8 Educational iPad Apps for Grade Schoolers. App Filter: Best Meditation App for iPhone. Meditation and smartphones don’t immediately seem like the best fit. When your phone is normally a source of great distraction, it isn’t an obvious choice for a tool to help you calm your thoughts and your body. But most of us need a little help to tune out the hustle and bustle of daily life, and there are some great apps out there that will help you achieve that goal. I’ve been immersing myself in peace and calm this week to bring you the best meditation apps.
While it’s been a lovely experience all around, only a few stood the test of time well enough to be considered for our best meditation app. Meditator Simple is best, especially when it comes to apps for meditation. Of course, there is power in that simplicity. There is one mark against Meditator: it can’t continue without your input if it’s interrupted, so you might be well-served to put your device in airplane mode while meditating. Relax Melodies Relax Melodies is extremely popular, and it isn’t hard to see why. Headspace. 1,800+ EDUapps. Apps for Creativity in Primary Education. Already used on desktop computer in schools, I Can Animate now bring the stop-frame animations to the iPad. You can capture frames using the in built camera, display onion skinning, undo support, preview whole projects and can be added to an iMovie project for a really polished movie. Keynote is a presentation apps designed for mobile devices. You create presentation by simple touching and tapping.
Highlight your data with 3D bar, line, area, and pie charts, animated with new 3D chart builds such as crane, Grow, Radical, and Rotate. If you own an iPhone you can buy the Keynote Remote app (£0.69), which you can use to control your presentation through your wireless network. See where you are or where you’re going in map view, satellite view, or a hybrid of both. Scan is a user friendly QR Code and barcode scanner. Move the Turtle: Programming for Kids: £1.99 Sketch Nation Studio: FREE J2e: FREE j2e is an on-line creativity tool designed for education. Explain Everything: £1.99 Phoster: £1.49. How One App Uses Digital to Empower Education. The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Three Ring Quick Pitch: Create and share digital portfolios of students’ work quickly and easily. Genius Idea: Three Ring allows teachers and students to digitize student work by snapping pictures or videos with their mobile or tablet devices.
It keeps student work at the center of the conversation and ensures work isn’t reduced to a rote grade or forgotten in a filing cabinet. Crumpled assignments drifting to the bottom of students’ backpacks may soon be an experience of the past. A new app called Three Ring is seeking to change the future of digital classrooms everywhere. With a smartphone or a tablet, the app allows teachers to take a photo or video recording of student work and then seamlessly view and share the work online.
Image courtesy of Flickr, flickingerbrad. App Filter: Best Meditation App for iPhone. Top 5 iPhone Video Apps. Making a great video used to mean pulling out an expensive video camera and owning your own video editing suite. Now you can do many of the same things once exclusively reserved for a high-end equipment right on your iPhone without a ton of cash or a lot of training. The iPhone is capable of recording high-definition video suitable for the giant plasma screen in your living room, and there are a number of video editing apps out there to help you polish your video and add opening credits, sound effects and even a soundtrack into the mix — without ever leaving your device.
If you're more interested in sharing your video than giving it a professional look -– or if you want to share a masterpiece you've just created immediately –- most iOS video apps also offer the ability to upload your finished product directly from your phone to popular video hubs such as YouTube and Vimeo, where you can share them with friends, family and the world. Do you have your own favorite video app for iOS?
Top 60 best free iPad apps 2012. On comparing iPad apps with iPhone equivalents, one thing rapidly becomes clear: apps for Apple's tablet are pricier. Many of the best free iPhone apps cost money in their iPad incarnations, and the quality level of what's still free is often ropey. But among the dross lie rare gems – iPad apps that are so good you can't believe they're still free. Of those we unearthed, here is our pick of the best free iPad apps. Note that apps marked 'universal' will run on your iPad and iPhone, optimising themselves accordingly. For a mix of free and paid apps, check out our amazing Best iPad apps chart. 1.
Annoyingly, some free iPad weather apps refuse to believe that the UK has any weather (or that the country exists), so AccuWeather gets props for merely working. 2. The social networking giant has gone back-and-forth with its mobile apps, finally settling on this smart, native implementation. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Dropbox is a great service for syncing documents across multiple devices. 9. 10. 11. 13. 14 Ways to Use Garageband in the Classroom. Garageband is a great app that I think any student or teacher using an iPad should consider buying. It is a multi-track audio editing app that is as robust as you will ever need (unless of course you teach audio production). Later this week I will be posting a new page full of Garageband resources for teachers, students and learning. For now, you can get your brain juices flowing by reading the list below, watching the embeded ‘how to’ videos, and then go start playing with Garageband yourself!
Download Garageband from iTunes here. 1) Create Soundtracks/Scores to Your iMovie Project – if you’re not already making iMovie projects with your students, you should read ’13 Ways To Use iMovie in the Classroom‘. 2) Teaching Dance in PhysEd - Dance is sometimes a difficult unit to teach because students aren’t interested or are embarrased or just to shy. 3) Podcasts – Use garageband to create podcasts. Check Out This Introduction to Garageband Video Learn About Jam Session for GarageBand. NearPod - create and share lessons on iPads in classroom - free. NearPod is a free service/app that allows you to create interactive lessons and then share them across iPads in your classroom.
Teachers create interactive presentations and then share them with the class. Here's how it works. The teacher uses the Content Tool to create multimedia presentations and then share the content with the students. The Teacher app allows the teacher to control the activity also. Students receive content and assessments on their device and then can submit answers and responses. The multimedia presentations start with a PDF file and then quizzes, polls, videos, activities and more can be added. It's free, easy to use, and a great resource to use with iPads in the classroom. Get it from the App Store:
Test. For the Connected Mobile Classroom – Nearpod. I’m always interested in just how 1:1 will roll out with portable devices. So, when I heard about Nearpod, I needed to download it and test it here in dougpete labs. It works like a host/client and what really intrigued me from the beginning was the promise that it would act like Net Support School. So, I downloaded the host and the client to kick the tires. The host runs on an iPad and the student client would run on any combination of iPods or iPads in the hands of students. The tagline from the website says “Make your lessons more engaging through interactive multimedia presentations.” If you’ve ever tried to do it, you’ll know that’s easier said than done. First, I turned to the teacher application on the iPad. It seems easy enough. I’ve already created an account and so just logged in to see what I could do.
The only thing in “My Library” was the tutorial presentation. But, I’d like to see what it looks like on the student side as well. Working with the program is pretty slick.