Spring into Technology withAPPS in Education

Beth Rajan Sockman Ph.D.Stacy Keller

Goals

• What is this?• Basics – componentsAPPS• Essentials• Skills & Resources –

Content areas• Creation

Mobile DevicesSmart PhonesTablets or Pads

Leading Operating Systems:Android = GoogleiOS = Apple

Connectivity – WirelessWiFiSatellite 3G or 4G

Basic Components - iPad

• On/Off• Change Settings• Home• Volume

APPS = Applications

Apple (iOS)• iTunes - APPS

Android (Google)• Google Market – Play• Amazon

INSTALL

Let’s Play – FREE Apps

Apps in the Classroom

Assisitve Tech

Basic - Speech to Text DragonAndroid – Voice to Text

http://intellectualtechcourage.org/2012/01/13/at-android-speech-to-text/

THOUGHT: Can get at most schools through IEP

Let’s Play! Apps in the ClassroomSkills/Games

Targets a particular skill• Could use as reward• DO NOT need a classroom set• Determine how you will assess completion • Checklist of names• Reflection page

Apps in the Classroom

Resources

• Have available like text book• ALWAYS useful

Apps in the Classroom

Creation

Higher Level Thinking

Think through how you will share and monitor.

THOUGHT: Have a teacher account, where you can take uploads.

QR CODES – You will need for the rest presentation

http://moodle.esasd.net/moodle/course/view.php?id=1078

Basic Components iPod -ESASD

http://moodle.esasd.net/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?inpopup=true&id=36599

Finding Good Apps

• Ten Top Sites for Educational Apps –• http://

www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=67&EntryId=3617

Video on the iPad

• Apps in Education – Video• http://appsineducation.blogspot.com/2012/0

1/making-student-videos-on-ipad.html

Appolicious

• Best iPhone & iPad List – Android Tab!

• http://www.appolicious.com/curated-apps?user_id=alline

iPads- LOOSE – NOT in a folder

• Dragon • Evernote • MyHomework • Best Bardcode Scanner - Scan QR

• Khan Academy

iPad Apps - Creation

• Toonastic • Animation Creator HD Lite • Animoto • Screen Chomp • Educreations • Paint with Time • ArtPuzzle HD Lite

iPads - Austism

• Crazy Face • Furry Friend • See.Touch.Learn • Life Skills Sampler HD

iPad Apps – Early Literacy

• Fun Rhyming • Rhyming Bee • Phonics Vowels • ABC Alphabet Phonics • ABC Phonics Animals • Writing HD Free Lite • Build A Word Express • Cimo Can Spell • Futaba

• Balloon Baby School• Interactive flash cars • Who's Smary Pants • Me Genius • Cimo Can Spell

iPad-Language Arts• Spell it Lite 2-6 • Spell it Lite 6-9 • Vocabulary Central

(Grade 9) • Vocabulary Central

(Grade 6) • Same Meaning Magic • Same Meaning Magic II

• Opposite Ocean • Opposite Ocean II • ICDL Books for Children • International Children's

Digital Library

iPad Apps – Early Math

• Motion Math: Hungry Fish • Math Ninja Free • Teaching Number Lines • MathTappers: Numberline • 30 Days Math Success • Tell Time • Little Matchups Game

iPad - Math Apps

• iFactor • Quadratics• Tanagrams HD Lite • Factor Race • Math Wise • SAT Math Trainer • Multiples

iPad – Science Apps

• Disaster Alert • Magnetometer • HudsonAlpha • iCell • NASA App • Molecules • iElements

Ideal Classroom Time

• Creating the floor plan– Technology available– Details – show wiki

• Excel – Questions and concerns?– Work with creating and embedding charts

• Next class – work class