iPad!!!!

I just got my (okay, the school's) new iPad today!  We are going to use iPad's in a pilot program at Brainerd Baptist School in the fall and I get to explore this summer so I can help teach it to the K4/preschool students.  I bet they will take to it easily and intuitively - the whole digital native idea. 

I really am impressed by it - easy to use, intuitive, AND it comes with iBook (book reader app) and Winnie the Pooh - with pictures!!    I've already found tons of free early childhood apps.  Here are the ones I've downloaded to try:

1. 3D Spinart
2. Elias Farms
3. I Hear Ewe
4. Hand Paint
5. Dictionary
6. Sudoku
7. Sight Words
8. Flash to Pass Free
9. Mahjongg
10. 123 Writing
11. Guess 'em (like Guess Who)
12. Kids Math Free
13. Memory Cards
14. Checkers
15. Baby Classical - Bach Vol 1
16. Brain Pop (video podcast)
17. Cyberbullying by Garfield
18. This Day in History
19. Teach Me Kindergarten
20. States and Capitals Free
21. Mad Libs Library

I am hoping to download some things from PBS Kids and Scholastic too.

For iBooks, I've downloaded some books from Project Gutenberg:

1. The Jungle Book
2. A Child's First Picture Book
3. A Child's Story of the Bible
4. Sleeping Beauty - A Moment to Remember (from Disney but free)
5. Jane Eyre (for me - not the kids)

Of course, with WiFi access, I can get to YouTube and other Internet kids' websites.

I am really thinking this is going to be GREAT to work with K4 students and older.  The kids are going to jump right into it and love it.

I'll keep you updated on what we (my kids and I) like and the iPad in general.

Here are some Educational Apps websites I am going to look at:

1. Apps for Education
2. IEAR - Apps for Education
3. Apple Apps for Education
4. PBS Kids Mobile Apps
5. Publisher's Weekly on iPad books by Scholastic (being developed)

More later.....