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 In our semi-humongous Michigan school district we've struggled with  content onto our iPads 

One of our principals asked how he could get 32 copies of a the book "How to Create a Culture of Achievement in your school and classroom" onto his teacher's iPads.

He could have bought the book from ASCD  Press for $27.95.  but he  wanted to know how he could put the $18.95 Kindle book on the ipads instead.

The answer was Amazon…

For the past year and a half I have been using Apple configurator to manage our district's iPads.

Its far from a perfect product but does help teachers and admins manage lots of iPads (we have nearly a thousand of them)

Configurator lets us

• Download an app to many iPads at the same time
• Put links to web sites on the iPad desktop (these are called webclips)
• Set policies for the iPads (these are called profiles)
• Do…