App Sharing
Maybe we can start off by all adding one app that we really like?
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- Allanah King (View all users posts) 22 Mar 2011 7:50pm ()
I like Fling Free because it encourages children to think logically and predict what might happen.
http://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/fling-free/id325825863?mt=8
- Allanah King (View all users posts) 05 Nov 2011 3:05pm ()
I picked up Story Wheel from Amanda in a workshop at ULearn. It's a free app but you have to pay for extra story sets similarly to Puppet Pals.
- Allanah King (View all users posts) 04 Apr 2012 8:53pm ()
'It was a cold dark night' is an ebook and an app all rolled in to one.
I also like it cos this web site gives a really good preview video of it to let you know what you're spending your $5 on.
It has suggestions for parents when reading the book with their child. You can read it to yourself, have the app read it.
Then you can create your own book based on the characters and settings in the book and add your own text and audio for the entorely new story that you have created.
- Allanah King (View all users posts) 19 Jun 2012 11:24pm ()
Display Recorder just got itself launched. With it you can record your iPad screen actually on your iPad.
http://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/display-recorder/id520411468?mt=8
It is a bit buggy and you have to change your settings so it thinks its in America for it to work but it's getting there. Might be worth a try.
At the moment I can only record video with a voice over- hopefully it will get sorted and it will record the iPad audio as well.
- Allanah King (View all users posts) 22 Jun 2012 9:34pm ()
Today people were going on about not being able to work Google Docs with an iPad.
I use GoDocs to do do Google.
http://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/godocs-for-google-docs-google/id348792440?mt=8
It costs $6.49
Does anyone use anything else for Google?
Eric Martini (View all users posts) 23 Jun 2012 10:14am ()I use the free "Google" search app... has a app link at the bottom that gives you access to other google services like, Calendar, Reader, Gmail etc - you can view and edit your docs.
You can switch to desktop mode if you want to use the desktop view instead of the mobile one.
The wordprocessing docs, are easy enough to create and edit, as well as excel files though I wouldn't use it to create spreadsheets from scratch.
Haven't used it extensively, but it's been able to do what I wanted it to do - so ok for me at the moment.
http://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/google-search/id284815942?mt=8
- Carol Kendall (View all users posts) 24 Jun 2012 3:50pm ()
Allanah, I was using GoDocs yesterday, as well as trying the Google app that Eric mentions. Neither worked properly when others were also working on the document. the screen kept jumping around all over the place. Maybe I was doing something wrong. It was hopeless. I have, and like the look of the Office2 HD app ($10.99) but haven't tried it at the same time as someone else, yet.
- Allanah King (View all users posts) 24 Jun 2012 4:23pm ()
You don't get the collaborative experience of watching someone else write at the same time as you as you would if you were using the deskptop version. As you synch the page the notes of others become visible.
- Carol Kendall (View all users posts) 24 Jun 2012 4:30pm ()
It didn't matter about watching someone else type, I just found the page jumping everywhere and it was almost impossible to type when someone else was.
- Allanah King (View all users posts) 24 Jun 2012 4:30pm ()
Our Pad
http://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/our-pad-for-ipad-only/id471773203?mt=8
From time to time I have to lend my iPad to people. When I do that I have to tell them not to tweet or Facebook or whatever in my name or spend a time logging out of stuff in the hope that I have remembered everything that I have signed in to.
If a teacher is sharing the iPad with the children it would be a bit like that.
My Pad is an app that lets you log out of a heap of things all at the same time aqnd change users easily.
I haven't actually used it yet but will give it a whirl the next time I have to loan my iPad to someone.
- Innes Kennard (View all users posts) 24 Jun 2012 10:15pm ()
Just in case you are looking for My Pad, it is called Our Pad.
- Klaris Philipson (View all users posts) 05 Apr 2013 4:03pm ()
Hi All,
We have just put 2 ipads in the hands of our Learning support team to use in their work with the Junior school children.
They are floundering around in the iTunes store looking for apps.
I wonder if anyone has any suggestoins to meet any of their needs:
- To develop visual memory of correct sequence of letters in Spellwrite Essential lists or NZ high frequency words preferably within the framework of a game
- To develop knowledge of spelling rules preferably within the framework of a game
- To develop ability to hear sounds (in sequence) in a word and record these preferably within the framework of a game
- To develop automaticity in recognizing similar chunks or letter sequences within words preferably within the framework of a game. Preferably with careful leveling.
- To increase automatic word recognition of high frequency words
Any ideas or tested and tried apps you could suggest would be much appreciated.
thanks
Klaris
- Josie Woon (View all users posts) 05 Apr 2013 9:00pm ()
Hi klaris
i use spelling city for essential lists. It is now an app that you can download, I have loaded lists 1-4 on my blog, it is the first link under spelling city if you wanted to have a look and see if this would work for you.
http://room9rockets.blogspot.co.nz/p/our.html
i have a few other ones I use Ill take a look at ones that may meet your needs and come back.
- Gillian Donnelly (View all users posts) 16 Sep 2014 11:41am ()
We have installed the Spelling City app which generates games from set lists. When you log in to the website, which I plan to do on a laptop, you can install your own lists. I am going to put all the essential lists in for our staff to use with students as well as the Sounds Alive lists that we use. Another pro for this site is that kids can do it on a laptop or PC as well and from home if they know how to search for the teacher name that set it up. It's free to join but you can subscribe for more funtionality.
Also check out Reading Eggs, there's a selection of apps put out by these Australian developers.
- Allanah King (View all users posts) 16 Sep 2014 11:53am ()
I have already entered the Spell Write Essential Lists
linked on this blog post
http://allanahk.edublogs.org/2013/11/01/spell-write/
You are welcome to link to those instead of writing up your own ones.
- Klaris Philipson (View all users posts) 10 May 2013 11:30am ()
Hi,
One that we are using for Maths in a variety of years (Y3-Y7) is Mystery Maths Town.
http://www.mysterymathtown.com/
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/mystery-math-town/id619404402?mt=8
My kids love it as there are many levels, a variety of skill stes that can be addressed and a degree of strategy needed plus memory to know where you have been in the house already.
K
- Allanah King (View all users posts) 19 Jul 2013 10:12pm ()
colAR Augmented Reality app is very cool. You download the colouring in pages, colour them in and the app translates them into 3D and animates your colouring. Great fun.
https://sites.google.com/site/initialipadsetup/augmented-reality
- HAKOPA (View all users posts) 05 Aug 2013 6:36am ()
Awesome!! thanks alot for this it will definately come in handy with my tamariki at kura
nga mihi nui ki a koe Allanah.
- Tessa Gray (View all users posts) 22 Mar 2011 8:02pm ()
Great question Allanah - and when you say one app...what a challenge.
There lots I use for work and travel, but is the apps for preschoolers that intrigues me.
Talking Tom and his mates, Talking Hippo, Talking Harry and Talking Larry...all do funny little things like sing, drink milk, blow up. But the lovely thing is how they record your voice (like it's a chimpmunk) and play it back to you. You can also record actions and voice to make mini movies and email these to yourself - in any langauge. About $1.25
Tess
- Paula Jamieson (View all users posts) 22 Mar 2011 9:27pm ()
Hmmmm just the one.....
My current obsession is Super7
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/super-7/id366612434?mt=8
Other than the fun factor of this game it will support Numeracy in the classroom too. It will challenge learners to make decisions, to think quickly and to manage self. The better you think you are getting at this game the more intricate and involved it becomes. Not just Addition and Subtraction but Multiplication and Division too.
$1.29 from NZ iTunes Store
Visit my "iPaddle" wikispace for other Apps, especially those gathered at our Learning at Schools App Harvest.
Paula
- Jo Fothergill (View all users posts) 08 Apr 2011 7:06am ()
My students love this too - especially the fact that they can beat me.
- James Rea (View all users posts) 22 Jun 2012 9:44am ()
I've been using this with my catch up maths group. Love how they are learning to add within 10 (7). Great with goroupings to 5 but I found that the children were not actually planning ahead much. They were just joining small numbers together until it added to 7. Not thinking 2 and 2 will make 4 I need another 3.
- Cameron Lockie (View all users posts) 08 Apr 2011 9:03am ()
Our students are really liking Math Bingo, a great basic facts app, that has three levels, easy, medium, hard.
- Iain Cook-Bonney (View all users posts) 12 Apr 2011 10:21am ()
My current favourite is Puppet Pals, came out for iPad orginally, but has now been released for iPod/iPhone! Cool.
My kids just love making digital stories using this tool. It's well worth getting the 'Director's Pass', as it gives you all content, plus all future updates and the ability to add your own custom backgrounds and characters! I've put my kids on there, and they love having adventures with pirates, zombies and aliens...
- Allanah King (View all users posts) 04 May 2011 12:33am ()
I love the new Puppet Pals feature where you can add your own Characters and Backgrounds and export directly to YouTube. I had a bit of fun with it as a way to introduce friends who had only met virtually before.
- Tessa Gray (View all users posts) 28 Apr 2011 9:29pm ()
Thanks for these ideas. I've just got myself an iPad (woohoo) and want to know what kind of apps are good for the little and big kids (me included). I like the look of Puppet Pals and am about to play with PlayTime Theater. Tess
- Karen Mills (View all users posts) 29 Apr 2011 6:39am ()
This would be a good place to start Tessa.
http://virtualstaffroom.net/2011/04/vsr42-ios-app-smackdown/#more-374
I Can Animate is now avaialble for the iPhone and iPod Touch as well. Love the time lapse feature.
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/i-can-animate/id399760501?mt=8
- annerotorua (View all users posts) 09 May 2011 11:17pm ()
Boggle and Word Pop ( the version that you pay for so it is ad free) are great and very popular. In Word Pop you have to find words and get points - great fun trying to beat the best score of previous players.
- Allanah King (View all users posts) 19 May 2011 8:34pm ()
Paula put me on to Tour Wrist. A free app with an augmented reality type of feel about it. You select a location and wait a a moment for the download. Turn your iPad on its side. You then see a 360º wrap around view of the location. It feels like you were actually videoing the location with your iPhone or iPad.
- Iain Cook-Bonney (View all users posts) 26 May 2011 8:32am ()
For those of you who loved Puppet Pals, here is another free app in a similar style. Sock Puppets lets you create short animated movies using digital sock puppets. The thing that I really like about this app is that the puppets lip sync to your voice!
It has sharing options for Youtube and Facebook as well.
- Allanah King (View all users posts) 26 May 2011 7:10pm ()
I have downloaded it. All I need now is to get my iPad back and I can have a play. The iPad belongs to the cluster and I have to keep on sharing it.
- Allanah King (View all users posts) 28 May 2011 1:34pm ()
I downloaded and had a play with Sock Puppets. I like it. It did take quite some time to encode though but I could cope. Thanks for the heads up.
