7 Apps You Don't Want To Miss [PICS]
This week brought tons of great new apps. From a long-distance relationship app that allows you to “thumb kiss” your partner from far away, to a new app for storing your sketches, notes and other thoughts and sharing them on the web — there was plenty of new app action in the past seven days to download on your favorite smartphone or tablet. Some of our favorites this week also include a new space discovery app that combines 3D graphics with video, text and photos and allows you to explore seven different realms: Subatomic, Atomic, Solar System, Stars, Milky Way, Galaxies, and Universe. If you're interested in exploring other countries rather than space, Babbel's language-learning apps are now available for Android. When it comes time to pay your friends back for your portion of the dinner bill this weekend, this week brought with it an app that lets you send cash via PayPal by just tapping your phone against theirs.
25 Ways To Use iPads In The Classroom
In case you haven’t heard the news, we’re putting out a special mini-issue early next week. It’ll be available in the Edudemic Magazine iPad app and, best of all, FREE to subscribers! If you’re not (yet) a subscriber, it’ll be just $0.99. The following is an excerpt from just one of the articles in the mini-issue. So you’ve got one or a few iPads that you want to use in the classroom.
Grammar Wonderland – A Fun Grammar Game for Your Students’ iPads
Grammar Wonderland is a pair of iPad apps from McGraw Hill. The apps are designed to help children learn to recognize nouns, proper nouns, verbs, verb agreement, adjectives, and other parts of speech. Two versions of the app are available. Grammar Wonderland Primary is designed for K-2 students. To play the games students move their iPads to move a crab through an underwater environment to reach the nouns, verbs, and adjectives that they’re prompted to find. Grammar Wonderland Elementary is designed for students in grades three through five. Both apps can be used my multiple students. Tags: free apps, free ipad app, free ipad apps, Grammar, language arts
Bitsboard – A Super iPad App for Spelling and Reading Practice
Bitsboard is a great iPad app for young students that Joanne Villis recommended to me. Bitsboard is a free iPad app that provides word games, memory games, spelling games, and reading practice activities, and dozens of other activities in one place. On the Bitsboard app students can learn new vocabulary words, how to tell time, and how to count money. Students can also use the app to learn basic geography. When students first open Bitsboard on their iPads they will have six topics shown on their homescreens. The part of Bitsboard that I like the best is the catalog of topics from which students can pick. Tags: efl, ELL, ESL, foreign languages, free apps, free ipad apps, ipad apps, language arts, reading, spelling
16 iOS Apps for Schools
I often receive emails from developers of education apps, so I thought that it might be useful to share some of the fantastic applications that are being created to support learning: 1) Happi Spells - ”Happi Spells” is a crossword spelling game where children can practice spelling by dragging letter tiles on to 48 different mini crossword puzzles. Compete for “snails” and try to improve your own high score! 2) I Learn With – Languages! - A fun educational game to help children aged from 3 to 7 years old to learn their first words and short sentences in a foreign language. Find out more in the video below: 3) DK The Human Body App – An amazing application with clear information and incredible illustrations which helps you to learn about the human body. 4) Sing your times tables with Percy Parker – I’ve used this app in school a number of times and the children love singing along and learning their multiplication tables with Percy! Which iOS apps do you use in your classroom?
