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iPad Apps for Education

The Apple iPad hit the stores only a little over a week ago, but there are already over 1,000 different applications created specifically for the handheld computing device. Apple’s new device also runs nearly all of the 150,000 iPhone and iPod Touch apps available. For all you technology junkies that have managed to snag an [...]

Great iTouch Apps for Primary Students

Yesterday here at NECC I learned about three fantastic applications for younger / primary age students from Jenny Ashby from Vic, Australia, who has 8 iPod Touches in her classroom currently. Here are the applications. These are ideal for students to use in center activities in a primary classroom.

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Evening reading with the iPod Touch

Here’s a new sight around our house this summer: My 11 year old son reading in bed using his iPod Touch. He just finished reading “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson over the weekend thanks to Project Gutenberg, and is now starting “Animal Farm” by George Orwell. These are two of the required summer reading [...]