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Great apps for the Primary iPad classroom

how to wirelessly control a set of Keynote slides running on an iPad connected to a projector. Not surprisingly, there's an app for that. Apple has an app called Keynote Remote to support your Keynote slideshows.

If you've ever run into a .zip file on an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad you will probably have discovered it's a bit of a dead-end initially, because by default there isn't much you can do with zips or any other archive format. That doesn't mean you can't open ZIP files though,

Via David Portelli from SLV, a great guide to installing an Evenote clipper on your Ipad.

Catherine Hainstock has put together a draft list of iPad apps for use with the e5 model. Have a look at her post here describing the process. A chart of the apps is also available.

After a long wait, Google Drive is now available for the iPad with the full functionality of the web-based version of Google Drive. To refresh, Google Drive is the new name for the Google Docs Suite. This suite includes Google Docs, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Forms, and Folders.

Titled "iPad app assessment rubric for librarians" this is a a multiple-choice checklist to assess the relevance and value of an app.

Article which explains Reflector.  A tool which helps capture the live video screen of your iPhone, iPad etc. It captures audio too. Great for creating educational tech videos.

I strongly believe that technology is going to completely revolutionize the classroom. But when are we going to start addressing the negative aspects of the one-to-one classroom? When are we going to acknowledge the fact that just because every student has a device it does not mean that they will get a 36 on the ACT? I have seen videos of babies that can play with an iPad, but that does not mean that high school students intuitively know how to use one to effectively collaborate and communicate in the classroom.

This week the focus is iPad and Web 2.0 Tools Tutorials. These tutorials will support teachers to effectively embed technology into their Literacy and Numeracy programs.

You may have noticed by now that we love Evernote around here! Today we have two tutorials for you to supercharge Evernote. Learn how to use note linking to speed things up,and also see how to install the web clipper in Safari on the iPad. Novembe...

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device, I'm concerned that most one-to-one implementation strategies are based on the new tool as the focus of the program. Unless we break out of this limited vision that one-to-one computing is about the device, we are doomed to waste our resources.

The SAMR model has been around for a while, but I think it is time for a revisit. Most of us have been working with some element or other of 1 to 1 access, but has our pedagogy - the way we use the technology to teach in our classes - changed or shifted in that time?

The final round of government funding is currently being distributed to schools all around Australia. So far over 967,000 computers have been bought, infrastructure built and (most) teachers up-skilled to benefit from the acquisition. But as the funds come to an end, many school principals are wondering if the process has been beneficial, and how can they continue to support and progress the Digital Education Revolution?