements of both Personal letters, and Business letters. Lets you print/save the document as a final product. 

A very powerful animation tool, very flexible and fully featured. Much steeper learning curve than the other options tagged. Easy to embed or download the result. Top end product, very flexible.

"SMART Technologies, producers of the SMART board and the SMART Table, offer you user-generated and SMART-created videos of SMART's products in a variety of learning environments. " If you use smartboards this would be a great channel to subscribe to.

Free web meetings, share your screen, have an online discuusion

great clips in plain english

Looks to be a very comprehensive guide for digital story telling.

Another great commoncraft video

A kids version of GoAnimate. A very powerful animation tool, very flexible and fully featured. Easy to download or embed the final product.

Great Australian resource for educating parents, students and teachers