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Big-screen moviemaking comes to the touchscreen with Avid® Studio for iPad. We’ve distilled the world’s leading film-editing technology into an easy-to-use app that enables you to edit video, audio, and photos at the speed of your creativity.
Swiftly arrange your clips in the Storyboard, make precision edits using the Timeline, and add high-quality transitions, effects, and a soundtrack. Then share your movie directly to YouTube, Facebook, and more—or export your project to Avid Studio for the PC and continue editing with even more advanced tools.
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/avid-studio/id491113378?mt=8
After looking at it and I do think it looks pretty darn good, but I will still use iMovie.
Obama: Every student should use e-textbooks by 2017
President Barack Obama’s administration is expected to recommend today that public money — once reserved for paper textbooks — be allowed to purchase iPad tablet computers, Kindles and related software. Obama’s goal is that every student use electronic textbooks by 2017, officials say. Part of the push stems from the expected cost-savings that comes from e-textbooks, rather than purchasing updated paper textbooks.
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Brad Flickinger has a wonderful reflection about iPad vs laptop. I think many of us are struggling with with this idea too. Like Brad, I could give up my laptop and do all my work from my iPad. I am not sure I can do that yet becasue there is one huge thing stopping me. I do not have iPads to use in my classes, Anout 51% of my students have a Mac laptop and I have a cart of MacBook Pros, which are excellent. At this point, I only have a few students in each class with an iPad, but not nearly enough yet to only teach with my ipad at this point 
. Frankly, if the College of Education would make having and iPad a requirement, I would be super happy!. Such is life.
Anyway take a look at Brads thoughts, very insightful!!
Students in Madison, Wis., schools soon will receive iPad tablet computers purchased by the school district with funding from a settlement from Microsoft. The district is planning to purchase and distribute 600 devices this spring, with another 800 coming next fall. “This is the most significant transition point for having digital learning at the optimal level,” said Bill Smojver, the district’s director of technical services.
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Digital texts, iPads are catching on in some Pa. Catholic schools: Several Catholic schools in the Pittsburgh area are adopting iPad tablet computers and other devices as classroom-learning tools and in place of traditional textbooks. Teacher Brian Molinero has students using iPads for algebra lessons. “I think they’re learning differently. They can really get involved in the material a little more. I find myself getting through more material and more in-depth topics than we had previously,” he said. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Getting Started with iPads is my site, it contains apps by content area, articles, information, resources and about anything you want to know. Add to daily.
APPitic is a directory of
apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) to help you transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings.
Mind Leap – Mind Leap makes sure that parents and educators know which apps are educational and which aren’t, which keep kids engaged and which bore them to tears. And, we encourage developers to build great stuff that turns kids on to learning.
Best Kids Apps – We’re a review blog for parents who want to find the best children’s iPhone, iPad, and Android apps without slogging through the entire internet. A lot of app reviews are written by gamers. Ours are written by moms.
Fun Educational Apps The iTunes App Store is a great source to look for the best apps for kids. The only downside is that there are so many new fun educational apps being introduce every day that it can be hard to find the best apps for kids. Fun Educational Apps was established to give you a better chance to find those great apps for kids.
Smart Apps for Kids – Designed by a dad, tons of great information. Smart Apps strives for meticulousness and honesty in its reviews, both positive and negative. There are many review sites that are in business for iTunes commissions, so it is in their best interest to give all apps a positive review or to not provide a specific rating system.
Best Apps for Kids - nice breakdown of an educational app, to help parents find the best apps for kids. Whether you have an iPhone, iPod Touch, or the new iPad – you will find that kids take to iPhone apps like a duck to water.
Teachers with Apps – Teachers With Apps was co-founded by Jayne Clare, a Special Education teacher, and Anne Rachel, an artist and Early Childhood educators. Our goal is to be a credible resource for quality educational apps. This site was created to help parents, grandparents, teachers, administrators and anyone else, wade through the vast number of ”educational” apps being introduced on a daily basis. TeachersWithApps was founded by two lifelong educators and is dedicated to the idea that quality mobile educational apps are the tools of the future but they need to be used responsibly. Remember, not all educational apps are created equal.
Apps in Education – reviewed by subject, One of the hardest thing with using the iPad in the classroom is finding the time to go through all of the apps in the iTunes Store listed under the education banner. We have started to list some of the apps we’ve found under each of the Key Learning Areas.
I Education Apps Review - a community effort of reviews posted by a variety of users
Teach with your iPad - wiki that lists a ton of apps by subject, type, and grade level.
