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iPad Resources for Administrators. Real Racing 3 is an award-winning franchise that sets a new standard for mobile racing games – it really must be experienced to be believed. Mobile Excellence Awards - WINNER: Best Mobile Game 2013 Game Connect Asia Pacific - WINNER: Game of The Year 2013, Technical Excellence, Excellence in Art Meffy Awards – FINALIST: Best Mobile Game 2013 Real Racing 3 features a continuously expanding roster of officially licensed tracks, a 22-car grid, and over 70 meticulously detailed cars from makers like Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini, Mercedes-Benz, Bugatti, and Audi. Plus Real-Time Multiplayer, Social Leaderboards, Time Trials, Ghost Challenges, and innovative Time Shifted Multiplayer™ (TSM) technology, allowing you to race anyone, anytime, anywhere. **This is a resource-intensive game featuring extremely high quality visuals. Please make sure you have at least 1.5GB of free space on your device.

Essential iPad Apps for Principals. A Lesson at the Zoo: Enhancing Field Trips with iPads. Recently I hosted 20 teachers in my school district at the zoo for an afternoon.

A Lesson at the Zoo: Enhancing Field Trips with iPads

The idea was to explore how we might use iPads during a field trip. It was certainly an exciting form of professional development. Instead of sitting at a desk and listening to someone like me talk about what you could do, we just went out and did it! Teachers had a lot of fun, and many ideas were shared. Below are some of the activities that we (I co-hosted the afternoon with a colleague, Diane) gave to the teachers, as well as some ideas that came to mind throughout the afternoon. Some of the best experiences we give our students happen during field trips; the zoo, a museum, nature walk, etc. For many schools, a day or two at the zoo is The big field trip of the year. While an iPad and iPhone are great tools for taking video, some tips can make the outcome more enjoyable. Instead of just showing the animals and exhibits at your location, try having the students interview each other.

50 resources for iPad use in the classroom. Apps for Professional Development. Twitter App (free) Twitter is one of the most active and beneficial social networks on the web.

Apps for Professional Development

All educators would be wise to join the conversation. If you haven’t used Twitter yet, I would recommend that you read these excellent blog posts: Google Voice (free) Text and call for free! Skype (free) A beautiful app that allows you to make and receive VOIP calls on your iOS device. 6 Classroom Management Tips Every Teacher Can Use. By Dave Foley Found In: classroom management, discipline, routines & procedures Effective teachers are passionate about educating their students.

6 Classroom Management Tips Every Teacher Can Use

They want to spend their time teaching, not dealing with classroom disruptions. Here are some classroom management tips to help teachers settle problems, or prevent them from occurring, so that they can spend more of the classroom hour on teaching and learning. 1. Get everyone’s attention before beginning class. Discovery Education: Web 2.0 Tools. iPad/iPad 2 Training (iOS 5) 180 Technology Tips - HOME PAGE. Possibillion Launches Paginative: Create Mobile Apps Out of Books! - Yourstory.

Founded by Ayyappa Nagubandi, Possibillion is an ‘ideas’ company that works in the space of mobile applications.

Possibillion Launches Paginative: Create Mobile Apps Out of Books! - Yourstory

Before moving on to Possibillion, Ayyappa was a part of a start-up company NowPos. He brings in 14 years of work experience and has been intricately connected with conceptualising and evolving technology development. “As the world shrinks and everybody moves towards the shrinking mobile phone, it is only appropriate that development in this sector is perceived as the most happening space in technology. To be at the most happening place and meet the challengers is a thrilling experience for me and my team,” says Ayyappa. Possibillion’s core competence are in development of mobile apps and web 2.0 applications where social media is tightly tied into the service offerings. Paginative Paginative is a simple way to create mobile apps of books. “We realised that virtually everything that is to happen is happening on the mobile phone.

Process and pricing. EdX - Home. Online Education. UPDATE: we're doing a live, updated MOOC of this course at stanford-online July-2014 (not this Coursera version).

Online Education

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