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"You now can access lots of free audio and video from the Library of Congress on iTunes U. There's a lot of great material suitable for a history class, such as early films made by Edison himself (or his company, at least). There are also fascinating oral histories from actual slaves in the Voices from the Days of Slavery collection. For a look at how people entertained themselves before TV, radio and the interweb came to be, you can look at early American animation, and even olde timey Vaudeville performances."

Free education broswer for your iPad for flash-enabled K-12 content. View Starfall, Discovery, and more!

I choose the Launch iTunes because it has a nice display by grade level.

Google Voice can be used by students who are hearing impaired can use this tool to take advantage of text-messaging features to participate in activites that require oral communication. Google Voice will let them view text transcripts of voice-mail messages. Any student can post audio files or podcasts using google voice. Google voicemail and text message communications are archived so there is a running record of all activities and progress. A teacher could make oral quizzes into podcasts by uploading them to a podcasting service, such as ITunes, and students could subscribe to the podcast.

The Library of Congress is the world's largest library and the largest body of knowledge under a single roof. Whether you're onsite, at home, in a classroom or elsewhere, this app will give you a virtual tour that mirrors the Library of Congress Experience, an award-winning group of exhibitions and features that has drawn record numbers of visitors.

"A fun new educational and entertaining book EVERY day helps your child develop good reading habits. Each book teaches your child new concepts, new words and how to say them."

The Chicktionary Lite: The chicken bobs its head and clucks when kids use one of their letters to make a word. The "beak sneak" option fills in one letter of each of the words not yet found.

25 short, engaging stories for K-4 readers that feature a variety of fiction an dnonfiction and 10 flesh-kincade reading levels

A service of drop.io designed for recording voicemail directly to the web, and podcasting. In two clicks you get a custom phone line and record MP3s instantly to the web. You can then share via web (URL), email, iTunes, rss, twitter, and facebook 'outputs'.

If you don't have the Kindle device, you can still enjoy any of these Kindle books on your Windows computer using the free Kindle for PC application. Amazon is also working on a Mac version of Kindle Desktop but until that happens, you can download the free Kindle app from iTunes store and read books on the move using your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Free app for iTouch/iPod etc "how to" for PC too