SAS iPads

I don't love this approach, but we might want to keep it in mind for those few families who either have a highly at risk student or who are so worried that they are trying to be road blocks in regards to the ipads...

Quick PDF guide to using iPads for learning, very helpful! 

There are styluses for writing, styluses for painting, styluses for navigating, and even styluses for playing a virtual guitar. The market has exploded, bringing new types, new variations, new nib sizes, and-more than anything-new complications. Whatever your use case may be, here's a guide to help you find what you need-so you can get to the fun part.

iPad app anl lesson eval tools

comprehensive list of iPad Resources broken down into categories

Plethora of sites for using iPads in the classroom.

Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.

"In some ways, Amazon and Apple are polar opposites at least when it comes to the way they are approaching the tablet market. As my colleague Erica Ogg has pointed out, Apple's main interest is in selling hardware, and it uses content as a way of doing that. It arguably had no real interest in becoming a music powerhouse, except that controlling access to those songs would give it a powerful lever with which to sell more iPods. Amazon, however, sees devices like the Kindle Fire as a way to sell more content, and that makes it simultaneously more appealing as a partner for media companies and at the same time a potentially more dangerous one as well." (emphasis added)

Don't you hate it when all of your iPads collectively run out of juice? Well, praise Griffin for announcing its first business centric iOS "accessory" in the shape of the Multidock. It has its own power connection for simultaneous charging of ten iPads, but it can be chain-linked to two other docks for syncing of up to 30 tablets with a single Mac. With each server-esque tower measuring up at 18.6 inches (47.2 cm) tall and priced even higher at $700, this one's for IT pros and Scrabble aficionados only.

MacRumors is reporting that Apple may soon address what is rapidly becoming a thorny problem for many of its users on the eve of iCloud and iOS 5. Currently, Cupertino does not allow multiple Apple IDs to be merged into one account under any circumstances, a particularly baffling limitation considering that many longtime users have been stuck juggling at least two of them -- especially if you've used iTunes from the beginning and also have a MobileMe account, for example.