1.Using iPad and iPhone Appsfor Learning with LiteracyRichard Beach, ProfessorEmeritus, University ofMinnesota, rbeach@umn.eduGoogle Docs Version of handout:http://tinyurl.com/6oxcn7zUsing iPad and iPhone Apps forLearning with Literacy Across theCurriculum

2. Affordances of iPads/iPhones Touch: Intuitive navigation of texts and virtualworlds Portability/storage/ownership Personal learning device Social reading/writing Multimodality Collaboration/communication 3. Wikipedia apps Qwiki includes videos, images, graphs, andentries for millions of topics Articles for iPad Wikipedia Mobile Wikipanion Plus Simplepedia iWiki 4. Accessing/AnalyzingInformation to Learn Search engine apps. Safari(bundled app), Google Search, Bing,Wolfram Alpha), Dolphin Browser,Opera Mini, Atomic Web Browser,Ask, Yahoo: Answers, Yahoo: Search,Shelfster, Knowtilus Pro (translateswebsites into 28 different languages) 5. News curation apps Pearltrees, Flipboard, Zinio, Flud,Google Currents, Evri, News360,LiveBindershttp://tinyurl.com/7zpuhe5, Scoop.it!http://tinyurl.com/7ef7qjk,NetNewsWire (iPhone app, FluentNews Reader, Paper.li, and 6. Social bookmarking apps . Diigo, Evernote WebClipper, Yahoo!Bookmarks, Xmarks, Mister Wongjogtheweb.pngicyte.png, Licorize, symbaloo.png, favable.png, scrible.png, Digg, Stumbleupon 7. Purpose: Acquiring andsubscribing to/sharing information Social Bookmarking and sharinglinks/tags Sharing links in class Diigo groups Adding annotations to online literarytexts for sharing responses to literature 8. Using Diigo for adding a sticky-note response1. Add Diigo to your toolbar2. Find an online text3. Highlight sections of the text4. Click on the icon to add a Sticky Note response5. Have other students add their responses 9. Womanhood, CatherineAndersonShe slides overWhen she enters, the hot upholsteryand the millgate closes, of her mothers car,final as a slap, this schoolgirl of fifteentherell be silence. who loves humming & swaying Shell see fifteen high windows with the radio. cemented over to cut out light. Her entry into womanhoodInside, a constant, deafening noise will be like all the other girlsand warm air smelling of oil, a cigarette and a joke, the shifts continuing on ... as she strides up with the rest All day shell guide cloth along a line to a brick factoryof whirring needles, her arms & where shell sew rag rugs shoulders from textile strips of kelly green, rocking back & forth bright red, aqua. with the machines 200 porch size rugs behind her before she can stop to reach up, like her mother, and pick the lint out of her hair. 10. Highlighting and adding a StickyNote to the poem 11. QR reader apps QR Reader, QR app, NeoReader,Scan, QR Scanner, i-nigma,Optiscan, ScanLife, Quickmark,RedLaser-Barcord Scanner and QRReader, or Qrafter. Create QR code images by enteringin a URL in a QR create site such asQrafter, QRstuff.com, Kaywa, Tec-IT,QR-app 12. Comics apps Comixology Comics (for reading DCComics, MarvelComics, Image, Boom! Studio comics;Comics+, myComics, Comic, Comicblendr HD, Comic Zeal Comic ReaderMini (iPhone only, ComicBookLover(for reading/organizing comics). 13. Digital mapping iPad apps: iBrainstorm, MindMeisterfor Ipad,, Sundry Notes, IdeaSketch, TotalRecall, inShare, iMindMapMindNode, iThoughtsHD, Popplet Lite http://tinyurl.com/3o6a3wy Hierarchical/logical relationships betweenkey concepts Issues of definitions: unhealthy foods 14. Note-taking apps Notes (IOSapps), Evernote, Penultimate, NotesPlus, Simplenote, NyNoteIt, SoundNote, SpringNote, Notability, UberNote,NotePad Pro PaperDeskLITE, SmartNote 15. EverNote (and Skitch), NotesPlus (Alison) Evernote use in schools Evernote for clipping webpages Skitch for visual annotations Notes Plus (handwriting) 16. Mind-mapping apps Inspiration, iBrainstorm, MindMeisterfor Ipad,, Sundry Notes, Mindjet foriPad, Idea Sketch, Total Recall,iMindMap, MindNode, iThoughtsHD,Popplet, SimpleMind+ for iPad,Maptini 17. Uses of mapping forresponding to literature Visually portray performancesaccording to three units of analysis:o Events|o Spaces|o Social worlds/systems 18. Map of Womanhood 19. Blogging apps BlogPress or Blogsy to export theirblog posts toBlogger, Wordpress, Posterous, Edmodo, Live Journal, PrivateJournal, KidBlog Tumblrita to export their posts toTumblr 20. Twitter apps Twitter Apps such asTwitter, TweetCasterTweetbot, Tweetdeck, Twitteriffic, HootSuite 21. Twitteriffic 22. HootSuite 23. Extended writing apps Pages, IA Writer, My Writing Spot foriPad, PlainText, Manuscript for iPad,Notebooks, Clean Writer, StoryistiPad, DraftPad OnLive Desktop, DocumentsToGo CloudOn (Word, Excel, & PowerPointediting) 24. Collaborative writing/datacollection: Google Docs forms 5th graders: Weaver LakeSchool, Osseo, MN Data on parasite presence inMonarch butterflies 49% had parasites 25. Story/childrens book writing StoryKit, Storyrobe, Book Creator,Bookemon Mobile, Picture Books,Writers Studio, StoryPatch,Demibooks Composer, StoryBuddy,My Story, MoglueBooks, myebook,StoryJumper (for younger students),Tikatok 26. Comics/graphic novels Comic Life, StripDesigner, ComicStrip CSShttp://tinyurl.com/6or7bvz, ComicsCreator, PhotoComic, Comic TouchLite 27. Dictionary/grammar apps Dictionary for iPad, Merriam-WebsterDictionary HD, WordWeb DictionaryDictionary.com: Dictionary andThesaurus, Advanced English Dictionaryand Thesaurus Students can speak words for dictionarysearches Grammar App HD, EnglishGrammar, Grammar Up, Word Study &English Grammar, iGE Lite: theinteractive Grammar of English from UCL 28. Apps for Sharing/PublishingWriting ePub: Mac Pages (soon to be on iPadPages) Apple Author (requires OS Lion): iBooks Dotepub or Inkling books Human Biology Inkling textbookMoGlue Bookshttp://tinyurl.com/88pbgau ebooks for reading on eReaders bysubmitting properly formatted Word filesto Smashwords.com, Bluefire ReaderApp, or Book Creator 29. Dictation apps Dragon Dictation/Search/Go Siri Remote Dictate dictate text that then appears on their PCWord or other word-processingapplicationtransfer facilitated by thefree, Air Mouse Server Google Translate 30. Voice search: Requiresvocabulary Google Search Siri iPhone 4S older IPhones: Voice Ask app http://tinyurl.com/72p3v35 ChaCha Merriam Webster dictionary http://tinyurl.com/3zx9hu9 Assessing information literacies TRAILS http://www.trails-9.org 31. Small-group discussions: CMSplatform options Pearsons OpenClass (free; linked toGoogle Apps) http://www.joinopenclass.com/open/view/t1 Edmodo (free; also an app) http://www.edmodo.com/ Schoology https://www.schoology.com/home.php rcampus (cloud-based) http://www.rcampus.com/ 32. Collaborize Classroom Free platform for classroomdiscussions Web-based Extensive curriculum resources Focus on fostering studentscollaboration Professional development on leadingdiscussions 33. Backchannel apps TodaysMeet, Soapbox, Backchannel,Buro Zero Backchannel, Donahue,Read Chatz, or Present.ly 34. VoiceThread: Multipleaudio/written comments on sameimage 35. Produce image tutorials forpeers: Doodles and audio voice-over ShowMe, ExplainEverything, VoiceThread.ed, Screenchomp, Educreations, InteractiveWhiteboard, ReplayNote, Skitch Show Me: 5th grade science http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=RNKspgu VoiceThead: Literary terms http://voicethread.com/?#u11815.b1428998.i7556980 36. Google Images/Earth/Lit Trips 37. Video/audio conferencing iChat, Skype, Facetime, Google+Hangout, Adobe Connect, BlackboardCollaborate, Skype for iPhone andiPad, as well as a distinct Skype foriPad,), Share Board (up to 4 users),Fring: Video Calls + Chat (up to 4users), BT Chat HD, ooVoo VideoChat, Vtok: Google Talk Video, Chatfor GoogleTalk 38. Google+ Handout: Up to 10people 39. Teen texting: Pew Research 63% text daily versus 39% cellphones, 35% face-to-facesocializing, 29% social-networkingmessages, 22% IMing, and 6% emailing. The median number of texts sent dailywas 60 in 2011. The heaviest texters(more than 100 texts a day) are also theheaviest talkers; 69% of heavy texterstalk daily on their cell phones versus 46%of medium texters (those exchanging 21-100 texts a day) 40. Texting/message apps iMessage (iPad or iPhone), Messages(Mac), AK Messenger!, textPlus FreeTexting + Group Text, TextieMessaging, Textfree, TextNow + Voice- Free Texting and Calling, iPushIt,,Text Me!, gText Classroom-based texting systems:Class Parrot, Kikutext, WeTxt,Remind101, Sendhub, Class Pager 41. Text to speech apps vBookz (reads aloud books) vBookz PDFVoice Reader (reads aloud PDF files),Write & Say (reads aloud text in 52different voices (including a 3D avatar)and in 50 different languages), Speak it!(four different voices: American Male,American Female, British Male, BritishFemale), Voice Reader Text to Speech(21 languages using 32 different voices,includes PDF files), Talk to Me (hearwords spoken to them as they arewriting) 42. Creating podcasts GarageBand,Voice Memos foriPad, SoundCloud (export intoGarageband for editing) 43. Accessing videos YouTube EDU (free educationalvideos from universities, PBS, TED,and other educational sites), YouTubefor Schools (students create/sharevideos), Google Videos, Vimeo,Redux, Yahoo Videos 44. Producing videos:Scripts/storyboards. CeltxScript, ScriptWrite, Storyist, Storyboard Composer 2012 updated iMovie app: astoryboard feature for planning avideo Recommend using Comics apps suchas Comic Life for storyboards 45. Creating animation videos Animation Desk for iPad, AnimationStudio, Toontastic, Puppet PalsHD, Sock Puppets, AnimationCreator HDLite, FlickmationLite, DoInk Animation& Drawing, iAnimator, Pop My Video videos made with iMotion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTMCnn0gztA 46. Game apps Tiny Tower, CityVille Hometown, MyTown 2, Trade Nation, Farm Story,Epic Citadel (medieval fantasy townwith a cathedral). Students creating characters andstories based on the Epic Citadelmedieval settinghttp://www.porchester.notts.sch.uk/citadel 47. Interactive fiction Zenonia series Terra-Eternal Chaos, Vanquish: TheOath of Brothers Rimelands series Fighting Fantasy series Gamebook Adventures series LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 Hunger Games: Girl on Fire Avatar 48. Role-play games (RPGs) Saturday Morning RPG a high school student must makedecisions to cope with the threat of an evilvillain to attempt to save the world, agame that draws on Saturday morningcartoons Surviving High School a new female high school student copingwith getting to know students in her schoolor a male assuming the role as a memberof the high school football team 49. Jotly: An app to rate anything 50. Self-assessment forms Google Docs Forms iResponse 51. Screen-casting feedback Text/PPs/images:VoiceThread, ExplainEverything, Screenchomp, ShowMe, Educreastions Video response to writing: Jing Speeches/drama: FormativeFeedback for Learninghttp://formativefeedbackapp.blogspot.com 52. Open-ended feedback Essay Grader Easy Assessment Collaborize Classroom Pro student online discussion participation 53. Record keeping/grades The TeacherTool, Super Duper DataTracker, Teachers Assistant Pro:Track Student Behavior, EasyAssessment, TeacherPal, PowerTeacher Mobile, Gradekeeper, iHomework Students reading performance:Reading Log, Reading Record iPad recording changes in students readingscores over time. 54. e-Portfolio apps Three Ring Teachers Wire Use blogs, wikis, websites 55. ELA professionaldevelopment NCTEs Connected Community English Companion Ning National Writing Project Connect/DigitalIs Classroom 2.0 Curriki IRAs Engage ReadWriteThink School 2.0 Sophia #EngChat (Twitter feeds) 56. App uses/recommendations EdReadch channel(MobileReach, MacReach) Appy Hours 4 U The TechChef4u app The iPad Show The Daily App Show TWIT channel Tech Chick Tips