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School Leaders on iPads & Tablets
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Students may no longer enjoy the luxury of slacking off in privacy because of new electronic textbooks that report their study habits. 
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In other words, you can ignore all those IDC stats about Apple having just 50% of the tablet market.
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This detailed guide describes the various options that will help you record movies (screencasts) of your iPad or iPhone screen. You can use it for capturing app demos, game walkthroughs and more.
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There is another way more excellent option to transport you and your students to another place: Tourwrist for iPad. If you haven’t played around with this app, you’re missing out. Furthermore, if your students haven’t played around with this app, then they’re missing out. The function of the app is just what the name implies – taking tours of far-off places with a flick of your wrist. There are some fairly well put together web-based virtual tours out there, but the quality of the 360 degree tours on Tourwrist take the concept of virtual exploration to a whole new level. Opening a tour in this app is the closest thing to actually being there.
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When using iPads with students, consider apps which allow students opportunities to create media which demonstrates understanding and lets them show what they know and how they feel. This is a very engaging, challenging, and meaningful way for students to learn and for teachers to understand and assess what their students comprehend. Here are 5 iPad apps which help students create media in different forms:
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5 great apps for exploring mathematics at home or at school!
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European Exploration: The Age of Discovery provides students with historical information about the explorers that are available to lead expeditions.
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Tablets are launching a full scale assault on education. We take a look at the adoption of tablets in schools and which tablet will reign supreme in the evolving world of education.
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Education disruptor, Khan Academy, has released an iOS mobile application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, giving users complete access to its collection of over 3,500 videos. Now, students ...
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Musical and non-fiction books on Storia®, the teacher-recommended eReading app for kids.
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Apple has made it really easy to edit movies on your iPad thanks to the constantly refined iMovie app. We show you how.
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IPads in classrooms offer such a new learning environment that they demand a shift from the idea of students being passive receivers of learning and demands real engagement and learning ownership b...
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An iPad app created by a student journalist, for students and journalists...
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Siri needs to start worrying. After a long wait, the Google Search app for iOS has been updated with some interesting and improved voice search capabilities.
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Having said that one of my goals for this school year is to make my students' thinking behind their learning more visible. As often as we are able, I encourage my students to talk about what they have done as a way to document their learning. There are many apps that will allow my students to do this and they include Explain Everything, Screen Chomp, Show Me, Educreations, and Draw and Tell
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Great apps for educators and some just for fun too!
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iMore.com Sakura Quick Math is an educational iPhone and iPad game for children and adults that drills your basic arithmetic skills by having you race against the clock and input your answers by simply writing them on the screen.
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iGo With My iPad On the iPad, the ‘Print’ option doesn’t have a PDF export option. This is where the Universal app Web to PDF comes in handy. Upon launching, you are presented with a Web browser to go to the page you need a PDF of. Browse to a Web page and choose the button at the bottom right of the screen, “Create PDF”. The resulting PDF is a great way to read a Web page later when offline too!
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