App-sploration!

Please download the following free apps prior to the workshop:
 * SimpleMind+ This app allows students to easily create, edit and share mind maps.
 * Popplet Light This app allows students to quickly and easily capture/record their ideas and sort them visually. Popplet can be used to explore ideas (brainstorming, mindmapping), plan projects (diagrams, process charts), and record thoughts (journals, notes, lists, webs).
 * Skitch This app allows students to express themselves with fewer words. They can use shapes, arrows, sketches and text annotation to mark up photos, screenshots, maps, and webpages then share them with anyone.
 * ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard This app allows students to demonstrate what they know in multiple ways . Features include the ability to sketch with multiple brush colours, import images, and voice record. Teachers can use ShowMe to easily create tutorial videos that students can watch (again and again if needed). To see some tutorials check out the ShowMe website.
 * Educreations Interactive Whiteboard This app allows students to demonstrate what they know in multiple ways. Features include the ability to record and replay voice, handwriting and drawings, add photos, animate images, and create multiple whiteboard pages. Teachers can use Educreations to easily create tutorial videos that students can watch. To see some tutorials check out the Educreations website.
 * Evernote This app allows students to take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders--and makes these notes completely searchable, whether they are at home, at work, or on the go.
 * [|Little Story Maker] This app allows students to create multiple stories. There are three playback modes: auto-play, read to me, read myself with the option to add own voice.
 * Animoto Video Maker This app allows students to easily transform photo s into stunning, professional-quality videos, complete with music and text.
 * WatchKnow Educational Videos This companion app to the www.WatchKnow.org website allows students to watch short educational videos on a wide variety of topics (3,000 different categories) that have been reviewed and approved by teachers for teachers.
 * iBooks This app is a great way to store and read PDFs as well as books. Browse your library displayed on a bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages.
 * Dropbox This app allows students to share a link to documents, photos or videos created on the iPad with their teachers or classmates.
 * [|Notability] This app can annotate PDF's, record audio,allows markups and has the ability to insert various media. Students can use it as a whiteboard to draw and organize discussions, take notes or record them, insert pictures or screen shots of their work and share via google drive or dropbox. Tutorial located [|here].
 * [|iTalk] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">iTalk Recorder is a full-featured recording app with a streamlined and intuitive user interface. Press the big red button to record; press it again to stop. You can append to existing recordings, choose from three levels of recording quality and manage your recordings, all with just a fingertip.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|ScanLife-QR Code Reader] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">This app allows students to scan QR codes to launch content in seconds.

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 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.5;">Here is a selection of apps we have seen used effectively in a variety of classrooms across northern Alberta that you may want to explore at a later date:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">First Then Visual Schedule ($9.99) This app allows educators and paren <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">ts to provide positive behavior support through the use of images that show daily events(i.e. morning routine or therapy schedule) or steps needed to complete a specific activity, (i.e. using the restroom).
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Inspiration Maps ($9.99) This app allows students to quickly create diagrams, maps and organizers that help them brainstorm, plan, organize and build thinking skills. They just 'tap' to transform visual work into outlines that export for writing.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Clicker Sentences ($20.99) This app supports struggling writers by allowing them to build sentences with whole words. The app can be customized to include pictures to provide additional support and motivation.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Clibe ($4.99) This app is a digital cloud journal; a collaborative space where students can share their thoughts, ideas and opinions. It includes tools such as sketch and paint. It also allows students to add photos to their writing.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Pictello ($18.99) This app is a simple way to create talking books. Each page in a Pictello 'story' can contain a picture, up to 5 lines of text, and a recorded sound/voice or text-to-speech of the written text with a variety of voices to choose from.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Strip Designer ($2.99) This app allows students to create their own personal comic strips or graphic novel with more than a 100 strip templates with 1 to 9 photo cells, 12 text balloon styles, and stickers. Photos can be added easily directly from the iPad camera or the photo roll. You can add filters or paint on photos or draw your own sketches.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Comic Book! ($1.99) This app allows students to easily create comic books. It includes a wide selection of image filters, comic fonts, customizable captions, a library of classic comic graphics and dozens of multi-panel page layouts.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">PaperPort Notes (free) This app is a digital note taking tool for creating and sharing information. Students can combine documents, web content, audio, typed text as well as hand written notes into a single document that can be easily organized and shared with anyone.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Firenze- Virtual History ($9.99) This app allows students to explore the city that invented the Renaissance in an interactive, three-dimensional and dynamic way. In this app students can view in depth world renowned Renaissance works of art. In addition to paintings, students can also manipulate architectural structures that have been specifically redesigned in 3D.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Popplet ($4.99) This app allows students to quickly and easily capture/record ideas, sort them visually, and collaborate with others in realtime.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Corky Pinboard ($0.99) This app allows students to easily collect, organize and share their ideas. It can help students with note-taking, 'to-do' management, brainstorming and so much more.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Scribble Press($3.99) This app allows students to easy to create an ebook – either write their own or use one of over 50 story templates. Students can create and share their own stories with great drawing and writing tools then download their books instantly to their iBooks library! Students can also instantly publish to the gallery or share with friends anywhere in the world. Bonus- printed copy of your book can be ordered for a fee.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Mad Lips ($2.99) This app allows students to make pictures talk by transforming photos into talking video animations.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">ReelDirector ($1.99) This app allows students to create movies as a way to demonstrate their learning.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">iMovie ($4.99) This app allows students to quickly and easily create movies.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Doodlecast Pro ($3.99) This app allows students to record their voice as the draw / sketch / solve a problem. For example, it allows students to demonstrate their whole thought process when solving a math problem, not just provide the final answer.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Explain Everything ($2.99) This app allows students to annotate, animate, and narrate explanations. It records on-screen drawing, annotation and object movement as well as captures audio via the iPad microphone. Teachers can use this app to create dynamic, interactive assessments and tutorials.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">[|Abilipad](19.99)This app is a customizable keyboard and adaptive notepad, with word prediction and text to speech.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">[|GoTalkNow] (79.99) This AAC app has adjustable page layouts, customizable navigation, recorded and text-to-speech capabilities, and an included symbol set.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">[|iReadWrite](19.99) This app i <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.5;">ncludes powerful support features that benefit struggling readers and writers of all ages, especially those with dyslexia, dysgraphia, or other learning difficulties.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">iPads in Bloom with Danny Maas- webinars on the ERLC.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Apps4stages <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">This wiki organizes recommendations for mobile device apps from a developmental perspective and offers rationale for each recommendation that is supported by features or design found within the app. The seven stages are competency based, not grade level or age referenced. Each Stage identifies skills or milestones to achieve. Also, because the goal of using assistive technology to provide access to general education standards, Bloom's Taxonomy is used as a guideline for recommending curriculum apps.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Apps4stages <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">This wiki organizes recommendations for mobile device apps from a developmental perspective and offers rationale for each recommendation that is supported by features or design found within the app. The seven stages are competency based, not grade level or age referenced. Each Stage identifies skills or milestones to achieve. Also, because the goal of using assistive technology to provide access to general education standards, Bloom's Taxonomy is used as a guideline for recommending curriculum apps.



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