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Sharing iPad files is difficult. The simple task of collecting, assessing and returning multiple student works that were created is nigh on impossible with the iPad.
Blog article about studies investigating whether iPads help learning.
Via Timo Ilomäki 
An iPad and Apple TV can combine to provide an advantageous alternative to more expensive, traditional interactive white boards.
"The iPad library app is an enormous application to assist kids to pick up a variety of things to learn. It does not matter whether they’re just starting to learn the letters of the alphabet or solving problems in multiplication, there are 5 most wanted iPad apps to share with your little kids:" Via John Evans 
The iPad is a great tool for doing web research, especially when used with Evernote and Skitch. Here is how I do it on a daily basis.
Individual Education Programs (IEP) can be difficult to put in place at the best of times. IEP's are sometime a source of concern and frustration. The more informed people are about the IEP process the better the IEP can be. Parents will normally work with teachers to develop a plan to help the students succeed in school. The IEP assists this process by describing the goals the whole team sets for a student during the school year, as well as any special support needed to help achieve them.
iPad owners will soon be able to access Windows and all the familiar Office apps on their device, with OnLive offering a streamed cloud service that it claims offers up the...
I was recently asked to lead a professional development session for a school that is starting to roll out iOS devices for teachers and students.
Using iPad apps in the classroom for use in literacy instruction.
Students in South Korea will soon be learning from pixel instead of paper, as the government plans to digitize the country's entire school curriculum by 2015. Via Jim Lerman, Jim Harmon, Jim Harmon
SAP was an early advocate for and adopter of the iPad... This article is an interview with their CIO, Oliver Bussman.
LogMeIn provides remote access to desktops. App was $30 but there is now a version with a solid subset of tools that is available free.
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eSchool News (registration)At Las Vegas charter school, iPads power project-based learningeSchool News (registration)For all the talk about ways to bring technology into education, consider a public charter school in Clark County, Nev., that... Via Lucy Gray 
Writing and technology has been a controversial subject for many traditionalists in education. “Spell check stops children from learning to spell”. 
One way or the other, e-textbooks are coming. But will it be an Apple-dominated market?
The answer is easy: YES, especially if the teacher has access to a Mac desktop or (preferably) laptop and a wifi network in the classroom.
Apple’s new iBooks Author application for Mac is an impressive piece of work... it’s still quite a lengthy and complicated process to produce a book with it. It was designed for the creation of textbooks. So what if you want to make a shorter, simpler ebook? 
The folks from Nuance Communications, the provider of Dragon voice recognition, have released their free iPad notes app - PaperPort Notes.
Apple today announced the new version of IBooks aimed at revolutionizing the way we distribute content in schools. According to Apple, there are currently 1.5…... 
One of the apps that have slowly creeped their way into my life is GoodReader for iPad. Use GoodReader to get things done.
This year is shaping up to be the year for low-cost tablets in India, as we said earlier today when covering the launch of a $149 education-focused tablet, and further proof comes from ...
Quite a useful primer. -JL
Target audience: Nonprofits, social change organizations, educators, foundations, individuals. This is part of Creating Media, our ongoing series designed to help nonprofits and other organizations learn how to use and make media.
With millions of videos floating around on the Web, I’d like to make the case today for a genre that has received far too little attention: digital storytelling.
Digital storytelling is a craft that uses the tools of digital technology to tell stories about our lives. Done properly, storytelling can be a powerful, evocative way of communicating themes and stories, often touching us in deeper ways than one-dimensional videos that rarely probe beneath the surface of people’s lives Via Jim Lerman, Jim Harmon 
San Francisco-based Fingerprint Digital, a startup building educational game apps for kids, is blowing up. Not only are the company’s apps educational, they also feature a built in sharing platform (“Mom-Comm”) which allows kids to share their progress with their parents.
Mentions several websites that have lists of apps that are discounted or free.
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