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Yesterday I pointed you to a Special Education section in the App Store. Here’s a second link that features apps specifically for the iPad.

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Apple has added a Special Education section to the app store. The new section includes ten categories: Sign Language, Communication, Accessible Readers, Diagnostics & Reference, Emotional Development, Seeing & Hearing, Language Development, Literacy & Learning, Organization, and Life Skills.

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Fellow Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE) Carolyn Skibba is the Technology Coordinator for the Burley School in Chicago. She recently asked me to take a look at the blog she set up to document Burley’s iPad implementation. I did and you should too. Burley teachers and students are using iPads in five first and second grade classrooms. Carolyn and the teachers are sharing what they and the students are learning.

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Discovery Education, a provider of streaming videos and other resources for the classroom, has added streaming to the iPad. The new iPad version offers more than 33,000 educational videos in an HTML5 player, and will add other multimedia elements in upcoming months. Discovery Education streaming is now available in about half of U.S. schools. Educators may remember them as United Streaming.

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The Dr. Seuss iPhone / iPod touch / iPad apps are 50% off starting today. The limited time offer is in honor of the 50th anniversary of the children’s classic Green Eggs and Ham. Children can listen to the narrated story with words highlighted as they are read, play the book like a movie with narration and automatic page turning, or read the book in the traditional way. Other features include word pronunciation and picture and spoken word association.

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A year long pilot program in four California schools will place 400 iPads in the hands of middle school students. Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt worked with Apple to develop the app called “HMH Fuse: Algebra 1” for the program. The math app essentially replaces the 800 page algebra textbook students would normally use. A research firm will conduct a study of the project, comparing the performance of the students using the iPads with similar groups using the traditional textbook. Results will be published in fall 2011.

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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 the “Top Free Books” list in iBooks on your iPad. I published directions on how to find these ”Top Free Books” back in June in this post. However, the best approach is to access the complete list of free Kaplan titles organized by category at kaplanpublishing.com/itunes.You must go to it from your mobile device, not a desktop or notebook computer.

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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 now but more should be arriving soon through in-app purchase. You can purchase complete books or individual chapters and it’s possible to share notes about book content with others. The classic Elements of Style is included as a demo and tutorial.

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Acalanes Union High School District in California offers a table of 71 iPad Apps for education culled from the Apps Store. Each listing includes a suggested subject area, brief description, link to the iTunes Store and cost.

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Apple’s new App Store Volume Purchase Program allows US educational institutions to purchase apps for iPad, iPhone, and iPod in volume and distribute those apps to end users of the institution. The App Store Volume Purchase Program will allow qualified US educational institutions to use purchase orders and other payment options and will recognize the tax status of the purchasing institution and bill accordingly. In addition, app developers can choose to offer education pricing for their applications when education institutions purchase in quantities of 20 or more. See http://volume.itunes.apple.com to search for apps and pricing. A sampling of prices for education volume purchasing indicates a typical discount of 50%, including Pages, Keynote, and Numbers for the iPad.

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