100 iPad apps for education

http://www.fluency21.com/blogpost.cfm?blogID=2402

iPad as

Some of the learning activities that can be undertaken with an iPad in combination with selected apps.
http://edtechteacher.org/index.php/teaching-technology/mobile-technology-apps/ipad-as

Difficulty of finding info on BYOT

http://www.ictineducation.org/home-page/2012/6/26/byot-the-policy-that-dare-not-speak-its-name.html

Feedback from a school that deployed iPads

Interesting article from a school in the US.

What I Wish I’d Done Before Deploying iPads to 735 Middle Schoolers, Part 2
http://tericeschneider.com/?p=33

I have created a file of thoughts and ideas towards using technology at DC. I will post when back at school. Greg Mac

Sling note

Sling Note - An App for Web-based Note Taking

This would be a great benefit to kids with their online research. Now they would be able to 'remember' where they found their resources!

Middle Years iPad apps

From Florida USA. A list of apps they use in their middle school.
http://www.palmbeachschooltalk.com/groups/ipadpilot/wiki/ad829/Middle_School_iPad_Apps.html

HOW many apps???

Just FYI, there are now slightly in excess of 675,000 apps in the Apple App Store. One perverse mathematician at Slide2Learn calculated that if you laid the icons on the ground in the size they appear on an iPad screen, (about 1.4 cm wide), they would stretch for 9.5km. Also he estimated if you put together the icons of all the apps downloaded so far (2 billion or so) they would stretch to the moon.

Of these apps, 50,000 are in the Educational category. Many others have educational uses (like the two from my previous posts) but are not categorized as Educational.

Measuring angles with a mobile device

Both iOS and Android have apps for measuring angles. Android has one called Max Protractor that can be used by putting the device against the object, or by looking at it through a camera.

Max Protractor
 The iOS app, ImageAngle, measures through the camera and is super easy to use.

Image Angle

Using an iPad for Art

Got shown a fantastic app for 2D Art. Students can create works that look like oil paintings without the mess. Also gives students an opportunity to experiment in different media without being worried about mistakes, waste etc.


http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/art-set/id469918702?mt=8

Slide2Learn ning

In addition to the ipadeducators ning that Casey posted, this one is worth a look:

http://slidetolearn.ning.com/

Ipads: some articles and ideas

Great breakdown of how aps can be used in classroom under headings of what teacher wants students to do: annotate notes, reading, create presentation etc. http://edtechteacher.org/index.php/teaching-technology/mobile-technology-apps/ipad-as
This could be useful as an example of what technology could do, to inform before asking what others may want technology to do

How one school used 1:1 ipad program http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrVIRTfNO_A&list=PL9D19A2F2D3799093&index=19&feature=plpp_video

A preference for laptops over ipads http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com/still-sold-on-laptops-over-ipads/

Importance of technology suiting lesson/outcome and not making lesson suit technology http://mgleeson.edublogs.org/2012/02/11/ipads-cant-improve-learning-without-good-teaching-pt-1-note-taking/.

This website has heaps of great links: blogs, videos etc http://ipadeducators.ning.com/

A day in the life of an ipad teach http://syded.wordpress.com/2012/06/24/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-ipad-teacher/

Evaluating edapps (from Tony Vincent)

Tony Vincent (learninginhand.com) gave us this rubric for evaluating ed apps - http://learninginhand.com/storage/blog/Vincent-App-Rubric.pdf
Maybe we could develop a similar rubric based on the feedback we get?

At Slide2Learn 2012

Lots of iOS apps and ideas. Edmodo looks interesting because it crosses a lot of platforms, and works more fluently then SIMON.


Went to one session where apps enable students to put voice recordings to videos or slides to create how to videos and other things like that. Some of the apps they used were Educreations and Explain Everything. iTalk was the best of the voice recorders because it could share to email, dropbox, sms/mms and a few other places. 


A few more sessions of interest, but more about them tomorrow.