Week 6: iOS Apps
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Teacher Apps
- Nearpod
- Educreations
- Explain Everything: create flipped lessons
- SoundCloud
- Garageband
- Doceri – Turn your ipad into an interactive whiteboard; control your computer apps with annotation, not just showing your iOS apps
- Reflection: cheaper, show your iOS apps
- AirPlay – Share your content wirelessly
- 2Screens – Presentation app w/ annotations
- Paper – Annotations on a blank canvas
Student App Goals
- Using apps in a way that will promote 4 C’s
- Don’t mimic worksheets
- Don’t “go play”
Jo-Anne’s favorite apps
Jo-Ann Fox’s blog post: What an app needs to (not) be
Tony Vincent blog post: Ways to Evaluate Education AppsStudent Skills Review Apps
- iBooks (how to create an ibook via Keynote)
- Book-ish Apps – Like Alice in Wonderland and Dr. Seuss and Flick (OceanHouse Media has excellent books… they have the Dr. Seuss license)
- Sushi Monster
Student Creative Apps
promote 4 C’s: create, collaborate, use critical thinking skills, and communicate
- Skitch- for capturing and annotating images
- SimpleMind+ (free) mind mapping app
- Video apps= iMovie, Filmic Pro 2, Vintagio (silent movie)
- Puppet Pals- virtual puppet theater
- Sonic Pics- slideshow app allows you to voice record your narration
- Take a photo of a story; do a think-aloud
- Oral re-telling
- Summarize main ideas
- Snapguide: iOS app with step-by-step directions, tutorials
- Snapseed
- Match mood
- Use as a writing prompt
- Ken’s visual storytelling ideas
- stop motion
- iStop Motion: onion skins, .2 sec
- storytelling
Apps for Ed sites