A fellow ADE recommended this app, which is actually two. The iPad app is iBrainstorm and the iPhone/iPod touch app is iBrainstorm Companion. iBrainstorm is a set of collaboration tools for sharing and collecting notes. The iPad serves as a canvas for colored sticky […]

Collect and Share Your Thoughts – Free iBrainstorm Apps


Kaplan Publishing is offering nearly 100 free e-books through the iBooks store through August 30. Books are in the categories of College Prep, Graduate Studies, Law, Medicine, Nursing and Education. Most of these free digital editions from Kaplan have moved to […]

Free e-books from Kaplan in the iBooks Store



Two recent articles highlight stories and explorations of using iPads to help autistic children. The first is by Ashley Harrell, writing for SF Weekly. She tells  the story of the Rosa family and their autistic son Leo in iHelp for Autism. […]

iPads Shows Promise for Helping Autistic Children


The large 9.7 inch iPad screen is fine for viewing with a few people at a time, but you may want to share the output with a larger audience in the boardroom or living room. Apple (and others) sell cables […]

Connecting Your iPad to a TV or Projector: How to ...



Back in June, I wrote about a soon-to-be-released iPad app called Inkling. Inkling is a platform for digital textbooks, a means to deliver print-based textbooks that are media rich and more interactive. Inkling for the iPad is now available. Only a few e-texts are ready […]

Digital Textbook App Inkling Arrives for the iPad


In an earlier post, I described how you can create a Web Clip for a Safari webpage to add it to your Home screen. Here’s a quick review: Create a web clip to add it to your home page. A […]

iPad Web Clip Icons – How to Make Them Look ...