Category Archives: apps
App #39: Markup [PROMO CODES AVAILABLE!]
“Our mission is to achieve a paperless classroom. With Markup, teachers can grade assignments on the iPad.” From the developers of the remarkably popular ShowMe comes Markup ($1.99, app website … Continue reading
App #38: Fractions+ [Promo Codes Available]
From Omega Labs, the same developers who brought you Mathtopia+, come another brand new math app called Fractions+ ($.99, click here for the developer website). It contains the same great … Continue reading
App #37: Pocket (Save Your Articles For Later!)
If you're anything like me, you like to read a lot of articles online. Whenever I have a free moment, I find myself reading tech (and other) blogs on both … Continue reading
How to be a TERRIBLE iPad Teacher
The following is a list, written in the first-person, of ideologies or stances from a Terrible iPad Teacher: 1. I own an iPad and I use it in class. I … Continue reading
iPad Educator Feature Profile: Sylvia Duckworth
Featured Website: frenchappsforkids.blogspot.com Once in a while I am going to profile people that are doing great things with iPads in education. A few months ago, I let you know … Continue reading
App #35: Pick Me! ($1.99) [PROMO CODES AVAILABLE!]
As a teacher, I am sure you have at one time or another struggled with getting all of your students to participate. As a teacher of over twelve years, I … Continue reading
App #34: Instatube ($0.99)
Good news for all of you who missed out on TubeBox Pro, a great app that was pulled from the App Store a couple weeks ago. A re-release under a … Continue reading
App #32: Penultimate for iPad (now FREE!)
Great news! Penultimate for iPad is now available free of charge (formerly $0.99). This is the ultimate handwriting and sketching app for iPad. Like Skitch, Penultimate was purchased by Evernote … Continue reading
App #22: UPDATED! TeacherKit for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch [REVIEW]
**This post has been updated January 2013 to show homeroom teachers how to duplicate a class for different subjects! Scroll to the bottom. Teacherkit for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch … Continue reading
App #4: Pick-Me [promo codes available!]
*Post updated January 2013! Pick-me remains a favourite app used within the classroom for me. It really does solve the problems of a) the keener who gets upset when he … Continue reading
Steve Lai
Father. Teacher. Blogger. iPad and iPhone aficionado. Musician.
French teacher by day. I love to blog and read tech blogs. I write an iPad blog as it relates to education. I teach young kids the French language and love my job. I play the guitar and piano. I have a beautiful wife and daughter and maltese-poodle mix. I love to play roller hockey and walks at English Bay in Vancouver. I enjoy traveling and can't wait to bring my daughter to Paris. Canucks are my team, along with the Seahawks.
