iPad Users: Make your own stylus!

Feeling creative? Don't want to pay $5-20 for a stylus for your iPad or other tablet device? Then make your own! Plus, this is a great science lesson in conductivity and/or static electricity! 

Here's how from MakeUseOf...

FREE For Limited Time Educational iPad/iPhone apps-March 20, 2012

Most of these apps are free for a limited time! Check them out ASAP (click on name to see iTunes info)…

 

(TODAY ONLY) - Tapeulator Pro - add, subtract measurements and see your results on a measuring tape in both inches and centimeters

Handwriting - write, draw, doodle, design, practice letters/numbers, etc. on an endless sheet of digital paper (then email it to someone, if email is set up!)

Alpharoids - earn your letters while you have a blast in this action-packed old school arcade (asteroids) style game

Doors Room Escape - a logic and critical thinking game

Paris Walking Tour - Heading overseas soon? You don't even have to with this app! Five separate audio walking tours guiding you though the quintessential Paris neighborhoods of Bastille, Montmartre, Marais, St. Germain, and the Latin Quarter

SimplePhysics - design complex structures for everything from tree houses to ferris wheels and then simulates your design with a sophisticated physics engine

DrawingStar - create "pretty pictures" with paints, stamps, shapes, backgrounds and more!

A+ Spelling Test - spelling lists and quizzes

FREE For Limited Time Educational iPad/iPhone apps-Feb. 23, 2012

Most of these apps are free for a limited time! Check them out SOON (click on name to see iTunes info)…

(ignore the different colors... formatting issues!) ;-)

 

Miss Spider's Bedtime Story (story book/games)

U.S. Citizenship Exam Review 

Beatbox Academy – spice up your presentations (or let students!) 

Happy ABC (even in other languages!) 

Improve Reading Skills 

A+ FlashCards Pro 

Eagle Eye Full - Test and train your attention span with this highly challenging hidden object game 

(450+) Awesome Sounds – need applause when you're finished? Use this app! (and speakers!) 

Addition & Multiplication Number Bubbles

  

iPad Switch - Lock Position to Mute

The switch on the side of the iPad used to lock the screen in either portrait or landscape position so it doesn’t flip-flop back and forth. As of the iOS 4.2 upgrade, the switch now acts as a mute switch to quickly turn off sounds. Both are fabulous features, of course, but how do you now lock your screen position, you ask? Here’s how... From Apple Support:

Use the following steps to enable screen rotation lock: 

1. Rotate iPad so the display is in the desired orientation.  
2. Double-click the Home button to display recently used apps.
3. Flick from left to right along the bottom of the screen.  
4. Tap the rotation lock button on the bottom left of the screen.  
5. A padlock will appear in the rotation lock button.

Enjoy your new-found stability!