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Apps. And Web 2.0 Tools You Should Check Out and Share with Your Students

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(almost all are free or very inexpensive-i.e. $.99 app.)

**Most Web 2.0 Tools now have an app as well and vice-versa**

App – access through App. Store/ITunes

App – access through App. Store/ITunes

App – access through App. Store/ITunes

How can it be integrated?

Apps

General

Web Browser that lets you use Flash (may have some limitations)

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere.

After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your iPhone and iPad and even the Dropbox website! With the Dropbox app, you can take everything that matters to you on the go.

This app. was engineered by a teacher who learned how to build apps. using resources in ITunesU. It started as a collection of sites, has grown into sharing, easy to use, can view in a different way, includes 55 videos on how to use these sites, connect with someone else, it is social, blog from here, etc. http://appitic.com/

APPitic is a directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators

(ADEs) to help you transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings.

Evernote

App – access through App. Store/ITunes

Dragon Dictation

App – access through App. Store/ITunes

And software program (full professional

New York Times ‘Top 10 Must-Have App’, Winner: TechCrunch Crunchies, Mashable

Awards and the Webbys. ★

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.

Dragon Dictation is an easy-touse 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.

Educreations

Interactive

Whiteboard

StudyBlue

Flashcards iBooks Author

version) called Dragon Naturally Speaking

App – access through App. Store/ITunes 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, photo imports, and simple sharing through email, Facebook or Twitter, now you can broadcast your ideas from anywhere.

App. Store and a website http://www.studyblue.com/

NEW - MAKE FLASHCARDS! You can now make flashcards with text and images and study them (along with millions of others) for free. Flashcard creation was our most popular feature request; we’re excited to hear your feedback.

Make online flashcards with photos and audio. Prep for exams with personalized practice quizzes. Get reminders about when (and what) to study next, and study on your phone with free mobile apps

App. – also connected to the website Quizlet http://quizlet.com/

Flashcardlet is a free, easy-to-use studying application with material for any class or standardized test. You can also create and share your own. It is the best way to study on any iOS device.

Other flashcard apps can't handle large decks, deck sharing, images, intuitive gestures, or even manage to show nice looking cards. Flashcardlet feels like a real deck of flashcards and does not get in your way.

Collaboratively creating and sharing study material does not get easier than

Flashcardlet. You can email your flashcard decks or share them using Dropbox.

Flashcardlet allows you to search for, study, and make local edits to Quizlet.com flashcards. Any subject you can think of already has a Quizlet flashcard set that is perfect for studying.

From grade school to law school, Flashcardlet is the perfect studying tool for any subject.

App – access through App. Store/ITunes

Now anyone can create stunning iBooks textbooks, cookbooks, history books, picture books, and more for iPad. All you need is an idea and a Mac. Start with one of the

Apple-designed templates that feature a wide variety of page layouts. Add your own text and images with drag-ad-drop ease. Use Multi-Touch widgets to include interactive photo galleries, movies, Keynote presentations, 3D objects, and more. Preview your book on your iPad at any time. Then submit your finished work to the iBookstore with a

few simple steps. And before you know it, y ou’re a published author

Voicethread

Go! Animate

Science360

Popplet

Prezi

StoryLines

App. Store and a website http://voicethread.com/

App. Store and a website http://goanimate.com/

App – access through App. Store/ITunes

The Elements: A

Visual

Exploration of the

Periodic Table

App – access through App. Store/ITunes

360

App – access through App. Store/ITunes

App. Store and a website http://popplet.com/

The prezi app is for sharing the presentations created at http://prezi.com/

App – access through App. Store/ITunes

Create and share dynamic conversations around documents, snapshots, diagrams and videos -- basically anything there is to talk about. You can talk, type, and draw right on the screen. VoiceThread takes your conversations to the next level, capturing your presence, not just your comments. Anyone can join the discussion from their iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC -- anytime, anywhere.

Stunningly simple and accessible, VoiceThread is already in use by architects, executives, kindergartners, professors, and engineers around the world. More than 25% of the top Universities in the U.S. use VoiceThread to connect and communicate around digital media.

Use our Video Maker to create videos for free.

Make a viral video. Create an animated lesson for your class. Make a demo video of your product, a promotional video for your business or a training video for your staff.

GoAnimate is the fastest, easiest way to make a video!

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Science360 for iPad provides easy access to engaging science and engineering images and video from around the globe and a news feed featuring breaking news from NSF-funded institutions. Content is either produced by NSF or gathered from scientists, colleges and universities, and NSF science and engineering centers.

If you think you've seen the periodic table, think again. The Elements: A Visual

Exploration lets you experience the beauty and fascination of the building blocks of our universe in a way you've never seen before. This is the US English version of The

Elements. Fully translated versions are also available in French, German, Japanese, and British English .

“Instant, awesome panoramas” — CNET

“Easy as pie … impressively sharp.” — Gizmodo

“Feels like magic” — TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Great for work. Great for school. Popplet is a platform for your ideas. Popplet's super simple interface allows you to move at the speed of your thoughts. With Popplet you can capture your ideas, sort them visually, and collaborate with others in realtime.

Quickly and easily! Mind mapping, can join and edit together - it's on a website. - again project completion. Concept mapping, sequencing events, export cross platform, it is not device dependent - thought of history with cause and effect-events, etc.

Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software and storytelling tool for exploring and sharing ideas upon a virtual canvas. Prezi is distinguished by its Zooming User Interface

(ZUI), which enables users to zoom in and out of their presentation media.

Socially collaborative story building. Add text, images, content, comments also. Can share, add, comment, current events, etc. Illustrate and do a problem in it. i.e. Creating real world example of word problems for others to solve (Math, Science)

TED

Notability

Instapaper

Penultimate join.me

TourWrist

Explain

Everything

App. Store and a website http://www.ted.com/

App – access through App. Store/ITunes

Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world. Access online instantly.

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App

App

App

– access through App. Store/ITunes

– access through App. Store/ITunes

– access through App. Store/ITunes

– access through App. Store/ITunes

– access through App. Store/ITunes

Handwriting is happiness! Discover the freedom to capture ideas, share insights, and present information in one perfect place on iPad. Notability powerfully integrates handwriting, PDF annotation, typing, recording, and organizing so you can take notes your way!

Save web pages for later offline reading, optimized for readability on your iPhone or iPod touch's screen. Featured by Apple and critically acclaimed by top blogs, newspapers, and magazines!

** The original, powerful, still easiest-to-use handwriting app for iPad. On sale. **

Penultimate gives you the fast, tactile gratification of writing on paper, with digital power and flexibility. Take notes, keep sketches, or share your next breakthrough idea -- in the office, on the go, or home on the sofa.

Attend your next online meeting on your mobile device with the join.me mobile viewer.

View someone’s screen and collaborate in real time, on your time, 100% Free.

Optimized for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, join.me is light and fast and makes attending an online meeting anywhere, anytime as easy as touching your screen.

• MacWorld 2012 Best of Show Winner!

• See what TNW, Mashable, Communication Arts, WIRED, TUAW, CNN and Fast Co.

Design are all talking about.

• Experience what some are calling the #1 Free App of All Time.

• "One of the most spectacular virtual-tour user experiences I've seen" - Fast Company

Design

• "It just blows me away… You will love this, I guarantee it." - Adam Curry's The Big App

Show

• "One of the slickest iPhone apps on the planet… I cannot sing its praises enough" -

Creating tours is just as fun and easy too! Use the iPhone or iPod Touch app to shoot and share for free. Or check out TourWrist.com to learn more about the professional options available. With the new Tour Wrist API, any panoramic photography app developer can now include a free "Publish To Tour Wrist" function (a number have begun integration).

Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. You can create dynamic interactive lessons, activities, assessments, and tutorials using Explain Everything's flexible and integrated design. Use Explain Everything as an interactive whiteboard using the iPad2 video display.

Voicethread

Photosynth

Show Me

Jeopardy Labs slideshare

YouTube

Wikispaces

http://voicethread.com/products/highered/

Web 2.0 Tools Online

VoiceThread bridges the gap between real-time discussions and standard video lectures or online presentations. This makes VoiceThread the platform for teaching, learning, training, and collaborating, on-demand. http://photosynth.net/ http://www.showme.com/ http://jeopardylabs.com/ http://www.slideshare.net/

AuthorSTREAM

http://www.authorstream.com/ http://www.youtube.com/ http://www.wikispaces.com/

Photosynth is a powerful set of tools for capturing and viewing the world in 3D. You can share these views with your friends on Facebook, publish them to Bing Maps, or embed them in your own Web site.

ShowMe is an open online learning community where anyone can learn and teach any topic. Our iPad app lets you easily create and share video lessons.

Integrate a variety of assessment types. They should be engaging and effective.

Jeopardy games can be used to: review important content, assess student learning of instruction, review for a test, etc.

This site is incredibly easy to use and allows access online —no file saving, access from any computer with internet, stores on their server, can save and edit games for future use.

SlideShare is the best way to share presentations, documents and professional videos.

The best way to share PowerPoint presentations on the web.

Share your PowerPoints publically or privately, for free.

Convert your PowerPoints to video. authorSTREAM retains your animations, audio narrations and in-slide videos.

Broadcast PowerPoints live, communicate and collaborate in real time.

Don’t underestimate the content.

This is just a reminder that YouTube now has a tremendous amount of instructional videos and videos that are educational.

Wikispaces for Educators-This will be the class they remember forever

Student Portfolios

Each student cultivates a unique online space to showcase their best work, and teachers assess performance as it progresses.

Professional Development

Education professionals come together to plan events and share best practices in a flexible, accessible, easy-to-update online resource.

Project-Based Learning

Student groups collaborate on projects that address real-world questions, and share their findings with a real-world audience.

Student Assignments

Teachers post homework, group work, and classroom goals, and update them throughout the year in real time.

Curriculum Planning

Classroom schedules and lesson plans can be tweaked from any computer or mobile

iTunesU

Jing

Sketchcast

Second Life blogtalkradio

Polldaddy

Googleearth

Twitter

Facebook diigo

http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/ http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html

http://sketchcast.com/ http://secondlife.com/ http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ http://polldaddy.com/ http://www.google.com/earth/index.html

http://twitter.com/ http://www.facebook.com/ http://www.diigo.com/ device — and reused and re-purposed from year to year.

Distance Learning

Students and teachers share a flexible educational space that’s accessible anytime from anywhere in the world.

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. Wh ether 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.

Free —screenshot and screen recording.

Give your students the information they need, when they need it. Use Jing to record your feedback as you grade papers, or take a snapshot to share with your class. Your students can even use it to collaborate, or ask questions!

“A new was to express yourself.” Record a sketch with or without voice. Explain something, have fun, or create art.

Second Life official website. Second Life is a free 3D virtual world where users can socialize, connect and create using free voice and text chat.

BlogTalkRadio allows anyone, anywhere the ability to host a live talk radio show online, simply by using a telephone and a computer. BlogTalkRadio’s unique platform, powered by Cinchcast, empowers citizen broadcasters to create and share their original content, their voices and their opinions in a worldwide public forum.

Today, BlogTalkRadio is the largest and fastest growing online talk radio network. A truly democratized medium, BlogTalkRadio has tens of thousands of hosts and millions of listeners tuning in and joining the conversation each month. Many businesses also utilize the platform as a tool to extend their brands and better communicate with the people that are most important to their business.

The most powerful and easy-to-use survey software around. Create stunning surveys, polls, and quizzes in minutes. Collect responses via your website, e-mail, iPad,

Facebook, and Twitter. Generate and share easy-to-read reports.

•Fly to any place around the world.

•See 3D buildings, imagery, and terrain.

•Find cities, places, and local businesses.

TEACHING TOOL:

**Think outside the box. You can easily build Google Earth tours where you can add your own images and notes while visiting the relevant “place” on the globe.

Why use these social media sites for “instructional communication”? The primary reason… students are on them. Communicate with students the way that they communicate. Stay connected, network!

Set up a “professional” page for your course(s)

If you browse or read a lot on the web, we believe you will find Diigo indispensable.

Diigo is two services in one -- it is a research and collaborative research tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other. “collect, highlight, then remember” (from diigo site)

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