Software+(General)

General Use App Possibilities:

Teachers || see how [|a K teach uses] it; Teachers of all grades can use it ||
 * ~ Storage Apps ||~ ===Description=== ||~ Grade Level ||~ Price ||~ Review ||
 * ===**Dropbox **=== || From App Store: "Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. Any file you save to your Dropbox is accessible from all your computers, iPhone, iPad and even the Dropbox website!" || All || Free || 2.25 GB of storage, with the option to purchase more space. Can open nearly any document or file using this app. (connects my computers, iPhone, & iPad) ||
 * ===**Box**=== || From App Store: "Desktop, laptop, tablet, phone, you name it – with Box, you collaborate and share critical content anywhere, anytime, on any device." || 5-8 || Free, +25 GB for $99.99 || 5 GB of storage, with the option to purchase more space. Can open nearly any document or file using this app. Need an email address to set up account. ||
 * ===**Bump**=== || App that allows you to transfer contact information and photos and chat with other users by "bumping" one device to another. || All || Free || Easy to use and fun! Students can easily share pictures for presentations by bumping their iPads, iPods, iPhones or Android phones. Bumping from iPad or iPhone to computer does not work with Internet Explorer. ||
 * [| Three Ring] || Digizitic students work, recordings, & conferences. Makes a portfolio forare each student. Share at conference. Can be accessed from multiple devices || all || free to
 * ~ Word Processing Apps ||~ Description ||~ Grade Level ||~ Price ||~ Review ||
 * ~ Word Processing Apps ||~ Description ||~ Grade Level ||~ Price ||~ Review ||
 * ~ Word Processing Apps ||~ Description ||~ Grade Level ||~ Price ||~ Review ||
 * ~ Word Processing Apps ||~ Description ||~ Grade Level ||~ Price ||~ Review ||
 * ~ Word Processing Apps ||~ Description ||~ Grade Level ||~ Price ||~ Review ||
 * ~ Word Processing Apps ||~ Description ||~ Grade Level ||~ Price ||~ Review ||
 * ~ Word Processing Apps ||~ Description ||~ Grade Level ||~ Price ||~ Review ||

|| From App Store: "Create, edit, and view documents wherever you are. Pages works with iCloud, so your documents stay up to date on all your iOS devices — automatically." || All || $9.99 ||  || Aaron says it doesn't work well ||
 * ===**Office² HD**=== || From App Store: "Office² HD, the most intuitive and straightforward office document editor available on the iPad, makes it easy to open, view, create and edit Word (DOC & DOCX), Excel (XLS & XLSX), and PowerPoint (PPT & PPTX) files right from your iPad!" || All || $7.99 ||  ||
 * ===iA Writer=== || From App Store: "The quintessential writing machine for your iPad and iPhone. iA Writer makes sure that your thoughts go into the text—and not into the program. With keyboard extension, focus mode, iCloud and Dropbox integration." || All || $.99 ||  ||
 * ===Quickoffice Pro HD=== || From the App Store: "Get the #1 office editing suite for iPad. Create and edit ALL Microsoft® Office document, spreadsheet, and presentation formats, as well as view PDF files, on the go. Our file manager lets you manage local files, access cloud accounts, and works with your iPad email attachments so you can work anywhere, anytime - online and offline." || All || $19.99 || Expensive, but more than just a word processor. ||
 * ===**OnLive Desktop**=== || From App Store: "OnLive® Desktop is a service that provides a seamless, no-compromise, instant-response cloud-based PC desktop, wherever and whenever you want it." || All || Free || Works like a remote desktop and includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Have to create an account using an email address.
 * ~ Spreadsheet Apps ||~ Description ||~ Grade Level ||~ Price ||~ Review ||
 * ~ Spreadsheet Apps ||~ Description ||~ Grade Level ||~ Price ||~ Review ||
 * ~ Spreadsheet Apps ||~ Description ||~ Grade Level ||~ Price ||~ Review ||
 * ~ Spreadsheet Apps ||~ Description ||~ Grade Level ||~ Price ||~ Review ||
 * ~ Spreadsheet Apps ||~ Description ||~ Grade Level ||~ Price ||~ Review ||
 * ~ Spreadsheet Apps ||~ Description ||~ Grade Level ||~ Price ||~ Review ||

|| From App Store: "...it lets you make compelling spreadsheets in minutes — with tables, charts, photos, and graphics — using just your fingers." || All || $9.99 ||  ||
 * ===**OnLive Desktop**=== || From App Store: "OnLive® Desktop is a service that provides a seamless, no-compromise, instant-response cloud-based PC desktop, wherever and whenever you want it." || All || Free || Works like a remote desktop and includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Have to create an account using an email address. ||
 * ===Quickoffice Pro HD=== || From the App Store: "Get the #1 office editing suite for iPad. Create and edit ALL Microsoft® Office document, spreadsheet, and presentation formats, as well as view PDF files, on the go. Our file manager lets you manage local files, access cloud accounts, and works with your iPad email attachments so you can work anywhere, anytime - online and offline." || All || $19.99 || Hard to edit full-scale Excel files. ||


 * ~ Presentation Apps ||~ Description ||~ Grade Level ||~ Price ||~ Review ||

|| From App Store: "...it makes creating a world-class presentation — complete with animated charts and transitions — as simple as touching and tapping." || All || $9.99 ||  || Device ||
 * ===**OnLive Desktop**=== || From App Store: "OnLive® Desktop is a service that provides a seamless, no-compromise, instant-response cloud-based PC desktop, wherever and whenever you want it." || All || Free || Works like a remote desktop and includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Have to create an account using an email address. ||
 * ===Quickoffice Pro HD=== || From the App Store: "Get the #1 office editing suite for iPad. Create and edit ALL Microsoft® Office document, spreadsheet, and presentation formats, as well as view PDF files, on the go. Our file manager lets you manage local files, access cloud accounts, and works with your iPad email attachments so you can work anywhere, anytime - online and offline." || All || $19.99 ||  ||
 * ===Power Presenter=== || From the App Store: "This application is for Presentation. If you save the powerpoint as PDF file, this app will help you do the presentation on projector. If you can upload your file to a web site, it also can present that website for you. It automatically detects the projector and send the signal to the projector when connecting with the VGA cable." || 6-8 || $1.99 || For presenting projects already created. ||
 * [|Near pod Teacher/Studen]t || teachers iPad is scronized with students; students see what's on teacher's iPad but they can't change it or move ahead or lose their place || all || free || fantastic app Great to show teacher's lessons on student's
 * ~ Movie-Making Apps ||~ Description ||~ Grade Level ||~ Price ||~ Review ||
 * ~ Movie-Making Apps ||~ Description ||~ Grade Level ||~ Price ||~ Review ||
 * ~ Movie-Making Apps ||~ Description ||~ Grade Level ||~ Price ||~ Review ||

|| From App Store: "Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app that puts everything you need to tell your story at your fingertips." || All || $4.99 ||  ||
 * ===**Animoto**=== || From App Store: "Desktop, laptop, tablet, phone, you name it – with Box, you collaborate and share critical content anywhere, anytime, on any device." || All || Free || Only 12 slides with free version. Offers educator accounts. Personal accounts for $30 a year. Paid accounts give you unlimited number of videos and much larger number of slides. Easy to use. ||


 * ~ Note-Taking Apps ||~ Description ||~ Grade Level ||~ Price ||~ Review ||

|| From App Store: Described as "a creative collaboration tool". || All || Free ||  ||
 * ===**Notability**=== || From App Store: "It powerfully integrates handwriting, PDF annotation, typing, recording, and organizing so you can take notes your way!" || All || $1.99 || This is easy to use and the recording feature is great. You can keep adding to the recording and delete the different parts as needed. ||
 * ===**Evernote**=== || From the App Store: "Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders--and makes these notes completely searchable..." || All || Free ||  ||
 * ~ eReader Apps ||~ Description ||~ Grade Level ||~ Price ||~ Review ||
 * ===**Follett Digital Reader**===
 * ~ eReader Apps ||~ Description ||~ Grade Level ||~ Price ||~ Review ||
 * ===**Follett Digital Reader**===

|| From App Store: "Follett Digital Reader app leverages the power of FollettShelf™ and Destiny® Library Manager™ giving you instant and easy access to Follett eBooks on the go." || All || Free || eReader to view our library's eBooks. A little slow. Must sign in with pre-assigned user name and password (provided by librarian). ||
 * ===**iBooks**=== || From App Store: "iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest bestselling books or your favorite classics – day or night." || All || Free || Purchase books through iTunes. ||
 * ===Kindle or Kindle Cloud Reader=== || From App Store: "The Kindle app is optimized for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, giving users the ability to read Kindle books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on a beautiful, easy-to-use interface." Kindle Cloud Reader can be downloaded directly from Amazon. || All || Free || Purchase books through Amazon.com. ||

Also to consider:
 * FileApp
 * CloudOn
 * Peek
 * iSwifter
 * Upad
 * Skype

Show Me--Over the weekend the popular free iPad app ShowMe was upgraded to version 3.0. The new version introduces a new three column layout, improved search functions, and easier upload tools. The improved search function, called explore, allows you to look for other lessons created and publicly shared on Show Me. The new upload setting kicks-in automatically when you finish recording your lesson on Show Me. The upload dialogue box now includes a set of recommended tags for you too.

If you've never heard of Show Me or have never tried it, it is a free iPad app for creating and sharing whiteboard-style lessons on your iPad. To support teachers, the Show Me website has a gallery of lessons developed and shared by teachers. Click here to download the app from iTunes. Watch Show Me's promotional video below.

Long list of ios app review sites [|https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnRphNkFHPvrdDdCa0dMM0J5eEpyM0tra0p1TDZXeUE#gid=0]

[|10 Best Apps for Teachers] - Most of what we do is for the students. The focus of this and many other blogs and websites is about learning, and rightly so, but there are also apps that will make our jobs easier too.

[|Qwiki] Generate new videos that you cn watch, pause, and re-watch while you ate learning.

 [|iBooks textbooks for iPad] - An entirely new kind of textbook that’s dynamic, current, engrossing, and truly interactive. A textbook created by publishers using a new authoring tool from Apple. A textbook brought to life by iPad.

Follett eBooks Compatible with Destiny Quest, our online library catalog, Follett has an app for iPads. If we purchase books that have unlimited access, an entire classroom could be reading the same book at the same time on their iPads. No startup or annual costs, and the books purchased are ours to keep. The link gives you a chance to try out their eBook reader format. note: There is also a free Kindle app available for iPad.

 [|iBooks Author] - An amazing new app that allows anyone to create beautiful Multi-Touch textbooks — and just about any other kind of book  complete with rich graphics, movies, photo galleries, Keynote animations, 3D objects, and more. Free.

 [|iTunes U for iPad] - The new iTunes U is an easy way to design and distribute complete courses featuring audio, video, books, and other content. The free iTunes U app gives students access to all the materials for your course in a single place.

SMART Notebook App- COMING SOON - The SMART Notebook app for iPad enables students to open their own version of a SMART Notebook lesson on their iPad and take it with them, wherever they go. Now students can work with the same SMART Notebook file – individually on their iPad and then collaboratively in class on the SMART Board interactive whiteboard.

We need to assess our current subscription databases to see if they will be compatible with the non-Flash iPad format, and perhaps use the iPad to help evaluate databases we are considering. Will BrainPop work on iPads? (for example)

from Free Technology for Teachers by noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Byrne)


 * Study Hall is a new website and iOS app for sharing and studying with friends. Even though the service is still in a beta phase it seems promising. The basic idea behind Study Hall is to enable teachers and students to upload content to a common place and access it through an iPad, an iPhone, or an iPod Touch. When using the free iPad app students can communicate in real-time about the content that they are sharing.

Hot Apps 4 HOTS (link opens to iTunes) is a free ebook about iOS apps that can be used to help students practice and develop higher order thinking skills. The book takes readers through a series of apps that are aligned to the various parts of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. Examples and suggestions for app use are included in the book. As Hot Apps 4 HOTS is an ibook, it can only be viewed on an iOS device. > > ** Applications for Education ** > If your school is one that is rolling-out iPads for student use, check out Hot Apps 4 HOTSto find some good apps and ideas that you can bring into your classroom. > > A couple of other good places to find iOS apps for your classroom use are Kinder Town and IEAR.

Excellent General Apps for Teachers > [|SyncSpace] is a collaborative whiteboard app > [|Moglue] is a platform for creating interactive ebooks that can be viewed on iPads > 10 Educational iPad Apps Recommended by Explore Knowledge Academy
 * Educreations
 * Adobe Ideas
 * these tools called Show Me

[|Three Ring]is a new free service offering free Android and iPhone apps for digitizing and organizing student work. Using the app teachers can take a picture of a student's work and upload it to a free Three Ring account. Three Ring offers teachers a lot of organizational flexibility. You could organize artifacts by student name, class, date, or just about any other tagging system that works for you.

[|ShowMe--learning community and lesson creation tool]

[] an iPad app tip a day for teachers; check out the categories on the left

[] “News, reviews, resources and more on the use of iPads in the learning environment.”

[] iearn.org I Education Apps Reviews

[] – a software program for teachers, students, and parents for communication, assignment submission and return, etc. Company is in Rockwall, TX, and advertises**:**
 * “Assignment, Storage, and Collaboration tools”
 * **<span style="color: #605e6c; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">“ **<span style="color: #605e6c; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Anytime, Anywhere Access to class materials”
 * “Relieve and reduce strain on internal resources, system needs, and upfront outlays”
 * <span style="color: #605e6c; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">“Support your iPad program”

I'm looking at the **iTestMe** app - It's on my iPad if you'd like to play with it. --- Glenda

[|Mind Mapping App] <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px;">One of my favourite apps to sit down with and learn is Qwiki. Qwiki must have millions of ‘articles’ that are actually interactive videos. Using the simple english from wikipedia and a series of photos and videos from wikimedia, Qwiki generates videos that you can watch, pause, interact with, and explore new learnings.

GoClass is a free iPad application for creating short lessons and delivering them to your students. The lessons can include annotated images, free hand sketches, text, and video. GoClass gives teachers tools for creating class rosters that they can use to keep track of which students are using the lessons when. Teachers also have the option to ask questions and poll their students. After the students' response have been gathered teachers can project those responses without showing individual student's names.

__**iPad Essentials for Classroom Teachers - David Lowe**__ Presentation Apps Teacher System Apps Document Management Apps Classroom Utility Apps Personal Organization
 * [|Educreations Interactive Whiteboard]- handles images better
 * [|Board Cam]($5) - acts like a document camera, can freeze and annotate image, saves images
 * [|Splashtop Whiteboard] ($20) - whiteboard backgrounds, can save screens with the app, cannot record lessons or move text, have to use desktop computer to display
 * [|TeacherPal]- file sharing through itunes
 * [|Teacher's Assistant Pro] ($7) - helpful for documenting behaviors
 * [|Confer] ($15) - fantastic app for conferring notes
 * [|DropBox]
 * [|GoodReader] ($5) - gives file structure to manage files, can integrate GoodReader and DropBox to create digital portfolio, document reader(Word, PDF, Powerpoint, videos), edit PDF files, annotate files
 * [|Scan To PDF] ($5) - turns image into PDF, can then send to GoodReader or DropBox
 * [|Photo To PDF] ($3) - makes multiple PDF files quickly
 * [|Running Records Calculator] ($2) - records student, can collect info and than share it
 * [|Teacher's Pick] ($2)
 * [|Grade Faster] ($2)
 * [|Seconds Pro] ($3) - creates set of interval timers
 * [|MathStudio] ($20) - graphing calculator
 * [|Common Core Standards] - reference tool
 * [|Wunderlist]- simple but functional, syncs online
 * [|Remember the MIlk] ($25/ yr auto syncing) - more options and features than Wunderlist
 * [|Toodledo]($3) - has importance feature, automatically syncs online