An+App+for+That!

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 * An App for That!** (Lori Cooney, UMass Boston)
 * Check diigo in the future for more information**

Presentation in Prezi


 * This speaker is always GREAT fun!** Good sense of humor - Last year did Web 2.0 tools
 * Talking Tom apps (good for storytelling with students and ELL to flesh out ideas) “more than a cool toy” (NY Times)
 * Overdrive - text app/ kindle app

Must Have apps
 * Dropbox – can access files from anywhere and can share, too (free), tsore anything you want in a cloud and access through ipad and icloud, droids and other pc devices
 * Dragon dictation – another tool – just talk into dragon and it types for you. Get used to saying “period” and “new paragraph”
 * PDF iA –iAnnotate – take any doc and annotate over it.
 * Pen Ultimate – notetaking app (favorite) – create notebooks and write/draw in them and (1.99) has a nice flow…can change pen size
 * Ithoughts – mindmapping for the iphone and ipad – good for brainstorming ideas (9.99) app – consider buying on a “school level”
 * Side by Side – Librivox (pull etext and link to guttenberg) – pull 2-4 difft things all in one screen (multiple windows on one screen) – pull up mp3 files with text
 * 4.99 splashtop…access pc or laptop online from anywhere – log in through google and link to your computer and control it from anywhere (on sale this week)
 * tweetdeck – tweet from ipad and see other tweets
 * mobile mouse – control your computer from any device free
 * skype – you can drop large files through skype, too…even if you cannot do it over email – you can share your screen through skype
 * remote (personal) – can use in school setting. Control itunes through the remote *** way of pulling up a file for kids at once
 * goodreader – read a pdf, etc. and annotate
 * fuze meeting – free version (3 people at once) and share documents, talk, building voiceover IP, full classroom online (costs some money)

Student Apps
 * SAT vocabulary – lets the kids test themselves
 * Flashcardlet – allows students to access their quizlet flashcards – also go in and pull off resources from other teachers
 * iStudiez – app that allows student to put in their planners assignments, calendar events, etc. (pro version costs $$$ and allows you to share files)
 * Clean slate SE – teacher edition with questions…kids can use any device and send to the teacher immediately (free for students, teacher version costs $$$)
 * iDress for Weather – good for kids with special needs, customizable ($2), pulls in the weather for the day where you are living and suggests what you should be wearing in that weather

Reference & eText
 * Access my library – will pull up the location where you live and where you can borrow from and gale resources
 * Wikipanion – steamlines Wikipedia well
 * Google books
 * OverDrive – access free media/audio books

Teacher Apps
 * EduTecher – links to difft web sites – youtube, schooltube, many resources built into the app
 * Qwiki – video search tool, built in Closed Captioning, find a topic of your choice with your students. It will show the video and read the words on the screen*****
 * HistoryMaps – History Maps of the World
 * SnagFilms – great web 2.0 tool and can play on the ipad – links to difft documentaries
 * Video Time Machine – search videos by year (over 10,000 videos by year, category)
 * WhiteBoard – turns ipad into whiteboard, change font, save it
 * UDLinks (Maryland State Dept. of Education) – go here to choose class profile and look at resources and how to use universal design for learning lessons

Educational Apps
 * Motion Math Zoom – move number line around
 * KosmicMath HD – allows kids to go into space and do difft problems in space
 * Math Ref Free – for the older student – go through topics and it breaks down by equations, formulas and the things they may miss in class
 * MathBoard Addition – look/feel of chalkboard
 * Times Table Lab - sodoku math with times tables/multiplication (up to 5 for free and pay $1 beyond that?)
 * Teach Me 1st Grade – 1st grade – dolch sight words – get points, motivational *****
 * Stack the States – learn difft facts about states and can be a great group activity
 * Grammar Games
 * Brain Pop – helps students build comprehension, summarize and ask questions about the video (free)
 * Popplet – drop pictures in and it allows you to put different tiers – good way to present
 * EMD PTE – interactive periodic table
 * Idea Flight – lets you have a bunch of ipads connected to one (up to 15 people) – look on with someone and take notes – good for district/PD
 * Idea Flight – lets you have a bunch of ipads connected to one (up to 15 people) – look on with someone and take notes – good for district/PD

News
 * Fluent News – view by category and headline (i.e. entertainment, sports, world news, etc.) and choose story you want to read
 * Flipboard – customize news to what you want
 * Pulse News – rss category (scroll to side and see by topic and categorize by tabs at the top)
 * Guardian – great for visual learners – have students see pix of day and maybe do a writing piece on it
 * News 360 – no order to it….pictures and click and look through it

Health
 * The Vitamin Wars of Don and Flip
 * WebMD – earlier than web site without ads
 * Universal Doctor Speaker – good for multiple languages
 * Vision Test – tries to test vision
 * Cloud Storage
 * SugarSync – access to all data all the time – 5 GB by default – share out of a folder
 * Dropbox
 * iDisk
 * Box – box.net – trying to compete so also at 5 GB
 * Notetaking
 * Paperdesk
 * UPad - $4.99 for full version (also a free lite version)
 * AudioNote (lite and other) - *** write notes and hit record button and go back to the exact part where you were listening to – great for storytelling and interviewing with students

Creative
 * Strip Design – input pictures and make look like a comic strip – great way to share with the class and have a nice presentation
 * Doodle Buddy – kidpix for ipad (hangman, fix, tic-tac-toe
 * SonicPics (lite with 3 pix and voiceover or pay for all pix) – nice way to edit notes and explain what are in pix (used by school committee elsewhere to make presentations more engaging)
 * Puppet Pals – student/teacher picks characters and moves them around and animates for storytelling (record voice, too) – do a script-writing project maybe?
 * Kid Paint – like a kidpix
 * PS Express – photoshop express – free! And edits photos
 * ToonCamera App – turns anything into a cartoon. - bringinto comic book app

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(Jill Gold & Carol Klatt)