iPad+Apps+We+Like

Shared by the former director of TechSets from San Diego County of Education at Lead 3.0 conference - some may be repeats, but there are some new ones: []

Need some help with the iPad's functions? Check out this site for help with apps like Facetime and Maps. []

This site has actual projects that included the use of apps. Learn how to incorporate some rather than have them be standalone. []

This was a presentation by SJ Brooks for the recent Lead 3.0 conference. It contains a lot of great links, as well as other resources. []

iTunes Account without Credit Card: []

Escondido iRead Program []

Escondido App Site []

Canby School District iOS Wiki []

http://www.teachwithyouripad.wikispaces.com - a searchable wiki for everything iPad --Sharon

Escondido Union's App Spreadsheet: Correlated to Standards -Shane

Apple's Volume Purchase Program info: @http://learninginhand.com/vpp More of the same: http://iear.wikispaces.com/VPP-Step+By+Step+Instructions -Shane

"Airsketch" - Awesome app for writing on documents with your finger. Students can access a pdf format test online, annotate it with work and answers, it gets saved on the ipad, and it can be emailed to the teacher! BAM! -Shane

Here is another ipad wiki - really good! http://ipadschools.wikispaces.com/ -Shane

"Stack the States" is a great and fun app. -Shane

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Wi-Fi Finder is a nice tool, especially when you are not at home or work where you have access to a wireless account. It searches for free wi-fi where you are. --Sharan Merchant

I like the web application Atomic Web - it is free, and allows tabbed browsing, and the ability to increase the size of the text on websites you visit, rather than just increasing the resolution with the pinch maneuvers. With increasing the size of the text only, you can read what is on the page easier, without then having to scroll from side to side. You can also save settings for certain favorite websites, and it can also emulate Safari if there are sites that work better with that.

A popular app with high school students is Heytell. This app is basically voice texting; send a voice message rather than in words. Great when intonation is important in the message you are sending as that is completely lost when texting. --Sharon St. Clair

Emoji is a great free app for the I phone but I need to figure out how to use it on the iPad this gives characters faces and other icons to add into your message. You toggle to emoji right from your keyboard. --Marjorie Giordani.

[|BehaviorTrackerPro] is used in our special education classrooms. It has a good user-friendly interface and it will graph the data for reports. $29.99 --R. Tubbs.

I love that Discovery Education specifically formatted their site for the iPad. It has beautiful HD videos, including the Planet Earth series. Find it at mobile.discoveryeducation.com Login using your DE username & password. An overview of the site can be found at http://www.discoveryeducation.com/ipad/ --Rhona Grant

There are a few apps that have captured my interest. Bluster is an app geared from 2nd grade through 4th. It allows the student to practice with rhyming words, adjectives, homophones, prefixes, suffixes, & word roots. In the category of Science, I found a great 3d app for cell study called 3D Cellstain. The student can manipulate the cell to see different angles and views. Just 2 of the apps that have impressed me. ~ J. McClelland

Mocha RDP Lite is a great, free remote desktop app that allows you to control your Windows XP or Windows 7 computer. All you need is the name of your computer (click start, run, type cmd and hit enter, and then type hostname and press enter) and it will connect and let you log in to your computer from anywhere on the CSD network. -- Julie Munrath

Doceri Free Evaluation Copy App was shared by the Apple reps at the last tech. committee meeting. I tried it in my class today. It has a very simple interface. My students and I enjoyed using it much more than our class' Hitachi Starboard. The number 1 reason for this is that the desktop/background is mirrored on the iPad. The students loved this feature because it is very difficult to write on the Starboard because it is really just a blank slate. You have to guess or have the ability to look on the projector screen while writing and hope you won't run out of room on the tablet. Doceri gets 2 thumbs up from students!!! We used it first while correcting math problems. It was very easy to write, draw, change colors & erase. Next, we tried a CST review Jeopardy PPT. This also worked seamlessly.

Drawbacks to the free evaluation copy: There is a watermark on the background that states, "Evaluation Copy." It wasn't too distracting though. Also, the first time logging into the app, it asks for a username. In the documentation, it states that this is the e-mail address that was used when registering. This isn't the correct information. I sent in a support request around 11pm and had a response by recess the next morning. The correct username can be found by right-clicking on the desktop icon and choosing "settings". It will show the username it needs to allow the app to run. If I had an iPad to keep...I'd pay the $50 for the full version. :) --Rhona Grant