Apps+for+Learning



**iPad Apps for Education ** // These are a few of my favorite apps! //


 * Productivity/Utilities: **
 * **Name ** || **Cost ** || **Description ** ||
 * Awesome Note || Free || Awesome Note Lite is a note-taking app that allows you to create, edit, save, organize, & share your notes. Notes can include to-do lists, images, maps, etc. ||
 * Bamboo Paper || Free || Bamboo Paper lets you handwrite notes, draw, & sketch that you can easily share with others. ||
 * BubbleSheet || Free || This app lets students take multiple choice tests & quizzes through [|MasteryConnect], [|BubbleScore], or any assessment system that uses the BubbleSheet API. ||
 * Diigo || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Diigo offline Reader lets you save websites, search and browse your Diigo library, and download files for offline browsing. Diigo enables seamless bookmarking, tagging, highlighting, clipping, sharing, annotating, archiving, and searching of information to deliver a new level of productivity for knowledge workers. Diigo's offerings are considered by many to be the best and most feature-rich in the social bookmarking/annotation space, as knowledge workers, work groups and schools around the world are embracing Diigo for better productivity. Collect everything, find fast, share easily, and access anywhere. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">DragonDictation || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The application is built on a popular speech recognition technology that allows to easily dictate notes, email messages or anything you would like to and saving you a lot of time. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Dropbox || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Dropbox is an easy way to sync and share your files online and across computers. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Evernote || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Evernote helps you to remember anything. You can easily create new notes, no matter if it is a simple text note, image, snapshot or even a voice recording. Optimized for iPad’s large screen, the app comes with nifty features, like typing while recording. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">GoodReader || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">$1.99 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">GoodReader is a mark-up tool is capable of adding highlights, comments, lines, drawings and much more to your PDF files. It is a powerful reading application for iPad as well. It supports all major file formats, including pdf, .doc, .txt, .xls, .ppt, iWork and html. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Google Docs Mobile || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">View your documents from anywhere on your iPad. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">GoTasks || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Google Tasks: Set up to-do lists with reminders. Check off tasks as you complete them. Sync with your Google (Gmail) account. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">iTalkRecorder || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">iTalk Recorder Lite 4.0 is handheld recording the way it should be: simple, robust and searchable. Use iTalk Recorder Lite for lectures, meetings, nature walks, or anywhere. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">MindMeister || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">$7.99 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Create, view, & edit mindmaps online or offline. Share your mindmaps with others. Sync mindmaps with your browser. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Numbers || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">$9.99 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Numbers is a spreadsheet app designed for a mobile device. Tap the bright Multi-Touch display to create compelling, great-looking spreadsheets in minutes. ||
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Pages || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">$9.99 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Create and share documents with Apple’s most used word processing app. Choose from 16 Apple templates to work with. Easily add media content, tabs, intelligent charts, & tables; enhance your document with textures and many more. Use “File Sharing” in iTunes to transfer your docs. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Penultimate || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">$1.99 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Take notes, keep sketches, or share your next breakthrough idea -- in the office, on the go, or home on the sofa. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">SharePlusLite || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Collaborate with your team, sharing documents, calendars and tasks lists right from the meeting room, a taxi, or when out visiting a client. Browse documents, discussions, announcements, wiki pages and custom lists. SharePlus will work with your current SharePoint credentials. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Timer+ || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This app is a simple countdown timer with unlimited presets. You can run multiple timers at once. ||

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**Presentation Apps**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This app supports to use the iPhone app "2Screens Remote" (sold separately) as a Bluetooth remote control for switching among pages/tabs and moving the "laser pointer". <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Video on how it works ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Name || **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Cost ** || **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Description ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">2Screens || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">$4.99 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">For presenting on the iPad 1: a full-featured document manager, file viewer, web browser and whiteboard with VGA-out to TV, LCD monitor or projector. With multi-tab support, you can switch among screens with web content, PDFs, PowerPoint slides, spreadsheets and photos/images, all within this app easily during a presentation.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">BlackboardMobile Learn || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Teachers & students have access to Blackboard web learning through this free mobile version. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Doceri Remote || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This app requires [|Doceri Desktop] to turn your iPad & computer into an interactive whiteboard. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Keynote || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">$9.99 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Keynote has everything you need to create presentations, including Apple-designed themes, custom graphic styles, and stunning animations and effects. Start quickly with a theme and add the slides you need with just a few taps, selecting any of eight slide masters. You can also open a Keynote ’09 or Microsoft PowerPoint file. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Prezi for iPad || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Show your Prezi presentations! Register on prezi.com, create a prezi, and then show it on your iPad. Drag to pan and pinch to zoom in or out of topics, just like you do in any map app. ||
 * ShowMe || Free || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #898989; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">Turn your iPad into your personal interactive whiteboard! ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It’s a radically intuitive app that anyone will find extremely easy to use, regardless of age or background.To see examples of ShowMe’s that other people have made, check out ShowMe.com. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">TED || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world. ||

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**Conferencing (Note: While the apps are free, the service itself is not free in all cases):**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">It’s completely free to call people on Skype over Wifi. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Name** || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Cost**  || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Description**  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Skype || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Call your Skype contacts wherever you may be – either on 3G or WiFi.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">WebEx || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Attend WebEx meetings on your iPad, wherever you are! Use this application to get the full meeting experience with simultaneous data and audio. Don’t just listen in to a meeting. Join in. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">GoToMeeting || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">GoToMeeting is the easiest and most convenient way to attend online meetings – and now you can take it to go! Download the free app and join a meeting on your iPad in seconds just by tapping the link in your invitation email. View slide presentations, design mockups, spreadsheets, reports – whatever meeting presenters choose to share on-screen. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Tango || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tango brings you free, high-quality mobile voice and video calls over 3G and Wi-Fi! Millions of people around the world are using Tango in an exciting new way. It’s easy to use, it’s fun, and it works. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">FuzeMeeting || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Get Fuze Meeting HD and you’ll be running online meetings from your iPad in minutes. You can also attend any Fuze Meeting without registering! ||

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**Reference**


 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Name ** || **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Cost ** || **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Description ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Common Core K-6 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This app provides the Common Core Standards for K-6 along with comparisons to the old standards. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Common Core Standards || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This app lists the Common Core Standards for K-12. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11pt;">DiscussionForum for iPad Users || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Browse/participate in discussions on everything related to the iPad. ||

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">@High School Apps
<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**Great Resources:**
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Apple in Education
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">media type="custom" key="13416078" align="right"App Store: Education
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Top iPad Apps for Education in the U.S.
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">iPads in Education on Ning
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Cybraryman's Apps for Education
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">My Diigo Library: iPad
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">NC DPI on iTunesU
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Parkland School Division’s wiki: iPad apps
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Apps - early years
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Apps - middle years
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Apps - high school
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Apps - admin
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Quick list of iPad resources for the classroom
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Bloom's Digital Taxonomy