Ritzforeignlang: NECTFL 2014: Teaching with Tablets. 12 Great New iPad Learning Apps for your Kids. Introduction to iPads: Part 2--iPad Integration. How does a teacher start to use iPads in the classroom? While Part 1 focuses on the hardware basics, Part 2 focuses on iPad integration in the classroom. Most teachers need to think through a few things about implementation before going full throttle. iPad management When I think about introducing a class to something new, I recall the lesson learned in my first year of teaching when I handed out geoboards for the first time. Those lessons learned apply to iPad management as well. iPad integration There are many apps for the iPad; however, I recommend mastering a few ways to integrate iPads to support learning at higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy when starting off, and not focusing as much on finding different apps. Some of the apps/sites below require creating accounts, which typically collects the user's full name, email and password.
QR codes When taking students to different websites, it's time consuming to type in the URL, and frustrating when it's mistyped. Narrating photos. 33 Super Speech and Language iPad Apps. Teachers With Apps brings you 33 super speech and language iPad apps for home, classroom, and/or the therapist’s office. Speech and language is one area of educational apps that has exploded with smashing success.
The prices range anywhere from free to expensive. There is an stuttering app that runs almost $1,000! Don’t fret, most are reasonable and many have a free/lite version. More importantly, SLPs feel they are getting results like never before. Below you will find 33 super speech and language iPad apps that we and several SLPs consider to be the most effective. The apps are listed in no particular order, except… however, we did start our list with Mobile Education Store, as Kyle Tomson’s first-class apps were the first of this sort that TWA reviewed.
ConversationBuilderTeen is a conversation simulator designed to help teenaged children learn how to have multi-exchange conversations with their peers, in a variety of social settings. Articulate It! Speak it! Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 5 Useful Audio Recording iPad Apps. Some of you have asked me before about audio recording apps for iPad, I just finished curating a list of some important apps to have for this purpose.Again and as I always say, I include only the apps that have a real educational potential and not just because they are popular. I might have inadvertently missed some good names from the the list below but I will be glad if you share with us your suggestions and I will review and add them later. Check out this list of excellent iPad science apps: 1- Sound Cloud `SoundCloud is the world’s leading social sound platform, with over ten hours of music & audio posted every minute by the world’s largest community of artists, bands, podcasters and other creators. 2- AudioBoo `Audioboo is an application for recording and sharing your voice with the world. 3- Fotobable `Fotobabble lets you capture moments in real-time and share with your audience (friends, family, fans and customers) via email, Facebook or Twitter. 4- Pocket Wavepad.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 15 iPad Skills Every Teacher and Student should Have. Check the learning goals below and share with us your feedback. Enjoy 1- My students should be able to create presentations . Here are the apps to help you achieve this goal : Sliderocket Idea Flight3- Slideshark5- SlideGrabber6- Prezi Viewer4- Xavier Presentation 2- My students should be able to create digital stories. Here are the apps to help you achieve this goal 1-StoryKit2- Talking Tom & Ben News3- I Tell a Story4- Scholastic Storia5- Talking Tom Cat6- Toontastic7- Our Story8- Bunsella Bedtimes Story 3- My students should be able to create eBooks . 1- Book Creator for iPad2- eBook Magic3- Demibooks Composer4- Story Patch5- Creative Book Builder 4- My students should be able to print their docs right from their iPad. 1- Epson iPrint2- Print Magic3- ACT Printer4- Doc Printer5- Air Sharing 5- My students should be able to create videos . 1- Animoto Video2- Videolicious3- Vidify app4- ReelDirector5- Magisto6- Super 87- Vintagio8- iMovie 6- I want to Improve my students reading skills.
Create Trading Cards for Historical and Fictional Characters - The Web Version. Yesterday, I wrote a post about Read Write Think's Trading Cards iPad App. That post got reTweeted like crazy and this morning I had a couple of people ask if there is a version of the app that can be used on a computer. The answer to that question is yes. Read Write Think's Trading Card Creator on the web offers the same creation features that are found in the iPad app. This morning I used the web version of the Trading Card Creator to create an Abraham Lincoln trading card. To create the card I found a public domain image of Lincoln, uploaded it to the template provided by RWT, and completed the fields that asked for information about Lincoln's life.
Applications for Education Just like with the iPad app students can use the RWT Trading Card Creator on the Web to create a set of trading cards about characters in a novel, to create a set of cards about people of historical significance, or to create cards about places that they're studying in their geography lessons. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: A Must Have App Evaluation Rubric for Teachers.
The choice of which apps to use with your students in the classroom is not an easy one. It ,in fact , calls for a lot of attention from the part of the teacher. You are responsible for your students learning and this responsibility grows riskier when learning becomes digitally based.This is particularly the case when integrating apps into your teaching. It is true that one simple Google search will generate tons of apps for you to choose from , but does it stop just here ? How about after you find the apps, do you know how to evaluate their pedagogic implications ?
Are they educationally valid ? Do they target skills you want your students to work on ? Are they flexible enough to let students learn in different settings ? These and many other questions are things you need to consider whenever you are selecting apps to use in your classroom. Click here to download and print it. The BEST Free Educational Apps of 2012. Celebrate the NEW YEAR with a half-dozen of the BEST Free Educational Apps of 2012 Finding the BEST Free Educational Apps of 2012 might seem like an easy enough task, but with so many app developers setting their apps free for a limited time only, it’s difficult to know which apps are FREE and will stay FREE.
Here you will find a half dozen FREE apps that we consider to be among the BEST of 2012. All of these apps are geared toward the elementary, primary or toddler population, with the exception of Fry Words and Grammaropolis, which can be great for older, struggling readers and writers. Enjoy these FREE downloads and spend some quality time with your kids! Scribble My Story – A Fingerprint Network App, by Fingerprint, is a junior version of the popular and award winning Scribble Press App, selected by Time Magazine as one of the 25 best apps of 2012 and widely used in classrooms. Bitsboard, by Grasshopper Apps, is a place where learning is FUN, SIMPLE, and a BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE! Edmodo is THE iPad Workflow Solution. The world of iPad workflow just got a whole lot easier. After months of ‘work arounds’ involving screenshots, Dropbox and pre-tablet technology, the latest Edmodo update has changed the game. Put simply, you can now use the iOS6 function ‘open in app’, to open a document in Edmodo.
This allows you to upload a document to your Edmodo library on an iPad. You can then link the document to a direct post, note or assignment within the Edmodo app. Lets look at an example to illustrate how easy this has made the sharing of assignments for a student and an educator. Once the student has completed their document they should tap on the share and print option in Pages and then tap on ‘open in app’.
They should then select open in Edmodo and choose a file type to share – I can recommend the ‘Word’ option as this works well with the Edmodo annotation tool. This will upload the document to the student’s library (Backpack). Like this: Like Loading... 12 Best Special Needs Apps of 2012 - Special Education. A Quick Guide on Blooms Taxonomy Apps for iPad. 15 Great Free iPad Apps for Professional Development. With the advance of mobile technology into our life, the notion of professional development has been radically reshaped.To grow professionally is no longer limited to a certain geographic setting with a predefined set of resources, we can now learn wherever we are and on the go.
No more boundaries and this is certainly one of the biggest advantages in embracing this kind of technology. To expand this professional development notion to your iPad , I have compiled a list of some of the best free apps that you as a teacher and educator, can install on your iOS device. The list is not exhaustive and there might be other important apps not mentioned here but the ones below are a great stepping stone into the world of self learning. Check them out. 1- Twitter This is Twitter official app that lets you follow your interests, instant updates from your friends, and many more. 2- Skype 3- Google Voice 4- Hey Tell This is an awesome iOS app that lets users instantly talk with friends and family. 6- Zite.