What iPad Can Do for You and Your Students
Please download the apps below before coming to the workshop.
It's really easy to find and install these apps if you open this page on your iPad and click these links:
- Pic Collage
- Edmodo
- i-nigma
- Up in Pieces
- iBooks
- Croak.it
- Comic Touch Lite
- Bump
- Scribble Press
- Haiku Deck
- Snapguide
- Splice
- ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard
Please bring a fully charged iPad and know your App Store iTunes ID and password so you can download free apps during the workshop. The Arizona K12 Center does have some iPads availabe for check out onsite.
Engage today's students with the hottest technology around: iPad. Former teacher Tony Vincent has specialized in using mobile computers for learning for a decade, and he has useful information, strategies, tips, and ideas to share. There are hundreds of apps for iPad that make it a fantastic teaching and learning tool. Spend the day learning iPad basics while exploring iPad's role in classrooms. You'll get hand-on and minds-on time with some of the hottest apps for teachers and students. Participants will learn about working with audio, images, comics, slideshows, video, jigsaw puzzles, eBooks, QR codes, puppet shows, and much more. In fact, the focus will be on workflows, that is, using a variety of apps to accomplish a task. Whether you have one iPad, a small set, or one for each and every student, you will leave with loads of ideas you can immediately put to use in your classroom!
Polls
- PollEverywhere.com
- Wordle.net for word clouds (doesn't work on iPad)
- Tagul.com for word clouds (doesn't work on iPad)
- WordItOut.com for word clouds (works on iPad)
Collages
Edmodo
- Edmodo.com
- Edmodo app allows for uploading photos and video from iPad
- Collect Student Creations with Edmodo video
QR Codes
- Scan QR codes with i-nigma app
- Create QR codes at qcode.kaywa.com
- 75 Ways to Say Good Job QR Code Enabled Poster
- Tony Vincent's video about QR codes
Puzzles
- Make any image into a jigsaw puzzle with Up in Pieces app
iOS Tips
- How to take a screenshot
- Zoom the screen
- Turn on Speak Text in Settings > General > Accessibility
- Guided Access locks iPad into one app
- AirServer for Mac or PC to wirelessly mirror iPad's screen to a computer
- Zwipes microfiber clothes for clearing fingerprints from the screen
- UVC Sanitizer Light for disinfecting without chemicals
- 3 pack of styluses for $1.20 with free shipping
- Giant Timer app
- iPad Tips eBook from Brownstown, Illinois (open in iBooks app)
Audio
- Croak.it app can record up to 30 seconds of audio and provide a URL
Comics
- Comic Touch Lite app for putting speech bubbles and captions on top of a photo
- Make multi-panel and multi-page comics using paid apps Comic Life or Strip Designer
Bump
- Transfer images from one iPad to another using Bump app
- Transfer from iPad to a Mac or PC using the website bump
eBooks
- Create your own eBook using Scribble Press app
- Read eBooks in iBooks app
Slideshows
- Haiku Deck for making beautiful slideshows
How-Tos
- Snapguide app
- View how-tis at snapguide.com
Movies
- Mad Lips app ($1.99) for adding a talking mouth to any photo
- iMovie app ($4.99) for making movies and movie trailers
- Splice app for making movies for free
Stations
- pen.io for making instant webpages
- “When we choose for ourselves, we are far more committed to the outcome–by a factor of five to one.” Harvard Business Review
- Collaborative Drawing Tools: drawings.pen.io
- Little Speller: speller.pen.io
- One-iPad Classroom: oneipad.pen.io
- Talking Heads: heads.pen.io
- Puppets: puppets.pen.io
Screencasts
- ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard app
- Educreations app
- Explain Everything app ($2.99)
Resources
- ClassDojo.com and ClassDojo app for recording and tracking behavior
- Flipboard app for reading a personalize magazine
- #iosedapp
- #ipaded
- #ipadchat
- Gameshow Soundboard
- Random Educational App
Word cloud from October 13th's workshop. "App Used Regularly"
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