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Story Dice for iPhone

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/story-dice/id525351988?mt=8 Description Story Dice is a creative tool to prompt ideas for plot, character, and setting. This idea generator can be used effectively for both written and oral storytelling. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "What we like to do, is take turns, each of us telling a story that uses all of those elements. And then we, as a family, vote on the best one." - Mark Frauenfelder, editor of Make Magazine, appearing on NPR Morning Edition ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Description Allows teachers & students to quickly ask & answer each other's questions with text & their own videos. This FREE app turns each iPad into a whiteboard that can record voice & visuals for instant classroom sharing. https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ask3/id572042047?mt=8

Ask3 for iPad on the iTunes App Store

Last week, I posted 20 End of the Year Reflection Questions for Students . This week, the focus is on teachers. Here are 20 questions to ask yourself about your school year. Some of these would also make good discussion questions for a staff debriefing or for student teachers/interns. What are some things you accomplished this year that you are proud of? http://www.minds-in-bloom.com/2011/06/20-teacher-end-of-year-reflection.html

Minds in Bloom: 20 Teacher End of the Year Reflection Questions

11 Oct Graphic organizers work in all subject areas and students can create their own using the Idea Sketch iPad app . I love it for creating story maps, brainstorming and taking notes. Check out my lesson using Idea Sketch in the classroom! One more common core aligned lesson plan using graphic organizer apps! http://classtechtips.com/2012/10/11/graphic-organizers-idea-sketch/

Graphic Organizers: Idea Sketch « Class Tech Tips

10 Apps for Documenting Learning

http://appsineducation.blogspot.com/2012/10/10-apps-for-documenting-learning.html One of the things that really excites me about the iPad is the ability of the students to show their learning. I am not talking about the end product here, I am talking about the act of learning that can be shown by students recording their processes. It is often about the student putting the information they have learnt into a context. It is this contextualisation that helps the students create meaning. Here is a perfect example from a young 1st grade student who talks us through his investigation into transport. This example was shown on a recent school visit as one way a student could document their own learning.

Evaluation Rubric for Educational Apps

http://learninginhand.com/blog/evaluation-rubric-for-educational-apps.html Harry Walker is the principal of Sandy Plains Elementary School in Baltimore County, Maryland. Fourth and fifth graders at the school are piloting one-to-one computing with iPod touches. In addition, Harry is a doctoral student at John Hopkins University. He's investigating the impact of iPod touch on student achievement.

Blooms Taxonomy with Apps

http://teachwithyouripad.wikispaces.com/Blooms%20Taxonomy%20with%20Apps After seeing the chart on of Bloom's Taxonomy on bloomsapps , I thought I could make a more thorough table. I like the headings that were used in the chart. Creating Compile information together in a different way by combining elements in a new pattern or proposing alternative solutions. Create Predict Image
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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. An array of stunning apps are at your disposal waiting to be exercised, so with this in mind, we decided to whittle down our top 10 iPad educational apps for students. Evernote
5 Useful iPhone Apps For Student Bloggers 9.43K Views 0 Likes Student blogging is a wonderful way to get into the world of online writing and learning. http://edudemic.com/2012/08/smartphone-apps-students-will-be-using-next-month/

50 Apps Students Will Be Using In Your Classroom

Some Handy Apps. For Using IPAD or IPOD in Learning Environments In Uncategorized on May 10, 2012 at 12:12 PM

Language Teaching Tips

Added by Jeff Dunn on 2012-02-02 If you’re a special education teacher or are simply looking for an innovative way to reach a student… this is for you. Many apps out there are useful in the classroom but they’re not always easy to find in the clogged-up app store. Ever tried searching for ‘education’ in the iTunes store? You won’t get a simple list of the top resources. Heck, that’s why places like ClassroomWindow have started up to help teachers sort the great stuff from the garbage.

The 200 Best Special Education Apps

50 Must-Download Apps For Lifelong Learners

Added by Jeff Dunn on 2012-08-13 Long after degrees have been conferred and careers have been launched, many folks just can’t seem to quit school. For them, life provides an overstuffed cornucopia of educational opportunities that don’t necessarily require hefty loans and navigating different professorial strategies.

A Taxonomy of Reflection: A Model for Critical Thinking

My approach to staff development (and teaching) borrows from the thinking of Donald Finkel who believed that teaching should be thought of as “providing experience, provoking reflection.” He goes on to write, … to reflectively experience is to make connections within the details of the work of the problem, to see it through the lens of abstraction or theory, to generate one’s own questions about it, to take more active and conscious control over understanding. ~ From Teaching With Your Mouth Shut Over the last few years I’ve led many teachers and administrators on classroom walkthroughs designed to foster a collegial conversation about teaching and learning. The walkthroughs served as roving Socratic seminars and a catalyst for reflection.