iPads

= Elementary iPad Apps Seminar = This summer I attended a seminar for using iPads in the classroom with students. Following is a list of apps and links to information about them:

||  || Create stunning videos! Turn your photos, video clips, and music into stunning video masterpieces to share with everyone. Fast, free, and shockingly easy! || ||  || An all-in-one solution for the use of iPads in the classroom. Nearpod makes your lessons more engaging through the use of interactive multimedia presentations. || ||  || MasteryConnect makes it simple to **share and discover common formative assessments** and **track mastery** of state and **Common Core standards**. Built-in grading tools **save teachers time**. || ||  || Popplet is a platform for your ideas providing a graphic organizer-like interface (similar to Inspiration on our computers). || ||  || Create your own flashcards or use from Cramberry's extensive data set of flash cards already made. || ||  || Share a great idea... Explain a tricky concept... Help kids with their homework. ||  || A social drawing and guessing game || ||  || Create an electronic storybook. || ||  || Find and download photos, clip art, to your own Photos collection, or to Dropbox. || (not currently available, but I'll keep looking) ||  || The fastest, simplest way to search Google Images and download to photos on your iPad. || ||  || Is a mobile digital storytelling appliction. Create a digital story in three simple steps. || ||  || Design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. || ||  || Create your own lip-synched videos. || ||  || Turns your iPad into a collaborative whiteboard allowing you to draw and chat realtime with others. || ||  || Turn your photographs into narrated slideshow movies to share with others. || [|QR Code Maker] ||  || QR code creators || ||  || Combines school folders with powerful note-taking and classroom tools like calculators, conversion tables, and file sharing. || ||  || Create your own unique shows with animation and audio in real time. || ||  || Collaborate with friends and family using this drawing app. || ||  || Finger paint and use stamps to create and share drawings. || ||  || Turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. ||
 * [|Animoto]- Free
 * [|Nearpod]- Free
 * [|Common Core]- Free
 * [|Popplet Lite]- Free
 * [|Cramberry Flashcards]- Free
 * [|Screenchomp]- Free
 * Send helpful tutoring videos home with students
 * Allow kids to create videos that help their classmates
 * Explain complexities from afar
 * Record your most recent brilliant idea
 * Share doodles with friends and family ||
 * [|Draw Something Free]
 * [|Storykit]- Free
 * PhotoFinder Ace - Lite
 * PhotoFind- Free
 * [|Storyrobe]- $.99
 * [|Explain Everything]- $2.99
 * [|Sockpuppet]- Free
 * [|GroupBoard]- Free
 * [|SonicPic]- $2.99
 * i-nigma- Free
 * [|Totes m' Notes]- Free
 * [|PuppetPals HD]- Free
 * [|Whiteboard Lite]- Free
 * [|Doodle Buddy]- Free
 * [|Educreations]- Free

**All Subjects/General:**
iAnnotate - [|Keynote] - Keynote makes creating a world-class presentation — complete with animated charts and transitions — as simple as touching and tapping. [|iMovie] - Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app for iPhone, iPod touch, and the amazing new iPad 2 [|Pages] - Pages lets you create, edit, and view documents wherever you are. [|Numbers] - A spreadsheet application [|Inspiration Maps] - This App is ideal for brainstorming, analyzing, and organizing information. If you are familiar with the desktop version of Inspiration, this is a great port to the iPad. [|BrainPOP Featured Movie] - Tim and Mobi on the iPad! All access to BrainPOP's 750+ Movie library and Quizzes if your district subscribes. [|Whiteboard] - Collaborate with friends and family with Whiteboard, the easy-to-use collaborative drawing app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. [|iBooks] - a ereader book store [|eClicker Presenter] / [|eClicker Audience] - A completely redesigned clicker App that has tons of new features. Turns your iPad into a clicker system. The teacher needs the presenter App and the students need the Audience App. This App is highly recommended!! [|ComicLife] - It’s the funnest, easiest and fastest way ever to create photo comics on a mobile device. [|TypeDrawing] - TypeDrawing is a really easy app to use, but it's perfect for creating TYPOGRAPHY ART and UNIQUE WATERMARK over your photos. [|Animoto] - Animoto turns the pictures on your iPhone into beautiful music videos! It takes just a few minutes to make one, and then you can share and collect them with your friends [|Discovery Education] - Educational videos [|Mobile Mouse] - Mobile Mouse instantly transforms your iPad into a wireless mouse and trackpad for your computer. [|Professor Garfield Cyberbullying] - Through comic strips, questions and ansers and problem solving, Garfield teaches what cyberbullying is and how to prevent it. [|Sundry Notes] - Text, images, audio recording, tables, real-time WiFi collaboration, wireless sync with the cloud, and much more! [|Blackboard Presenter] - This app turns your iPad to blackboard presenter. [|Little Artist HD] - Little Artist is a super easy to use finger painting app for kids of all ages !! [|CK12.Org] - free online textbooks [|Templates for Elementary Students] - works for all ages [|Notability] - text to speech or just a note taking app [|Overdrive] - allows you to check out books from any public library [|Teach Me: Kindergarten]

**Language Arts:**
[|Toontastic] - Create your own stories on line using the story arch and our animated artwork. [|Book Creator] - Create your own iBooks right on the iPad. (//Allows everything except video//) [|Popplet] - Popplet is a platform for your ideas. Popplet's super simple interface allows you to move at the speed of your thoughts [|Reading Trainer] - This app teaches you how to train your eyes and brain to read and comprehend text faster. Think of it as exercise for your reading skills. [|Super Why] - Help your child achieve the Power to Read with this collection Lof four SUPER WHY interactive games [|ABC Phonics Word Sight] - Learn Dolch sight words the fun and easy way. [|Dr. Suess][|'s ABC] - The beloved classic "Dr. Seuss's ABC" is now available for your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. [|Word Magic] - Teaches young children how to read and recognize letters. [|Animated Rhymes 3] - This App contain 2 Rhymes (1) Pussy Cat (2)The Dog Says Bow,Wow. [|StarFall] - The "ABCs" section of Starfall.com's well-loved website [|SpellBoard] - Monday, we get our weekly words. Wednesday, we have our pre-quiz and Friday is the spelling test. [|Story Wheel] - Story Wheel” is an educational game that improves your child’s cognitive abilities. [|Shakespeare in Bits] - This is the Free Lite edition of Shakespeare In Bits: Romeo & Juliet. [|Preposition Builder] - PrepositionBuilder™ is designed to help elementary aged children learn the correct use of prepositions and learn how prepositions can change the meaning of a sentence. [|Conversation Builder] - ConversationBuilder™ (Patent Pending) is a Conversation Simulator designed to help elementary aged children learn how to have multi-exchange conversations with their peers in a variety of social settings. [|Language Builder] - Language Builder is designed to help children accomplish the following educational goals: 1) Improve sentence ideation ; 2) Improve sentence formation; and 3) Improve receptive and expressive language. [|Question Builder] - Question Builder is designed to help elementary aged children learn to answer abstract questions and create responses based on inference.  [|Sentence Builder] - Sentence Builder is designed to help elementary aged children learn how to build grammatically correct sentences.  [|Story Builder] - Story Builder is designed to help children accomplish the following goals: 1) Improve paragraph formation; 2) Improve integration of ideas; and 3) Improve higher level abstractions by inference.

Books (not in the iBooks App) [|The Three Little PIgs HD] [|A Story Before Bed]

**Math:**
[|MathBoard] - MathBoard is a stunning app for teaching addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems [|MATHsKOOL 1] - MATHsKOOL 1 contains twelve activities designed to develop numeracy skills. [|Free Graphic Calculator] - With the highest number of available mathematical functions, you will be able to solve almost every mathematical problem you can imagine [|Ruler] - Use your finger to drag the marker across the screen. Actual dimensions will be instantly displayed. [|Math Quizzer] - Math Quizzer is an interactive and fun way to, not only learn, but also to boost your skills in; Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division [|Ace Kids Math Games] - Easily teaches kids how to Count, Add, and Subtract VISUALLY using fun animations with a prize reward system for completing each level. [|Math Bingo] - The object of Math BINGO is to get a pattern of five BINGO Bugs in a row by correctly answering math problems. [|iFactor Quadratics] - This is a simple application that will factor quadratic equations, if possible [|eSolver HD] - eSolver HD enables you to solve quadratic equations in a very simple way. [|Math Flash Cards] - Math Flash Cards is a fun to use math drill application that looks and works just like the old paper flash cards. [|Numerate: Count, Add and Subtract] - Learn how to recognize numbers (1-20) and explore simple addition and subtraction with interactive calculations. [|MakeChange] - Practice counting change and doing addition problems. [|Equation] - EQUATION is a very fast and easy tool to solve Quadratic Equations. [|Park Math] - Park Math introduces early math concepts to children in Preschool and Kindergarten (ages 1-6). [|MotionMath] - By playing Motion Math, learners improve their ability to perceive and estimate fractions in multiple forms. [|Math Ninja Lite] - Teaches basic concepts of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, to more advanced and complicated problem solving such as mixed operator usage. [|Math Ninja] - Use your math skills to defend your treehouse against a hungry tomato and his robotic army in this fun action packed game! [|Motion Math Zoom] - They'll have a blast zooming through the number line as they master place value. [|Pizza Fractions] - In chef's pizzeria your child masters the concept of naming simple fractions using pizza picture examples [|Counting Money] - Great app to practice making money [|Operation Math] - Designed for children ages 5 to 12, Operation Math teaches basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division through interactive game play that turns boring tables into a global adventure. [|Let's Do Math] - Let's Do Math! is a fun game to practice your addition and subtraction skills.

Social Studies:
[|Geo Play 2] - States, Countries, International Capitals, Continents, Potpourri. [|The Presidency] - The Presidency application is an excellent educational reference for easy access to historical information regarding the 44 United States Presidents. [|GeoMaster] - In GeoMaster - US State Game, your goal is to place as fast and as accurately as possible all US states on a map. [|Stack the States] - Stack the States makes learning about the 50 states fun! [|Early Jamestown] - Victory Productions presents an interactive textbook exploration of the early days of the Jamestown settlement and the state of Virginia. [|Era of Dino Lite] - Here you will find descriptions of more than 330 dinosaurs and some information about teh time periods of the Mesozoic era.

**Science:**
[|3D Sun] - "3D Sun" lets you carry a virtual window onto today's sun, right in your pocket. [|Stars] - Stars is a light application that displays the 88 constellations in the sky [|Bobo Explores Light] - Hold a fully functional science museum in the palm of your hand! [|3D Brain] - Discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness. [|Molecules] - Molecules is an application for viewing three-dimensional renderings of molecules and manipulating them using your fingers. [|Starwalk] - Star Walk enables you to point your iPad at the sky and see what stars, constellations, and satellites you are looking at in real-time. [|SolarWalk] - This 3D Solar System model enables you to navigate through space and time, observe all the planets in close-up, learn their trajectories, inner structure, history of their exploration, points of interest and more. [|NASA VIZ] - This is the NASA Visualization Explorer, the coolest way to get stories about advanced space-based research delivered right to your iPad.

Electives/Other: [|iSign3D] - Introducing an innovative application for learning the American Sign Language alphabet for the iPad! Source: Palm Beach Schools

to use with elementary students