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ThingLink is one of my favorite tools that I've reviewed on Free Technology for Teachers. The free service allows you to make any image interactive by adding digital pinmarks to it. Those pinmarks can include text, links, videos that are revealed when some touches those pinmarks while viewing your shared images. The service previously worked in your iPad's web browser, but now this great service is now available as a free iPad app too.

meet Justand - the iPad stand designed to turn your iPad into a document camera or scanner.

I have added 62 iPad apps to the wheel and put them where they could serve the pedagogy. These are not necessarily the best app for the job and many of the apps can be used in different realms but it is a good start. I hope it helps you rethink the iPad’s use in Learning and Teaching… it is not about the tool nor the app … it’s all about the students.

From Khan Academy to Haiku Deck, there's more than a dozen apps and tools you should give a whirl this year.

New classroom tablet programs are beginning and others are expanding. Here's a look at what's taking shape.

Even though older adults might still carry a negative association with video game consoles and devices, today’s technology is vastly different than it was 20 years ago.

The app store is loaded with options that allow students to share and collaborate with iPads. Here's a few helpful tips and apps for you to try out!

As iPads are increasingly infiltrating our educational systems the question of the pedagogical implications ensuing from the use of these mobile gadgets in the classroom come to the surface. Some do look at them as an added distraction and that  learning can be more focused without students having access to them during the class. Traditionalists do advocate this view and are  , in fact,  against the " over-digitization " of education. To these people I say what John Dewy once said " If we teach today as we thought yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow ".

Teachers really want to the ability to display their iPad or their students' iPads on a projector ...

There are now several apps out there to help you create tutorials and video guides to help your students learn while they are not in class. Be it you want to totally flip your classroom teaching or simply to provide extra help to students, the apps below will definitely help you make a difference in your students learning.

If kids can access information from sources other than school, and if school is no longer the only place where information lives, what, then happens to the

Edit on your iPad...

No need to reach for your laptop - Appser for Google Docs gives you all editing capabilities. Select and style text, insert images, edit spreadsheet formulas - Appser supports it all

Who has had some success with classroom tablet integration? iPads, Android, and Windows tablets are in use right now. Here's more info.

iPads are terrifc for apps and reading, but here's a few simple ways to use your iPad as a digital whiteboard with ease!

If you have an iPad, iPhone, Android device, or computer ... you should be listening to podcasts. Most are highly professional and packed with useful information.

"As an advocator of the use of technology in teaching and learning, I believe that there are several ways we can use this technology to  make teaching writing a  more enjoyable task for students . Educational Technology and Mobile Learninghas already shared some of the web tools to help teachers improve students writing and today we are sharing with you some great writing apps for iPad"

That the iPad is a great content-consumption device has never been disputed. But just 30 months after its launch the iPad is now in some ways a more powerful content-creation device than a laptop i...