The intention of this blog is to provide an avenue for sharing resources gathered at this year's VSTE conference. Please feel free to post comments so your thoughts can become a part of the networking experience.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

20 Amazing iPad Apps for K-12 Teachers & Students

Persented by Dr. William Waller or Richmond Public Schools



Zite is a free personalized magazine for your iPad that automatically learns what you like and gets smarter every time you use it. Zite delivers all the great news articles blogs and videos you want and helps you discover new information.

 
Use GoToMeeting to join and post meetings on your iPhone or iPad.
Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of your devices you use. Stay organized, save your ideas and improve productivity. Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders–and makes these notes completely searchable, whether you are at home, and work, all on the go.

The iTunes U app gives you access to complete courses from leading universities and other schools — plus the world’s largest digital catalog of free education content right on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Whether you’re majoring in molecular biology at a university, taking Spanish in high school, or just interested in European history, you now have a valuable tool to help you learn anytime, anywhere.

The Flashcards App HD provides the most required words to ace any competitive exam! It now comes with reminders and a learning planner and is now free for limited period of time!

Exploration of the world’s seas and oceans…

The Khan Academy app is the best way to view Khan Academy’s complete library of over 3,500 learning video resources.

TouchCalc is a comfortable calculator program that offers several different modes including scientific, bit/integer, statistics, trigonometry, bass/radix, and simple calculator.

Groovy Grader is an automatic sliding grading scale application…

Galaxart HD will allow anyone to create their own awesome space backgrounds! Pick from a large selection of objects including stars, galaxies, nebulae and planets.

This is an educational collection of high-resolution historical maps. Check it out to keep up with your history and learn something about history.

Is a game about the 50 states that makes learning about the 50 states fun. Includes learning about state capitals, shapes, geographic locations, and flags. You can actually touch, move and drop the animated states anywhere on the screen. Carefully build a stack of states that reacher the checkered line to win each level.

StoryBuddy provides a magical platform to create, read and share multi-page stories like never before.

Get comprehensive access to global business finance news, market data and portfolio tracking tools in the world’s most trusted source. Personalize information that matters to you most and access it instantly.

A great reference for students, parents, and teachers to easily read and understand the Core Standards.

Access all of the most popular HSW articles, videos, podcasts, and quizzes…

Use TourWrist to create, post and view stunning panoramic tours or photos using intuitive touch-based controls.

AppShopper keeps you up-to-date on the newest app store app, sales and freebies. Organize apps and your own customized WishList and automatically get notified when there is a sale or update.

Splashtop is the easiest and fastest way to access your Mac or Windows PC from your iPad! Over 10 million users are enjoying Splashtop apps today, and you should too!

Use Splashtop to access your computer on local network, the best in class video streaming performance, Microsoft Office Suite and PDF viewing and editing, full browser access with Flash/Java Support (IE, Chrome, Firefox), playing 3-D PC/Mac games, and access all your media libraries and documents.

Socrative brings smart clickers, student response and ease-of-use to a whole new level. Engage the entire classroom with educational exercises and games while capturing student results in real-time. Interact with the data to further student understanding in the moment, and review the reports to prepare for future classes. Socrative will even aggregate and grade your premade activities! Saving you time, so you can engage more with your students on an individual level. Create a library of activities and share them with your colleagues and learning community. Not a 1:1 school? That’s okay! That’s okay! Have students bring their own devices and join in the learning!

Scoop.it lets you easily publish gorgeous online magazines by curating content on your favorite topic.

Pinterest is a tool to find your inspiration and share it with others. Use it to collect things you love, organize and plan important projects, and more.

Safely send any file to your device over the air directly through your favorite browser or FTP client! With AirDrive HD you can store and transfer files from one computer to another using your iPad, and intuitive interface makes it easy and enjoyable occupation.

Air Playit HD allows the ability to stream music and video to the iPad. Access your video & music library anywhere.

Air display turns your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch into a wireless display, to extend or mirror your computer screen.

 

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