Amazing+Apps

Amazing Apps- Please add to this list of amazing apps you're using in your classrooms. Pictures or video of the kids using the apps would be even better! __[]__ - This is a large google document full of iPad resources. [] http://teachwithyouripad.wikispaces.com/Blooms+Taxonomy+with+Apps [] [] [|-www.iear.org] - apps recommended by educators - awesome site! -Escondido Union School District - list of ipad apps by subject area -iPad apps shared by EdCamp Grand Rapids peeps
 * Links to information and lists about Apps**

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During the 1st Tech Tuesday a question was asked about Lesson Planning apps. At the time I (Emily Verbeke) didn't know of any and hadn't heard of any recommendations. PlanBook Touch came up in a google search but I know nothing about it but I added it to the list.


 * Area || App Name || Brief Description || Related Apps ||
 * Organization || [|Evernote] || Extension of your brain. Use to keep notebooks on students for writers workshop or intervention notes. The sky is the limit. ||  ||
 * Organization || [|Dropbox] || Cloudstorage. Access files from any computer connect to the internet ||  ||
 * Organization || [|AppShopper] || Use to create wish-lists and find out when apps go on sale ||  ||
 * Twitter || [|Ecofon for Twitter] || Twitter Application || Twipple ||
 * Twitter || [|Twipple] || Twitter Application || Ecofon ||
 * Organization || [|Flipboard] || Displays web content in magazine format || Zite ||
 * Organization || [|Zite] || Personalized magazine || Flipboard ||
 * Organization || [|AudioMemos] || Records audio ||  ||
 * Language Arts || [|Dragon Dictation] || Transcripts spoken word to text ||  ||
 * Organization || [|Teacher's Assistant] || Keep track of student actions, behavior, infractions and achievements ||  ||
 * Organization || [|GiantTimer] || Visual Timer || Timer+ ||
 * Organization || Timer+ || Visual Timer || GianTimer ||
 * Organization || [|Stick Pick] || Randomly pull student names ||  ||
 * Organization || [|Noterize] || View and annotate avilable PDFs or PowerPoint documents ||  ||
 * General || [|TED] || Continues video and articles of ideas worth spreading ||  ||
 * Any || [|iMovie] || Easily create videos. Great for teachers and students ||  ||
 * Organization || [|Corkulous] ||  || Pinterest ||
 * Organization || [|Quickoffice] || Create, edit, email, print Word, Excel and PowerPoint Files. Able to access cloud storage such as GoogleDocs, Dropbox, iDisk ||  ||
 * Organization || [|Confer Lite] || Note taking app that lets you record and keep track of the notes you take on your students; both individually and in small groups ||  ||
 * Organization || [|Pinterest] || Virtual cork board || Corkulus ||
 * Language Arts || [|iCard Sort] || App you can use for create card sorts ||  ||
 * Language Arts || [|TimedReading] || Student reads the passage and a words per minute is calculated (note: not correct words per minute) App contains a variet of passage levels and several passages per level. More passages available for purchase version ||  ||
 * Language Arts || [|SuperWhy] || App from PBS TV show. Has rhyming, story completion, ||  ||
 * Language Arts || [|FirstWords: Delux] || Displays words and letter tiles. Students drag letters to correct spot and then it says the word ||  ||
 * Language Arts || [|Toontastic] || Tool that empowers kids to draw, animate, and share their own cartoons through imaginative play. ||  ||
 * Language Arts || [|Book Creator] || Simple way to create your own iBooks. Send them to friends and even submit them to the iBookstore. ||  ||
 * Language Arts || [|Flashcards] || Able to create your own decks but also have access to online decks that are already created. Calculates % of correct (student says if they got it right or wrong) ||  ||
 * Language Arts || [|Pocket Phonics] || includes letter sounds, handwriting, and first words ||  ||
 * Math || [|Everyday Math Games] || Approximately 10 different ones. This link is only to one. Use the link to find the others ||  ||
 * Math || [|Number Line] || Practice putting fractions, decimals and percentages on to a number line. ||  ||
 * Any || [|ShowMe] || Whiteboard that allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. ||  ||
 * Any || [|Explain Everything] || Lets you annotate, animate and narrate explanations and presentations ||  ||
 * General || [|Page Scope Mobile] || Printing in PCCS copiers ||  ||
 * Lesson Planning || [|PlanBook Touch] || Lesson plan book app. I only found this through a google search. I do not know anyone using it. ||  ||