Apps

 Apps Sharing This is a place to share apps you have tried in your classroom and would recommend to others.

eclicker is awesome. Much of the same functionality as the Senteos. Watch it on youtube []

Dragon Dictation is an amazing app that you don't need to train, it turns your speech into text! http://www.dragonmobileapps.com/

Apps you can try... These are the notes I took at the OSSTF Toys and Tools Conference (at the end of October)

**1.** **Basic Stuff** a. Laptops a wall between presenter and student? **Numbers** : spread sheet **2.** **Microsoft office** is coming--though probably not fully featured **3.** **Documents to go** ? $20.00 a. Doc to go edits word files etc and has been around for a while (the palm pilot days) (finger interface: designed for use with your hands) Word, PowerPoint & Excel **4.** **Dictionary.com** **5.** **Evernote**…Free Use it to take notes. Keeps it on a cloud. Search through pictures for words etc. Letter recognition software within it **6.** **E-book reader** iPad has a plain-jane e-book reader The thing to remember is that there are different qualities of e-books a. There are plain E-books from the apple ebook store and also... b. Semi-Animated books (//Alice in Wonderland//) The accelerometer changes the illustrations within the book— The rabbit’s pocket watch dangles back and forth interactively and you can balance things and peak through windows etc. c. The Super Interactive Disney digital books—similar to tumblebooks. Movie clips are integrated—also includes music, colouring books (That students colour and email) and games. Students can also practice reading the book aloud and have the ipad read it back. i. A free example is **TOY STORY** **7.** **Shakespeare**: a free app, has all of Shakespeare’s works. Lots of neat features facts and more —however you can only annotate the text in the $10 pro version. **8.** A number of free news apps a. Free news online streaming video. **NPR** is good. b. **Reuters Newspro** customise for Canada c. **Picture based news Reuters Galleries** **The Guardian** Canada very visual lots of news pics editors choice. d. **FWIX** local news aggregator—pulls together all the local news stories. e. **National geographic** quite nice resource (free resource) **9.** **Filemaker go** for marking **10.** **Raster graphics.** Graphic design **11.** **Autocad** for the ipad is coming **12.** **Sundry notes** –a notebook note taking software. Nice features **13.** Mystery app ??? I can’t remember what it was…ARRGH records the voice while you take the notes **14.** Informational apps a. **Wikipanion** plain jane information based b. **Discover by Coolris** Wikipedia for today, it gives news and information about the topic up to date today’s news about… **15.** **Wolfram** a mini ipod wolfram alpha really neat computational search engine **16.** **I clicker** control your PowerPoint control on your iPad. Speaker notes. **17.** **The elements** by Theodore gray $20.00 you have seen this on Television **18.** **Pocket Piano**. Learning piano keyboarding guitar hero style really cool **19.** **DJ Soundbox** –soundfx for video etc. **20.** **National Film** board animations etc. **21.** **TED** the TED lecture mini app **22.** **Outkast** (age level questions here) Instructional trivia questions **23.** **Photoshop** image editor free. **24.** **Today in history:** show **25.** **History maps** **26.** **Planets**—Shows the stars in (the one on the commercial Go skywatch **27.** **Magnetic** letter board  **28.** **ABC wildlife**…letters with animals also connects to youtube vids with little explorers b is for bear.  **29.** **Motion math** (pong with fractions)  **30.** **Jumbleline** free app (kind of like boggle and wonder words)  **31.** **Puppet pals** (make a puppet show)  **32.** **Poolpro online** (shows angles and real physics.) 3d pools  **33.** **Script software :** teleprompter and script creation  **34.** **Seline HD** Ipad orchestra  **35.** **Logon** to your laptop with **teamviewer**  a. **TEAM VIEWER** take over a pc remotely  **36.** **TEACHER’s Attaché** class management stuff  **37.** Dragon Dictation speech to text using ipad/pod w/mic  38. 8mm
 * Pages:** a word processor (For pad and pod) wireless keyboard. Stand that clicks and has a keyboard
 * Keynote** a free app. Shows the video. These are not fully featured apps—like

Here are some files sent to us when we requested some ideas for our grade 2 student who has ASD. The apps are from Leah Taylor Autism Spectrum Disorder Consultant School Support Program Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario

Jane HB