general apps
SCSD Whisper: Smithtown Central School District has revolutionized parent, student, faculty,
and community communication with this breakthrough tool. Get the latest news and information from your neighborhood schools all with just a tap. |
Shadow Puppet: Record a puppet and talk through your photos. It’s easy to make something
great. You're already used to talking through the photos on your phone
with friends in person, Shadow Puppet lets you do the same thing but share it
with people who can't be there.
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Nearpod: Experience for yourself this magical educational app that has been used by more than 1.000.000 students around the world in less than 11 months. Nearpod is a must have application for teachers and schools that have access to a set of iPads, iPods or iPhones for their classes.
What's Nearpod? The Nearpod platform enables teachers to use their iPads to manage content on students' iPads, iPhones or iPods. It combines presentation, collaboration, and real-time assessment tools into one integrated solution. |
Evernote: Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Stay organized, save your ideas and improve productivity. Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders--and makes these notes completely searchable, whether you are at home, at work, or on the go.
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iTunes U: The iTunes U app gives you access to complete courses from leading universities
and other schools — plus the world’s largest digital catalog of free education content — right on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Whether you’re majoring in molecular biology at a university, taking Spanish in high school, or just interested in European history, you now have a valuable tool to help you learn anytime, anywhere. |
TED is an amazing app that has access to more than a thousand talks and speeches from innovators around the world. The TED app updates almost every day with new talks. You may sort the featured library by recency or popularity, browse talks by tags, themes, or language, and share your favorite talks with your friends. You may also download full videos to your device and watch them when you’re offline.
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Groovy Grader is an App designed to replace your “old school” paper grading calculator. Groovy Grader provides more flexibility, convenience and ease then other popular slide graders. It can be configured to work with up to 150 questions (iPhone,iPod) or 300 questions (iPad) and has the option to display the grade with 1 or 2 decimals or as a rounded whole number.
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Educreations Interactive Whiteboard: Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Creating a great video tutorial is as simple as touching, tapping and talking. Explain a math formula... Create an animated lesson... Add commentary to your photos... Diagram a sports play...
With voice recording, realistic digital ink, photos and text, and simple sharing through email, Facebook or Twitter, now you can broadcast your ideas from anywhere. |
ShowMe: Turn your iPad into your personal interactive whiteboard! ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It’s an amazingly simple app that anyone can use, no matter how young or old!
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Chalk Pad Free: Chalk Pad turns your iPad into a Chalkboard! Loaded with options and with
beautifully rendered graphics Chalk Pad has been voted #1 Chalkboard App in the App Store. |
ScreenChomp: Share a great idea... Explain a tricky concept... Help kids with their homework...
ScreenChomp for iPad helps you do it all. A simple doodling board, markers, and one-click sharing tools make spreading your ideas and know-how easy and fun! Just - Record It. Sketch It. Share It. - to create a sharable, replay-able video that tells your story clearly. |
Adobe Photoshop Express software lets you use simple gestures to quickly edit
and share photos from your mobile device. |
Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by
Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. In fact, it’s up to five (5) times faster than typing on the keyboard. |
Edmodo: Award-winning Edmodo for iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad makes it easy for teachers and students to stay connected and share information. Use your iOS device to send notes, submit assignments, post replies, and check messages and upcoming events while away from the classroom.
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Common Core: View the Common Core State Standards in one convenient FREE app! A great
reference for students, parents, and teachers to easily read and understand the core standards. Quickly find standards by subject, grade, and subject category (domain/cluster). This app includes Math standards K-12 and Language Arts standards K-12. Math standards include both traditional and integrated pathways (as outlined in Appendix A of the common core) and synthesizes Language Arts standards with the Corresponding College and Career Readiness Standards (CCR's). |
Teacher Notes: Teacher Notes functions as an easy way to file written notes, photos, movies or audio on multiple children, domains and content areas all at one time. Then when it is time to write reports cards or evaluations Teachers Notes has a quick way to sort notes by any combination of children, domain and content area. You can then e-mail your organized notes, or email just one note with its accompanied photo, movie or audio file.
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Flashboard helps you look at flashcards. Spend less time configuring and more time getting better grades. The only app that lets you see lots of cards at once, so you can review a whole vocabulary set minutes before the exam.
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Picture Card Maker is an ideal tool for parents and educators. It is a simple-to-use program that allows you to create Picture Cards or Visuals to be used for communication, reading and many other educational purposes. These picture cards may either be used directly over your device as a communication tool or they may be printed off and used in communication folders and as visuals in the home or classroom.
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SimpleMind+ (mind mapping): Mind mapping tool that turns your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch into a brainstorming, idea collection and thought structuring device.
FREE FUNCTIONALITY o Easy to use - drag, arrange and edit topics on the Mind Map page. o Tap or drag Node Well to add new Topics. o Undo/Redo in the editor - the only editor with full Undo capabilities making editing and experimenting easy. o Reorganize structure using drag drop, aided by topic auto-layout. o Cut/ Copy/ Paste - move or duplicate topics between Mind Maps. o Create new MindMap from selection or clipboard o Apply visual styles - change colors, borders and lines for maximum presentation impact. o Large Mind Map page support - diagram size is only limited by memory. o Scroll, zoom and rotate page. o Download Mind Maps - open, view and edit SimpleMind Mind Maps sent to you by SimpleMind (full version) users. o Universal version: user interfaces natively designed for iPad and iPhone/iPod. o Exchange your Mind Maps with SimpleMind Desktop for OS X/Windows. |
ClassDojo helps teachers improve behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily. It also captures and generates data on behavior that teachers can share with parents and administrators.
Teachers can use this app to give students realtime feedback while in class - it will sync with the main ClassDojo website. Better learning behaviors, smoother lessons, and hassle-free data - and it's free for teachers! |
Popplet is a tool that allows users to visualize ideas. Teachers and students
can create graphic organizers, timelines, mindmaps, diagrams, charts and many other forms of visual organization. Popplet also has a website. The free app allows you to create one Popplet at a time. |
Catch Notes: Capture and share your ideas with Catch! Jot down text, snap a photo, or record voice notes on the go, then sync them across all your devices with a Catch.com account. Organize your notes into Spaces and share those Spaces with your friends and colleagues.
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