Apps for Teachers in Primary Education. Flipboard: FREE Flipboard creates a personalised magazine for the things you like to read and it offers an alternative to browsing the Web for news. It has become one of the essential iPad apps. iBooks: Built in appYou can highlight or underline text, make notes, look up a word in the dictionary or on the web, or search inside the book. iTunes U: FREE The iTunes U app gives you access to complete courses from leading universities and other schools - plus the world's largest digital catalogue of free educational content. iTunes U features free courses in a wide array of subjects.
Teacher's Pick HD: £1.49 Teacher's Pick HD gives you the ability to randomly and uniquely choose children without having to rely on memory, cups of craft sticks or flash cards. Dropbox: FREE Dropbox lets you bring all your photos, documents, and videos anywhere. Educreations Interactive Whiteboard: FREE. Word Clouds on the iPad. I love word clouds. It is the best way to deconstruct a piece of text with students. It lets you start that conversation about language, text types, literacy and the power of the written word. It is also a great way to do a text analysis. Marco Torres talks about using them to compare two political speeches to analyse the types of words each of the candidates use but this idea would work just as easily with characters in a book, types of poems or even a series of artists you are studying.
TagCloud CloudArt WordSalad There are not actually a lot of Cloud Word apps for the iPad but here are a couple worth investigating. The last two are technically not word cloud apps but are so good I thought I should include them. TagCloud: $0.99 AU Make tag clouds from your iPad! CloudArt: $0.99 AU Make word clouds on your iPad.
Word Salad: FREE Make wordsalads out of documents that matter to you! The Best iPad Apps. Ed (Primary_Ed) sur Twitter. The 70 Best Apps For Teachers And Students. Ready for school? Let’s examine some of the featured apps that you should be using this year. From time-saving tools to reading helpers, there are apps that do just about anything. Rather than have you sort through the endless parade of app icons, we’ve done the hard part for you. If you’re looking for some useful tools for the classroom, these apps are for you. Most are available for both iOS and Android operating systems, so don’t sweat that part.
Each app is useful in its own right, but definitely think about which app would work best for you in particular. For example, the productivity app ‘Clear’ lets you keep a list of things that you need to do. However, most of these apps are free so they’re at least worth downloading and trying. A Visual Cheat Sheet To All The Apps A compilation of apps in the iTunes Store. Some of the Best Apps We’re Using Productivity Apps Clear ($0.99)Flipboard (Free)WolframAlpha (Free)Dropbox (Freemium)Edmodo (Free) Start Reading Writers’ Corner Math Madness.