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.

New Video – 55 Ways to Use and iPad in the Classroom

The Free Tech for Teacher blog has a post about Tom’s Barrett’s presentation on 55 ideas for using an iPad in the classroom. Barrett, is an educator blogger, with an interest in iPads. Many of the suggestions are for teachers of younger kids, but there are some, such as the tips on projecting an iPad, [...]

iEAP – iPad Education App Review Site

Check out this interesting site, filled with app reviews and organized by grade level, subject, teacher tools, and more. The site welcomes reviewers.  Lots of good information here. http://www.iear.org

Viewing a PowerPoint on the iPads with your Class

Suppose you have a terrific PowerPoint that you’ve usually shown to your class using the ceiling-mounted projector. The kids follow along and answer questions on a worksheet you’ve created to go with the lesson. This PowerPoint is very good, but it is also quite long and some of the information is rather complicated. This year [...]

Creative Apps

One of the common observations about the iPad is that it is more a content viewer than a content creator. Here’s a link to a blog post about some amazing art, music, video and visual story-telling apps that may give you a new perspective on the iPad. The finger painting app (Brushes) and the Pottery [...]

NYT on wider iPad use in schools

This piece ran today in the print edition–or maybe it will run tomorrow? (Sometimes it’s hard to know where you are in the 24hr. news cycle!)