Never Forget 9/11

Today is Tuesday, September 11, 2012. Eleven years ago, America experienced one of the most horrific attacks remembered.

The month was September. The date was the eleventh. The year was 2001. The day was a Tuesday. 

Snippet from Wikipedia: On that Tuesday morning, 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The hijackers intentionally piloted two of those planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City; both towers collapsed within two hours. The hijackers also intentionally crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and intended to pilot the fourth hijacked jet, United Airlines Flight 93, into the United States Capitol Building^[2] in Washington, D.C.; however, the plane crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania after its passengers attempted to take control of the jet from the hijackers. Nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks, including the 246 civilians and 19 hijackers aboard the four planes.

The official 9/11 Memorial app has been created thanks to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. The app is a guide to understanding 9/11 and is based on those who witnessed the events. Due to the nature of the material from in this app, viewer discretion  is strongly advised.

Get the FREE app now, click this.

iTunes U...all new!

If you’re an educator at a university, college, or K-12 school, now you have an easy way to design and distribute complete courses featuring audio, video, books, and other content. And students and lifelong learners can experience your courses for free through a powerful new app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.

This is what apple is announcing via their the all new iTunes U page! With the recent launch of iBooks Author, this is a HUGE leap forward in the education world. I envision paperless classrooms and interactive learning at it's best. Although iTunes U has been around for a little bit, now the K-12 community can take advantage of this wonderful resource.

iTunes U is a free resource through iTunes and is available as a free download on iDevices through the App Store. The new "U" expands the experience for the classroom. All materials including audio, video, assignments, instructor posts, PDFs, presentations and more, can be uploaded to iTunes U and made readily available for students use by instructors.

Even if you a not an enrolled student of that college/course, you can still view courses and materials. Yes, you can! Click on over to the iTunes or go download the app on your iDevice and get to learning all your heart desires.
 

Turn Your Site Into An App

This is a pretty cool way to view your classroom site or district site on your mobile device. It's pretty cool for any site for that matter. Learned about it from Kleinspiration, another great blog.

Conduit, the same makers of the wibiya toolbar for blogs and sites, provides a FREE service to turn your site into a mobile app. If you would like to have it added to app market, you will have to pay though (Apple - 100 bucks for the year and Android - $25 registration fee). Or you can send the link to friends and followers or post it on your site for others to get your app for FREE (which is what I did).

My link for my CLICK THIS app is: http://clickthis.mobapp.at

You can also use the QR code that conduit provides. Here's CLICK THIS qr code -

And here's how the app icon looks verses adding a home screen button to the home page:

The cool look of Click This on the iPad. I was able to customize the logo and the colors scheme. Conduit also automatically added my Click This Facebook page. Total Awesomeness!

Now go get yours at Conduit! I'm about to go make a quick one for my district...so cool!

Smore

Design beautiful online flyers and publish instantly! Smore does the job and so much more! The two creators just started private beta so if you wanna get on the bandwagon, go to Smore and sign up.

• Smore pages work flawlessly on your smartphone and tablet.
• Choose from a list of themes and preview them in seconds with your content. No installations ever.
• Not just text and images, but videos, tweets, products and reviews too.
• Arrange your content with ease.
  
  Check out there video and website to learn more about Smore!
  
  

  

  
  

Slide Shark

Need an app for presenting your PowerPoint presentations on the iPad? Introducing...Slideshark! Just go to Slideshark on the web, open a free account and upload your presentation. Now all you have to do is get the free app in the App Store and download the file to your iPad. Super easy and super awesome! It works beautifully. SlideShark is the one and only app used to reliably and professionally show or view your PowerPoints on your iPad.

Slideshark...

• Preserve animations, fonts, graphics and colors*
• Swipe to advance animations and slides
• Connect to a TV or projector

Click this to check it out now!

Virtual Math Manipulatives...Yep, it's an App!

Virtual Manipulatives...MEET the iPad!  Check out this cool app when needing math manipulatives to work with your kids. Need fractions, decimals or percent manipulatives...this app has you covered! And yes, it's FREE, woohoo!

Popplet

With Popplet, you and your students have a powerful tool to brainstorm ideas and share images and videos as well. Popplet is a platform for your ideas. Popplet's super simple interface allows you to move at the speed of your thoughts. With Popplet you can capture your ideas, sort them visually, and collaborate with others in realtime.Check out Popplet online or in the App store.

Discovery Education on the iPad

Discovery Educator’s ground-breaking iPad web app is focused on student exploration of safe and appropriate educational content.

Login at Mobile.DiscoveryEducation.com with your iPad Today using your Discovery Education username and password.