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15 Good iPad Apps for Students Projects and Real World Learning. February 11, 2017 Here is a collection of some very good iPad apps students can use in their classroom projects.

15 Good iPad Apps for Students Projects and Real World Learning

The apps, which are curated from Apple's Real World Learning collection, are geared towards enhancing a number of key skills that include: creative thinking, design skills, literacy skills, coding, and many more. Some of the things students can accomplish using these applications include: create beautiful ebooks to share with others; create visual sketches to record notes; design educational video clips, screencasts and presentations; capture and organize ideas in diagrams and mind maps. 1- Book Creator ‘Book Creator is the simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks, right on your iPad. With over 25 million ebooks created so far, Book Creator is ideal for making all kinds of books, including children's picture books, comic books, photo books, journals, textbooks and more.’2- Paper by Fifty Three.

6 Good Educational iPad Apps Free Today. July 15, 2016 Below is a collection of some good iPad apps that are free today.

6 Good Educational iPad Apps Free Today

You may want to check them out while they are on sale. Some of the things you can do with these apps include: remotely access your computer and view and edit your files and folders; create virtual worlds using a variety of 3D materials; organize and manage your daily tasks using a sleek and intuitive calendar; copy and transfer photos between your PC, Mac, iPad or iPhone; scan and translate text from almost any printed source. 1- Splashtop 2 Remote Desktop ‘Use Splashtop to access your computer on the local network with best-in-class video streaming performance.

View and edit Microsoft Office and PDF files. ‘Blox 3D World Creator lets kids create beautiful worlds with simple taps, from giant windmills to craggy castles and desert islands teeming with life. 3- Week Agenda Ultimate 4- Peek Calendar ‘Peek is a quick and simple to use calendar for your iPhone. 5- Photo Transfer App. The Best 30 Educational iPad Apps in 2014.

November 28, 2014 I am not sure if you have seen this or not, but our colleagues in Teachthought have created this wonderful list featuring some of the best educational iPad apps in the year 2014.

The Best 30 Educational iPad Apps in 2014

The selection attempts to provide teachers and educators with powerful apps to help them perform a variety of digital tasks including : note taking, PDF marking, file sharing, video and presentations creating and many more. I have actually spent some time sifting through its content and found it really worth bringing to your attention. Have a look and share with us what you think of it. Enjoy. 70+ Educational iPad Apps Curated by Teachers for Teachers.

40 iPad Apps for SAMRL Model. 26 iPad Apps to Transform Your Teaching. 8 Great iPad Apps to Manage Your Class. April , 2014 The educational use of iPad spans different key academic areas from knowledge management and distribution to content creation and curation. iPad is analogous to a Swiss knife in that it has multiple functions and can be used for unimaginable number of purposes.

8 Great iPad Apps to Manage Your Class

Today I want to focus on classroom management and share with you some useful apps to use in this regard. These apps will help you : randomly select students, monitor noise levels, display messages, track behaviour, and count down time. This collection of apps is created by Tony Vincent and included in his wonderful visual " iPad as Teacher's Pet". 1- Classdojo Teachers can use this app to give their students positive behavior feedback and manage their classes, while parents can check on their child's progress at school.

TeacherKit is a personal organizer for teachers. Pick a student at random just by giving your device a shake or tapping the screen -- but that’s just the beginning. 5- Decide Now Decide Now! 7 Good Grading iPad Apps for Teachers. 6 Great iPad Apps to Organize your Class. October 10, 2014 If you are using or planning to use iPad in your instruction the apps below are definitely a must have.

6 Great iPad Apps to Organize your Class

4 Great iPad Apps for Creating Educational Comic Apps to Use in Class. 3 Good iPad Apps for Creating Citations and Bibliographies. A Must See Chart on SAMR Model and iPad Teaching. A Round-up of The Best iPad Apps for Teachers and Educators. November 4, 2014 Here is a chart I have been working on for the last couple of days.

A Round-up of The Best iPad Apps for Teachers and Educators

The purpose behind this work is tp provide teachers with a handy resource where they can have free and quick access to some of the best iPad apps to use in their teaching. As you can see below I arranged the apps in such a way that they cover several categories. The Best iPad Apps for Creating Videos, Animations and Tutorials for Students. May , 2014 There are a variety of iPad apps that teachers can use to create different kinds of video materials.

The Best iPad Apps for Creating Videos, Animations and Tutorials for Students

In this post, you will get to learn about the apps you can use to create different video projects. I have divided the video categories into three main sections: apps for creating tutorials for flipped classroom, apps for creating stop motion videos, and apps for creating documentary videos. I- Apps for creating tutorials for flipped classroom Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.

Create slides, draw in any color, add shapes, add text, and use a laser pointer. 2- Doodlecast Pro Doodlecast Pro is the easiest way to create presentations on your iPad. 3- Replay Note ReplayNote is an app that records your writing and voice, then converts it to YouTube video. 4- Show Me 5- Educreations 6- Board Cam Pro 7- Knowmia 8- Screen Chomp. Some Great Apps to Turn your iPad Into An Interactive Whiteboard. January 22, 2016 Visual whiteboarding is a great way to enhance the intelligibility of your teachable content in class.

Some Great Apps to Turn your iPad Into An Interactive Whiteboard

You can use it to add explicative strength to your lessons and boost students understanding. Visual whiteboarding consists of creating interactive visual representations of data with the help of things such as drawings, sketches, charts, shapes, diagrams…etc. In the collection below, we have curated for you some of the best iPad and Android apps that will enable you to turn your tablet into an interactive whiteboard. Check then out and share with us if you have other suggestions to add to the list. Enjoy. 12 Great iPad Apps for Librarians (Infographic) June 30, 2016 Here is a handy visual for librarians featuring 12 of what we think are very good iPad apps they can use in their daily work.

12 Great iPad Apps for Librarians (Infographic)

The visual is based on a post we shared here a few months ago.