It's the Pedagogy, Stupid: Lessons from an iPad Lending Program

http://elearnmag.acm.org/featured.cfm?aid=1999656

Apple's iPad and Other Tablets Make Digital Textbooks Cool on Campus

http://www.cnbc.com/id/43428070

iPads in Class

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3755865

A Principal's Reflections: My Quick List of iPad apps

http://esheninger.blogspot.com/2010/07/my-quick-list-of-ipad-apps.html

Teach with your iPad Wiki

http://teachwithyouripad.wikispaces.com/

Bloom's Taxonomy with Apps!

http://teachwithyouripad.wikispaces.com/Blooms%20Taxonomy%20with%20Apps

Massachusetts School Launches 1:1 iPad Program for Students in Grades 3-8

This fall Tower School, an independent elementary school in Marblehead, Mass., will launch a tablet computer program that will put iPads in the hands of all students in grades 3-8. The program highlights the school's commitment to combining the best of traditional and innovative educational practices.

Read more:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/7/prweb8657014.htm

Going One-to-One with iPads: Learning on the Leading Edge

http://ipadacademy.com/2010/11/going-one-to-one-with-ipads-learning-on-the-leading-edge

GoodReader for iPad App

GoodReader is the super-robust PDF reader for iPad - the #1 selling non-Apple app for iPad in USA in 2010! Mashable describes it as “a Swiss Army knife of awesome!” Reviews worldwide hail it as “essential,” “the best,” “magnificent” and “the killer app”. With GoodReader on your iPad, you can read virtually anything, anywhere: books, movies, maps, pictures. Use it once and you’ll be hooked. Soon you'll be wondering how you ever managed to use your iPad without GoodReader.

iTunes Link:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/goodreader-for-ipad/id363448914?mt=8#

Developer site:
http://www.goodreader.net/goodreader.html

OmniFocus for iPad App

OmniFocus for iPad combines the in-depth task management functionality of a desktop app with the advanced mobile experience of the iPad. With flexible viewing options, location-aware task lists, and on-the-fly task entry with voice notes and image attachments, OmniFocus for iPad is the trusted system you need for managing everything in your busy life.

iTunes Link:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/omnifocus-for-ipad/id383804552?mt=8patnerId%3D30#

Developer site:
http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnifocus-ipad

Essential iPad Apps for Principals

http://www.eduleadership.org/2010/09/01/essential-ipad-apps-for-principals/

iPads for Administrators?

http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2010/05/01/ipads-for-administrators/

Mid-Hudson Regional Information Center's iPad Resources for Administrators

http://www.mhric.org/ipad/index.html

Apps from the Federal Government

No, these are not like government cheese...

http://apps.usa.gov/?v=all

LiveBinder of iPod touch & iPad resources for preK-12 educators

http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit/36989

iPad 2 Starter Guide by Macworld Editors

The Macworld iPad 2 starter guide contains the essential information a new iPad 2 owner needs to get started with their new device.

It has easy-to-understand explanations of the iPad 2's basic features, navigation, settings, and included apps. There are also sections on the other Apple iPad apps: Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Garage Band, iMovie, and iBooks. Looking to expand your app collection? We have a list of the top 10 third-party apps every new iPad owner should download.

When it comes to Apple hardware and software, there is no better team of experts than the writers and editors at Macworld, the world's foremost authority on everything Apple.

iTunes link:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/ipad-2-starter-guide/id429336326?mt=11

Apple Reveals Big Plans to Integrate Projectors into iOS Devices

From Patently Apple:

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2011/08/apple-reveals-big-plans-to-integrate-projectors-into-ios-devices.html

Macworld's Education App Reviews

http://www.macworld.com/appguide/browse.html?cat=Education

Templates for Keynote Pro App

Check out this app for more templates in Keynote for iOS:

iTunes link:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/templates-for-keynote-pro/id442970576?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Developer Site:
http://emendo-media.com/

Maclife Review:
http://www.maclife.com/article/reviews/templates_keynote_pro_review

How To Manage Address Groups in iOS

Check out this article from MacLife:

http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_manage_address_groups_ios

Florida School Will be Giving Students iPads Instead of Textbooks This Year

From idownloadblog.com:

Typically, gadgets are frowned on by teachers and affiliated staff (or as I like to call them, education enforcers). But that doesn’t seem to be the case at Lake Minneola High School in Lake County Florida.

According to the SunSentinel, Lake Minneola will be the first public school in Central Florida to purchase an iPad for every student. The move is part of a state pilot program designed to save money on textbooks, and offer a new approach to education…

Administrators used capital funding to pay for the 1,750 iPads, which costs nearly $700,000. The school must report the costs and savings associated with the program at the end of the year, as well as how the tablets improved student learning.

Teachers have already begun planning lessons on the slates, with a slue of educational apps and iBook-formated textbooks. Educators are especially excited about the iPad’s ability to quiz students running specialized software, and calculate classroom results within seconds.

The whole state of Florida will undoubtedly be watching the progress of the high school, as all Florida public schools are expected to completely adopt digital instruction materials by 2015. Teachers, students, and even parents seem to be excited about the digital transition:

“I think it’s great as far as the technology side,” said Lori Sokoloski, whose two sons will get iPads in the fall. “I think they’re more apt to go on the iPad and learn than to open a textbook.”

To be honest, the iPad does present itself as a remarkable learning tool. Unlike a computer, an iPad is easy to pick up and start using, and rarely displays off-putting error messages. It’ll be really interesting to see the effects it has on the student’s grades.

Digital cameras predicted to be the next casualty of smartphones and iPads

Check out this article from AppleInsider:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/29/digital_cameras_predicted_to_be_the_next_casualty_of_smartphones_and_ipads.html

Brand new "iOS 4 Education Deployment Guide" PDF now available!

http://images.apple.com/education/docs/20110727_IOS_4_Education_Deployment_Guide.pdf

North Carolina town buys Apple iPads to save taxpayers’ money

From Macdailynews:

“While Apple started selling iPads to the public only 15 months ago, the 1.5-pound tablet computers seem well on their way toward ubiquity. This year, Alaska Airlines began issuing them to pilots to replace the 25 pounds of paper flight manuals they were required to carry on flights,” Timothy Williams reports for The New York Times. “Now, Cornelius, N.C., with a population of about 25,000, has stopped printing meeting agenda packages for town commissioners and has given them iPads instead.”

Anthony Roberts, the town manager (with Bence Hoyle, the police chief), discusses:

Q: Why use iPads for your agendas?

A: The short version is, unlike a lot of governments, we try to operate as much as a business as possible. At the end of the day, when you are printing agendas around 200 pages apiece and after the meeting they go into the recycling bin, you say, “Why are we doing it like this?” We have to run 20 agendas at 200 pages per agenda. That’s 4,000 pages just on that one, and that’s not including the time to put it together. And you usually don’t get it right the first time because everything changes. I would think it takes over eight hours per packet.

(Chief Hoyle cuts in) And the Police Department would actually deliver it to the board members to make sure they got it and had time to study it.

(Mr. Roberts continues) We see it as a money-saving measure. We see it as saving our taxpayers money.

iOS Keynote Tip

In Keynote, when editing a slide, quickly pinch open over the slide to switch the view from Fit in screen to Full Screen view.

iOS 5 to allow AirPort, Time Capsule configuration

From MacNN:

The completed version of iOS 5 should allow people to configure AirPort and Time Capsule routers without having to go through a desktop or notebook, a series of images from an AppleInsider reader show. Within the firmware's Wi-Fi Networks menu, located under Settings, a new "Set up an AirPort Base Station" option is present, listing any AirPort or Time Capsule peripherals in the immediate area. Tapping this prompts users to either create a new network or "Do something different."...

The iPad's incredible effect on the PC industry is only beginning

From TUAW:

We already know based on Apple's latest quarterly earnings report that the iPad is pretty much eating the PC industry's lunch. Writing for Forbes, Bob Evans points out that as impressive as the iPad's effect on the industry has been thus far, we've only begun to see the sea change Apple's tablet device is triggering.

Evans offers five reasons why the iPad seems to be taking over the industry, and in each case he believes the iPad's real disruptive potential has yet to be realized. First, he repeats Apple COO Tim Cook's remarks from the last financial call, where he stated that while Apple was seeing slight cannibalization of Mac sales because of the iPad, the effect was relatively small compared to the devastation present in the rest of the PC industry. Mac sales were up 14 percent last quarter, but growth in the rest of the industry is a far smaller 2.6 percent.

It's not just everyday consumers driving the iPad's growth, either. Multiple studies have come out showing how eagerly businesses are adopting the iPad for enterprise applications, and the recent launch of Apple's B2B volume purchasing program is likely to drive even greater adoption of the iOS platform. As Evans points out, part of the reason enterprise adoption of the iPad is so high is that businesses are finding uses for the device that Apple never expected.

Apple's retail stores are another reason Evans offers for the iPad's success. Apple Stores arguably made the Mac, iPod, and iPhone more successful than they would have been otherwise, and it's no stretch to say the same is true of the iPad.

Perhaps the most important predictor of the iPad's future success is iPad use by children. Young kids in particular are growing up in a world where touchscreen tablets are a fact of life. I grew up with the Apple II already part of the toolset in my kindergarten, so it's almost impossible for me to comprehend a world without personal computers. Will today's kindergarteners feel the same way about hardware like the iPad? It's entirely possible.

As Evans says, the iPad has been on the market for less than a year and a half. We're only seeing the beginning of its effects on the industry. Think back to the mid-80s, when the Mac first came out, and consider how long it took before GUI-based computers became a home appliance every bit as "necessary" as the T.V. Or think back to the early 2000s, and how many years it took before the iPod supplanted both CD players and other mp3 players as the king of the portable music player industry. The iPad has already had a huge impact, but it's only the beginning.

By Chris Rawson
Jul 27th 2011 at 1:30AM