5 Free Collaborative Whiteboard Apps For the iPad

5 Free Collaborative Whiteboard Apps For the iPad By John Paul Titlow
The App Store is loaded with these kinds of apps, and many of them are quite good. To help narrow things down John has rounded up five of the best ones, focusing on apps that are either free or have a freemium pay model.

The Complete List of iPad Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials

The Apple iPad is an amazing tablet, and to help you get the most out of it, they have put together a comprehensive list of every tip, trick, and tutorial for you. This article was originally published earlier this year, but it has been updated  with a  lot more content since then, so you should bookmark this page for future reference .

Common Core App for Teachers and Parents

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The Common Core state standards in one convenient FREE app! This app includes a simple way to view each Common Core standard. A great reference for parents and teachers to easily read and understand the core standards. Quickly find standards by subject, grade, and subject category (domain/cluster). This app currently includes Math standards K-12 and Language Arts standards K-12.

App Magic

2012 get paid apps for FREE every day with Free App Magic. Every day, MagicSolver selects 3 great apps on the App Store. They make these apps, which are usually paid, totally free for you to download. Every day, download the 3 apps for free before the time expires and they're yours forever!

Slide Shark: PowerPoint for the iPad

PowerPoint^® Presentations on the iPad. Free, easy to use. Powerful. Professional. SlideShark is the one and only app used to reliably and professionally show or view your PowerPoints on your iPad.

Apps Linked to Bloom's Taxonomy

 Kathy Schrock link to iPad applications that target the various levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. included are only free apps that are "content-neutral" to make them usable across the curriculum. On the webpage Each app image is clickable, and you will be taken to the iTunes Store to learn more about each one.

Kathy Schrock also has another Web site with links to all things iPad if you are interested

Link to Andrew Churches' Bloom's Digital Taxonomy blog.

APPitic a Collection of Apps for Education

• 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.

Create, Engage and Assess With Nearpod it’s easy, really easy!

Bring the classroom to life with interactive mobile presentations that teachers create and customize themselves. And it’s free.

Create interactive classes with ease: Design enriched multimedia presentations and course materials with the Nearpod Content Tool – simply upload a pdf and add interactive features such as quizzes, polls, videos, drawing activities and more.

Engage students: Multimedia content harnesses students’ attention, keeping them focused and minimizing off-task behavior

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Share content in real time: Push information, questions, and activities to students’ mobile devices using the Nearpod Teacher.

Quickly assess student progress: Obtain detailed real-time and post-session reports showing individual and class results.

A Nice Primer on Google Apps for the iPad

Google Apps for the iPad is a small site built by Google Certified Teacher Jill Galloway. The site addresses a lot of common questions about using Google Apps on iPads. Additionally, you will find some helpful tips for first time users of Google Apps on iPads. If you're just getting started using an iPad, Google Apps for iPad is a good reference to look at.

Using Show Me to Create Lessons on iPads

Show Me, is an online learning community for students of all ages.  On Show Me you can also create your own lessons...not just watch.  This makes Show Me a very powerful educational tool. You can search Show Me by topic and subject or  you can create your own videos or assign one from the community for students to view.   Once you have created something on Show Me you can share it with the world or keep it personal.  Sharing is made easy with the use of the embed code for websites.Creating an account on Show Me is free and will have you up and running in seconds.

On the website there is also a link to their blog called the Show Me Voice which has some great information for teachers looking to integrate Show Me into their classroom. Using Show Me, teachers and students have the ability to both teach and learn from the community of videos.  Used as a student directed activity, Show Me empowers students to think about a topic and how it should be presented.  As educators, we know that the highest level of understanding is achieved when a student knows the material well enough to teach it.  Show me give students that opportunity through the use of technology.  

Mike Oberdick is a Technology Integration Teacher for Grades 6-12 in Seymour, CT. His blog is Tech Messages

iPad in Education wiki

Palm Beach County schools' iPad in Education wiki. On the wiki you'll find long lists of iPad apps appropriate for elementary, middle, and high school students. And if you need help just learning to use an iPad the iPad in Education wiki lists a bunch of good tutorial videos and other tutorial materials.
re-posted from Free Technology for Teachers 11/4/2011 

iPad Apps to Meet 14 Learning Objectives

iPad As... is a large selection of high-quality iPad-apps designed to meet fourteen different learning objectives.When you visit iPad As... you can click on any of the objectives to be taken to a grid of free and paid apps that can be used to meet that objective. For example, if I want my students to create digital stories on their iPads, I would click on that objective and instantly see a list of the apps that my students could use for that purpose. Each app is accompanied by a description, price, and ease-of-use rating.  iPad As... could be a great reference for you to bookmark and share with your colleagues.

Re-posted from Free Technology for Teachers March 1, 2012