Teaching with Mobile Devices

This Scholastic article describes one High School's experience using iPads in the classroom.

One educator's thoughts on how best to manage the use of a classroom set of iPads.

You can find Kathy Schrock's presentations about iPad use for teaching and learning and links to other iPad information pages.

This guide from Edutopia can help you better understand how mobile gadgets (cell phones, tablets, and smartphones) can engage students and change their learning environment.

Ben Johnson asks the question, "If I had thirty iPads in my class, how would I use them to help my students learn better and help me teach better?"

This Ning network was created to explore ways portable devices could be used to restructure the processes of education. Be sure to check out the curated articles highlighting the potential of tablet use in education.

Early test results of kindergarteners who used iPads for nine weeks last fall - compared to kindergartners who did not - show the iPads pupils did better, according to an Auburn School Department.

UEN developed Apps4Edu to help you quickly find Apps that support the Utah Core Curriculum.

Kathy Schrock gathered a list of Google, iPad, Android, and Web 2.0 applications that support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.

An elementary library media specialist reviews iPad apps as they map to an updated version of Bloom's Taxonomy.

Apple highlights some of their favorite Apps for education.

This is Tony Vincent's App Rubric. Note: An app's rubric score is very dependent on the intended purpose and student needs. An app score low, but it may still be a good app.

Tony Vincent believes that perhaps a checklist is more useful than a rubric when selecting apps, so he developed one.

The Volume Purchase Program allows educational institutions to purchase iOS apps and books in volume and distribute them to students, teachers, administrators, and employees.

This checklist from Palm Beach County Schools and Edudemic.com provides a yes/no checklist within Curriculum Compliance, Operational, and Pedagogy categories.

If you need help setting up your iPad or you are one of those people who like to read the manual, here is the official iPad support page.

The iPad's multitouch display can take some getting used to. This video will teach you how to tap, flick, drag, and pinch your iPad in no time.

Learn how to use all of the iPad's built-in Apps by watching these videos from Apple.

Visit the Utah Coalition for Educational Technology blog regularly to stay on top of news, resources and information pertaining to using technology to support instruction.

Peruse this discussion forum from iPads in Education for tips, tricks and suggestions.

The "official" cleaning advice from Apple.

Learn about the two functions of iPad's side switch: Rotation Lock and Mute.

iBooks Author is an App that textbook publishers are using to design media-rich books for iPad. And you can, too. Just download iBooks Author from the Mac App Store.