Gizmodo Explains How to Make an iPad Textbook in Under Five Minutes

The Gizmodo Blog shares lots of info about Apple’s new iPad Textbook Maker. Read the article.

How to Make up for No Adobe Flash on Your iPad

The Wired Educator blog has published a list of iPad applications that will help users view Flash based content on their tablets. So far, here at GDS, we have used Cloud Browser, and it has worked with the apps that we wanted to use. Take a look at the iPad/Flash enablers on the blog’s list if [...]

40 Best Science Apps

The site Fun Educational Apps, has posted the 40 best science apps for students from preschool to age 12. The  post organizes the apps into the following categories: Chemistry Biology Astronomy Reference Exploratory tools And a few miscellaneous apps that don’t fit into other categories

Tracking Disasters — A Good Kind of Tracking

If you haven’t had enough of hurricane Irene, PC Magazine just published 10 Mobile Apps for Tracking Hurricane Irene. Some are free and other are downloadable for a small charge. Applications come from government agencies like NOAA, but there are also some that are more survival oriented. One helps users develop and share a disaster [...]

Check Out the iPad Apps in Education Blog

The iPad Apps in Education blog is a great discovery. On the first page at the top is a band with app recommendation links — divided by subject and other categories. The lists are comprehensive. Blogger Greg Swanson includes all sorts of information including reviews of iPad accessories.  He also has a post on video [...]

10 Great Ways to Get More From Your iPad

This terrific article in PCWorld has all kinds of information that can help a person do some powerful things with an iPad. stream movies from your PC to the iPad use it as a secondary monitor connect USB speakers and keyboards connect more than a camera …and more.

Can An iPad Replace a Whiteboard?

Take a couple of minutes to read Can Your iPad Replace Your Whiteboard, over at the iPads in Education Ning. The post, written by Sam Gliksman, describes an iPad application, Doceri, which interacts with the projection device software installed on a computer, and it can even be used as a remote for the projector. Doceri, may [...]

Lots More Links on GDSTechTips

Check out two new blog features. GDS TechTips now has a page for favorite TED Talks. Let us know if you have a favorite Ted talk that should be added to the list. We’ve also added several more iPad links including 47 tips for Using iPads in the Classroom.

Update on iPad Evaluation Process

iPad Evaluation Process Phase I Drawing to a Close We are reaching the end of the individual faculty member iPad evaluation process. If you have not checked out an iPad for a two-week period, you are still welcome to do so, but we are rapidly moving into the phase II classroom/curricular evaluation process. Do You [...]