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Tablet computing and mobile devices promise to have a dramatic impact on education. A growing number of schools across the world are jumping on the digital bus and embracing  iPads (less often, other tablet products) as the latest tool to teach literature in multimedia, history through games and simulations, and math with step-by-step animation of problems. Not surprisingly, student scores improve when they use iPads and their interest in school soars. I say not surprisingly because students love digital toys and in my experience work harder and longer if given the opportunity to do so with any of the digital offerings (ipods, laptops included).

free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies. MPEG Streamclip can also download videos from YouTube and Google by entering the page URL

Flash card tool, that works with iStudyToGo for studying flash cards on ipods; share flashcards

learn vocabulary for a number of disciplines, and downloadable to an ipod

Special Education applications by type

Pearltrees is a free, visual and collaborative library that lets you keep everything you like at your fingertips. Its unique interface lets you organize and retrieve your favorite web pages, photos and notes -- even offline.

free audio books of many of the classics

Interactive Gettysburg battle

Cliffnotes app for iPhone

links to apps on most subjects for iphones, itouches, and ipads

Apple's community for teachers

reviews of educational games for the iphone

Great site with information on using iPod Touch in the classroom as well as application reviews.

This is a unique site in that it is the application of apps that creates a transformation in learning. Various apps are covered by offering suggestions of ways to use them in the classroom. There are even video examples to help further educator understanding. Apptivities is the response to a challenge given at the ADE Summer Institute 2010 at Full Sail University, Orlando, Florida. ADE colleagues contribute apptivities, a specific learning activity using apps on mobile devices.

education apps, some free, some for purchase

use your iPad as a whiteboard, and then share the presentation as a video

trigonometry teaching app

wiki of apps for the iphone, many of them free, and many for education