Wednesday, May 2, 2012

App Selections: Consume and Create 05.02

World Cultures (video journaling assessment)
Easy Measure (for measurement)
The Beauty Booth/Golden Ratio (take picture of own face to see if they meet Golden Ratio)
Gale Databases ( for research)
iBooks Author
Creative Book Builder
Creative Keynote (for interactive Keynotes)
Shakespeare in Bits (7 & 8)
iReading HD Fairy Tale Collections (Read and record)
Reading Raven
Phonics Genius
Gene Screen (Punnett Squares as a drag and drop)
Animoto
Middle School Confidential (book series)
Blurb Mobile
Comic Life
History Maps of the World (Middle East and Asia, world religion map)
Math Drills
Cash Cow
MTA Helper
Glow Draw
Barefoot World Atlas
Postcard
Poet for iPad
Poet's Pad
Visual Poetry
Me Genius
Draw Free
Doodle Buddy
Processing
iBooks
Codify
Python
Dyslexia Free
Endangered Animals
Species on the Edge
Postermaker
Toontastic
Star Walk
Code Anywhere
GotoMeeting
Heart (heart rate monitor)
Your Teacher
BoardCam
Sabi (French, German, Spanish, Italian - $10)
Sketchpad Explorer
Follett eReader App
Edmodo
Wordpress Blog
3D Cell Stain
Comic Book
Frankenstein
Unstuck
iCoacher
Avid Studio
Subtext
ShowMe
Splashtop
Skitch












Sunday, November 20, 2011

Sequencing Activities - November 19 Workshop


Sequencing Activities

Short paragraph in the past tense - arrange sentences in the order.
Daily preparations 
Key plot points in the story
Pages in a book
Field trips - pictures in order
Role playing
Emotions
Powers of Ten
Arrangement of the planets
Sizes of the planets
Scales of the planets
Organs of the body 
Arranging and rearranging the structure of the sentence
Food chains and food webs
Ecosystems
Giant portrait - arrangement 
Human systems
Neighborhoods - Virtual Map
Presidents
Geography
Solar system
Evolution of man

App Recommendations - November 19 Workshop

App Recommendations and Curricular Connections

Foreign Language - Arabic - practice writing characters (Write with me in Arabic)
Words with Friends
Culture Study on Egypt - Writing in Egyptian (LEarn Egyptian Arabic Vocabulary)
LS Science - Comic Life
Toontastic
Noteability
Pocket Books
Word Dice (disappointing)
ShowMe App
VoiceThread
iPAd in Science Journaling
Science Lab (Quizzes, etc)
Science House
ScreenChomp
Karaoke
The Comic Book
Lorax/My Caron Footprint/Frog Dissection/Seafood Watch (Ecology, Ethics, LS Science)
Water/Environmental Quiz
Google Earth
PageSend (watch and record)
Ispeech
ToyStory
Dragon Dictation
Notetaking - Notetaker HD ($5) - able to mark up with stylus
Creative Book Builder
Assemblee
Ibrainstorm
Doceri
Casper Suite
Airwatch
Evernote
Stack with States
Field notes

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Participants in Action - October 12 Workshop





Sequencing Activities - October 12 Workshop

Participants at our workshop suggested the following sequencing activities:

US geography
Technical processes
Stop motion video storyboarding
Steps in the division process
Life cycle of the pumpkin
Sequence of events in a story
Order of the planets
Sorting activities
Dewey Decimal System
Boroughs in NYC
Events in history
Classifying numbers
Classifying animals

Oct 12 Workshop - App Suggestions

Participants at the October 12 iPad Workshop at Marymount suggested the following Apps for use in their classes.

Strip Design
Comic Life
Google Print
French Travel Phrasebook
Geowalk
Starwalk
Solarwalk
A note
Perspective
Museum Planet
ICDL
Brainpop
Montessori Approach to Language
Word Magic
Art Museum (to match with History)
Fluent News
Dot-epub
LiveBinder
Voice Thread
Evernote
Splash Top
Virtual History Roma
Roman Brittanica
Spell Board
Toontastic
Kid Animation
Animated GIF
Word Foto
Popplet
Doceri
Bamboo Note
Circus Pony Notebook
Confer
LearnBoost

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Sequencing Ideas

The following ideas were generated for using the iPad to do sequencing.

Programming and order of operations
Literature and ordering story events
"Medieval manuscripts"
Patterns in math
Sequencing math problems
Creating a story in pictures
Using the iPad for correct order of argumentation