Last year my school district had a mix of access to iPads. Some classes were 1:1. Some classes had access to 5 in their classroom, plus use of a cart when they wanted to work whole group. Also some classes only had access to a cart. This school year we are going to be a bit more consistent throughout the district, but that means some teachers will have less access than last year. In the end this will allow all students to have a similar experience throughout the district. Grades K-1 classes will have 5 iPad 2nd gens per class, grades 2-3 classes will have 10 iPad minis, grades 4-5 classes will have 10 iPad 2nd gens per class, grade 6 will have 1:1 MacBooks, and grades 7-12 will have 1:1 MacBook Airs. Beyond iPads in the classrooms, each of the six elementary schools will have at least one cart, but often two carts to supplement the packs of iPads so that when teachers want to use iPads whole group, that will be an option.
My Tech Integrator partner and I adjusted last years list of apps to create a new list of free apps that will be loaded onto all iPads this current school year. We tried to mainly focus on creation apps. We will be using Meraki to manage and download apps onto all iPads that will be distributed throughout the district. Teachers will be able to customize their class sets by using individual apple IDs to upload other apps that they feel will compliment their classroom needs. Below is the list of apps that every classroom will start out with. The table also includes ways to integrate the apps and sharing options.
Apps for SAD6 iPads
Grades 2-5
Created August 2013
App Title
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Cost
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Subject or Topic
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Ways to Integrate
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Sharing Options
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BaiBoard
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Free
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General
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Interactive and collaborative whiteboard in real time. Work with classes who are not within your building, state, or even country. Import PDF, images, or maps.
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Save a screenshot of boards in other apps like Evernote and Dropbox within the App. Tweet the board, send via email, or save in photo gallery.
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PicPlayPost
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Free
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General
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Not only create a collage of photographs, but also include videos in your collage.
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Twitter, email, photo library, copy to send as MMS, and YouTube.
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Loopster
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Free
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General
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Create videos including title boxes, sound effects, videos and photos. Like iMovie!
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Save to camera roll.
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Evernote
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Free
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General
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Evernote is a tool that can be used on both computers and handheld devices. At it's basic form it is a place to store written work. However, if you get creative, Evernote can be much more than a digital portfolio and reach all levels of the SAMR Model. One of my favorite uses is to track fluency. Students take a picture of a passage or story, record themselves reading, then reflect on what they need to do in order to improve their fluency.
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email
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Moldiv
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Free
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General
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Great Pic Collage creating app. Many templates to choose from. A fun way for students to express vocabulary meaning, create a report on a topic, or sort their understanding of subject matter.
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Save to Camera Roll, send to other apps, or Tweet the creation.
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Popplet Lite
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Free
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General
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Create mind-mapping webs using text, the drawing tool, links, and insert photos. Great for students to map out a story, create a report, or organize their thoughts.
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Email .pdf or .jpeg or save .jpeg to camera roll. Must have paid version to save as a .pdf.
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iTalk
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Free
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LA
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Students record themselves, listen to themselves, adjust for next time.
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email file
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Recordium
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Free
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LA/Math
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Students record themselves, listen to themselves, adjust for next time.
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Share to a web address where you can download the file as Quicktime.
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Google Drive
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Free
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General
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Students can now collaborate on a Google Doc while using the iPad. Real-time is not as fast as on a laptop, but very useful. The chat feature is now enabled too, along with changing font and various other text tools.
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Collaborate on the same document with others, share, and email options.
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PaperPort Notes
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Free
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General
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A note taking app that not only allows the user to type notes, but notes can be created in their own handwriting. Pdfs can be imported and written on or typed on. Students can use it to annotate on any pdf document that the teacher wants them to. I have used it to fill in paperwork for my district, sign my name to a document and send it back to district central office.
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Email documents, drop into Dropbox, Google Docs, Evernote, Showbie, and I am sure many more apps.
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Common Core
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Free
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LA/Math
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List of Common Core Standards and resources
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None
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PuppetPals
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Free
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General
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Students can create a script for characters and then act it out. Great App for teaching character, setting, and the writing process.
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Export to camera role. From there the video can be emailed or sent to Youtube.
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Toontastic
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Free
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General
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Students can create animated stories, working on plot, character development and setting- reminders of the various story elements are available in text and audio.
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Toontube
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StoryKit
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Free
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General
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Students can create books using photos they have taken with the camera or imported into the photo library. Students can also read the text to add voice to the book or add their own sound effects.
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The story will be uploaded to StoryKit, after uploading the user will receive a private web address to share via email, or save the link to put on a blog, website, or wiki.
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Book Creator Free
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Free
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General
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Students can create story books and add illustrations by uploading from photo gallery or taking a picture through the app. Voice recording is also available.
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Open as ePub in iBooks or other ePub readers. Also email or save the ePub in Evernote, Dropbox, Google Drive or other cloud storage.
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Comic
Touch
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Free
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General
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Students can add text to photos via text bubbles.
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email
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PhotoCard
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Free
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General
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Students can practice friendly letter writing and email finished cards.
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email card
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Digital Passport
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Free
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Common Sense Media - Instruction and activities for Digital Citizenship. Installs from a file; not from the App store.
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Evernote Peek
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Free
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General
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Create Flashcards: While in Evernote create a notebook for what you want flashcards for, ex. math facts. Then created notes within the notebook with the question as the title and the answer in the body. Once in Evernote Peek download your notebook. Voila, instant flash cards.
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Email notebook to someone else so that they can use your flash cards.
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KidBlog
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Free
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General
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Teacher and students blog within one classroom account.
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Make public for the world to read.
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VoiceThread
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Free
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General
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Bring photos to life with voice and collaborators.
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Collaborate on projects. On VoiceThread site.
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Merriam-
Webster
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Free
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General
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Online dictionary. You can type in or say the word if you’re not sure how to spell it. Option to read the word to the student once on page.
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None
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Skitch
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Free
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General
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Students can express what they are thinking through drawing. The picture can be saved as a photo and then used in other applications as the background, like Fotoflo, Fotobabble, and Screenchomp.
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Save to photo library, email, or tweet the drawing.
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Vimeo
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Free
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General
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Students record themselves reading, upload to Vimeo and then post on their blog.
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Edit and
upload videos to
Vimeo account. Email the link to the video.
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Sushi Monster
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Free
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Math
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Great app that kids can practice their addition and multiplication facts on- they find common factors and addends.
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None
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Penultimate
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Free
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General
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Linked with Evernote. Create handwritten notes and import pictures.
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email and save to camera roll.
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Pic Collage
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Free
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General
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Freeform Pic Collage builder. Add as many photos to the collage plus add stickers and text.
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email as a jpeg or postcard, share via Twitter and Tumblr within the app or save to photo library.
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QRReader
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Free
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General
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Create and read QR Codes.
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email, Twitter, photo album, Flickr, Tumblr, plus other otions.
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Math Hero
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Free
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Math
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Practice math fact fluency (-, +, x) Able to change level of difficulty for differentiation
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None
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Edmodo
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Free
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General
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Edmodo is an awesome virtual learning environment. With Edmodo teachers can customize learning for all of their students. For example, students can take a quiz on Edmodo and based on the quiz results, know what their next step in learning should be. All quiz and test results are added to the teacher's grade book for convenience. Immediate feedback!!! The classroom teacher would let the students know what their next steps would be after a quiz. For example those that got a certain amount correct could go onto a new concept via video lesson, while some may revisit the lesson with the classroom teacher and others may just need a little more practice.
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Students can turn in assignments, take quizzes/tests, chat with other students plus teachers, and access teacher approved links and videos.
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Telling Time Game
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Free
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Math
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Match the time on a digital clock with an analog clock.
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None
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Math Puppy
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Free
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Math
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Bingo, Challenge, Calculator tools. Practice math facts (-, =, /, x). Able to change difficulty for differentiation. Hard to tell when an answer is incorrect on “Challenge”.
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None
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Brainpop & BrainPopJr
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Free
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General
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One free movie featured each week for non-members. Our district renewed our membership this year. Student’s quiz scores are saved in the app.
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None
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Pizza Fractions
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Free
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Math
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Intro to fractions and identifying the pictures with the right fraction.
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None
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Flash to Pass
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Free
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Math
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Students can practice any of their math facts and try to beat the timer. A good way to build math fact fluency.
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None
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Animoto
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Free
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Literacy
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Students can create “Book Trailers” - Used by Literacy Specialists.
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Socrative Teacher and student Apps
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Free
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General
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Student Response system for any subject. Can import quizzes or tests, or even have it open to flow with what is happening in the classroom. Use for “Parking Lot”
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When quiz, test, or questionnaire is finished the teacher can email the results to him/herself and then open it in a Google Spreadsheet or download results to computer.
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Google
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Free
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General
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Use to access Google Apps. Some limitations compared to working on App using a laptop.
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None
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Prezi
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Free
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General
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Presentation app where students can create, view and share information.
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Prezi site.
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Videolicious
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Free
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General
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Simple step by step video creating tool.
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email, YouTube, and Twitter.
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KidsDoodle
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Free
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General
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Students can design colorful artwork and movies.. Resemble light brights.... And share with others/ they could use to accompany a writing piece or practice spelling words.
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Once in photo library the pic can be shared via email or used in other Apps.
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Educreations
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Free
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General
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Students and teachers can add photos from their camera, library or search the web, they can also free draw on slides, add text and record audio to create demonstrations of skills, create presentations and stories.
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Can share via facebook, twitter, email and hyperlink
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Spelling City
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Free
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LA- Spelling
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Teachers can upload spelling lists or use lists uploaded by other teachers. Then students can practice their words through a series of educational practice activities.
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Only with registration. Taking a screen shot of their score is always an option. Then students can email their screen shot to their teacher.
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Thinglink
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Free
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General
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Create interactive posters. Dots become hyperlinks to text, recordings, webpages, or videos.
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Embed finished product on a website, wiki, or blog.
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Word Shaker HD
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Free
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LA-Spelling
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Think boggle- word Work activity to search for known words - you can customize the board to increase/decrease the letters available.
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None
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Qrafter
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Free
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General
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QR Code Generator and Reader.
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Take a screenshot and use in other applications, post on a website, or post around the classroom.
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Ask3
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Free
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General
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“Ask3 allows students and teachers to collaborate on lessons in and outside of the classroom. By turning your iPad into a recordable whiteboard, lessons can be posted into an Ask3 classroom where others can add text and video comments, questions and answers. Whether students are asking questions or answering them for others, peer to peer teaching is possible with Ask3- anywhere, and any time.
“ ...iTunes Store
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Need an account and then create a class for sharing.
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Hooked On Words
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Free
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LA-Spelling
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Like Boggle, students find words within a square of letters.
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None
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NearPod
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Free
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General
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A great way to collaborate with teachers/students.
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Screen sharing
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A Novel Idea
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Free
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LA
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Students can write a story and develop the character, setting etc.
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Email/iTunes
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Bluster
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Free
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Grammar
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Students work to match either prefixes, rhyming words or synonyms.
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None
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Wordventure
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Free
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Grammar (Part of speech)
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Like MadLibs, students enter parts of speech to make a funny story
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None
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Storylines for Schools
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Free
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LA-Writing
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It’s like the game of telephone for the ipad. Play with 3-9 players, first writes a sentence, the second illustrates, the third writes another sentence based on the drawing, compare your sentences.
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Email
Hyperlink
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Build A Word
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Free
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LA - word work
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The student can choose learn, practice, or test. Students can keep track of the words that they need to work on. Test results are saved in the history. Free version comes with -ck, sl-, fl-, cl-, and long vowel practice.
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None
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Sail Through Math
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Free
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Math
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Practice Math Facts
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None
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Morfo
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Free
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General
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Make a photo of a person or animal speak. Kind of like Voki except the user creates their own speaking avatar.
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Save in an email or save to camera roll.
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Haiku Deck
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Free
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General
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Presentation creator. User needs to have an account.
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Twitter, email, post to blog, PPT/Keynote or copy URL.
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Subtext
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Free
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LA
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Create a library with free books off from the internet. Stored in your Google account.
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None
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MyScript Calculator
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Free
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Math
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Calculator - instead of clicking on numbers and symbols, the user writes them on the app. The calculator will know the equation and answer it.
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email
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Everyday Math (All Free During Promotions)
Top-It
Name That Number
Beat the Computer
Fractions
Squeeze
Divisibility
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