1. Nonfiction and iPads

2. Current Information Available 24/7
Mel.org
Over 25 datbases including SIRS, InfoTrac, Academic OneFile)
Culturegrams
Career Cruising
World Book Online
Different reading levels
Spanish Language

3. Advantages Very portable Apps Voice to text
Speak Selection has the iPad read to you
Definitions at your fingertips
Reader Icon for distraction free reading
Reading List (read offline)
Forget the network for distraction free reading
Use it wherever you want…Millions of Apps…Notepad…students who have no internet…you want to have the students read current articles offline…taking a trip read offline…

4. Disadvantages Costly Students can go off task
Maintenance time and effort for multiple iPads.
Costly
Students can go off task
Time consumer (too much time spent reading?)

5. iBooks Millions of books available Interactive textbooks
Change text size
Select font
Highlight or underline text
Add notes
Make flash cards
Glossary flash cards
Review questions/Answers
Define words
Search the book
Use Speak Selection to have the iPad read to you
Math Text

6. Newsstand National Geographic Popular Science Popular Mechanics
New York Times
Field & Stream
No definitions at this point Tweentribune.com on the web.

7. Some Apps to Consider Google Earth World History Test Prep
Zite (news aggregator: for teacher use)
Science 360
Earth as Art
LeafsnapHD
NC Magazine
BrainPOP
Discovery
Periodic Table
Time for Kids Family
USA Today Classroom
Students can see the location mentioned in an article…….

8. Sites for Nonfiction Scholasticnews.com Timeforkids.com/news
Channelone.com
Sciencenewsforkids.org
learning.blogs.NYTimes.com
Hmhinthenews.com
Kidsnewsroom.org
Newsforyou.shtml
CNN.com/Studentnews
Educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/
Weeklyreader.com
Newseum.org
News.nick.com
Sikids.com/blogs
Kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com/blog/news-bites