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5 Great Presentation Apps for Students - Shelly Palmer. One of the keys to a successful presentation is communicating ideas and information in a steady manner.

5 Great Presentation Apps for Students - Shelly Palmer

These five mobile apps help students with organization, brainstorming and the delivery of speech or project presentation. Explain Everything™ (iPad, iPhone, Android Tablet) Explain Everything teaches students to better communicate ideas. Students will think more critically when they have to explain a concept to others. They can record and annotate over multiple pages (slides) and then export their project as a video to the camera roll on the iPad. (Curated by Karen Marshall) i-Prompt Pro (iPad, iPhone, Android Tablet)

5 Great Presentation Apps for Students - Shelly Palmer. Create Engaging Presentations with Free iPad Apps. Engaging an audience is an important part of getting your message across.

Create Engaging Presentations with Free iPad Apps

If you're tired of your normal routine, try sharing information with your class or sparking a discussion with one of the free iPad apps in this post. Introducing a topic with embedded video clips and sharing graphics or images to convey information are some of the ways to keep students interested in content and engaged in your presentation. Wiffinity - Your next trip, an engaging adventure. Wiffinity - Your next trip, an engaging adventure. 6 Outstanding Augmented Reality Apps for Science Teachers. February 10, 2016 Augmented Reality (AR) technologies are making some huge leaps into the educational landscape transforming the way teaching and learning are taking place.

6 Outstanding Augmented Reality Apps for Science Teachers

Educators and teachers are increasingly adopting AR technologies in their classrooms. As extensions of the physical world, AR technologies amplify its dimensions and bring life to its static constituents. There are a variety of ways you can use AR in your class. For instance, you can use them to take your students into virtual field trips, visit world museums, animate and enrich textbook content and many more. Keedogo Plus - Keyboard for education on the App Store. App of the Week: One of the best note-takers out there.

60in60® - home. Apps in the Elementary Classroom. One area that I have not written much about on this blog is educational apps.

Apps in the Elementary Classroom

This is mostly due to the fact that my school has one first generation iPad and two iPod Touches for the entire school. We also ban cell phones and other electronic devices, so these are not available for use in the classroom unless the teachers specifically plan for the kids to use them for a lesson or activity, hand them out to the kids and collect them at the end of the lesson. I won't pretend to be an expert on apps in the classroom, which is why I haven't covered their use here.

5 apps that make the iPad. When the iPad was first introduced five years ago today, many critics dismissed it as a questionably named toy for Apple fanboys.

5 apps that make the iPad

Now, with 250 million iPads sold, Apple has proven that the thin, light, high-res device is worth far more than its weight in recycled aluminum. Here are five iPad apps that have helped make Apple's aluminum tablet the gold standard. 5 Apps That Teach U.S. Government and Civics To Tweens. 4.

5 Apps That Teach U.S. Government and Civics To Tweens

Presidents vs. Aliens (Ages 8 and up) Like the bowling app above, tweens will enjoy learning all about the Presidents because they get to battle aliens while doing so. The more you learn, the more aliens you can defeat. You earn presidents as you complete levels. Presidents vs. Creativity on the Run: 18 Apps that Support the Creative Process. "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, the rational mind is a faithful servant.

Creativity on the Run: 18 Apps that Support the Creative Process

We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. " - Albert Einstein We do not need to teach creativity, but rather inspire its daily practice. Somewhere along the way, we simply forgot to honor this innate gift and how to access its power. Our role as educators is to encourage learning experiences that increase the ability to recognize and listen to our inner voice.

Let us begin by shifting emphasis from finding the right answer to creating school cultures that encourage risk-taking and embrace ambiguity.

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29 Free iPad Apps for Teaching the US History. Are you looking for a way to teach your children, or enrich your personal knowledge about the history of the United States?

29 Free iPad Apps for Teaching the US History

If so, the 29 Free iPad Apps listed below are exactly what you are looking for. These applications offer all the information that a parent, student, or teacher is looking for. Learning history will become and entertaining experience that will be enjoyed by everyone. Perfect for both, home and school use. American Patriot Star Spangled Banner - free American Patriot Star Spangled Banner is a fantastic FREE app that plays the USA Anthem music, so you can sing along.

24 of the best free education apps of 2014. App Inventor. The First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and ITU Child Online Protection Champion, Dame Patience Goodluck Jonathan celebrates the winning team of the just concluded Technovation Challenge in Nigeria.

App Inventor

She applauded the feat of these young girls who developed a mobile app to track traffic offenders in Nigeria. The team were also presented to the European parliament(www.witin.org/tc13) on 25th of April by the Secretary General of ITU, Dr Hamadoun I. Touré; who also presented them with the Tech Needs Girls Awards. 24 of the best free education apps of 2014. Editor's Choice: The Best Educational Apps For iPad In 2014. The 30 Best Educational Apps For iPad In 2014 by TeachThought Staff So 2014 is almost over, and it’s time to start looking back at what’s happened in the last year.

Editor's Choice: The Best Educational Apps For iPad In 2014

Today, we do that in the form of the best educational apps for iPad in 2014. One way to think of this list (thematically) is as a kind of editor’s choice for TeachThought staff and contributors. 5 Awesome Spreadsheet Apps for the iPhone. By Ann Smarty As a self-proclaimed Excel fanatic, it’s pretty clear why I’d want my spreadsheets available to me wherever I go. There are some great app options for the business minded person who enjoys the benefits of spreadsheet programs as much as I do. These allow you to look at anything from profits and annual earnings, to employee checks and monthly expenses.

They work on the iPhone just as well as they do on a PC, and they’re available at your fingertips anytime, anywhere. VDoE-Early Jamestown iPad App. 31 Top Apps for Education from FETC 2013. Appsinedu. How Can We Maximize the Potential of Learning Apps? Brad Flickinger The following is an excerpt from the book The App Generation: How Today’s Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World by Howard Gardner and Katie Davis. Let’s dive directly into the world of educational apps. Our survey suggests that the majority — one might even say, the vast majority — of educational apps encourage pursuit of the goals and means of traditional education by digital means.

They constitute convenient, neat, sometimes even seductive pathways to accomplish what were already goals in an earlier era: mastering concepts, learning arithmetical operations, identifying geographical locations or historical figures or key biological or chemical or physical processes. We could dub them “digital textbooks” or “lectures” or “pre-programmed educational conversations.” APPitic: Home. 10 vetted resources for education apps. Getting the best apps for your students means using resources that vet apps specifically for learning Mobile apps are quickly redefining how the world interacts with information, and education apps are no exception, as they are quickly becoming the classroom’s number one learning resource.

But there’s more to picking an app than browsing random lists online, thanks to a number of new education app resources that use educator reviews, algorithms and university research. HCS App Database - Home. eSchool News New: 10 of the best Apple and Android apps for education in 2013. Last year we presented “New: 10 of the best Apple apps for education in 2012,” which highlighted some of the best apps for iPhones and iPods. However, with new upgrades in touch technology, and the emphasis on Common Core State Standards and school reform in general, we’ve come up with a new list of the best Apple- and Android-based education apps for 2013.

This year’s list includes some of the most highly rated apps, both by educators and by parents, and features a range that spans from interactive iBooks to current images of the universe, and from free video software to award-winning STEM curricula. For every app we’ve listed, we’ve included a brief description, device compatibility, suggested use, features, price, and a link to a more in-depth summary with an option to purchase on iTunes or Google Play. Don’t see an app you love on this list? Be sure to let us know—or leave a suggestion in the comment section. New: 10 of the best Apple and Android apps for education in 2013. Last year we presented “New: 10 of the best Apple apps for education in 2012,” which highlighted some of the best apps for iPhones and iPods. However, with new upgrades in touch technology, and the emphasis on Common Core State Standards and school reform in general, we’ve come up with a new list of the best Apple- and Android-based education apps for 2013.

This year’s list includes some of the most highly rated apps, both by educators and by parents, and features a range that spans from interactive iBooks to current images of the universe, and from free video software to award-winning STEM curricula. For every app we’ve listed, we’ve included a brief description, device compatibility, suggested use, features, price, and a link to a more in-depth summary with an option to purchase on iTunes or Google Play. Don’t see an app you love on this list? Be sure to let us know—or leave a suggestion in the comment section. 10 best history apps for iPhone and iPad. The days when history was considered a lifeless, irrelevant subject are long gone. 11 apps for coding: From beginners to masters. eSchool News Six helpful classroom management apps for teachers. By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor, @eSN_Laura Read more by Laura Devaney January 14th, 2014 Classroom management can be challenging, but teachers can benefit from different tools Mobile apps aren’t just for students.

Teachers and administrators benefit from management apps designed to boost productivity, provide quicker access to actionable data, and more. Here are 6 apps that you can give your teachers to help them improve their classroom management abilities and strategies. The 55 Best Free Education Apps For iPad. Finding apps isn’t difficult.

Finding education apps is only a bit more challenging. Special Report: Teaching with digital apps. The ‘Evergreen’ iPad: Why all your apps should fit on one screen. With iPads, students can create just about anything, anywhere, at any time. “Leading Change” column, June 2013 edition of eSchool News—In last month’s column, I argued that by integrating tools like the iPad—a device that allows students to explore and create—and constructing a pedagogy that encourages ingenuity, we can nurture a process of learning that crafts innovative, problem-solving, and entrepreneurial minds.

Yet, despite the incredible influx of iPads into American schools, this opportunity to transform the learning process is largely being wasted. Back in September, I published a widely circulated article entitled “5 Critical Mistakes Schools Make with iPads (And How To Correct Them).” 10+ Apps for Turning the iPad Into a Collaborative Device.

Rover - The Browser for Education. Seven new iPad apps to know about. Here are our first seven ‘apps of the week.’ Last month, we launched a brand-new feature called “App of the Week,” in which our editors highlight a new educational app every week. 31 Top Apps for Education from FETC 2013.