Excellent free typing tutorials website. Accounts are optional, but allow you to track your progress and join a class so teachers can track progress as well. Did I mention that it's free?
Excellent FAQs, helps and tutorials for all different Google apps products. The articles for each are very helpful and detailed. There is a separate Google Sites FAQs, etc. too.
Tom - Do you have a RaspPi?? My guys are currently working on using it to play sounds when someone walks between two infrared sensors (think musical stairs at St. John's). Fun stuff!
Concurrently they are dabbling with an Arduino to run a DIY 3D printer they are building.
I'm in over my head here!
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In order to help some of my struggling reading students, I'm having my students record our week's memory work in GarageBand, then distributing it as a podcast. Students and parents can subscribe to the feed and use this auditory support to help with memorization. This page is the tutorial that I'm using to set up the feed.
School district near Omaha, Nebraska that is implementing iPads for all high school students this year. Lots of great resources and tutorials about using the iPad.