With eBackpack, teachers can share and distribute assignments and class materials from their MacBook Air or their iPad mini. The students retrieve the content on their iPad and can work on the assignment in any application available. Students do not need to be isolated—in eBackpack, they can collaborate in a secure environment.

With the Nearpod Content Tool teachers can create their own enriched multimedia presentations. Publish and edit presentations anywhere and include Polls, Videos, Questions and Answers, Quizzes and Drawing activities. Teachers then use Nearpod Dashboard to bring their content to life.

Draw, type, paint, share - Turn your iPad into an interactive whiteboard.

Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.

DropMind® Lite is a free mind mapping application for iPad that will help you brainstorm, organize, and present ideas and information on the go.

Notability powerfully integrates handwriting, PDF annotation, typing, recording, and organizing so you can take notes your way!

OverDrive Media Console gives you on-the-go access to eBooks and audiobooks from your public, school, or college library. More than 18,000 libraries worldwide offer best-selling and classic titles via OverDrive, so use the ‘Get Books’ feature in the app to find a library near you.

Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. In fact, it’s up to five (5) times faster than typing on the keyboard.

GoodReader® is the super-robust PDF reader for iPad. With GoodReader on iPad, you can read virtually anything, anywhere: books, movies, maps, pictures. Annotation is a feature long sought after by users who want to add their own mark-ups to PDFs, especially those collaborating as a team on shared documents.

Pages - iMovie - Numbers - Garageband - Keynote All of the iWork and iLife applications familiar to MLTI MacBook users will be included in app form on the iPads. As apps they have been modified and lack some of the functions of the full OS X versions. Still each is very functional for classroom use.

Scan is a fast and user-friendly QR reader and barcode scanner. Through the use of QR codes, which can easily be created online at a variety of websites such as qrstuff.com, teachers can provide students with quicker and more direct access to a wide variety of content.

The world’s largest online repository of free educational content, students can use iTunes U to browse and download over 500,000 free lectures, videos, books, and other resources on thousands of subjects. In addition, iTunes U provides access to many complete courses on topics ranging from STEM topics to the humanities, as well as CTE topics. These courses can be created by teachers from around the world, or by the students’ own instructors.

All Apple devices come with a built-in dictionary that is easily accessible from Safari and many other apps. The next time you see a word that you need to define, instead of downloading or launching a separate dictionary app, you can quickly access definitions directly from the OS.

A great idea could strike at any moment. Before you lose it, jot it down in Notes. With iCloud, your notes stay with you on every device you use. So you can think of Notes as the keeper of anything important or anything, period.

Students will be able to use maps across all their curriculum areas – from visiting their own community or the Globe Theater in Stratford- upon-Avon to traveling down the Colorado River as it flows through the Grand Canyon. Flyover allows students to see a number of major metro areas from the air with photo- realistic, interactive 3D views. Students can explore cities such as Rome in high resolution as you zoom, pan, tilt and rotate around historic landmarks such as the coliseum and the ruins of

iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest bestselling books or your favorite classics – day or night.