I just bought myself an after Christmas present--an iPad mini. What are your can't-do-without apps--school-related and personal?
Oh, glad you asked. Not that I have any answers, but we just got IPADS shortly before school ended for Christmas. I'm interested in the responses you get.
We have a bunch at school but no one wants to be in charge of them this year as it takes forever to update them all (about 10 hours).
We have a set of 15 iPad minis at school that are available to sign out; my good friend is our Technology Lead Teacher and she has responsibility for them. They only have a few apps on them right now and most of those have a strong primary slant. I know that one thing I'd like to use mine for is to take pictures of student work to create digital/anecdotal files.
class dojo educreations science 360 flow free candy crush toca band 4 pics 1 word chicktionary minecraft pizza 1
All of my students use Edmodo for classroom assignments. I can post quizzes and short answers that I want them to respond to and links to stories that we might be reading online. I can grade there assignments directly from the app.
How do you like it so far? What made you choose the mini over the regular size? I don't think I'd like anything smaller than the regular size, unless I already had the reg. size & wanted the mini for being on-the-go a lot.
Richard Byrne, who writes the remarkable Free Technology for Teachers blog at www.freetech4teachers,com, has recently launched a a blog that's specific to iPads: http://ipadapps4school.com/.
A couple of reasons for choosing the mini--price and portability. I don't have any issues with the size of the display and love that it's easy to throw in any bag or purse I'm carrying. The fact that it was under $300 (Canadian!) made the decision an easy one.
Our special ed teachers are having some success with class dojo. It's used in elementary a lot, but it's working at MS too.
I almost bought myself one yesterday. I talked myself out of it, but now I'm wishing I had gone ahead and gotten it.
I would agree. I do not use it all the time. When I use it for whole class, it's for something like staying on task during Daily 5 or raising hand before speaking. The sounds the I-pad makes allows the kids to know I am catching someone being good, or bad, but they do not know who. Works like a charm.
Educreations Flipagram Dropbox Tellagami Any QR code app BrainPop Jr. has a free movie of the week app as well.
School: Socrative - get students to take quizzes, or exit tickets, or respond and vote on responses Educreations is great! CK12 has a great app, based off the website, though I can't remember the name right now. My kids (my own kids, not my students) use some Montessori math apps, with are good. And Memory Match. They love Temple Run. Personal: Pinterest Words with Friends Facebook app
Personal: Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, Moon Phase lol: werewolf howl for full moon), tide charts, games (Words with Friends, Candy Crush, etc), bank, Netflix, Amazon Prime, quite a few TV station apps (PBS is good), iZip, Urbanspoon, calculator, Weatherbug, Yoga and Pilates videos... School: I don't bring my iPad into the classroom. It's one thing that I try really hard to keep for just me, but I do have a few - our online grade book has an app, Evernote, and My Library. I do bring the iPad in for my kid doing community service hours. She's scanning my books into My Library and coding them for me.
My lines between school and personal are somewhat blurred... And almost all of these apps are free, I have a personal principle about that because otherwise it would be way too easy to overspend! Personal: Evernote, mint.com, feedly, twitter, kindle, ted talks, youtube, dictionary School (I work with kids mostly 1:1 in resource so sometimes I'll let them use my ipad as reinforcement, so some of these apps are for kids to use): Prezi, khan academy, sushi monster (math practice), digit whiz, WWP vocab, stack the states, timer touch, too noisy (love it!), dictionary and evernote I use for school too.
I'm an SLP. Personal: Zinio, Next Issue (soon), Sephora, a couple navigational apps, few discussion boards, relaxing sounds, few retail stores, my local newspaper School: Lots of stories where the narrator reads aloud, articulation apps, language apps by Super Duper, comprehension, comparisons, parts of speech, sentences, syn/ant, idioms, emotions, pargmatics, descriptions, word searches, crosswords, Scrabble
