We welcome you to our wiki and blog for supporting iPod & iPad devices in education. Although our focus is K-12, many of the techniques should work for you at any level and with any number of devices. On the wiki side of this site are the deployment and management articles, and on the blog side, you will find the classroom activities (written primarily by teachers) where iPods are supporting achievement improvement for our students. We are posting as many help and how-to articles here as we can and as quickly as we can so you can continue to be successful using iPod devices in your classroom. Please let us know if there are more or different things that you would like to have included here
APPitic is a directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) to help you transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings.
Is only one iPad in a classroom worth it? This question keeps reappearing on the EC Ning and in other blog spaces.
The answer is easy: YES, especially if the teacher has access to a Mac desktop or (preferably) laptop and a wifi network in the classroom. It is an even larger YES if the Mac device has the most current operating system. Having a computer to which the iPad can sync is not absolutely necessary, but it is a Best Idea. If you are not feeling confident, get your IT person or another teacher to help you out with setup. I am focused here on apps to install for MS and HS - and then what to do with them.
The iCougars project, first and foremost, seeks to increase student achievement through a student-centered, one-to-one mobile technologies model by providing every student and staff member with personal access to a mobile computing device in a wireless environment
iPad/iPod RESOURCES
With more than 500,000 apps available for use on iOS devices like the iPad and iPod touch, how can you make a good decision about which ones are best for education? TCEA helps by testing and recommending great apps for the classroom. We regularly try out new apps and list those that make the grade in the shared document available here for iPad and here for iPod touch/iPhone. Apps are categorized into 46 different subject areas and 14 different personal use areas. Apps that are free are listed in white.
This page gathers all of the Bloomin' Apps projects in one place!
Each of the images has clickable hotspots and includes suggestions for
iPad, Google, Android, and Web 2.0 applications
to support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.
On this page I’ll post songs that can be played in GarageBand. I only give some hints (level of difficulty, tempo, time signature, key, structure, lyrics and the chords). Get creative!
Every score has settings. These must be set in GarageBands settings tool before you can start to play.
Some songs have guitartabs.
Comprehensive information related to the iPad in Education sponsored by the Department of Educational Technology in the School District of Palm Beach County. Includes implementation plan, purchasing info, app recommendations, ipad covers, resources, etc...
Tom Barrett's "Interesting Ways" series - updated for iPad
Tutorials, Lists of apps, evaluation guides, special education, classroom uses, PD activities, iBook creation, etc
As the iPad is currently the ‘class leader’ in education, there are many educators who have found themselves with an iPad to ‘see what it can do?’ The challenge is to demonstrate enhanced learning, so here are ten suggestions that may help:
reports from teachers from Canby School District with their iPad implementation grants
Good collection of Apps (with prices) and descriptions of how they are using for learning