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There's a new app called WDWDT (stands for What Did We Do Today?) and is a messaging service custom-built for students, parents, and teachers.

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10 Secrets To Unlocking The Learning Potential Of The iPad

It’s an app library, a media consumption device, and a mobile learning tool that makes yesterday’s graphing calculators, smartboards, and laptops look like abacuses.

So we buy them then—by the truckloads, in fact. We stamp them as district-owned, give teachers a few PDs that show them some tools and advise them on “district policy,” and then expect miracles.

It is unclear exactly how and where we expect those miracles to show up. Student satisfaction surveys? Learner engagement? Test scores?

The local newspaper?

Have you ever thought of writing on your iPad as you would do on paper ? iPads are originally designed to support only keyboard writing but not everybody like iOS keyboards.Other tablets require the use of a stylus to do handwriting but again this is not a dependable option . Now let's see what app developers have for us in this regard.
There are actually several writing apps that you can install on your iPad and that will allow you to handwrite as easily as writing on a real paper. I have curated a list of such apps and I am sharing it with you below. If you are looking for apps to develop your students writing then check out this resource instead. Enjoy

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It can be intimidating to try something new in your classroom. This is especially true with technology. I believe that technology should make the work of teachers easier while creating an environment

I’m continually impressed and amazed at how much impact the iPad is having in education – and especially in helping students with autism or on the autism spectrum. So I’m delighted to share this gu...

Tablets are becoming more popular in schools, and their portability is extending educational opportunities beyond the classroom.

MathBoard is just one of thousands of effective apps for the classroom. In the two years of being a principal of a school that has been using iPads on a 1:1

While browsing the web you might come across content of relevant topical interest to what you teach or what you want to learn about. Taking notes is a strategic way  to save and review  your  main points and ideas and being equipped with right tools to help you achieve this is a necessity for every 21st century educator and student. In this regard, and after I have already published a set of free Android note taking apps for those of you who opt for mobile devices, I am providing you below with another set of note taking applications but this time for web version.

Fig.1. Why Blog? If anything has been written on blogging I want to read it. On 27th September 1999 I posted to my first blog - it was on blogging and new media. We're now in the phase of transitio...

The screen recorders available out there have been listed by us below. You’re probably here because you want to prepare a presentation for the boardroo

In my ongoing effort to manage storage on my iDevices, I wanted to share with you guys a neat feature, once again, that Dropbox offers (I wrote a similar post a few months back). For those of us wh...

You might have noticed today a doodle displayed in the Google search engine. This animated doodle that Google uses to adorn its homepage marks the Earth Day anniversary April 22, 2013.This is a great occasion for us teachers and educators to celebrate this day with our students and draw their awareness to the importance of saving our HOME from looming dangers. One strategy to use to raise students awareness of the importance of our planet is by sharing with them these beautiful iPad apps . Check out this  list of the titles I have handpicked for you in honor of Earth Day. Enjoy

  via Edutopia Ideally, teaching kids how to think critically becomes an integral part of your approach, no matter what subject you teach. But if you're just getting started, here are some con...

There are thousands of options, but our friends at Education Dive have whittled down the best iPad accessories for classrooms anywhere.

When you use tablets and other devices, the nature of them requires you to be a teacherpreneur, or one who innovates, selects, and customizes your classroom.

A great way to add interest to the classroom (especially while spring testing is happening) is to introduce or play with a new tool. You need a break of scenery and your students do too!

Sometimes it is what you need to grab their attention as you review something important. 

So how about having a paperless classroom ? Some say this is over-hyped at best, an outright fad at worse. Well let's get down to it and see what it all takes to do it. Like  it or not technology is becoming a big part if not of our teaching then definitely of our students learning. Now digital textbooks are everywhere and the number of  school districts adopting  iPads  as learning tools in classrooms is exponentially increasing.In fact we can make our teaching more effective using the same technology our students love. In this regard I have crafted this little guide to help you better integrate technology into your teaching and drive paper away from you classroom, opps I mean most of it.

As you can see below, I  have collected lists of the top web tools you will need as a teacher in order to effectively leverage the power of technology and web 2.0 in your teaching and learning. I would recommend that you bookmark this page so that you can get back to it whenever needs be. Enjoy