Follow @ed_apps When students start taking photos and video on a variety of iPads, iPods and iPhones for a collaborative project, it can be a little hairy trying to pull all of that media into one place. Last year while struggling to share photos through a variety of apps that just never seemed to work well enough, I discovered that I could use the camera connector kit to connect one iPad to another to share photos and even large video files. It works like a charm every time! This is...

Follow @ed_apps Popplet is an integrated app and web service that can be used for graphic organizing, brainstorming, mind-mapping and presentations. My grade 10 science students particularly enjoyed using it as a collaborative graphic organizer for their notes. Three or four students would all work on a common popplet, adding their ideas, understandings about a topic or a lesson, and organize and make connections between each concept. Students could then add photos and videos from either the web or their own camers, adding visuals to help with memory and understanding....