Ideas shared during the BYOD forum at the NZAMT-13 Conference, Friday 4th October 2013. Add your own suggestions in the comments below, and tell us about your experiences with the tools already listed.
Puffin and Flashfox: allows you to play flash videos on mobile devices
fluidmaths: handwritten maths. Similar to MyScript calculator app in principle, but much more functional - algebra and graphing etc as well as simple calculations.
Desmos (Browser): Graph functions, plot tables of data, evaluate equations, explore transformations. You can add sliders to graphs to change coefficients. Similar in functionality to Geogebra, but prettier
Inspiration Maps: mind mapping. Useful for unit planning, or for students to do brainstorms etc, mindmaps to summarise a topic for revision
Fraser Speirs: follow his blog for technology in education
List Selector: select from a list. Useful for choosing student groupings etc. Please add your suggestions below for this one, the tool suggestions were flying thick and fast at this point of the discussion and I missed the other suggestions for how to use List Selector!
thatquiz and quizlet: online quizzes. Create your own or use a pre-existing one.
educreations (cross-platform browser, or iPad app) and showme (iPad only): collaborative whiteboard apps that allow you to record audio while writing/drawing. Useful for teaching students OR for students to create their own to share with fellow students.
voicethread: recording voices to show working - particularly useful for collecting evidence for Numeracy portfolios, or for bridging the gap between students making observations and students writing observations (eg in Multivariate Statistics)
quickkey: formative assessment tool - saves you hours of exit tests and populating rollbook spreadsheets!
elevated maths: app for teaching maths. Free to download, $2.59 per topic as in-app purchases
starter of the day: different starter for every day of the calendar year, or you can search for a starter on a particular topic
WolframAlpha app (Apple, Android, Kindle, Nook): Amazing. It knows everything and can calculate everything. Requires network connection.
PocketCAS app (Apple only): CAS calculator. less powerful than WolframAlpha but works offline. Also good for a quick BEDMAS calculation that needs more than the built-in calculator
Quick Graph app (Apple only): powerful graphing app. Does 2-D curves or 3-D surfaces.
Please add to this list!It would be helpful if you specify which platform your suggested tool works on too - eg Android, Apple, Mac, Windows, Browser
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Thanks everyone for the great sharing session.
My next comment will be on Android platform and then I will add something on Windows Apps (lately I have been using SurfacePro).