Apple: iPad Mini, iTV Now In Production, Analyst Reports. Reading Rainbow Returns As A Startup And An iPad App. Back in 2009, NPR ran a story titled “‘Reading Rainbow’ Reaches Its Final Chapter.”
At the time, that probably seemed like a reasonable headline — after all, after 26 years, the beloved TV show was going off the air, the victim of changing government funding priorities. But it looks like there’s actually a lot more to the Reading Rainbow story, and its next chapter is starting in earnest today, with the launch of a new iPad app. The app was created by RRKidz, a startup co-founded by Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton and producer Mark Wolfe, which licensed the Reading Rainbow name and content from public TV station WNED. (It also acquired the Reading Rainbow Twitter account earlier this year.) An App for Teachers to Create Educational Portfolios of Student Work with an iPhone, iPad, or Android Smartphone.
10 Incredible iPad Apps for Education. Learning is rarely fun; it’s even less fun when being taught within the confines of a lecture hall or classroom.
While this may be true, there’s no reason why you can’t make the process more entertaining and challenging. The tablet market has paved the way for educational resources in the form of slick, new apps, with text-books now being replaced by online downloadable versions of themselves. 8 Educational iPad Apps for Grade Schoolers. How to create 'flip books' on your iPad with new app. A new app for iPad lets kids — and kids at heart — create ‘flip book’ animations on their touchscreen tablet. Creating “flip books” is a fun pastime for kids – drawing on every sheet of a pad of paper and making your doodles come to life by flipping quickly from the first page to the last – and now this animation technique has gone digital with FlipBook HD for iPad. That’s right, your fingers can remain ink-free, and you might just save a few trees in the process. While it’s a tad confusing to get started – even with its built-in Help menu – once you get the hang of it, FlipBook HD is an enjoyable and powerful animation app, even for those whose talent is limited to stick figure drawings.
The idea behind the FlipBook HD app ($4.99) is straightforward: By using your fingertip or stylus pen on the 9.7-inch touchscreen, you can create digital flipbooks and share them with friends and family. TinyTap App Lets Kids Create Customized iPad Books & Games. TinyTap is a new iPad application designed for kids which introduces a different angle on the “record-your-own-voice” storybooks craze, by offering a playable book or game you and your kids can customize with your own photos, camera shots, music, narration, and more.
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.” First, I turned to the teacher application on the iPad. It seems easy enough. Fishing for Good Classroom Apps. 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. 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. 1,800+ EDUapps. 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. 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. Is TypeDrawing 3.0 Your Type Of Drawing App? TypeDrawing, a unique app for iPhone and iPad, has just received a major update.
It’s now proudly set at version 3.0. One of our keen readers, Rich, kindly informed us about the update to TypeDrawing. “I’ve had this since the day it launched,” he added, “it’s one of my keepers, as I’m a fan of typography and nothing else does what it does.” Indeed, TypeDrawing is one-of-a-kind. 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. Apps in the Elementary Classroom. One area that I have not written much about on this blog is educational apps.
This is mostly due to the fact that my school has one first generation iPad and two iPod Touches for the entire school. We also ban cell phones and other electronic devices, so these are not available for use in the classroom unless the teachers specifically plan for the kids to use them for a lesson or activity, hand them out to the kids and collect them at the end of the lesson. Helping Students Make Better Movies on iPad (or any device) 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. 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. Symbaloo Goes Mobile. I’ve shared before how I use Symbaloo as a startup page for my computers. Rather than using bookmarks, I like the graphical approach that it offers to get to places I frequent daily. Very quickly. Symbaloo also allows you to share your webmix with others and you can grab what others are sharing and add as a tab to your own instance.
So, my desktop browsers startup and I’m presented with: This is my own information portal. Yesterday, Symbaloo released an iOS / Android application that truly lets you take it all with you. Hopefully, there is a native iPad application in the works. At the bottom of the screen, you can share your webmix, search for others, or just share with friends. Edublogs Gets an iPad App. 7 Free iPad Apps for Educators and Students. If you haven’t noticed, we’re a bit obsessed with the iPad here. Our recent survey results show that the use of iPads in classrooms is majorly on the rise. So, here are seven of our favorite apps that every educator should have – and students too! 1. A Nice Guide to iPad App Evaluation.
Stick Pick app. Application: Stick Pick.
GoClass - Create and Deliver Lessons on iPads. Weotta Go: An iPhone App That Suggests Activities For Right Now. Here’s an iPhone app for those moments when you’re wondering, “Okay, I’ve got some free time right now — what should I do?” Weotta Go is actually the latest product from Weotta, a startup that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt last year. At the time, the company had built a website that helped people make plans, such as figuring out where to eat dinner tonight. Apps for Early/SN Learners. Nearpod: An App To Help Teachers & Students Work Together Using iPads. iPad devices have great potential to help out teachers and students in the educational learning process.
But without the proper apps to use, the iPad would not be of much educational value. Thirst for Twitter. Apps for Teachers and Students. Adobe Photoshop Touch Review - very nice app. Adobe recently released a host of Adobe TouchApps - Photoshop Touch, Ideas, Collage, Debut, Kuler, Proto, and Carousel. 50 resources for iPad use in the classroom. Teaching With iPads / I love this app for early learners. It's a lot of fun to play and it adapts to the skill level of the user. The activities encourage interaction using pinching, swiping, dragging, and even using the gyroscope. This is a fantastic way.
Top 20 Must-Have Educational iPhone & iPad Apps - List Of Must-Have Educational iPhone & iPad Apps. Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast) With advent of technology, nearly everything has changed. Even the ways with what we learn things have changed a great deal. Mobile technology has become integral part of some educational institutions. A large number of educational institutions have switched to e-books and electronic gadgets and have discontinued using paper notebooks, etc. 107 Favorite iPad Apps for K-8. SMART Notebook app for iPad coming soon! Invasion Of The Moon Monkeys! iPads for Education. 5 Cool Things You Can Do With Your Old iPad After Upgrading. It’s no secret that I’m a fan of the new iPad. The new display is a significant upgrade and, for people who use their tablets to view text frequently, well worth the price of admission. Classroom Set up for the iPad.
Story Wheel - Storytelling Prompts on an iPad. The LineTime App. Top 5 Best New Apps of the Week. Ways to Evaluate Educational Apps. Curation project: Digital Learning Farm - Ap... Top Two for Notes. Storify Comes To The iPad.