What’s On My iPad

By Desireé Caskey

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An App for Everything

I am always being asked to share what apps I have on my iPad. Although I add and remove constantly, I think I have a pretty good collection of apps for many different needs. Check out my folders on the following pages.

Although this is by no means all of the apps that are on my iPad, it does show you the variety of tools you can find. Most of the apps were free when I got them. I have added and deleted many apps. Know that once you buy an app, you can always delete it and get it back. It stays in your Purchased area of the Apps store.

Along with a collection of apps you might want to investigate, this handout provides you with a simple guide to the App Store to make your researching and purchasing easier.

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Productivity Tools

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Favorite Apps for Productivity

Evernote - Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for note taking and archiving. Your notes can contain text, images, sound recordings, clippings from websites...but unfortunately, not the kitchen sink. I LOVE this app because I have it on every device I own so all of my notes are right at my finger tips.

Dropbox - Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Never email yourself a file again! Dropbox is like Evernote...you can put it on all your devices and have access to your files from anywhere.

Notes - Notes is a built-in tool for the iOS devices that lets you take notes...not so cool until you realize that you can sync it with your Gmail account and pull up any note you took on your iPad from any computer that you log into your Gmail account with...you have to turn on this sync option in settings.

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Favorite Apps for Productivity

Pages – Apple’s answer to Word is a pretty nice tool once you get used to it. It is easier to desktop publish with this tool too. Although it is $9.99, if you want a full featured word processing/desktop publishing tool, you need to try this one.

Keynote – If you just can’t get away from building slide-based presentations, then Keynote might be a tool you could easily fall in love with. Apple’s iWork Suite opens Office files if necessary and also saves out in many formats for you to share.

Google Drive – Google lets you access and now edit your Google files on your iPad. Although the interface isn’t ideal, the fact that you can open and edit your word processing, spreadsheet and presentation files is really helpful in a pinch.

Slideshark – just can’t let go of your PowerPoint files? Slideshark lets you use your iPad to present your presentations from your iPad…and use your iPhone as a remote. The cool factor is pretty high for this one!

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Photography, Video & Music Apps

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Favorite Photography Apps

Photobucket - If you have a Photobucket account, you can take advantage of this great free app! You can access your photos, save them to your device and share them with friends.

PhotoSync - I LOVE this app and use it all the time to transfer my photos and videos between devices…and friend’s devices as well.

PhotoShop Express - This free app is amazing and full of photo editing features. For those of us that like to do a bit more editing than just adding filters before we share, this is the tool.

Snapseed – This photo editing tool gives you many different filters that you can apply to existing photos, but you can also take a photo directly into Snapseed or paste from another tool. This tool takes full advantage of the input methods for the iPad.

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Favorite Video & Music Apps

TED - TED-Ideas Worth Spreading-Fans unite! This app gives you all the TED videos, organized by themes, and allows you to save videos to your device to view offline.

iTunes U - Why wouldn‘t you use this app? So many FREE courses provided by higher education these days. The really good ones include text, apps, videos and other resources.

App for Google Play - I have almost all my music stored in Google Play, so having an app that lets me access my music, but not take up storage on my iPad is huge - because my iPad is full!

YouTube – I like this app because you can sign into your account to watch videos you subscribe to, videos you have favorited, your uploads…or just search YouTube and watch!

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Teaching Tools

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Favorite Teaching Tools

Nearpod - Create, Engage, Assess! Description from the iTunes Store: Nearpod enables teachers to use their iPads to manage content on students' devices. It combines presentation, engagement and real-time assessment tools into one integrated solution. Nearpod is a synchronous solution for the use of iPad and other iOS devices in education. To try Nearpod, you will need one iPad running the Nearpod Teacher app, and at least one other iOS device (iPad, iPhone or iPod touch) running the Nearpod Student app.

Educreations - This app allows you to teach and assess students in a different way…by recording on this electronic whiteboard. Educreations is like YouTube, in that illustrations you create can be uploaded to your class channel and accessed anytime.

Stage – This tool allows you to use your iPad as a document camera and annotate on your (or your student’s) work…without touching it!

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For Students

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Favorite Student ToolsPeek - This companion to Evernote allows you to create flash cards for your students out of the notebooks you have in your Evernote account. You can also import from StudyBlue or Membean.

Socrative – Okay, this fits under both the teacher and student categories. This is a tool that allows teachers to create online tests and administer them through any web-based device. On the iPad, the students use the app and enter the name for the testing room the teacher assigns. There are a lot of options for this tool and completely worth checking out.

Mind Mapping Tools – There are a lot of great apps that allow students to organize their thoughts into mind maps. Help students organize, plan, understand information with these tools!

Productivity Tools – Many of the productivity tools mentioned earlier are favorites for students as well as teachers.

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Looking at the App Store

The App Store can be a bit confusing. Be sure to look at the very bottom of the screen.

Here you see:

•Featured – new and noteworthy apps

•Top Charts – top free and pay for apps in many categories

•Genius – suggestions of apps based on what you already have on your iPad

•Purchased – a history of your app purchases for your account, not just this device

•Updates – this is where you update any apps. There is a number indicator that tell you how many apps you have to update. I recommend you frequently update apps. These updates are usually bug fixes or feature enhancements.

The App Store can be a bit confusing. Here you can search and browse for apps. You can also redeem any gift cards you may receive (swipe all the way to the bottom)

Be sure to look for a “See All” option to expand the amount of apps that are presented to you.

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Using the App StoreSometimes Apple will feature a collection of Apps for education so be sure to check the Featured option at the bottom of your Apps Store.

Be sure to check the Education category as well…Apple is good about featuring good apps, free and pay-for both.

Click on Top Charts, then change the category to Education to see a huge collection of great free apps.

Once you have a good collection of apps on your iPad, use the Genius tool to find similar apps.

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Looking at Apps

When you click on the image of an app, a window similar to the one below appears. You can see screen shots of the app, see how others have rated it, and find out exactly what its purpose is.

From this window you can purchase the app as well.

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Looking at Apps

Ratings and Reviews allows you to see statements from those that have used this app. This will give you a good sense of what others think of this app.

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Looking at Apps The Related section provides you with apps that are similar to this tool. I always look here if I find an app I like. You can access this area even if you already download the app to your iPad.

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Math

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Social Studies & Science

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Family & Consumer Sciences

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Children’s Books

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Reading & Story Creators

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Primary

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Reading & Word Games

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Best Apps for Lab of iPads

• Student Tools

– Socrative - Assessment

– Nearpod – Interactive Teaching

– Educreations – Show me what you know

– BaiBoard – Collaborative whiteboard

– Khan Academy – Extra Assistance

– YouTube – Extra Assistance

– Scan – QR Reader

• Teacher Tools

– Timer + - Classroom Activity Timer

– Educreations – Create Video Tutorials

– Stage – Document Camera with Annotation

– ClassDojo – Classroom Management Tool 26