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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 – A Super iPad App for Spelling and Reading Practice

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. 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.

16 iOS Apps for Schools

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. 10 iPAd / iPhone Apps for Primary School Teachers. 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.

9 Great iPad Apps for Teachers

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. Also some of these apps are free and some are paid . 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.

Grammar Wonderland – A Fun Grammar Game for Your Students’ iPads. Grammar Wonderland is a pair of iPad apps from McGraw Hill.

Grammar Wonderland – A Fun Grammar Game for Your Students’ iPads

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. 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.

7 Apps You Don't Want To Miss [PICS]

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.

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