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There is an App for That! The Best iPad Apps for Teaching

A selection of great apps for teaching.

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There is an App for That! The Best iPad Apps for Teaching

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  1. Dawson College Pedagogical Day – October 17th, 2014 There is an App for That! The Best iPad Apps for Teaching Rafael Scapin, Ph.D. Coordinator of Educational Technology Office of Instructional Development Dawson College

  2. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. Arthur C. Clarke

  3. The Beginning

  4. iPad: A Landmark Steve Jobs announces the iPad on January 27th, 2010 Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F3EB5UT6KI

  5. Ecosystem

  6. 1.2 million apps | 75 billion downloads

  7. Cloud Computing

  8. Safe?

  9. The iPad was made for the Cloud [Video] Google Drive New iPads (Oct. 16th, 2014): 16 Gb, 64 Gb, 128 Gb

  10. 1 1 https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/dropbox/id327630330?mt=8 Bring yor computer files to your tablet! 2Gb for Free (up to 18 Gb) | 1 T for $10/month

  11. 2 2 Google Drive https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/google-drive-free-online-storage/id507874739?mt=8 Have all your files within reach from your iPad All your files in Drive – like your videos, photos, and documents – are backed up safely so you can’t lose them. Easily invite others to view, edit, or leave comments on any of your files or folders.

  12. 3 3 Air Server http://www.airserver.com/Download Mirror your display and stream content from your iOS device Use AirServer to mirror your iPad to your laptop. That allows you to project your iPad’s screen without being tethered to VGA cable. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0sDPy1EsYA#t=68

  13. 4 4 PDF Expert https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/pdf-expert-5-fill-forms-annotate/id743974925?mt=8 Add Drawing, Text & signatures to PDFs. Sync with your Dropbox folders to automatically update and add files directly to and from your iPad.

  14. 5 5 Explain Everything https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/explain-everything/id431493086?mt=8 Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.

  15. 6 6 Book Creator https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/book-creator-for-ipad-create/id442378070?mt=8 The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad. Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBooks Store.

  16. 7 7 iMovie https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/imovie/id377298193?mt=8 Browse your video library, share favourite moments, create beautiful movies.

  17. 8 8 Formative assessments through quizzes and quick questions https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/socrative-student/id477618130?mt=8 Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

  18. 9 9 Nearpod https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/nearpod/id523540409?mt=8 The Nearpod platform enables teachers to use their iPads to manage content on students' iPads, iPhones or iPods. It combines presentation, collaboration, and real-time assessment tools into one integrated solution.

  19. 10 10 iDoceo https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/idoceo-teachers-assistant./id477120941?mt=8 iDoceo is your new powerful and easy to use gradebook for the iPad. Its spreadsheet engine will calculate averages in real time as you put information in. No internet connection is required to use it.

  20. 11 11 Moodle The official Moodle app https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/moodle-mobile/id633359593?mt=8

  21. 12 12 Showbie Assign, collect, and review student work from anywhere! https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/showbie-for-ipad/id548898085?mt=8

  22. 13 13 Showme Turn your iPad into your personal interactive whiteboard! ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online! https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/showme-interactive-whiteboard/id445066279?mt=8

  23. 14 14 Gradebook Pro https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gradebook-pro/id393777614?mt=8 GradeBook Pro is a powerful paperless classroom management tool. Record grades, attendance, and student performance in an app designed with busy educators in mind.

  24. 15 15 Educreations https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/educreations-interactive-whiteboard/id478617061?mt=8 Educreations is a unique interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool that's simple, powerful, and fun to use. Annotate, animate, and narrate nearly any type of content as you explain any concept. Teachers can create short instructional videos and share them instantly with students, or ask students to show what they know and help

  25. 16 16 Notability https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/notability/id360593530?mt=8 Notability is the one place to create, share, and manage your notes. It combines handwriting, typing, audio recordings, and photos so you can create notes that fit your needs. Synchronized with iCloud and Dropbox

  26. 17 17 Three Ring https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/three-ring/id504311049?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D8 A fantastic, free service for digitizing and organizing your students’ physical work. You can take a picture of a student’s assignment and upload it to your Three Ring account. You can create folders for each student in each of your classes. Three Ring could be used by art teachers to create a digital record of each student’s work.

  27. 18 18 Flip Grid https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flipgrid./id756972930?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 Teachers create grids of short discussion-style questions that students respond to through recorded videos. Flipgrid boosts community and social presence in face-to- face, hybrid, and online classrooms, as well as enterprise organizations around the world.

  28. 19 19 TED https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ted/id376183339?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D8 Find more than 1,700 TEDTalk videos (with more added each week) on the official TED app. The entire library is at your fingertips to browse at any time, even when you’re not online. Watch TEDTalks with subtitles in over 90 languages.

  29. 20 20 Edmodo https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/edmodo/id378352300?mt=8 Edmodo makes a teacher’s daily life easier by providing a safe and easy way for teachers and students to engage and collaborate for free, anytime, anywhere. .

  30. 21 21 Evernote https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/evernote/id281796108?mt=8 Write notes of all types, from short lists to lengthy research, and access them on any device. Collect web articles, handwritten notes, and photos to keep all the details in one place and find your work quickly with Evernote’s powerful search. Present your work as it takes shape for better collaboration in meetings. .

  31. 22 22 Doodlecast Pro https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/doodlecast-pro/id469486202 Doodlecast Pro is the easiest way to create presentations on your iPad. The app records your voice as you draw to create quick presentations. Doodlecast Pro saves videos to the camera roll making it easy to import them into popular video editors or presentation tools such as iMovie, Keynote, or iBooks Author.

  32. 23 23 Haiku Deck https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/haiku-deck/id536328724 Haiku Deck makes it a snap to create beautiful presentations that will wow your audience – whether you’re pitching an idea, teaching a lesson, telling a story, or igniting a movement.

  33. 24 24 Photosync https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/photosync-wirelessly-transfer/id415850124?mt=8 PhotoSync allows you to transfer your photos & videos between your iPhone, iPad, Mac or PC over your local Wi-Fi network. It also supports sending and receiving photos & videos to/from popular cloud & photo services.

  34. 25 25 Cloudon https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/cloudon-document-editor-ms/id474025452?mt=8 Create, review and edit Microsoft Word® docs, Excel® spreadsheets and PowerPoint® presentations on an iPad or your iPhone.

  35. 26 26 Apps Gone Free https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/apps-gone-free-best-daily/id470693788?mt=8 Find great apps without spending a dime! Get high quality paid apps for free each day. Every day hundreds of apps reduce their price to free for a limited time to try to stimulate excitement. AppsGoneFree finds ONLY the apps worth owning

  36. Resources: How to Keep Yourself Up-to-Date https://www.apple.com/ca/education/ipad/teach-with-ipad/

  37. Resources: How to Keep Yourself Up-to-Date App Store - Education http://ipadapps4school.com/ http://ipad4schools.org https://itunes.apple.com/ca/genre/ios-education/id6017?mt=8 iPad4Schools.org

  38. Questions

  39. Contact Me Rafael Scapin, Ph.D. rscapin@dawsoncollege.qc.ca rscapin 1404 DawsonITE Blog http://dawsonite.dawsoncollege.qc.ca

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