iPad Apps that work with Smartboards

The iPad looks amazing when projected onto a large screen. The students in a 1 to 1 iPad classroom gets to see the apps at work. Have a look at the list below to see if any of these might be useful in your classroom. If you have others that should be added to this list please leave a comment with the name of the app and we will add it to the list.

Doceri: FREE
Turn your iPad and classroom computer into an Interactive Whiteboard with Doceri. Imagine the freedom to move around the room, interact with your students and never turn your back to the class. Requires Doceri Desktop - download a FREE TRIAL at www.doceri.com. Full version is $50.  Doceri is the ultimate tool for presentations and lessons and accessible anywhere you have Wi-Fi.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/doceri-remote/id412443803?mt=8

SplashTop: $5.49 AU
This is the ONLY remote desktop app that streams video and audio from your PC or Mac, allowing you to interact with your PowerPoint, Keynote, Word, Excel, Outlook, Quicken, IE, Firefox, Safari, World of Warcraft, and other PC / MAC applications. Remotely access your PC or MAC from any device!

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/splashtop-remote-desktop-for/id382509315?mt=8

Edistorm: FREE
Edistorm is an online brainstorming tool that uses the metaphor of sticky notes to allow you to brainstorm. Edistorm is the best way to brainstorm before, during and after your meetings. Edistorm allows you create brainstorms, add or retrieve your ideas anywhere you are. Visit Edistorm.com to organize your ideas and to visually collaborate with your clients wherever they are.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/edistorm/id378985009?mt=8

Bridgit: FREE
With the SMART Bridgit conferencing software app, you can collaborate effortlessly with local and remote meeting participants*. Use the app with your SMART Board interactive whiteboard or display to view content that is being presented and highlight or annotate over that content. You can create or join a meeting on your iPad with either a WiFi or 3G network connection.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/smart-bridgit-conferencing/id433502122?mt=8

Mocha VNC: FREE
Using your iPhone or iPad, you can connect to a Windows PC or Mac OS X and see the files, programs, and resources exactly as you would if you were sitting at your desk, just on a smaller screen. Compared to the Lite version the full version has: Keyboard banners with extra keys, extra keys as ALT,CTRL and the Apple key a well as mouse dragging , hover and mouse wheel.

http://itunes.apple.com/app/mocha-vnc-lite/id284984448?mt=8

Google Docs: FREE
Google docs is an easy-to-use online word processor, spreadsheet and presentation editor that enables you and your students to create, store and share instantly and securely, and collaborate online in real time. You can create new documents from scratch or upload existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. All your work is stored safely online and can be accessed from any computer.

https://docs.google.com/

Dropbox:
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your iPhone and iPad and even the Dropbox website! With the Dropbox app, you can take everything that matters to you on the go.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/dropbox/id327630330?mt=8


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Useful Link - What can I do with an iPad in an ActivClassroom? by Lisa Dubernard

The Brown Stair, with Lesson

Pumpkin is ordering the Brown Stairs.

Pumpkin, now 3.5 has been working with the Brown Stair since she was just two years old.  Here you can see her building it vertically.  She was also pretending to put mortar in between each prism (there's construction on our street) which is fine by me.  The fast she's using her imagination shows me that she has mastered this concept.  

She caught me taking this photo...."What Mom?...It IS called the Brown Stairs.  I was just checking with my feet!"  Fair enough.

The Brown Stair Lesson-

Area

General-Sensorial

Specific- Visual Discrimination , Size awareness

Materials

  See the photos :) 

Aims

Direct-  Refinement of the ability to observe, compare, discriminate, differentiate, reason, decide, solve problems and appreciate our world.

Indirect- Learning to grade prisms by discrimination of volume

Preparation:  Pink tower, knobbed cylinders

Age- First year Montessori student

Presentation of Lesson:

  Carry one prism at a time

  Place them to the right side

  Hold prisms adjacent to floor with two hands

  Isolate the extremes to the left of the mat “This is the largest”  “This is the smallest”

  Start with the largest prism, continue grading prisms- setting them largest to smallest in a stair form

  Appreciate

  Return to shelf one prism at a time, starting with the largest

Work of the Teacher

Points of Emphasis:

  Carry with two hands adjacent to floor

  Scanning for next prism

Language:

  Non verbal 1^st

  Prism

  Large, small

Points of Interest:

  Heaviness of prism

  Chance to build

Work of the Child

Points of Consciousness:

  Largest goes 1^st

  They make a stair

Control of Error:

  Child’s eye

  Smallest prism

  If it’s not built right, it won’t look like a stair

Variations:

  Build Vertically

  Build end to end

Extensions:

  Combine with other discrimination of size materials, ESPECIALLY the Pink Tower-- hours of fun.

10 Productivity Apps

There are certain apps that just make your day easier. These are apps that I have been using regularly as part of my daily workflow. There is a nice variety of apps here, some are for use at school exclusively other I like because it gives me the freedom to just come home and continue with my lesson preparation. Have a look and see if any of these might be useful for you.

Agenda Calendar: $0.99 AU
Agenda is a well designed calendar for the iPad that gives you various "at a glance" views. They've stripped away all the stuff you don't need, so you can more quickly manage your day. They have introduced a clever feature called “status taps”which allow you to quickly confirm events, indicate arrival or lateness, and more generally send an email to attendees of an event.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/agenda-calendar/id440764409?mt=8

Downloads Manager: $2.99 AU
Downloads for iPad is a fully featured download manager. You can view or play the downloaded files right on your iPad or transfer them to your computer. It save pages with images for offline viewing, supports resuming of interrupted downloads, provides live download progress bar. You can add download links, download with correct filename and has the ability to download file of unknown size.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/downloads-for-ipad-download/id380641055?mt=8

JotNot Scanner Pro: $1.99 AU
JotNot is the original and premier multi-page document scanner for the iDevices. JotNot has many additional features including: A simple, easy to use interface with Camera stabilisation. It includes quick capture “Single Page Mode” and automated backup of scans. It includes the ability to email PDFs, PNGs, and JPEGs, presets for receipts, documents, and more and the ability to save to the Photo Library.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/jotnot-scanner-pro/id307868751?mt=8

PDF Expert: $9.99 AU
PDF Expert lets you read and annotate PDF documents, highlight text, make notes and save these changes. Moreover, PDF Expert is the only app that can fill PDF forms! PDF files from desktop computers, email attachments, documents on the Dropbox, MobileMe iDisk, GoogleDocs and even in other applications could be accessed with PDF Expert.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/pdf-expert-fill-forms-annotate/id393316844?mt=8

Skitch: FREE
Use shapes, arrows, sketches and text annotation to get your point across fast. Mark up photos, screenshots, maps, and webpages then share them with anyone you like. Skitch lets you annotate, add arrows, shapes and text to existing images. You can draw something new. You can edit images with reposition, recolor and remove your annotations at will.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/skitch-for-ipad/id490505997?mt=8

Printmagic: $0.99 AU
Print Magic is simple to use. Launch Print Magic and touch the printer icon to print. For convenience, Print Magic also allows you to select and print pictures from your Photos Library right from within the Print Magic application. You can pinch, zoom, and crop the images to set exactly what you want to print. Print Magic supports photo sizes 4x6 and up. Print Magic uses WiFi to print directly to many types of printers and any printer that can be shared from your Mac via Printer Sharing.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/print-magic/id332516694?mt=8

Keynote Remote: $0.99 AU
Keynote Remote lets you control a Keynote presentation on your Mac or iDevice, from another iDevice touch in the room. While you present, view your current slide and presenter notes in portrait, or the current slide and next slide in landscape. Swipe forward to advance and swipe back to return to the previous slide. Keynote Remote works with Wi-Fi network, so control your presentation from anywhere in the room.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/keynote-remote/id300719251?mt=8

QR Reader: FREE
A QR Code is a matrix barcode readable by QR scanners, mobiles phones with cameras and smartphones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on white background. You can use it to scan any two-dimensional barcode with your iDevice. QR Codes to create: Contact Information, Calendar Event, Email Address, Geo Location, Phone Number, SMS and of course URL (visit URL)

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/qr-reader-for-iphone/id368494609?mt=8

Onenote: FREE
OneNote for iPad is a note-taking app for capturing all of your ideas and to-dos on the go. Create searchable notes with text, pictures and bullets. Make and manage to-do lists with checkboxes. Then keep your notes in sync. With the free version of OneNote for iPad you can access, create and edit up to 500 notes. Once you reach this limit you can still view, delete, and sync your notes.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/microsoft-onenote-for-ipad/id478105721?mt=8

DualBrowser HD: $4.49 AU
This is probably my favourite dual browser. You will be able to browse the web in two different windows at the same time, with the advantage of opening the links from one in the other. It's features and options make it unique; Two simultaneous windows to navigate independently, full screen option and hide the navigation bar as well as private browsing.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/dual-browser/id380640600?mt=8

Picture of the Day: Failure to Serve

Everyone wants to be "the best." Stuyvesant High School in New York City is one of those considered to be winning the race to the top.  According to this picture, and the New York Times, not so much.

Our Adventures with Parts of A Flower (with links to freebies!)

First thing in the morning, we notice our bulb has finally flowered!!  Everybody gently touches it.  It is so beautiful, it was almost glittering with new flower sheen.  They were waiting for this day, because once it bloomed, I had promised to take out the Amaryllis puzzle and cursive parts cards.  They were full of anticipation!

A tiny finger points out the stamen

The first puzzle customer

Bean immediately traces the pieces and begins labeling the parts using the chart on the wall.  Links to that chart below.

Pumpkin builds the puzzle outside the frame of the puzzle (just like big sis did).

Parts of a Flower, cursive cards.

Bean poses for me, as she shows off her cursive reading skills.

Click here for free cards, control charts, and felt templates seen above.  



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