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Please jot down your thoughts on the two questions below - also, please include your initials after your posts. Thanks!

~Marian What have you discovered about your new iPad?

My 11-year-old daughter gave me a tour Some games are fun! There are a lot of apps The ones we were given are the latest and greatest ~Marian

How do you think it can be useful in your classroom? It seems most valuable only if everyone has one Some app games might useful Accessing primary sources or online books would be awesome I found a free app of world maps ~Marian = = So far, I've found a few apps that will be quite helpful once/if we have class sets. The first one is called Shelfster. It's a program that facilitates research paper writing. It's available for free for both iPads and traditional computers. I would definitely consider using this one in the future- I can imagine my students moving about libraries and archives with an app that combines note card, camera, recorder, etc. and allows them to save all of their work to the cloud. The second one I would perhaps use in an economics course. It's called "Economy Tracker for iPad". It essentially allows easy access to a large number of economic indexes for comparison and study.

About the maps, the same developer has several map-related apps. The US maps app looks particularly good, but it's 8 or 9 dollars.

Bill

Here's a link with 100+ apps that are useful in education...I have not checked all of them out so I am not sure which ones are free....but take a look in your discipline and share the news with your department....They could be useful and fun!

http://ilearn.empowerbpo.com/2011/11/100-ipad-apps-perfect-for-high-school.html

I have also created a twitter account that I am using with my AP students, I had them follow some Chilean students that are having strikes currently and they shared their tweets in class. I'm pricespanol come follow me!!! on Twitter!

Also, if you don't have a wireless mouse, check out the 'mobile mouse' app (there is a free one) and you can use it as a mouse with your iPad. This will work when we have computers with WiFi capability, so stay tuned! It's super cool and you can use it to play music from your iPad, use it for you powerpoint presentations and anything else you have on your desktop computer...your iPad acts as a mobile mouse, I love it!

Obviously if you are reading a book in class and don't have enough copies for the entire class you can buy one copy (or borrow it from a library online) and use your kindle app in class to project it for all to see and read.

I'll keep thinking of what else I do with my iPad...it's super cool my friends!

Margo

I have found some cool apps that have animations and diagrams for both anatomy and biology. My students have started sharing some of the ones that they have downloaded for review. I think it will be more useful in the classroom when I can project it.

Sarah

I have still been playing around trying to find apps to use in the classroom. Jot! free seems like a good one to use as a "whiteboard" on your ipad. Also, if you have twitter, there is an account called "ipadteacher" that I follow and they post educational apps and articles about educational apps for the ipad. I just recently found one through them called "rover" which I love because you can use sites that have flash player. Our Geometry books are available online but without this app we couldn't open up the books or some of the resources available from our textbooks. Also the Khan Academy app is good and the YourTeacher app (which may only have math apps) is a really good one.

Thanks everyone for sharing! I'm excited to learn more about them! Sarah, I completely agree that it will be more useful in our classes once we can project them.

-Elizabeth Sullivan

I have finally found some useful apps for teaching Latin..mostly maps, but yes projection will be good. I also found a ton of free videos on openuniversity. They are short and pretty good image wise. This link is one I'm still exploring for more teaching tips. http://cit.duke.edu/2011/12/ipad_turkish_s2012/

Liz Kelley