Fairly self-explanatory, but Safari is an under-heralded app. Even though having the Chrome app is nice to sync with my G Suite EDU account, I still tend to use Safari 90% of the time.

Twitter is my lifeline to so many great minds. I bought Tweetbot on the recommendation of a friend, and while I really like it, the free app that Twitter makes is very user-friendly. The lack of ads, ease of use, and consistent timeline make Tweetbot a favorite.

I'm using Evernote more and more to keep myself organized. I only use the free account, but keep all of my audio, picture, text and handwritten notes there. I need to organize it better, but I'm using it more and more every day. The recent addition of reminders is big for me.

Flipboard allows you to log into other services and puts them in "magazine" form. I can check Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, etc., all in the same app. They also have regular news services like USA Today, CNN, etc. Recently they've added the ability to create your own magazines from virtually anywhere. I've added an #iosedapp one that brings me content with that hasthag from Twitter.

Blog post: Learning & Sharing with Flipboard Magazines

Fantastic, quick syncing app for G Suite for EDU districts. Essential for me to keep myself organized.

With as much as I use the Camera app and others to create content, I've got to have the Photos app close by to access it.

Since I've moved to a G Suite for EDU district, I've moved Google Drive to the front screen since it is now where all of my documents are stored. I can then open them in any of Google's iOS apps.

I think of Pocket as a purgatory for articles. If I'm browsing the web, Flipboard or Twitter and see something that I may be interested in, I can set up the option to "Save to Pocket." Likewise, it has a Safari and Chrome extension if I'm browsing on my computer. I have created an IFTTT recipe so that anytime I find something valuable, I can star it in Pocket and it sends it to Evernote as a website. If I look at it later and it's not valuable, I simply delete it. You can also add tags to keep you organized.

Epic is a free (for teachers) collection of online books. You can set up your classes and set up preferences for each student. I love the wide variety of books it gives students access to. Works great on an iPad or a computer.

While I'm very interested in how free apps like Videolicious and Looper can be used with students to edit videos, I definitely like the simplicity of iMovie. iMovie is free for new iPads.

I love ChatterPix. It's becoming one of my new overall favorite apps. It's so simple to use - simply take a picture of any object, draw a line with your finger, and record your voice. You make an inanimate object come to life. My favorite use is poetry. With 3rd graders, we did poems about our desks. One girl took a picture of her star eraser, made the mouth, and the eraser told the story. So many possibilities. ChatterPix Kids is the same app, but you can only save to the Camera Roll, a good option for younger kids.

Shadow Puppet EDU is a quick and easy (and FREE) video creation app. Students either take or import their pictures into the app, record audio, and with a free account, can quickly upload a video that is viewable from any device. Only downside is that you can't delete audio per slide - if you delete the audio, it's for each slide. Shadow Puppet's EDU app includes in-app searching of Library of Congress, NASA, Flickr Creative Commons and more!

You don't need to be connected to a full Google Expeditions kit to see what's available through the app. The iPad version of this app lets you see 360 degree images of all of the tours. You can lead tours even if you just have iPads, it just won't be the full, immersive, virtual reality experience.

Great way to search and view for content you can use in the classroom! The YouTube app also allows you to live broadcast directly from your iPad.

While Drive stores your documents, Docs lets you edit them. Google has broken out their editing tools into stand alone apps and continues to update them.

Keynote is a far superior presentation app, but being in a Google district, we use Slides a lot. The Slides app is fantastic and works seamlessly between the iPad and computer. If you have a Chromecast, you can wirelessly project from your iPad.

Explain Everything is an extremely versatile app. You can combine pictures, videos, drawings, audio and other fancy presentation objects into a single video or pdf file. It's extremely powerful.

I've switched back and forth between Educreations and ShowMe as my go to whiteboard recording apps. What I like about Doodlecast Pro is it's ability to save to the iPad. That lets me upload to Google Drive, YouTube, etc., instead of creating a separate account like you do with the others. It is paid, but I grabbed it when it was free.

My Story is an extremely easy to use book creation app on the iPad. Books can be exported in a variety of formats. Creating books is much more engaging to students than creating a powerpoint, but there isn't much difference in the planning process for students. A recent update allows for sharing mybooks files, great for creating templates.

Book Creator is definitely the next step up from My Story, both in cost and features. Book Creator's final product lays out much more similar to an actual book. Book Creator allows you to add in video, something My Story does not do. A recent update has added comic book templates.

Since my disdain for Penultimate has grown to the point it's no longer on my iPad, Notability has become my "go to" for handwriting notes on the iPad. I have found, however, that I don't do this as often as I used to. It seems like more meetings I'm in now have a shared Google Doc for notes.

Recently, IFTTT updated their iOS app and optimized it for the iPad (blog post). IFTTT is a magnificent way to tie many of the services you use together - like sending specifically hash tagged pics from Instagram to Flickr, creating reminders that the trash is being picked up today, etc. There are a TON of options. With their iPad app, it makes searching the site even easier.

We've been doing a lot more in the way of green screen recording. Green Screen by DoInk lets us quickly create high quality videos for teacher and student use. It is fantastic and there have been talks of some big improvements coming.

Creating on the iPad really took off after the rear camera was added. Most of the time I use the camera app to take pictures or video and then pull it into the other apps.

As a parent, I love the updates from teachers and my kids that Seesaw gives us. As an educator, I love the wide variety of content that teachers can share and, most importantly, students can create in the free Seesaw app.

Workflow is IFTTT for the iPad. Whereas IFTTT connects web services, Workflow automates processes on your iPad. It used to be a relatively pricey app until Apple bought it. Now it's free!