Teacher training should take place before iPad Deployment

This is a very useful article confirming what we all know but very rarely put into practice. Providing iPad CPD is more essential as many staff wont have experience of this technology either personally or a classroom technology. Follow Link to read more Another issue is the use of email which is an area that can expand rapidly Follow link to see more A case study worth reading is that of Essa Academy Bolton Empowering students with iPod touch.

In addition to allowing staff acesss to iPad/iPod devices early its wise to provide guidance on apps to start with, there are currently over 13,000 so know where to start and what is the primary focus is vital to a successful implementation. Below is a guide to some apps that i would think are a good start, remember not too many to begin with and remember to group them or place specific subjects on seperate pages. A further matter is that of content ebooks, videos, documents, podcasts etc whcih can be managed easily from an iTunes Playlist this can be much easier to manage that Syncing.


My Must have Apps:

Free	Paid
iBooks	Pages
Evernote	Numbers
Dropbox	Evernote
Shareplus Lite (if you are using Sharepoint with your LP)	Book Creator
Idea Sketch	I am Learning
iMathematics	Sketch
Sketchpad Explorer	GarageBand
SketchBookX	iMovie
Wikipanion
MotionPics
Historypin
Twitter
PhotoGene