50 Apps for Education

One of the sessions I attended at MassCue was 50 Apps in 50 minutes. I tried to take notes as best I could but obviously it moved fast. I know several of you have ipads/iphones that you use with your students (or with your own kids) so I thought I'd share! All are available in the app store and some were pricey. Please disregard my spelling and abbreviations.

50 Apps
blue = free but this may be wrong
[ http://pinterest.com/dancallahan ]http://pinterest.com/dancallahan to find all of the apps

MATH
EZ Chart HD- for creating data charts
TanZen HD- tanagrams

Language Arts
ABC Pocket Phonix
I Write Words
Word Magic
Shake a Phrase- story starters, upper elem & middle school
Bluster- vocab, suffix/prefix
ScribbleNauts Remix (vocab game) was a nintendo DS game

Science
World Book World of Animals
Pocket Zoo- animals-pictures, facts, videos (from youtube) live video cameras from zoos all over the world
Solar Walk
Science 360- science related pics & videos
Wonder Map- looks like google map- weather layers-animated radar/satelite, shows temps in many places

Social Studies
Google Earth App- pinch to zoom and swipe to move- no map creation, can use maps you have created in maps
Stack the States- facts about states
History Tools- summary of events for today’s date, years
Geo Walk- buildings, animals, plants, people- pics of basic information- discovery app, news category
Early Jamestown- kind of like an ebook but with embedded videos

Art
Drawing Pad- allows user to draw, paint, etc
Mirror Paint- teach symmetry- in LOGO programming language kids can add to LOGO
let’s create pottery HD- create pottery and fire it, paint and design it then sell it
Sculpt- made by AutoCad, use fingers to sculpt
Dexteria- fine motor skills practice, good for students with OT issues and younger students. Tap, pinch, grab

Music
Garage Band- just like computer program
Sound Drop- add lines to create new sounds- also involves physics
Barrel Tones- drum set
Piano low-
Discover musical instruments free- explore instruments
MAd pad- music synthesizer- uses unusual instruments like cars
Isle of tune- music synthesizer


Story Telling Apps
Quick Voice- Records students voices
iMovie App- very different from Mac iMovie
Strip Designer- comic strip creation app, maps built in
Skrappy- scrap booking app- add your own pictures, text and music in, clipart, audio recordings, shapes and websites
Toontastic- create cartoons, and teaches real story telling skills and language
Book Creator- exports books into epub which can be used on ipads & nooks
Explain Everything- Screencasting, you can create multiple slides

Productivity Apps
Dragon Dictation- speech to text, send to email, SMS, etc
Good Reader- PDF reader and annotator, can connect to dropbox & sync files
Flipboard- social news source, connects to FB and twitter. Will search hashtags and timeline links.
Zite- has categories with stories, you can give the stories thumbs up and down and you will get more or less stories like that (pandora with news)
Popplet- concept mapping tool, can access from the web too
Penultimate- hand writing app, stylus recommended, different paper options- storyboard page
Pages- apple’s word processing software, Doesn’t have a way to do drawing in the app but they can add pictures from photostream
Keynote-

Visit Dan Callahan's page on pinterest to find all of the apps.