iPads & iOS Apps are everywhere!
Here are some of our favorite apps, along with their availability. Remember to check your campus spreadsheets to see comprehensive lists of all apps for your campus: LMS, HSE, KWE, TCE
If you have an App you would like added to your students iPads (or a paid app for your iPad), here's the link for requesting that.
If you have an App you would like added to your students iPads (or a paid app for your iPad), here's the link for requesting that.
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As Keynote is to Power Point, so Pages is to MS Word. Pages works wonderfully on the iPad, and after extensive testing with other Apps that claim to have the same office-like capabilities (Docs2Go, SMART Office 2, Quick Office HD), Pages blew them all away in terms of use of use and ultimate productivity power.
Status: Currently available for all iPads! |
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Keynote is the quintessential iOS equivalent to Power Point, in some ways more limited than Power Point in terms of advanced animations, but in my opinion, ultimately so much easier to use and in the end, capable of producing beautiful presentations without the headache that so often accompanies Power Points. Plus, anything you produce can be exported in a Keynote, Power Point, or PDF format. Want embedded video? Stick with Keynote.
Status: Currently available for all iPads! |
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Julie Salvato gets credit for really digging into this App. She used it with Lucy Walker's class for interviews. See the blog post here.
Videolicious is an easy way for teachers and students to create video presentations using text, audio, images, and video as multimedia sources. It's very straight forward, even for beginners. One limitation is length: you can only create 10 slides worth of content. An alternative to look at is Pinnacle Studio, which is more powerful but a little more challenging to use. Status: Currently available for all iPads! |
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Edmodo is a terrific social media tool designed just for education. With it, teachers can communicate with students and assign work, quizzes, polls and more, and students can communicate and collaborate with the class as a whole, all in a safe, digital "walled garden," accessible from home or school! While Edmodo has a web-based interface that works well, the Edmodo App enables users to not only receive but also upload to each other or their teacher images, videos, and documents.
Status: Currently loaded on all Biology iPads. At 5th-8th we use eBackpack, and next year at LHS, we will be using Canvas. |
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Explain Everything is so powerful and easy that when I want to work with images and layout and creative text, I turn away from my computer and pick up my iPad. With it, you can import all types of content from your camera roll, Dropbox, Evernote, Box, the web...you get the picture...then export individual images or recorded video presentations complete with a laser pointer guide to all the same locations. It really is an amazing all-purpose productivity tool.
Status: See LMS, HSE, KWE, TCE |
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One of the unique abilities of the iPad is the ease with which users can create digital content....pictures, pictures with audio, videos...the challenge becomes getting those large files off the iPad to the teacher's computer. With Simple Transfer, the iPad user simply starts up the App and shows the teacher a web address or URL displayed on the App, the teacher types it in their web browser, and BAM, you can see and download all the images or videos stored on the iPad to your computer, no matter the size. At TCEA in 2013, this App was my biggest hit and the most retweeted, hands down.
Status: Currently loaded on all library iPads at LMS & LHS right now! Alternatives include Airdrop |
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