iPad Apps for the Classroom

Lately, I've begun downloading free Apps that seem interesting and/or useful for students of various levels and in all sorts of classes. I'll be showcasing them here and updating when I find something new and fabulous. 

Leave a comment if there's a lesson you think an App would help with. I'll do my best to find something that works!

Reading:

• Edmodo (free)
• create groups and post comments, assignments, and quizzes
• SubText (free)
• within Edmodo groups, add articles and books and create analysis assignments and discussions
• Overdrive (free)
• access online books checked out from the SBISD libraries
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Writing:

• Dragon Dictation (free)
• Voice recognition app that allows students to have their spoken word translated into writing. This app is a bit glitchy; sometimes it cannot understand students and types the wrong words.

Study Skills:

• Evernote (free)
• keep track of notes and lists
• Peek (free)
• works with your notes from Evernote to create flip screen quizzes
• Penultimate (free)
• "the experience of pen on paper with the power of Evernote"

Science:

• Leafsnap HD (free)
• leaf and plant identifier