Integrating the ipad into classroom curriculum

Hello Colleagues,

As part of my Integrating Technology Class, I chose to research integrating

the ipad into classroom curriculum. I thought I would share the applications I
found with you so that when we receive the ipad carts, we have some idea
what to do with them. These are all peer reviewed applications. I took from
a number of sources, but iear.org is an excellent source if you want more
information. Another good source is apptivities.org. Apptivities has
examples of how teachers have successfully integrated applications into
their curriculum. It is a really great site if you are still having trouble figuring
out how to best use the ipad in lesson planning.

Danielle

Applications for all high school classes:

1. Replay Note: Replay note is an app that allows you to do screencasts.

Similar to jing, you can capture what you are doing on screen. You can use
text, pictures, and even record your voice. It can be exported directly to
youtube.com.

2. Polldaddy: PollDaddy is an app that allows students or teachers to

conduct surveys. This could be used in any number of classes. Data can be
used to create bar graphs. It can also be used without wifi access. Students
could use this app on their ipod touches, survey people outside of school,
and create graphs upon returning to a wifi enabled area.

3. MindBlowing: Allows students to type in an idea or concept, and gather

information related to this topic through self-made videos, pictures, and
pictures. Information is organized as a concept map and can be emailed to
an instructor.

4. Dragon Dictation, ShouthOut: Both are speech to text applications.

Students can speak into the ipad, and text will be created. Students must
enunciate well in order for them to work. Shoutout is tied in to social
networking sites.

5. iPhone Baldi, Speak it: Both are text to speech applications. I am

including them in the general apps section, though it really would fall under
special education. Good for students who are hard of hearing, or autistic.
Could also be used with English language learners. This app will read
websites for you.
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6. Text Expander, Typ-o: Both are text completion apps. They allow you to
type abbreviations that will be expanded to words for faster type speeds.

7. Pages Epub Format: Pages new format will allow you to create a book
with embedded graphics, hyperlinks, and video. Students can create an
ebook in a short amount of time. Teachers could also create learning books
for units which could be shared with classes.

8. Outliner for ipad: Allows students to quickly create outlines for reports
or projects.

9. eClicker: eClicker turns your ipads into personal response systems.

Teachers can poll students for understanding. Similar to polldaddy or
polleverywhere.

10. Whiteboard Pro: Whiteboard Pro is a collaborative drawing application.

Offers real time collaboration for brainstorming or collaborative drawing.

11. Magic Piano: Apropos of nothing, but really cool. Free app that turns
the ipad into a piano.

12. Depict: Pictionary for the ipad. Fun for a rainy day?

13. gFlash: Good for drilling vocabulary or math facts.

14. Quiki: A “quiki” is a short, interactive story: a drastically improved

information experience provided by interactive video.

15. Doink: Great features to draw flipbook animation sequences and move
them along a path. Easy timeline, editing, and exporting features.

16. Animation Studio: Draw frame by frame images to create short

animations.

17. Flipboom Lite: Same as the last two.

17. Brushes: Excellent drawing tool with multiple brushes, layers, VGA out,
image importing etc. Used to make several New Yorker covers.

18. Image Pro: Google image search narrowed by subject, size,, filters, type.

19. Writer’s Studio: Create your own talking storybooks. Import images or
draw your own, add text and record narration.

20. Lifecards: Create your own postcards with multiple images and text.
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21. ReelDirector: Splice, add text, audio and transitions, upload videos to
youtube from app or save to photos.

22. Photospeak: Use a portrait or draw your own and have this app animate
it with your recorded voice.

23. Sonic Pics: Get photos from your camera, add voiceover and send to
youtube or your computer.

24. QuickOffice Connect: Access, create and edit Office docs and
spreadsheets. Connect using google docs, dropbox, and other.

25. Evernote: Share clips, notes, webpages, docs.

26. iBrainstorm: a free brainstorming app for the ipad. The app allows you
to record brainstoming sessions using a combination of free hand drawings
and sticky notes. You can share and collaborate with other users of
ibrainstorm. Sharing notes and drawings between users is as simple as
flicking an item to another user.

Applications for History

1. The National Archives ipad App: Authentic primary documents from

the National Archives. Free app.

2. President’s Quiz: Quiz yourself on the Presidents of the United States.

3. Constitution: Doesn’t have rave reviews because there is no search

feature, but good for finding info on the Constitution.
4. My Congress: News, video and twitter feed of congress.
5. World Book This Day in History: Interactive calendar of each day in
history.
6. World Fact Book: 2010 world facts.
7. NPR for ipad: I think you can figure this out.
8. AP news for ipad: Breaking news.
9. Reuters News Pro: News and market data.
10. Skygrid: Web news and events.

Applications for Science: Science teachers rejoice. There are far more
apps for you than for anyone else.
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1. Rat Dissection: from Punflay. Teaches students to virtually dissect a

rat. It has written directions to explore internal organs.

2. Strange and wonderful world of ants: App has three reading levels.
Shows how ants co-operate, create and communicate with each other.

3. A Life Cycle: Good for 9th grade. Walks user through 10 different
biological life cycles.

4. Frog Dissection: Just like the rats, only this time, with frogs.

5. Periodic Table of the Elements: I think you can figure out what this is.

6. Physics 101 SE jr: This app is a calculator to help you solve for any
unknkown in various physics equations. It also explains each equation.

7. Planetarium 1.1: App has been updated to include improved graphics

and visual effects. Varied reviews.

8. SpaceTime: powerful graphing calculator with beautiful 3d graphs.

9. iLab: Timer: Included up to 10 timers which can operate simultaneously,

large display for classroom use.

10, Vernier Physics: Works on any video (IOS4 only =iPad in November)
Camera on iphone and Touch can capture and digitise the video. Make the
graph from the video. Export to Logger Pro.

11. measureHD: Includes ruler, protractor, two levels and a plumb.

12. SparkVue: Uses onboard accelerometer for acceleration graphs,

interfaces with Pasco airlink and lab probes.

13. Worlfrom Alpha: Uses Wolfram Alpha search engine to find data and
solve math, calculus, chemistry, physics and other science problems.

14. EMD PTE: Periodic Table with tons of information, trends and photos
included.

15. Star Walk: Interactive personal planetarium.

16. G: Gravitation simulator, adjust velocity, mass, distance of object and

view their paths.
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17. Vanished: an eight week online/offline environmental disaster mystery

game. Developed by Smithsonian Institute and MIT.

18. Sun Seeker: 3D Augmented Reality Viewer: Provides a flat view

compass and an augmented reality camera 3-D view showing the solar path,
its hour intervals, its winter and summer solstice paths, rise and set times
and more.

Apps for Math: Math has quite a few apps as well.

1. K12 Algebra 1 Study and Review: A well developed review

application. Includes fundamentals, equations and inequalities, linear graphs
and systems, polynomials, rationals and radicals, quadratics and functions.

2. Combine 4: app tests user’s knowledge and ability to use the basic
operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to combine 4
numbers in a way to equal 24. It’s all Greek to me.

3. Math Equation Solver: It does what it says, it solves equations.

4. Polar Sweep: Reinforces relationships between rectangular coordinates,

polar coordinates, and basic trigonometry.

5. fxintegrator: evaluates area under the curve for 1d equations.

6. OmniGraphSketcher: creates beautiful graphs and exports as pdf, vga

out.

7. PCalc RPN: calculator.

8. PocketCAS: Scientific calculator and function plotter.

9. Geometry Stash: Theorems, postulates, and corollaries for geometry.

10. Calc XT: Calculator with side note pad.

Applications for English:

1. Shakespeare in Bits- Romeo and Juliet: Allows students to do an

excellent job of letting students experience the play in various formats with
as much support as necessary.

2. 100 SciFi Stories and more: A huge library of world science fiction
stories.
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3. Vocab Wiz SAT: Drills students on SAT level vocabulary.

4. Shakespeare: Complete works of Shakespeare with search functions

and glossaries.

5. Literary Analysis Guide: Good for higher level students. Wheels for
poetry, prose, and rhetoric.
6. The Elements of Style: Classic text by Strunk and White in an app.
7. Grammar: Basic rules of grammar are reviewed and practiced. Initial
assessment and tutorials available.
8. Jacaranda Plus: HTML based ebooks with multimedia resources.

9. This I Believe: This application puts the beliefs collected in NPR’s vast
essay collection into the hands of people so they can take them and be
inspired wherever they go.

10. Miss Spell’s Class: An original word game that lets players test their
spelling skills against the most commonly misspelled words on
Dictionary.com.

Applications for Foreign Languages:

1. Edgemates: Peer-review says foreign language teachers love this game.

The review was rather vague.

2. World Lens: Translation tool. Can be used for scavenger hunts, hidden
word search, study guides and field trips.

3. Mindsnacks Spanish: Focuses on vocabulary, spelling, grammar, visual

learning and context. Has 50 levels of content.

4. VerbGeek: Spanish- One of the most comprehensive, intuitive and fun

ways to learn Spanish ver conjugations on the ipad.

5. MindSnacks Spanish: Features six games designed to build essential

Spanish vocabulary, reading, writing, listening and conversation skills.
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