Apps Shared During the There's an App for That Panel at ISTE 2012
You want to provide a backchannel which allows for the participants leave comments or questions and encourages other participants to chime in with a “me too” and raise those comments to the top of the stack, oh, and you don’t want anyone to have to log in…. is there an app for that?
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Your pre-k students have mastered writing some of their letters, but you really want them to work on writing their names and things in their environment… you are tired of printing these out and running out of printer ink by December… is there an app which allows teachers to easily create customized traceable word and name cards?
| Write My Name by Injini http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/write-my-name-by-injini/id500623496?mt=8 iPad.Requires iOS 4.3 or later $3.99 |
Have you lost your mind? Do you need a mind map? Is there an app which exports to common desktop mind mapping tools and has more than just a series of boxes and arrows but is still enough like iwork tools you can learn it easily?
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Mindo by Laterhorse http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mindo/id355182443?mt=8 iPad.Requires iOS 4.3 or later $7.99 |
Your students need the Taj Mahal in the background for their video report but your school budget has cut all field trips… is there an app for that?
| GreenScreen FX Windows Phone 7.5 or higher: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/247c19c2-bd1c-4e5c-810c-6498887ff293 $1.29 iOS Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (4th generation), iPad 2 Wi-Fi, iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G, iPad (3rd generation) and iPad Wi-Fi + 4G.Requires iOS 3.0 or later http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/green-screen-movie-fx/id445285983?mt=8 $1.99 |
You showed your students a Common Craft video and now they want to make one about stopping bullying… you just don’t have the time to figure it all out… is there an app to help them do this stop action technique themselves?
| iStopMotion http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/istopmotion-for-ipad/id484019696?mt=8 Compatible with iPad 2 Wi-Fi, iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G, iPad (3rd generation), and iPad Wi-Fi + 4G.Requires iOS 5.0 or later. $9.99 |
I have only one or two mobile devices in my classroom and LOTS of needs to practice content and reading… is there an app designed for multiple users to practice MY content?
| Word Games for Kids - Futaba http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/word-games-for-kids-futaba/id426517722?mt=8 iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later. $2.99 |
You
still have dusty paper mache planets hanging from your ceiling and in fact, you
have NINE of them… you need to update your approach to teaching science in a
more interactive way and allow your students to visualize more than just the
planets hanging statically in space… is there an app for that?
| Solar Walk - 3D Solar System Model
currently $.99 |
In
your physics class you are studying motion and velocity as a function of time
and more… the material can be a little dry. You think your students would be
more interested if they could take
a video of a basketball free throw shot and analyse the path of the ball and
graphs of the velocity as a function of time…. Is there an app for that?
| Vernier Video Physics http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vernier-video-physics/id389784247?mt=8 Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.2 or later $2.99 |
Your
student journals are important to you, but so old school… sketches and words,
but they seem to be lacking in the student voice… you need an easy way for
students to journal that can mix and match online resources, audio/video, along
with written notes. Is there an app for that?
| Tapose http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tapose-collaborative-content/id483146060?mt=8 Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 5.0 or later. $2.99
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Your students are not very good proofreaders of their own writing. They really need to hear their words read aloud to hear their mistakes. They know their drafts are not ready to be read publically, is there an app to help them proofread and hear their words as they are written?
| Speak it! Text to Speech http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/speak-it!-text-to-speech/id308629295?mt=8 Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.0 or later $1.99
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A student got some great pictures of the science experiment and you need to get it immediately to your laptop for further processing and sharing – you need something faster than Photostream…is there an app for that?
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WiFi Photo
Transfer http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wifi-photo-transfer/id380326191?mt=8 Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later. free |
Parents
don't often come to school to see classrooms or science fairs. I'd like to show
them how great the school is. Is there an app for that?
| TourWrist http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tourwrist/id335671384?mt=8 Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad.Requires iOS 5.0 or later. free |
You are teaching intro to physics and your students need a practical way to test their understanding of Newtons’s third law of motion and to test their theories about forces and stresses on structures and particularly how truss systems work…while playing a game… is there an app for that?
| Bridge Constructor http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bridge-constructor/id503190232?mt=8 Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later. free or $1.99 also available as Windows PC software: http://www.headupgames.com/shop/index.php?action=produkt&id=142 |
No scenario provided. | NearPod (teacher) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nearpod-teacher/id523540409?mt=8 Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 4.1 or later. free Nearpod (student) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nearpod-student/id480295574?mt=8 Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.1 or later. free |
I want to measure the impact of a large group of educators going forward after this session to make earth shaking movement in the wise use of apps in education… IS THERE AN APP FOR THAT?
| iSeismometer http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iseismometer/id304190739?mt=8 Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.0 or later free |
Other apps prepared but not shared in the session:
SlingNote
Action Movie
iPrompt Pro
Letter School
Class Dojo
ZapperScanner
SoundSlate LT
MadPad
Collabracam
PearlTrees
Learning to Write
