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Planbook Touch: iPad Lesson Plan Book App For Teachers
Choose your Schedule Planbook can accommodate schedules where you teach the same thing each day, your classes change each day but repeat weekly and rotating schedules (up to a 14 day rotation). Adjust your Schedule When the weather gets rough (or any of the 100s of things happen that can affect your best laid plans), Planbook lets you quickly bump or pull back lessons to adjust your plans. Planbook also lets you make non school days to reflect holidays, in-services, weather days - whatever comes your way.
Bringing iPods and iPads into the classroom is a great way to give students access to learning tools. However, there are so many things to keep in mind to make the devices work smoothly in the classroom. While this list of dos and don'ts mainly addresses iPod touch the same advice goes for iPod touch and iPhone.
Tony Vincent's Learning in Hand - Blog - Classroom iPod touches & iPads: Dos and Don'ts
Twitter App (free) Twitter is one of the most active and beneficial social networks on the web. All educators would be wise to join the conversation. If you haven’t used Twitter yet, I would recommend that you read these excellent blog posts: http://primarytech.global2.vic.edu.au/2011/04/04/top-10-twitter-tips/ A fun “walkie-talkie” app for quick voice communication.
Apps for Professional Development | EdReach
47 Interesting Ways* to use an iPad in the Classroom
A great game that helps build vocabulary by matching rhyming words, prefixes and suffixes, synonyms, homophones, adjectives and more. You can play on your own, with a team or against a friend. It allows you to choose between grade 2,3 or 4.
Preparing Your School for an iPad Implementation - iPads in Education
Planning is imperative for any technology initiative - iPad or otherwise. You need to ensure that you clearly understand and communicate how the technology integrates with your overall pedagogical objectives. Too many institutions purchase technology and then search for ways to utilize it ... or leave it collecting dust on the shelf. Planning needs to consider both infrastructure needs and the educational applications of the new technology. Without the proper preparation, technology initiatives are liable to become expensive failures.
The Apple Fairy has come to your classroom and given you some iPads and/or iPod Touches to use for learning? You and your students sure are the lucky ones. I know what you’re thinking though: “So what now, technically speaking?” There are many different ways to set your iDevices up.
How to Set Up Class iPad and iPod Touch Devices « The Spicy Learning Blog
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Contact Sam Gliksman at Tel: (310) 571-5904 or samgliksman@gmail.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for educational technology consulting services, workshops, iPad training sessions and speaking engagements. Great network for teacher networking and for exploring the impact of iPads and Tablet computing in schools and education.
There are so many new technologies and devices appearing on the education market every day now that it can become very difficult to determine where to spend your money, if indeed you should spend it at all. Before you make your next investment, ask yourself the following questions: Would more students get involved in the learning?
10 vital questions to ask before investing in classroom technology | Informed Education
Book Creator for iPad: $7.49 The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad. Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBookstore. Ideal for children’s picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and the list goes on.
Creating Books on the iPad
Best Free iPod / iPad Apps (without ads) for Education | MullOverThings
I’m piloting the use of the iPod Touch for English Language Learners (ELLs), so most of the following apps apply to improving reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. There are lots of great apps that pertain to other subject areas, and there are a lot of great apps that are not free or contain ads (annoying). Each of the links will take you to the iTunes Preview page for that app. Enjoy! WordWeb (Dictionary) – Free, no ads, allows you to save words to “favorites” This dictionary doesn’t have some of the features that you get with some of the free apps with ads or apps you pay for (i.e. audio, images or translation). SparkleFish can be described as audio MadLibs where you record your voice saying the parts of speech.Jr. Books iPad App for Kids - JibJab
With JibJab Jr. Books, you can make your child the STAR of the show. In just a few simple swipes, you can create personalized storybooks that feature your child's face and name.inClass for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
inClass, the last school app you will ever need, is here to help you survive school. No matter how complex your school schedule is, inClass will help you keep track of all your courses. Not only that, but it will help you keep track of your tasks by reminding you that one is due soon, that way you have no excuse to not do your homework =P On top of everything inClass will help you take notes way more efficiently than ever before. Video notes, audio notes, photo notes! You name it!By Tina Barseghian For more detail about my visit to the Presidio Middle School’s iPad algebra class , here’s the complete Q&A with eighth-grade teacher Jeannetta Mitchell. She talks about the practicalities of forgoing the traditional textbook and seeing students find different ways of learning the material. Far from being afraid of the technology — or believing that it will be the beacon of hope — this veteran teacher is a pragmatist. She’s determined to find the best way to grab her students’ interest and get them to enjoy learning.