Top 15 apps for Educators in 2014. To end 2014 in style, I have decided to compile my favourite (and most used) educational iPad apps from this year. These are from my point of view and I am sure there are other apps that people love. They are in no particular order and I would love for you to comment below with any additional apps that you recommend. I hope you had a fantastic Christmas, have a safe and happy New Year and I look forward to connecting and collaborating with you in the New Year. Click the following links to take you straight to the app download page. What would you like to read about? Have an idea for a blog post? Craig Kemp I am a passionate New Zealand educator living in Singapore. 6 Great iPad Apps Students Can Use to Create Avatars ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.
The MacBook Air is directly competing with iPad pricing for the first time. The iPad and MacBook Air have always competed with each other in terms of on-the-go computing, but the two have always been separated by price. No matter the specs of your dreamy iPad, you could never get an ultra-slim MacBook for the same price - until today, that is. With the 11" MacBook Air dropping down to US$899, it's now cheaper than a fully fleshed-out 128 GB, cellular-enabled iPad. That's kind of crazy. Let's compare specs: The story that a spec comparison doesn't tell is the usability of these two machines. It is, of course, still far too early to know whether this pricing shift will affect the popularity of either of the product lines. We're at an interesting crossroads, where potential customers wanting the most capable Apple tablet can pick up a MacBook and save a few bucks along the way.
5 Powerful But Little-Known Ways To Use Your Apple iPad. Path Comes To The iPad, A Platform Dave Morin Calls “The Future Of The Personal Computer” Path, the iPhone-based social network from Facebook alum Dave Morin, comes to the iPad today with a brand new app designed to take special advantage of Apple’s larger-screened devices. The new Path offers iPad-specific features, like a landscape mode which provides a mosaic view of daily activity, and more detailed information about individual updates, and a map view providing a bird’s eye look at daily network comings and goings.
When viewing Path on the iPad in standard portrait perspective, it looks and works a lot like its smaller-screen sibling, albeit with more emphasis on images, which work very well on the iPhone but even better on the iPad. But turning the iPad to landscape orientation reveals Path’s exciting new moments overview, which takes the most interesting posts of the past day from your network and lays them out as boxes of varying size, with larger ones representing things you’ll likely find more engaging. 100+ Teaching With the iPad Hacks: A Curated Playlist of Quick Start Resources. A publisher recently asked me if I knew of a good iPad “Quick Start” Guide for teachers just getting started with using the iPad in the classroom. I didn’t, but had to imagine that I could find resources along these lines on the Web. As I searched, I found many good web pages, and knew right away that this was a great topic for creating a LessonPaths curated Playlist to share them. LessonPaths (formerly known as MentorMob) is an awesome free web tool for easily assembling digital content into an elegantly simple information resource.
Just click through the Playlist, stop and further explore resources that interest you (clicking on one will open up the Playlist in full screen mode) then click through to the next one when you’re ready. This hand selected set of sources will provide teachers who are new to the iPad with the information they need to get started, and offer both new and current users information they need to successfully integrate the iPad into their teaching practices. 5 Excellent iPad Apps Students Can Use for Taking Audio Notes.
January 29, 2014 There are times when taking a note in a written format is not a practical option. You might for instance be attending a lecture or a conference or you might simply prefer to listen to your recorded notes instead of reading them, in these cases apps such as the ones below are what you will use for audio note taking. While keeping the basic note taking features, all of these apps are fantastic for recording notes and adding audio to your notes. I invite you to check out the selection I have below and share with us what you thin about it. 1- Audio Note Besides being a basic note taking app. Audio Note also allows you to accompany your notes with sound recordings at the same time and even keep them synchronized note by note.
With Super Note Record you will be able to jot down your typed notes as well as record voice and capture pictures to add to your notes. 3- Sound Note SoundNote is another great app that allows you to take notes in meetings, lectures, and interviews. 6 Great Alternative Browsers for your iPhone. 88 Best iOS Apps For Mobile Learning. Do you ever stop to think about how you gathered information before the Internet?
If you needed to find an answer about anything, what did you do to find it? I don’t really remember, but I think we called people on the phone, asked our parents or looked it up in an encyclopedia. No wonder learning was kind of boring back then. One of the best parts of having access to all the technology we have today is the opportunity for so much learning. I’m not just talking about at-home learning either, now we can educate ourselves about anything anywhere via mobile learning too. Unlike our computers, the human brain has an unlimited amount of storage space to hold everything we put in it (thank goodness).
Last month, edudemic (a website dedicated to online and mobile learning) put together a comprehensive list of the 100 Best iOS Apps For Mobile Learning. These apps cover a wide variety of mobile learning topics including brain exercises, productivity, math, science and more. 88 Best iOS Apps For Mobile Learning. The IPad Won Black Friday. The crazy shopping day that comes after Thanksgiving is a boon for manufacturers and retailers of all stripes. But this year Apple in particular benefitted from the glut of consumer spending. InfoScout analyzed tablet purchases and found that the iPad was the hot product to buy at Walmart, Target, and Best Buy. At Walmart, the tablet alone accounted for about 6.4% of the store's sales, InfoScout says, despite the enormous range of products the company carries.
But the data also suggested some 40% of the iPads bought were snatched up by people who owned Android smartphones. This sets a difficult precedent for Android tablet markers to try to beat. Data from IBM's analytics effort suggest 82% of all mobile shopping purchases on Friday were made on iOS devices, despite the received wisdom that, thanks to bigger sales, Android devices outnumber iOS devices. As the end of the year approaches, and holiday shopping continues, it's beginning to look a lot like an iPad Christmas. Apple's new iPads: What they mean for education. Thinner. Lighter. Faster. That's Apple's newest iPad in a nutshell. Announced Tuesday, it has a new name, too: iPad Air. The original iPad was introduced in 2010. Educators may be interested not only in what Apple just announced, but what they've kept around from last year's lineup. iPad Air (Source: Apple) First, a look at the new models: This year, Apple has shaved the weight of its top-of-the-line tablet down to 1 pound.
The new iPad Air starts at $499. Apple also updated its iPad mini, giving it the same high-resolution display available in the larger iPads. The education market may find particularly interesting Apple's price reductions for its older models. Apple has chosen to keep the full-size iPad 2, with its lower-resolution screen, available for $399. (Note that these prices are retail and do not include any education or bulk discounts that Apple may offer.) iPad Mini with Retina Display (Source: Apple) Of course, one of the strengths of Apple's tablets has been its app selection.
15 Free Must Have iPad Apps for Elementary Stud. Quick List Of iPad Resources For The Classroom. One question that comes into my inbox or on Twitter a lot lately is one dealing with iPads. Many schools and classrooms all over are investing in these devices and educators want to know how to use them effectively, apps to consider and more. In keeping with the "My Favorite Resources" theme (last week I listed my favorite resources for talking about Twitter) here are my go-to resources when people ask me about iPads in the Classroom.
ISTE iPad In Education Webinar Resources-A while back ISTE ran a great webinar with some fabulous educators on using iPads in the classroom. This site has loads of information, a collection of articles, lists of apps and information on Apple's Volume Purchasing Program. iPads For Education- While this site comes courtesy of the Department Of Education in Victoria Australia, there is lots of information that can cross the Pacific that you can use in your classroom. Sample Lessons-iPads In Education-5 Quick Lessons using various iPad apps.
iPad Applications In Bloom’s Taxonomy. This has bubbled up in my feeds not once, but several times now. It’s an interesting graphic that actually places example iPad applications into Bloom’s levels of performance in the cognitive domain. Focussed around students, and not really workplace learning, but interesting nonetheless. Check it out. October 2 & 3 (NEC Birmingham), Booth #D250 | Register (Free) Leave a Reply. 10 Excellent iPad Apps for Life-long Learning |... The Step-By-Step iPad Workflow For Teachers. I recently stumbled across this handy infographic from Oakdome that shows a step by step guide to using your iPad for a paperless workflow/classroom. Since its no secret that paper is no longer the staple of the classroom, and since we’ve been looking recently at a few ways to make your classroom greener this year , we thought this step-by-step guide would be particularly useful! It tells you what you need and how to distribute, submit, grade, and return assignments using Google Drive .
So whether you’re just starting on a paperless journey or have been doing things a different way, this should help you on your way! Set up student Gmail Students create and share a folder with the teacher in Google Drive Teacher creates a class folder with subfolders Teacher creates a shared folder to share documents with students Teachers distribute and collect assignments via the shared folders.
5 Great Places to Find Educational iPad Apps fo... Meet your child’s new teacher: the iPad. Not long ago, I was horrified to learn children were allowed to use mobile phones in the playground. Now they’re actually being encouraged to bring smartphones out in the classroom, not to mention Kindles, iPads, Wiis and hand-held games consoles such as Nintendo DSs. Even exams are changing out of all recognition. Children will take internet-connected devices into exam halls, meaning no more need for memorisation.
“The entire system will change,” writes Sugata Mitra, professor of education technology at Newcastle University. “Teachers are intelligent people; they will teach differently. They will insist that you don’t memorise, you can look it up on Google. " Is this really a brave new world, or the gateway to indolence, addiction and diminishing social and cognitive skills? Moreover, while introducing technology into schools is expensive in the short term, in the long term educationalists warn it may be used as a cost-cutting device. Other countries have taken this message to heart.
5 Things to Try When your iPad Acts Up | iGener... Seven simple tricks to impressively speed up slow iPads. Remember the day when you took your iPad out of its box for the first time? How fast it ran? How snappy it was? Yeah, those were the days. For me, these days are long over; I am still rocking a first gen iPad that is getting a little old after more than three years of great use. But why upgrade when it still works? In this post, I am sharing 7 simple tricks how you can speed up your iPad (and iPhone) to squeeze some more life out of it.
I am not pretending that this will make your old iPad act like a new one. I know what you are thinking: You have seen posts like this before, so how is this one different? Is your iPad running slow? How to NOT speed up your iPad You have heart this before: close down apps in the multitasking bar and restart your iPad in order to speed it up. The idea that closing all apps in the multitasking bar would free up massive resources in working memory is just a myth. For all other apps: relax. Things to do on a regular basis Tip 1: Update to latest iOS Conclusion. 12 Things You Never Knew You Could Do With Your iPad. Useful iOS features for teachers (iPad specific) | Making things... Learning Things. [Updated: March, 2013] With every new iOS release, Apple is building in more and more under the hood. You are probably aware of many of these features but, in any case, here is a brief roundup of some that teachers whom I work with have found very useful, especially in a one-iPad classroom.
The features outlined below are all available in iOS6 on the iPad (and, yes, some features discussed below were available in iOS5 and/or iOS4). Finger gesturing You probably know these already. More on gestures here: Changing keyboards Adding keyboards in different languages is easy (Settings → General → Keyboard → Keyboards → Add New Keyboard…) and there is also an emoticon keyboard included called “Emoji.” More iPad keyboard settings here: Text Selections – Speak & Define To select text, push and hold your finger on a word. “Reader” mode in Safari. iPad%20Basics%20Updated%209-2012. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: A Great iPad Manual for Every Teacher. A few weeks ago I posted here a poster on iPad basics which many of you have downloaded to use with their students in the class. Today, I am sharing with you another great resource on iPad. This is not a graphic but a quick reference card on everything you and your students need to know about iPad. From the hardware to networking features , this little manual can serve as a leading guide to a better manipulation of your iPad.
I am not sure how much iPading you are doing in your classroom but whether you use iPad just occasionally or you adopt it as a consistent learning and teaching tool, the reference card below will definitely give you a hand in improving your iPad use. I suggest that you share it with your students and go through it with them section by section and make sure they understand it before they start using their iPads again. Click HERE to download the reference card.