iPad App of the Week - Goodreader

This week's iPad App of the week is Goodreader.

Goodreader is a great app that lets you read PDFs and TXT documents on the fly. Sync with Dropbox or Google Docs for easy access to PDFs on your iPad.

Best of all, you can extensively annotate your PDFs with objects like rectangles, lines and arrows; highlighting and underlining in multiple colors, and even sticky notes.

Source: http://appmodo.com/

Website of the Week - TedEd Beta

TED-Ed is Website of the Week!

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/just-how-small-is-an-atom

With the TED-Ed site, the famous lecture series has begun its foray into online learning. Seemingly influenced by the Khan Academy, TED-Ed combines "carefully curated educational videos" with a user-friendly learning platform. Each of the videos on this page are lectures by established educators, effectively animated by educators from around the world.

The learning platform includes quizzes, writing prompts, and links to other sources, "users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student." You can also "Flip" any lesson, putting your own stamp on it.

1. To get started, create an account with TED. 
2. Choose one of the existing lessons. 
3. Click on "Flip this Lesson" to customize your own lesson. 
4. Select or Deselect Quick Quiz and Think questions. 
5. You can also add your own deep reflection questions in the Think section, as well as your own resources on the Dig Deeper section. 
6. Click on Publish to get a unique URL. 
7. Email this to students in order to track their progress.

For more information, watch the Tour video: http://ed.ted.com/tour