Follow @ed_apps   A staple of web2.0 in the classroom is using a variety of online comic creation websites for students to write fiction, re-imagine historical events or re-tell personal experiences. With the iPad, creating comics is even faster and easier, without the headache and worries of student accounts. The only struggle sometimes is getting content off of the iPad, but for that, check out our post on iTunes File Sharing Strip design is a great tool to use your pictures and graphics (or some you find online) to tell...

Follow @ed_apps I’ve been using an app called book creator recently. It allows you to make your own books and publish them to your ibooks library or share them as e-pub files. The unique part of it is that you have a completely blank canvas, to add pictures and text as you see fit, almost like scrap booking. Change font type, colour and size, background colours, insert photos. The really unique part is that you can even record your voice, and insert an audio button. For classroom use, this features...

Follow @ed_apps Available on the app store for the iPad, ScrapPad is a really easy way to make things like post cards and posters. It has hundreds of built in clip part for your use, but it also allows you to easily add photos and text of your own. Check out the video tutorial below.         Follow @ed_apps

Follow @ed_apps This post will show 10 apps or ways that iPads and iPods become powerful learning tools in an inquiry-based learning environment, tied to sound research by a leading education network, the Galileo Network. They offer up a rubric to determine how well a lesson aligns with the inquiry learning process. According to the rubric, there are 8 dimensions of inquiry: Authenticity Academic Rigor Assessment Beyond the School Use of Digital Technologies Active Exploration Connecting with Experts Elaborated Communication The iPad can easily support any of these dimensions, and I want...