Educator's Essential iPad Toolkit

Clip, store or create all types of digital content in Evernote notebooks. Sign up for an account at evernote.com. There's 101 ways to use Evernote effectively both personally and in class.

Creates a beautiful magazine by connecting to your custom news feeds and social networking contacts.

Pocket (Formerly Read It Later) enables you to store anything you want to read, take it with you offline and read it whenever you have time. You can also share what you're reading with your colleagues.

If you don't have a Twitter account yet then get one. Twitter is a great way to connect and learn from other educators. Use the #iPadEd hashtag to follow educational iPad tweets.

PhotoSync wirelessly transfers your photos and videos between devices and computers. It's the simplest way to move media content to and from your iOS devices. Great for collecting media from students on a teacher laptop.

Most popular cloud service and connects to many apps on your iPad making it easy to pull down and push up content.

About the closest you'll get to word processing on an iPad.

Apple's iPad spreadsheet program. Just OK... will get better.

If you're going to create a presentation on your iPad, this is the app to use. Of course if your laptop is anywhere close by...

The ad free version of Dictionary.com Dictionary & Thesaurus for the iPad