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The huge importance of iPad as a learning and teaching device lies in the fact that it can be used as a fundamental media production tool with students inside the classroom. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has been tapping into some of the areas and ways teachers and educators can use iPad both constructively and productively. 
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Are you a scrapbook enthusiast? If so, you probably know that the paper, stickers, and photos are expensive, time consuming, and sometimes messy to put together.
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From BYOD to the smartphone you’re probably about to take out of your pocket, devices are everywhere. So, therefore, is the news. We’re faced with an onslaught of never-ending coverage about just about everything. But how do you, students, teachers, admins, and everyone else actually consume the news?
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The focus here is on the film techniques and technical side of making a great movie.
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Back in January 2012 Apple hosted an educational event in New York that made a real push for the iPad to be the computing device of choice for the classroom. With improved iBooks for text books, iTunes U and the fact that it deliberately kept the old reliable 16gb iPad 2 on the market for so long specifically for schools it made a strong case. Today Apple released it's iPad mini a 7.9 inch iPad mini and it almost seems to have been designed with students and readers in mind.
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While nearly every reading app comes with an easily accessible stash of free public domain books a user can read from within the app, I get my free e-books from Project Gutenberg and read them in iBooks.
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Physical education involves more than playing games all period long. As a PE teacher, you are also responsible for teaching students to develop healthy habits and realize the importance of making physical activity a regular part of their lives.
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One of the best things the iPad has to offer is convenient web browsing. The Apple tablet is so much more than just an e-reader. Being able to check out various websites while riding public transit to work makes the uncomfortable ride so much better.
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When it comes to deciding how or whether to use iPads, schools typically focus on budget issues, apps, networking logistics, check-in and check-out procedures, school and district tech-use policies, hardware precautions, and aspects of classroom management.
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Many iPad fans consider Apple’s products to be the perfect unity of technology and great design. The iPad’s high resolution touchscreen also makes it a great way to explore museum collections, so save the plane far and never leave your arm chair as you enjoy some of our favorite museum apps.
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A selection of filters inside the app let you take creative control, adding effects like: water colors, life on mars, pink glasses, dirty sketch, frozen, crayon ‘o’ matic, rumpled paper, soft pencil, wooden floor, hipster culture, black pencil, canvas, oil paint, jungle and marble. When you have your favorite effect applied, save the edited photograph to you camera roll and share it with anyone and everyone!
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Springpad just launched a new set of bookmarking tools that looks part Pinterest and part Livebinders with more functions and better aesthetics than both of those services. In Springpad you organize your bookmarks, notes, and files into notebooks. You can make as many notebooks as you like in your Springpad account.
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If you like audiobooks, chances are good that you love audiobooks. As a group audiobook listeners are likely to be well-educated, exercise frequently, and spend a lot of time in the car.
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When Apple showed of the iPad mini at yesterday’s special event in San Jose, it was noted that the frame around the screen is significantly smaller along the portrait side of the device.
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Earlier today, Apple officially introduced its newest family member - the iPad mini. A lighter, thinner, fits-in-the-palm-of-your-hand version of it’s big brother, now more portable and affordable than before.
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The iPad Mini is here. At a starting price of $329 though, it may not be the silver bullet for education everyone hoped it was. That’s just $70 off the base price of the ‘big’ iPad. For schools itching to start a 1:1 setup, BYOD, or just deploy iPads in general, the iPad Mini may be worth checking out. A total game-changer for education? Probably not.
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Want to create your own interactive eBook for the iPad? It's actually really simple using the iBooks Author program that Apple provides for free! Writing eBooks has so many awesome business applications and benefits.
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The battle for school systems’ edtech budgets is heating up. Just last week Amazon released Whispercast in hopes of cutting into the iPad’s classroom dominance, but Apple is ready to fight back with the smaller, leaner iPad Mini.
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Here is Mike Amante's Slideshare presentation on Creative Uses for Ipad in the Classroom which offers a nice run-down of the apps and examples of using them in the classroom. The presentation includes some QR codes that you can scan to get the lists of apps that Mike recommends. Take a look through the presentation as embedded below and you're likely to find a new app or idea that you can use in your classroom.
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Mobile learning is here to stay. Students and teachers alike can build entire libraries of apps and web tools that let them learn and do, well, anything. We’ve covered this just about every day and love finding new resources to share. So, if you haven’t yet, follow @edudemic on Twitter!Alright, stupid self-promotion aside, let’s get on with the useful list.
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Bending your neck to look at your tablet or computer screen is nothing new to teachers, students, admins, and pretty much everyone. But what about prolonged usage? It’s been hard to know until now.
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The Sydney Morning Herald recently reported on a private school in the area who are implementing a program that will require all students to own an iPad by 2013. St. Andrews Catholic School in central Sydney told parents this week that their children will be using an iPad for school next year.
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While it’s common for iPad users to stream music to their devices with apps such as Spotify or Slacker radio, or listen to their own music libraries through Apple’s native Music app, the iPad is also an excellent way to explore new musical genres or learn about Classical, Jazz, or even Opera at any age.
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