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.

Monday, December 3, 2012

Appy Hour

Sharing favorite iOS Apps


Fara from VA Beach schools shares her favorite apps

  1. Pocket Universe Express - You aim your iPad at the sky and it shows you the stars you're facing.  You can put it in day or night view to see stars and constellations.
  2. iCell - plant and animal cells in 3D, you can pinch, zoom, rotate, etc. to really explore.  Great way to intro and let kids explore cells
  3. Geoboard - virtual geoboard.  Choose your rubberbands and place them on the virtual geoboard.  Can choose to color in the area a rubberband is surrounding. 
  4. DocsTeach - works hand in hand with a website from the National Archive.  docsteach.org  Fara's sample site code is wec565 - you can pull in any document from the National Archive into any lesson
  5. Flat Stanley - you can create him or her any way you like, then add your Flat Stanley or Stella to any photo.  You can open a camera within the app that will take a picture with your Flat Stanley in the picture.
  6. Apples - telling time facts
  7. Trading Cards - upload the image, then students fill in info to create a trading card about a fictional or real person, fictional or real place, object, event, artifact, vocab word, etc.
  8. Word Mover - like refrigerator magnets of words pertaining to a particular topic that you can then manipulate.  Ex:  words from the Preamble.  You can also create your own word lists.
  9. Master the Math - kind of lime Who Wants to be a Millionaire with math questions, and it collects data.

Kim from VA Beach schools shares her favorite apps


  1. Animator - flipbooks
  2. Toontastic - kids brainstorm a story idea, then create a cartoon by drawing or choosing a background.  There are 5 story parts, and students set parameters and music.  
  3. Puppet Pals - similar to Toontastic, but you can bring in your own characters and backgrounds from your pictures.
  4. Tangrams - virtual tangram manipulatives
  5. Display Recorder - record yourself - video and your voice - of you demonstrating something on your iPad
  6. Minecraft - virtual world where you break down things and build - can have multiple users in the same world at the same time
  7. Chicken Coop Fractions - a question is posed, and you move the nest to catch the chicken's egg before she lays it so it doesn't break.
  8. OhNo!Fractions - choose greater or less than, then you prove it by drawing the two fractions.  You can choose the largest denominator
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