IXL for the iPad

Now access IXL on the iPads. This new app makes it easy to access all the wonderful features of IXL on the iPads. Just make sure your student sign out when they are done. : )

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ixl-math-practice/id693689912?mt=8

DROP it TO me

This is a great way to send pictures from your iPads and iPods
 when you don't have email or dropbox set up on each of them.
It allows you to send these via a weblink directly to folder in your DropBox.

With DROPitTOme you can securely receive files from anyone to your Dropbox account.

With DROPitTOme you get unique upload address: www.dropitto.me/username with password protection. Also you will receive email notification when new file is uploaded. When you don't want to receive any files - simply turn off the upload feature

Bloom's Taxonomy for Ipads

Click HERE to go to the source of this table. Once on the website, scroll down and click on the apps under each category to learn more about each app. H-app-y investigating!

Evernote and Evernote Peek Apps for iPad

So aside from being the cutest little app icons around, how can Evernote and Evernote Peek be useful in your classroom?

Ask your students what they think the adorable little elephant icons and the Evernote and Evernote Peek apps have in common.  Without even knowing what the apps can do, they may come up with answers indicating "good memory" or "never forgets" based on the old saying that "an elephant never forgets".  I don't know the actual validity of that saying or how good an elephant's memory truly is, but I do know that the Evernote and Evernote Peek apps help me and my students remember lots of things.
In my daily life, I like to use Evernote to help me remember anything from daily to-do items, to grocery lists, to ideas.  If I create a note in the Evernote app on my smartphone, it automatically syncs to Evernote on my computer and my iPad. 
So how can this help my students?  Using the Evernote App, I can create study "notebooks" for anything I want my students to learn from Spanish terms, to historical events, to math vocabulary.  The note title will become the clue and the note body will become the answer.  Once you've created your clues, open the Evernote Peek app and log in to your Evernote account to download the study notebook into Peek.  Just lift the iPad smartcover to reveal the clue, then lift a little more to reveal the answer.  Close the cover and repeat to view the next clue.  Study time has never been so fun!

Visit the BCPS Technology Help Desk to view a detailed explanation on how to use Evernote and Evernote Peek to create study notebooks for your students.

Is the iPad about to get Microsoft Office?

Is this going to kill the laptop? Probably not just yet. However the trend is looking like eventually laptops will get replaced or take a back seat in the market. One of the pieces to the puzzle for that to happen is for the iPad or tablets to have some type of solid Office components. The speculation is that Microsoft Office will be ready for the iPad sometime in 2012.

Source: The Daily, Matt Hickey "Word on the Street"