I bought a new iPad last week. It’s an iPad Air 2 and I love it. It’s smaller and lighter than the iPad I’ve been using for the last two years. It also has a fingerprint scanner that I love. I can unlock my iPad simply by pressing my thumb on the home button. Super […]
Preschool Kids: Art on the iPad
We used the MoMA Art Studio App Today We’ve been studying Winter and the kids made some super cute snowmen on the iPad today. Using MoMA Art Studio was a great way for the kids to practice some of the skills they’ve learned when we’ve used iDiary for Kids. Besides being a fantastic app for building […]
Gift Guide: Setting Your Child Up with the Perfect iPad, Accessories and Apps
Choosing the Perfect Tablet for Your Child Many parents are interested in picking out the perfect iPad or other tablet for their child for the holidays. It can be difficult though to create the ideal ensemble when there are so many choices. Even though this website is generally geared toward teachers, I find that people often […]
Five Ways to Use the Camera On Your Classroom iPad
Using the camera on your classroom iPads So the camera on the classroom iPad is turning out to be one of the most useful features for us! It’s so easy to use, and so easy to share pictures that we’re turning to it more and more often. Here are five ways that we or other […]
An iPad Counting Activity for Preschool and Kindergarten
We recently added some creativity based apps to our classroom iPads. One of the apps I was most excited to try out was iDiary for Kids. This is an app that is designed for journaling for kids. We’ve used it that way, but I was also excited to expand its use a little bit. One […]
Best Apps for Creativity
When we configured our iPads earlier this year, I knew one of the limitations would be the fact that we’d be “stuck” with a set group of apps until I was able to configure the iPads a second time. I looked through all of the apps installed on my teacher iPad and chose 21 apps that I thought […]
Making Our iPad Covers Work for Our Preschool and Kindergarten
So did we really need military grade covers for our classroom iPads? Are we going to stick with our Garmin Extreme Duty Military iPad Covers for preschoolers or go with something different? Read the post below to find out. When I first wrote about our Garmin iPad covers, they hadn’t been truly put to the […]
