15 Favorite iPad Apps As Selected By Teachers Out of 125 responses from teachers indicating their top 3 apps, these are the apps that were listed most often. Over the last few weeks, we ran a survey asking teachers to tell us about two or three of their favorite iPad apps that they use in an education-related context. Today we share the apps that were listed most often, and include some feedback from teachers regarding why they like them so much. As it turns out, free apps really outweighed paid apps in our survey responses. Here I list eleven free apps that rose to the top of the list when ranked by numbers of votes, followed by four paid apps that performed as well as the lower ranking free apps. Evernote and Dropbox easily rose to the no. 1 & 2 spots in the ranked list, with about 1 out of 3 respondents recommending at least one of these two popular applications. First, we list the Favorite FREE iPads Apps that teachers indicated they use in their roles are educators: 1. - “It makes my life simpler! 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 8. 9. 10. 11.
How To Capture Ideas Visually With The iPad By its very design, the iPad promotes consumption. Essentially an interactive mobile screen, the combination of physical form and supporting software-based user interface on Apple’s wunder-tablet suggests watching and listening, enabling you to tear the “monitor” off the desk and take it with you. By lacking a keyboard, input and production aren’t quite as natural. That isn’t necessarily because the iPad can’t accommodate such input, but rather that the software–and our habits as users–haven’t completely caught up with the not-insignificant shift in interface. But it doesn’t have to be that way. One microcosm of the potential of the iPad in learning is the concept of visual recording. Visual recording is what it sounds like it’d be. But executing it in practice–and then doing something meaningful with those iPad-captured images–isn’t second-nature simply because it’s not something you do everyday. 1. 2. 3. 4.
A Visual Intro To Teaching With Tablets Tablets–iPads, Nexus 7s, Kindles, and even Intel’s Studybook–can be powerful learning tools, offering: 1. Alternative to print books 2. Mobile learning actuators 3. 4. And perhaps the most powerful argument? Times they are a’ changin’. Below is an excellent, visual introduction to the practice of teaching with tablets. Infographic provided by content partners at OnlineUniversities.com A List of Great Google Apps for your iPad So you are looking fog Google best apps for iOS ? Well you landed in the right place. I have just finished compiling and reviewing a bunch of Google apps that you can use on your iPad. Of course this list is not exhaustive but we have focused our attention only on the most important ones for us as teachers and educators. 1- Google Search " Search the web faster and easier with the latest Search app from Google. 2- Google+ " Stay connected and share life as it happens with Google+ for iPhone and iPad. " Browse fast with Chrome, now available on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. 4- Google Drive " Google Drive lets you keep all your stuff in one place. 5- Google Play Books " With Google Play Books for iOS start reading today with millions of titles from Google Play on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. 6- Google Offers " From food to fun, Google Offers connects you with great deals every day in your city......" 7- Google Translate 9- Google Current 10- Google Voice 11- Google Shopper 12- Orkut
Top 10 Graphic Design Apps for the iPad Graphic Design has come a long way since the days of paint and canvas, and powerful graphics computers are becoming easier and easier to get a hold of. On top of this, broadband Internet access is making it increasingly possible to do your design work on the go, from any location, with a few excellent graphic design apps. Freeform is an essential tool for any graphic designer who needs to work with vectors. Sometimes all you need is a little vector tool to mock up an idea on the move. SketchPad HD is the replacement of bulky notebooks and clusters of pens, pencils, and drawing tools. PhotoPad by Zagg does everything for photo manipulation that you would want Photoshop to do, but it does it on your iPad. Moodboard Pro is essentially a bulletin board, only it’s digital. Brushes App is your digital substitute for paint and canvas. Color RGB is an extremely simple app, but can be very useful. Layers Pro is about as robust a graphics program as you’ll find in the iPad app store.
Create an interactive eBook for the iPad using iBook Author: THE COMPLETE GUIDE | EasyTech Site Want to create your own interactive eBook for the iPad? It’s actually really simple using the iBooks Author program that Apple provides for free! Writing eBooks has so many awesome business applications and benefits. Books on iPads are the where books are headed. Even our classrooms are reading their text books on an iPad. To make this easy on you I have put together the complete guide to help walk you through the entire creation and publishing process. I have created two eBooks using this method and I loved how easy the creation portion was; however, the uploading, publishing and approval process can be sort of tricky. Never fear! Creating your eBook The creation part is really easy especially if you already have the text written out on a word document or similar format. First, you will need to open iBook Author. The first option you have is to choose your template. Now that you have you template chosen you can start creating your book. Adding Video to your iBook Editing your iBook
39 Sites For Using iPads in the Classroom Pages - Menu This Blog Linked From Here Sites to Follow Friday, October 7, 2011 39 Sites For Using iPads in the Classroom How Much Did Steve Jobs Change the World? 5 Great iPad Apps For Early Childhood Teachers10 iPad Apps Everyone Should Have- from PC Magazine10 Must Have iPad Apps for Students and Teachers10 Ways to Use iPads in Your Classroom40 iPad Apps Librarians Love40 Most Awesome iPad Apps for Science Students50+ iPad Apps By a Geography Teacher62 Interesting Ways to Use an iPad in the Classroom100 Incredibly Useful and Free iPad AppsBest Academic Reference Apps for the iPad- some $$, some freeA Day in the Life of the iPad ClassroomThe Debate Over iPads in EducationDigital Storytelling with the iPad Posted by Julie Greller at 7:24 AM Labels: ipads, ipads in the classroom, using ipads in the classroom Newer PostOlder PostHome
Great Video Tutorials on Creating Textbooks Using iBook Author iBook Author is an awesome free app that allows users to easily create stunning multi-touch textbooks for iPad. It provides all the tools one might need to start creating and publishing ebooks including galleries, video, interactive diagrams, 3D objects, and many more. iBook Author provides you with a set of pre-defined templates to help you design the background of your textbook. You can choose from a wide variety of styles, like classic textbook, or photo book in both landscape and portrait orientations. You can also choose from a variety of page layouts in each template, or even create one of your own. Check out these posts to learn more about iBook Author : Today we are providing you with another great resource that can help you learn more about iBook Author.
iPad is Right for PE! – Guest Post « Teaching with iPad So many clipboards so few uses anymore I used to have to use a clipboard for almost every PE-related task. Now I have a pile of unused clipboards. Retire that stopwatch I used to have to wear a stopwatch around my neck. I used to write on a whiteboard. My whiteboard is now blank. No scoreboard? I don't have a electronic physical scoreboard in my gym. …changed the way I record, track and communicate attendance. Gone is my attendance duotang…. …changed the way I communicate with students and parents. Using the attendance app I can communicate with all the students who were missing from a class via email with the tap of a finger. …changed the way I observe, take notes and document student behaviour. Gone are piles of sticky notes, and scribbles on lesson plans as a means of recording information and notes on students. …changed the way I assess and mark in PE. Increased efficiency in assessment I used to mark with a clipboard, pencil and paper. Greater accuracy and detail in assessment Like this:
Trading Card Creator The Trading Card tool gives students an alternative way to demonstrate their literacy knowledge and skill when writing about popular culture texts or real world examples. This interactive allows students to create their own trading card about a real or fictional person, place, object, event, or abstract concept. These cards are can be used with any type of book students are reading or subjects that they are studying, and make for an excellent prewriting exercise for students who are writing narrative stories and need to consider characters, setting, and plot. Specific prompts guide student through the various types of cards, expanding students' thinking from the basic information and description of the topic to making personal connections to the subject. The save capability gives students a way to work on a draft of their card and come back to it to rework and revise as necessary, and to save their finished product to share with friends and family. back to top