Everything iPads

Smartphone apps are useful because they can integrate intimately with our personal lives. But that also puts our personal data at risk. What can you do about it?!

Turn your iPad into a small Smart table with this quiz game, for up to four players at once. The game is fully customizable allowing for teachers and even students to add their own pictures and questions to gameplay.

Possible Classroom Uses:

Introduce students to important concepts and encourage them to preview a topic using questions within the game.
Use the app during a unit or lesson as an effective way of checking understanding and informally test students’ comprehension.
When a lesson or unit has been completed and students are preparing to take a quiz or exam, Futaba is a fun and stress-free way to encourage students to study.
Challenge pupils to make their own questions to test themselves and others within the game.

Little Speller is an application that teaches how to spell your first words in an exciting and engaging style. Adjustable game modes make it flexible to use and program. 

Ever wondered what the top Educational App is in iTunes? What's the most popular subject? Well look no further. They've put together an Infographic about the educational apps in the ITunes store for August 2012.

School case studies on the use of iPads in education, including schools from the Victorian iPads for Learning trial.

We love coming across new research that reports on educational technologies, and a new ebook on iPads in the Classroom by Sabrina Huber contains some excellent insights into the didactical integration of the iPad in classrooms. Download the ebook or you can purchase the hard copy on Amazon.

Quick Pitch: Create and share digital portfolios of students’ work quickly and easily.

Genius Idea: Three Ring allows teachers and students to digitize student work by snapping pictures or videos with their mobile or tablet devices. It keeps student work at the center of the conversation and ensures work isn’t reduced to a rote grade or forgotten in a filing cabinet

Whether you’re sitting behind the home plate or way out in left field, baseball is a sport that can be enjoyed on any level. Watching the action from the third row at third base is just as exiting as lounging in the lawn seats is relaxing. If you are itching for some pitching (thank you, I know), than we’ve got a couple of baseball games that are sure to be a home run in your iPad’s game folder.

Greg Kulowiec's great blog:

The summer is quickly winding down & a number of teachers will be returning to their classroom with new mobile devices (iPads). Throughout the summer I have been conducting workshops on iPad integration with EdTechTeacher and I thought it might be helpful to pull together a back to school list of apps structured around specific classroom goals. While many schools may already have an Apple VPP program already in place, I know a number of teachers will also be purchasing the apps themselves. Therefore, I will do my best to include both a pay & free app for each objective.

We app reviewers have literally hundreds of apps in our account. Sometimes even thousands. We download, play with, update, and delete apps from our iPads every single day. Sometimes, an app account may seem overwhelming. What do you do if your app has been removed from the app store, but you don’t want to lose it? How do you know what apps need updates? We’ve got a couple of tips for how to manage your apps that might make your account seem a little less daunting.