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Apps in Education: Kathy Casey's iPad Resources Collection on Pearltrees | Legislação Escolar Interactiva. The Ultimate Guide To Apple’s New Textbook Initiative. Apple has just unveiled their latest attempt to rethink an entire market. It’s not a new tablet, phone, or even a device at all. Today at the Guggenheim, Apple announced how it will essentially get more school districts to buy iPads. But it’s not just about the money, there’s some amazing software that’s rethinking the tried-and-true textbook publishing model.

Below are excerpts from the world’s best news sources who are live-blogging and in attendance at the event. From them you’ll be able to understand exactly what the new software is, what it does, and how it will affect you and your classroom. What Apple Announced 1: Textbooks for iPad, which became available by way of a new textbook category in iBooks 2, provide students with a modern, interactive replacement for conventional printed textbooks. 2: Apple has also announced iBooks Author (more details below) which lets you create your own textbooks. iTunes U Is Changing iTunes 10.5.3 Just Released “Reinventing The Textbook” With iBooks 2. iPad Classroom. » Wired App Guide: 400 Reviews of Essential Tools | iPads in Education.

Gráfico do dia: vendas mostram que iPad tem um potencial de ... | Tecnologia Informática. Apple iPad Forum. 11 Apps to Pass Time on a Holiday Trip. 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, we’ve put together a comprehensive list of every tip, trick, and tutorial for you.

Read on for more. Note: This article was originally published earlier this year, but we’ve updated it with a real lot more content since then, so we’re republishing it for you. We’ll be keeping this page updated as we find more great articles, so you should bookmark this page for future reference. How to Maximize Your iPad’s Battery Life So you got yourself a shiny new Apple device, but you’re so addicted that the battery is running out way too soon—what you need is a couple of tips to keep your battery running for as long as possible, and we’ve got them here.

How to Maximize Battery Life on Your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch How to Lock the Screen on Your iPad with iOS 4.x How to Lock the Screen Orientation on Your iPad (with iOS 4.2) How to Pause an iPad App Install How to Force Reboot and Quit Apps Multitasking on the iPad iPadPeek. How the iPad Is Influencing Web Apps. The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting.

Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. Google officially unveiled its Chrome Web Store yesterday, and with it, a veritable treasure trove of highly optimized web apps that use technologies like JavaScript and HTML5 to create optimized experiences that blur the lines between web and desktop apps. We've already profiled some of those apps, most of which work on any modern browser, not just Google Chrome.

A few months ago, we talked about how the iPad is transforming web design. We dubbed this phenomenon the "iPadification of the web. " As much as the iPad has had an influence on web design, its influence over this next wave of web applications is even more apparent. 1. The USA Today app [iTunes link] for the iPad is extremely well done. The new USA Today for Chrome web app (also accessible on HTML5-friendly browsers at optimus.usatoday.com) is a near carbon copy of the iPad app. 3. 4. 5.