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. Those six topics are emotions, animals, famous places, first sentences, introductory English vocabulary, and introductory Spanish vocabulary. Opening any of those topics takes students to their choice of eight practice activities including flashcards, true or false quizzes, word building practice, reading practice, and matching activities.
The part of Bitsboard that I like the best is the catalog of topics from which students can pick. 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. 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!
9) Jungle Time – Learning how to tell the time can be a difficult concept for some children. 9 Great iPad Apps for Teachers. We are back to you with another awesome list of some iPad apps we have meticulously handpicked for you. Just keep in mind that the apps listed below are new apps that are featured for the first time here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning, just in case some of you wonder why great apps like Dropbox, Evernote and several others have not been included. We have already reviewed those apps and you can access them Here. The commonality between all of these apps is that they were designed with teachers in mind.
They have a great educational value and can help educators perform a variety of tasks from tracking students behavior to creating to-do-lists. Here is the list of apps together with some descriptive lines taken from their official pages on iTunes. 1- The Elements : A Visual Exploration " A Visual Exploration lets you experience the beauty and fascination of the building blocks of our universe in a way you've never seen before 2- Teacher Assistant : Tracking Student Behavior. 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.
Students can control how quickly they move through the obstacles to find the correct word. Grammar Wonderland Elementary is designed for students in grades three through five. The concept of the game is the same as in the primary version, but new parts of speech are added. Both apps can be used my multiple students. Tags: free apps, free ipad app, free ipad apps, Grammar, language arts. Smart-Net Intranet. 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. And if you prefer to keep your travels a little closer to home, another new app this week lets you explore the art available on NYC's transit system, as well as plan your own transit art tour.
Check out the gallery above for a look at our favorite new apps from the week. The 25 Best Free iPad Apps. 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.
It’s all about iPads in education, Apple’s role in the future of learning, and much more than that. Want to get the mini-issue free when it comes out? Become a subscriber today by downloading the iPad app ! So you’ve got one or a few iPads that you want to use in the classroom.