Apps for Winter Reading For families traveling this winter or teachers simply looking for an alternative to tablet games, there are lots of great apps for winter reading. Android devices, iPhones and iPads can be turned into ebook readers with a quick tap or swipe. Portable and kid-friendly, these interactive storybooks will support and engage young readers. Snowman Joe (iOS) Follow along with this musical storybook as readers travel through a winter wonderland. Read Me Stories (iOS and Android) This app is full of picture books with illustrations that children will love. Epic! Another subscription-based service for iPads called Epic! Frozen: Storybook Deluxe (iOS) This storybook app from Disney brings the characters from the Frozen movie to life on your children's iPad screens. Winter Is (iOS) A simple storybook with high-quality illustrations, this app is perfect for reading together as a family or letting your children listen as the narration is read aloud. Dr. A wide variety of classic Dr. A Blizzard of eBooks
What Our Participants Have to Say Draw on the experience of teachers, administrators, educational technology staff, library-media specialists and others who have attended our workshops over the years: 2011 Summer Workshops Video Hear from our summer 2011 participants and come join us for 2012. More From Our 2011 Participants "In a very exciting, clear and inspiring manner, the 3 days truly exposed me to education technology tools I didn't even know existed, and helped me to see the potential for lessons and learning in those I was only slightly aware of "The hands on practice was tremendous. "All the presenters/teachers knew the information and taught us at a speed in which I could follow and understand. "This workshop combined two essential ingredients to make it superior: thoughtful and practical. "This workshop is a teacher's dream! "The variety of tools to which we were introduced was phenomenal! "I am a returnee who took the FL workshop last year and loved it! "You walked us through a very useful series of tools.
10 Creative iPad Apps for Digital Storytelling in Class Put simply, “digital storytelling” is just using computer-based tools to tell a story. There are many different ways to do this – from making movies, recording voices, creating animations or electronic books. In schools they can help to take a task that might be seen as mundane – write a report, write a story, explain a process, describe an experiment – and turn it into something a whole lot more interesting. The iPad is an excellent tool for doing this in the classroom since it has a built-in camera and microphone. Here are 10 great iPad apps that you should definitely investigate. 1. Sock Puppets lets children create their own lip-synched videos. Sock puppets comes as a free version with a few characters to test out, and as a paid for version (£2.49) with all the characters included. 2. Toontastic allows children to draw, animate, and share their own cartoons. 3. Puppet Pals works in the same way as Toontastic. 4. Morfo lets the childen upload a face and make it speak. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
The Playground Advocate: 6 Places For Discovering New Mobile Apps Teachers often ask me where they can find great educational apps. I learn about apps from a lot of sources, and not just from sites that curate lists of apps. However, having a short list of go-to sites that will keep you aware of the latest and greatest apps is definitely helpful. I have a list that I created with several of these sites. Fun Educational Apps- Apps for iOS. Smart Apps for Kids- Another website that is searchable by age and subject-area. Edshelf- A great community of educators sharing their favorite digital tools, including apps. APPitic- Awesome site with curated lists of apps in many categories including apps for flipped learning, Challenge-Based Learning, and the ISTE NETS. I Education Apps Review (IEAR)- Another community effort, IEAR includes tons of app reviews, but even more resources around using tablets and apps in the classroom. Appolearning- A great site for finding both iOS and Android apps.
Going global with Book Creator - Book Creator for iPad Wouldn’t it be good if schools from across the world could collaborate on a project…? Meg Wilson is a special education teacher and assistive technology specialist, as well as being an Apple Distinguished Educator since 2011. She blogs at iPodsibilities.com, IEAR.org, and EdReach.us about special education and mobile learning devices, app reviews, and other resources for educators. Redefining teaching and learning As a technology integrator for Avenues: The World School, I am constantly searching for technology tools that will allow students and teachers to redefine teaching and learning in a way that is personalised and accessible to a range of abilities. It is important that I find tools that allow for both creativity and collaboration. Collaboration made easy with Book Creator A central theme of the Avenues curriculum is global collaboration, so our students and teachers love to connect with classrooms around the world. The Global iBook
Sharing Files Across Platforms Is a Breeze With Instashare Transferring files across devices can be a pain, especially when they run on separate platforms. One of the most common ways to share from a device to another without having to unpack wires, is to either email the file to yourself so you can open it on the second device, or to upload it to your Dropbox and re-download the file on the other device. Not only is this time-consuming, it requires an internet connection and has serious limitations when it comes to file sizes and types. Like the article? Getting Started The main characteristic of Instashare is its simplicity. Once it’s downloaded though, it works very much like Apple’s AirDrop, as it lets you send and receive any type of file with nearby devices, without having to worry about anything else. Sharing Files Sending a file from your Android device to a nearby phone, tablet or computer is extremely easy: as Instashare integrates with Android’s share menu, you can send files from virtually any application. Shortcomings Wrapping Up
32 Augmented Reality Apps for the Classroom by edshelf: Reviews & recommendations of tools for education Augmented Reality (AR) is a growing field of technology where real life is modified and enhanced by computer-generated sights and sounds. The most common use of AR can be seen through mobile apps. Point your device’s camera at something that the app recognizes, and it will generated a 3D animation or video superimposed over whatever is on your camera’s screen. The effect makes the computer-generated item appear like it’s really there. Want to see how it works? App developers are building AR apps for fun, educational, and commercial uses. Which augmented reality apps do you use? 32 Augmented Reality Apps for the Classroom From edshelf Image attribution flickr user turkletom App Reviews | check out the TeacherCast review of the app: iPadio Follow App Review by: Michelle Naymick @littleacorn72 Click to vote Rating: 7.0/10 (3 votes cast) ipadio allows you to broadcast live to the web from your cell or land line phone. It is so easy to make a phlog from this app- just hit Record & Publish, wait for the countdown, record, pause, and upload. To find out more about ipadio go to “Give me more!” Review Written by: Michelle Naymick iPadio, 7.0 out of 10 based on 3 ratings
June 2013 I'm enjoying my first experience at iste.Jessica and Holly gave a great presentation about projects to easily integrate into any curriculum using various apps on the iPad.PDF of the presentation: Below are my notes from the session: The goal is to use higher level thinking skills: evaluate and create. Basic skills your students need to know about the iPad: Spotlight search- push home button and swipe backwards to get the search box, or hit the home button twice Adding images to camera roll- take pics, screenshot with two buttons, or save to camera roll from Internet Google image search- advanced search- free images to add to iPad without infringing on copyright Taking videos - hold the iPad horizontally Action button - sending or pushing the product to share it (box with arrow) Turning in assignments: Dongle - plug it into your MacBook or other Mac and treat it like a flash drive Cloud: Dropbox, skydive, Evernote, skitch Edmodo.
10 Free Apps To Jumpstart Your iPad Cart - Getting Smart by Guest Author - 1st5days, backtoschool, edapps, EdTech, ipaded, iPads The beginning of the school year is a good time to take out that shared iPad cart and get teachers excited to use it. The hardest part is figuring out where to start. I like to start with getting teachers to understand that you don’t use apps to teach concepts. I have recently started helping out at Menchaca Elementary School in Austin, TX.
ALL My App Reviews and Suggestions Home / ALL My App Reviews and Suggestions Apr2 By Matt Gomez ALL My App Reviews and Suggestions Category: Apps, Digital Storytelling, iPad, Tech Leave a Comment I decided to make one post with links to all my app suggestions and reviews. Apps We Use in Kindergarten iPads Tips For Getting Started Week One My Favorite FREE apps for Elementary The $10 iPad setup (and $20 iPad setup) Classroom Blog: Using the iPad to Create Content for the Blog App 101 Videos: How To Use These Apps Explain Everything 101 (teaching nouns large group) Explain Everything 101 (creating audio decodable books) Skitch 101 (free) “New” Skitch 101 (free) Popplet App 101 Write About This 101 Venn Diagram 101 (free) Educreations 101 (free) iPad 101 Video: How To Save Images to the Camera Roll Storytelling/Creativity Our Mission in Kindergarten Tech Ideas for the First Day of School Getting To Know You Activity with Explain Everything Stop Motion in Kindergarten Augmented Reality with Aurasma Mother’s Day Video Card Explain Everything Math
Twitter 15 iPad Skills Every Teacher and Student should Have Check the learning goals below and share with us your feedback. Enjoy 1- My students should be able to create presentations . Sliderocket Idea Flight3- Slideshark5- SlideGrabber6- Prezi Viewer4- Xavier Presentation 2- My students should be able to create digital stories. 1-StoryKit2- Talking Tom & Ben News3- I Tell a Story4- Scholastic Storia5- Talking Tom Cat6- Toontastic7- Our Story8- Bunsella Bedtimes Story 3- My students should be able to create eBooks . 1- Book Creator for iPad2- eBook Magic3- Demibooks Composer4- Story Patch5- Creative Book Builder 4- My students should be able to print their docs right from their iPad. 1- Epson iPrint2- Print Magic3- ACT Printer4- Doc Printer5- Air Sharing 5- My students should be able to create videos . 1- Animoto Video2- Videolicious3- Vidify app4- ReelDirector5- Magisto6- Super 87- Vintagio8- iMovie 6- I want to Improve my students reading skills. 1- Hide Run Growl2- Pango Book1 and 23- Play Tales4- iHowToBook5- I Like Books6- MeeGenius