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iPad has made such a radical change in education with more and more school districts  adopting it as a learning tool inside the classroom. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning  has been helping teachers all along the way with reviews and tutorials on how to get started using iPad in education. We have reviewed more than 500 apps and we are planning to do more reviews this year.

Here are some Interactive Vocabulary Review Games on a variety of topics

Some examples of literature reviews. American - but worth a look at for some ideas for the 'Literature Review Challenge' coming soon to the Diocese.

Great review of the new features in Garageband on the iPad!

A great review of iPhoto for the iPad! Well worth a download for your school-based iPads!

This blog entry by the School Library Association of Victoria shares how Mooroopna Secondary College has been using Animoto to make book trailers, it also shares some hints on registering classes on the Animoto site to make videos. Could be useful for those who are participating in the Digital Literature Review Competition that is commencing soon! 

Some screen casting/recording apps for the iPad reviewed

Really interesting article that explores the interconnected social media literacies of attention, participation, cooperation, network awareness, and critical consumption. Good professional reading to share with staff

A standalone app that lets you download content from webpages (optimised for Youtube). Once you have the video you can convert it to iPod format & even just grab the audio from the video. Very handy

Doesn't work with CEO proxies - Sorry! Still a great resource to use at home if YouTube is blocked at your school, though.

Classroom review games and class management tools

A good blog which contains short reviews of 55 Open Source Apps. Blog is organised into areas such as maths, biology ..... etc

"Free Educational Software We find and review high-quality free learning software and websites - mostly for kids, but also for grown-ups". Most of the software is for PC but the sites work. Worth a look, choose a category at the top

This looks like a great app for creating digital stories on the iPad. It allows you to draw characters or use pre-loaded ones, and then record a voiceover. Has some good reviews, too!

A fantastic collection of web-based math resources. Has a mini review for each site. 

A very comprehensive ipad in education wiki. Lots of apps, reviews and ideas broken into age groups

Here is a great review of a new PBS website which allows you to create a habitat based on the needs to a fictional  character. Once the students have finished creating the habitat, they could download it as a JPEG. Has some great tips on ways it could be useful in the classroom, too!

Over 7,000,000 educational videos. WatchKnow website for finding educational videos for the classroom. This is also a great place to locate videos that you may want to download and incorporate into a Notebook lesson file. This site is maintained by the users and organized in a way that can really help teachers find relevant videos for the classroom. I also like the rating system that is used to help teachers make a educated decision on what videos to review.

Great ideas to help students with reading novels or writing book reviews or getting interested in reading

Teachers choose their own curriculum (mapped to state standards), assign work to students, have it automatically graded immediately, review individual and class performance, and most importantly, take immediate action. TenMarks is super effective and real easy to use - it was designed with the help of math teachers across the country. What's more - it's FREE for the entire class!