Apps+for+Teachers

Classroom Productivity  [|iFontMaker]  - This app allows you to make a font using your iPad and drawing the letters as you want them. As you teach handwriting, this app allows you to demonstrate the printing that you would like your students to form. Kindle (Free) : eBook reader that allows the reader to change the size of text, switch from white on black, black on white or sepia text. Maxjournal: ($) A great looking journal with appealing addition for including up to 30 images for each entry. Easy text and image manipulation. Essay Grader ($): Provide very specific feedback to your students regarding their work. Your comments can be either emailed to students or exported and printed to be included with the student's essay. Pre-written as well as areas for free commenting developed by the teacher make this an easy app to use. Prezi Viewer (free) If you are a current Prezi user and want the ability to review, zoom and pinch the Prezi you have created on your computer. Confer Lite and Full Version (Free/$) : Created by a full-time, National Board Certified Teacher, Confer is a note taking app for teachers that lets you record and keep track of the notes you take on your students; both individually and in small groups iTranslate (Free): The first real Universal Translator with Voice Recognition, an exclusive Conversation Mode & 18 free voices. You can make a conversation in another language. Translate words, phrases and even whole sentences into over 50 languages. Edmodo (free): <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Edmodo for iPhone/iPad makes it easy for teachers and students to stay connected and share information. Use your idevice to send notes, post replies, and check messages and upcoming events while away from the classroom. Teachers can post last-minute alerts to their students and keep tabs on recent assignment submissions. Students can check their latest grades and what assignments they still need to turn in. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 23px;"> Stick Pick ($): <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Pick a student at random just by giving your device a shake or tapping the screen -- but that’s just the beginning. Stick Pick suggests question starters for learners at different levels and also records how well students respond during classroom discussions. If a student is consistently scoring near the top or bottom, simply change the level so students aren't bored or frustrated. Depending on students' levels of English proficiency, they might be asked simple yes-or-no questions or to elaborate in longer sentences. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;"> Dragon Dictation (free): <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. In fact, it’s up to five (5) times faster than typing on the keyboard. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Free Translator (free): <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This application provides an interface to the free Google Translate API for many languages including Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish and Vietnamese. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">mBook ($): <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Moodle on the iPad! <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;"> ScreenChomp (Free): <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Share a great idea. Explain a tricky concept. Help kids with their homework. ScreenChomp for iPad helps you do it all. A simple doodling board, markers, and one-click sharing tools make spreading your ideas and know-how easy and fun! Just - Record It. Sketch It. Share It. - to create a sharable, replay-able video that tells your story clearly. Produces a short URL that’s easy to share anywhere. You can download your video as an MPEG-4 file. There’s no account to manage. Just post and go (perfect for schools and teachers)! Users at every skill level can create bite-sized teaching morsels they can share online, again and again, with this delectable app. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Kno (free): <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Kno delivers the best reading experience on the iPad with over 100,000 Textbooks at 30%-50% off list price with cutting-edge features like Journal, Quiz Me, Course Manager, highlighting, search and tap to zoom to name a few. Students at every major campus across the country are already using Kno and enjoy being able to read, organize, study and manage all of their textbooks, PDFs and course materials in one app. Kno backpack necessary. Percentally ($) Many of the IEP goals are looking for percentage benchmarks for an assigned goal. This app allows you to customize the goal for each student and mark progress using percentage. You can export your information to Google Docs so you have a back up record. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">K12 Timed Reading ($) Fluency app. It allows more than one student levels K-4th grade. improving fluency allows readers to read smoothly and quickly so they can focus on comprehension rather than on decoding words.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">General Productivity <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 23px;">Dropbox (Free): <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">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. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 23px;">Sundry Notes (free): <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Text, images, audio recording, tables, real-time WiFi collaboration, wireless sync with the cloud, and much more! Write text (and change font color, size, etc.) Draw anywhere in your notes. Search any website - and grab images from them for your notes using two fingers. Import PDFs from the internet, Import images from your photo library. Record sound/voice. Create tables. Change page background to graph paper, lined paper, legal paper, etc. Keep multiple notes open at once using tabs. Bookmark parts of notes to easily return to them. Password-protected notes. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Evernote (free): Evernote turns the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad into an extension of your brain, helping you remember anything and everything that happens in your life. From notes to ideas to snapshots to recordings, put it all into Evernote and watch as it instantly synchronizes from your iPhone to your Mac or Windows desktop. Create text, photo and audio notes. Auto-synchronize your notes to your Mac, PC, and Web. Magically makes text within snapshots searchable. Mark notes as "Favorite" for quick access. All notes include geo-location information for mapping and search Premium Feature: File Synchronization - add, sync, access, and share files (PDF, Word, Excel, PPT, and more) among the different versions of Evernote you use. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;"> Flipboard (free): <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Flipboard is a fast, beautiful way to flip through the news, photos, videos, and updates your friends are sharing on Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, Flickr, and Instagram. See your social media in a magazine layout that is easy to scan and fun to read. Catch up on the latest stories, videos and posts from popular publications and people such as National Geographic, The New Yorker, Wired, Rolling Stone, Oprah, Forbes, Robert Scoble, and Brain Pickings' Maria Popova. Share articles and photos, comment on posts, and like or favorite anything. Customize your Flipboard with sections created from your favorite news, people, blogs, and topics. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> GoDocs for Google Docs ($): GoDocs is an app for your google docs on iPad/iPhone/iTouch. You can view your docs much faster and comfortably, use many google docs accounts simultaneously, download all your google docs files on your iPhone/iPad and send them by mail, share them. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Pages ($): <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Word processor let you create and edit documents but can import files from the corresponding Microsoft Office applications. Basically Word for iPad. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Numbers ($): <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Basically Excel for iPad. Exclusively designed for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, Numbers lets you make compelling spreadsheets in minutes — with tables, charts, photos, and graphics — using just your fingers. Choose from 250 easy-to-use functions. Enter and edit data with an intelligent keyboard. Create impressive tables and charts, then move them around the flexible canvas. Spreadsheets look great on iPad, and they’re stunningly sharp on the high-resolution Retina display on iPhone 4 and the latest iPod touch. Numbers uses Smart Zoom to automatically zoom in on data as you edit or type, and zooms back out when you’re done, which makes working with cells and text surprisingly easy on iPhone or iPod touch. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Keynote ($): <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Basically PowerPoint for the iPad. Exclusively designed for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, Keynote makes creating a world-class presentation — complete with animated charts and transitions — as simple as touching and tapping. Use full-screen view to present right on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. If you’re presenting to a large audience, connect your device to a projector or HDTV and preview your slides and notes using the presenter display. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Living Earth HD ($): <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Living Earth HD is the absolute best and most beautiful World Clock, Weather and Alarm available for your iPhone and iPad! Enjoy a stunning live 3D simulation of our planet at our current moment in time with global weather, forecasts and world clock for cities around the world. View live global cloud pattens along with the most realistic 3D rendering of our planet available. A humbling view of our home in your hands or a strikingly beautiful nightstand or desktop clock.

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<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">World Atlas HD: ($) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">National Geographic Maps in high resolution. Allows for spinning, panning, rotating. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">World Book - This Day in History: (free) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Multimedia calendar that includes historical and trivia information for each day of the year. Each event is linked to additional learning opportunities. Video, audio and images will add to the information you can take in each day. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">[|TED: (Free)]: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">TED presents talks from some of the world's most fascinating people: education radicals, tech geniuses, medical mavericks, business gurus and music legends. Find more than 900 TEDTalk videos (with more added each week) on the official TED app -- now for both iPad and iPhone. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 23px;">AccuWeather (Free): Get the most localized and accurate weather information from anywhere at any time with the newly redesigned AccuWeather application for iPhone! With GPS technology and new, interactive Google™ maps, the application makes it possible for you to get detailed and up-to-date weather forecasts and news wherever you are in the world. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 23px;">GoogleEarth (free): <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Hold the world in the palm of your hand. With Google Earth for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger. Explore the same global satellite and aerial imagery available in the desktop version of Google Earth, including high-resolution imagery for over half of the world's population and a third of the world's land mass. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">AP Mobile (free): <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> AP Mobile news helps you keep up-to-date with what's happening anywhere, in your hometown and across the globe. AP Mobile offers the world's news at your fingertips. Personalize your news to meet your needs. You can select local news from your trusted local newspapers and broadcasters and combine it with the best of the AP's videos, photos, and national and international coverage. AP Mobile -- the most comprehensive free news application available for the iPhone -- now offers rich media ads.