Top 20 Must-Have Educational iPhone & iPad Apps Used By Real Teachers in the Classroom - iPhone app article - Shara Karasic With the advent of the 2011/2012 school year, teachers who have access to mobile technology are scrambling to find the best education apps for the iPod Touch, iPad and iPhone. Educators use apps for everything from communicating with students to inspiring creativity to dissecting virtual frogs. Luckily, we have lots of educators (including Apple Distinguished Educators) on Appolicious who share their lists of the best education apps for elementary, middle school, junior high, and high school. These are the education apps most listed by educators on Appolicious. 1. 3D Brain (iPad, iPhone. Reviewed by educator lmorris: “This is a great learning tool for any student. Subject/Grade: Science (Biology). 4-12. Listed by: Alline, techsupv, and SkylineiPads. 2. Reviewed by educator lmorris: “This is a great app for learning about priceless pieces of art. Subject/Grade: Art. 6-12. Listed by: justatitch, uwcsea and LaurieFowler. 3. Subject/Grade: Language Arts, Math, Science. 4. Listed by: klbruni331.
Autodesk Digital STEAM – 5 iPad Games for Simple Physics Lessons Autodesk Digital STEAM Applied Mechanics is a free iPad app that contains five simple games. The games are designed to let students experiment with five connected physics concepts. The concepts in the games are energy and work, force, power, loading, and mechanisms. In each game students control one variable to see how changing that variable affects other aspects of the equation. The five games that students can play are Energy & Work, Forces, Power, Loading, and Mechanisms. Autodesk Digital STEAM could be a good app for introducing elementary school students to some basic physics concepts. Tags: free app, free apps, free ipad app, free ipad apps, Math, Math apps, Mathematics, Maths The iPad Web Design A few months ago, we published a set of resources for iPhone developers, covering a huge range of different types of resource. From podcasts and conferences to design kits and frameworks. Today we’re doing something similar, but specifically with designing websites for the iPad in mind. It won’t be quite as extensive (let’s face it, the iPad is still fairly new!) Getting Started The main focus of this article relates to designing websites for the iPad. That said, if you’re wanting to develop a native application, there’s a considerably more complex process. You can either register for free if you’d like just the basic access to Apple’s SDK, or pay $99 per year to have the ability to test applications on your iPad itself, and submit them to the App Store. Once you’ve done one of the above, you’re ready to get started! Apple’s Resources Though focused primarily on native app development, Apple do have a few great documents that relate to web design – or interface design in general.
Brad Spirrison: These Biology and Ecology Apps Will Really Put Some Life Into Your iPad While there is no app out there that can explain the meaning of life to you and your kids, there are a number of touch-based educational offerings that explore all forms of life on our planet. Whether you have a toddler just beginning to learn the names of animals or a high schooler who wants to learn about the inner workings of a body without having to dissect a frog, there are many great biology, ecology and life sciences apps to hop into. Here are five of the best. Frog Dissection (iPad $3.99) Everyone is curious what the lies beyond the skin. -Curated by Gordon Shupe Ansel & Clair's Adventures in Africa (iPad $3.99) In this app, students are guided through the Nile Valley, Sahara Desert, and Serengeti Plains by Ansel, a travel photographer from another planet, and Clair, a brilliant robot. -Curated by Julene Reed Ecosystems HD (iPad $2.99) This app is truly an interactive textbook, with lots of pictures, and easy to understand text that is accessible for all ages.
iPad web development tips Posted at April 6, 2010 09:00 am by Nicholas C. Zakas Tags: iPad, JavaScript, Safari By now you, or someone you know, has an iPad. Semantics aside, there’s a lot of information about how your site can be made to best work with the iPad, and I’d like to add a few nuggets to that body of knowledge. User-agent string The previously-linked post describes the iPad Safari user-agent to be in the following format: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B334b Safari/531.21.10 This was the user-agent string during the beta testing phase. Mozilla/5.0(iPad; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B314 Safari/531.21.10 You’ll note the addition of “iPhone” in the operating system segment of the user-agent string. This means a single user-agent string sniff for “iPhone” returns true in all three cases. JavaScript iPad detection Screen dimensions and orientation
How we used technology to develop student-led learning in science | Teacher Network | Guardian Professional Science lessons: using traditonal learning styles alongside technology allows children to complete tasks independently, says David Andrews. Photograph: Frank Baron for the Guardian Our year 6 students have been using iPads and iPods since September on a one-to-one basis to support learning, develop productivity, independence and impact on pupil progress across the curriculum. The devices haven't been used for everything; but they are available as a tool to help with their learning for a variety of tasks. Alongside this there have also been daily occasions when the best tool for the job has been pencil and paper, scissors and glue, laptop and printer, a good book and silence. We gave our students an overview of different apps and then encouraged them to be creative with how they use them across different lessons and tasks. In science, topics have been introduced to pupils as a series of learning objectives with the aim of developing their skills and understanding of the topics.
Designing Web Apps for the iPad What’s stopping you from creating a functional app/website for the iPad? My answer was the Objective-C coding language, time constraints and having to deal with the infamous Apple App Store. But if you’re a web designer, like me, and you think that designing for the iPad is outside the realm of possibility — think again. Love it or hate it, the iPad is an incredible medium. In this article, I will guide you through my creative process in which I developed a simple but useful iPad web app in just one weekend: BracketSlash.com. I do not consider myself a professional iPad app developer, so if you feel a little apprehensive, let my experience be an inspiration to you. Why Did I Create a Web App for the iPad? I created a web-based iPad app mainly for my own personal use. My particular project is a news aggregating app that makes it easy to take 5 minutes every couple hours and keep up-to-date on news stories from a variety of sources. Start with a Functional Goal Draw It Out! Know the Limitations
5 Great iPad Apps to Explore Human Body in 3D Science is one of the areas where the impact of technology has been markedly observed. It triggered an unprecedented revolution and reshaped people's knowledge about the world. It has also enhanced the way science is being instructed inside schools and colleges. Experimentations are being facilitated by the use of technology and students are able to learn and get engaged in simulated experiments that mimic the real life problems. This revolution is being carried on to the mobile platforms. 1- 3D Brain Use your touch screen to rotate and zoom around 29 interactive structures. 2- Essential Skeleton Essential Skeleton 2 is a fully functional, self-contained app covering the essential anatomy of the skeleton. 3- Virtual Heart Virtual Heart lets you explore multiple real-time views of the human heart, using the same highly realistic visual elements as the iconic Giant Heart at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago. 4- Powers of Minus Ten 5- Virtual Cell
Making an iPad HTML5 App June 4th, 2010 About a month ago or so, Amy and I release a little (literally, it’s about 5k) HTML5 iPad App for looking up time zones. I don’t mean select-box wasteland like all other time zone sites (who likes select boxes anyway?!), I mean a nicely polished, touch-enabled UI that works offline, too. The site uses no images (‘cept for the ad), no JavaScript framworks, and no external CSS, and fits quite comfortably in a few k’s of gzipped HTML. First visit the site on your iPad (desktop browsers work, too!) Our first attempt ran really great on the Apple-supplied SDK iPad Simulator. And here’s what we did: 1. At first, we used a quite complex -webkit-gradient for the gradients in the “day bars” for the various cities. We replaced those bars with a big canvas element that sits in the background, and we redraw only those portions of the screen that undergoes changes (the different highlighting when you drag around the green bar). 2. Also a major source of slowdown. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
11 UI Kits for iPhone and iPad Development Last week we posted a collection of printable wireframing templates which included some for iPhone and iPad app design. These are great for communicating early mockups and ideas, but when it’s time for those ideas to make the jump from paper to the computer screen, it’s helpful to have a library of UI elements at your disposal. Since we love saving you time, we’ve found some for you. iPad GUI Kit in PSD Format iPhone GUI PSD 3.0 Free iPhone Toolbar Icons Ultimate iPhone Stencil for Omnigraffle iPhone UI Vector Elements Free iPhone Toolbar Icons Yahoo! iPad GUI PSD iPad Vector GUI Elements iPad Stencil for Omnigraffle iPhone PSD Vector Kit About the Author Henry Jones is a web developer, designer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience. Related Posts 468 shares 8 Essential iPad Apps for Bloggers Before I begin, let me just say what this list is, and what it isn’t. Read More 930 shares 30 Inspiring iPad App Websites
iPhone and iPad Development GUI Kits, Stencils and Icons | Speckyboy Design Magazine Apple don’t have any comprehensive pre-built GUI resources for app development, making it very hard to match the uniformed style of the iPhone or the iPad. You will need to create your own. To help streamline your iPhone app design and development, we have put together a fairly comprehensive collection of iPhone & iPad GUI kits that will allow you to focus on developing rather than having to design everything from scratch. Within this post you will find complete GUI kits and stencils, iPhone GUI elements and PSDs and finally a collection of the best icon-sets perfectly suited for the iPhone. iPhone PSD Vector Kit This iPhone PSD Vector set, from Smashing Magazine and designed by Renee Rist, comes with several button elements as well as six different iPhone interface options. iPhone PSD Vector Kit » iPhone GUI PSD Design Template iPhone GUI PSD Design Template » iPhone Design Stencils – Yahoo Design Pattern Library This iPhone Yahoo! Ultimate iPhone Stencil (OmniGraffle) Matte iPhone UI This.