Amazing Apps

I'm always looking for new apps for our classrooms to use. Here is the latest list! Enjoy! All FREE (unless noted)

LA
1) Kids Learn Sight Words
2) Mad Libs
3) StoryLines
4) Dictionary.com
5) Bluster

Math
1) Amazing Coin
2) Motion Math Zoom
3) Splash Math
4) Everyday Mathematics
5) Slice It!
6) Elevated Math (not free)
7) Real Kakuro
8) Virtual Manipulatives

Science
1) Science Glossary
2) Aero!
3) NASA Visualization Explorer
4) Smash Your Food
5) Video Science
6) Oresome Elements

Social Studies
1) Stack the States
2) Stack the Countries
3) Constitution
4) MyCongress
5) Google Earth

Fun and Creative
1) Rollercoster Builder Travel
2) Toontastic
3) Dragon Dictation
4) Screen Chomp
5) MaxJournal

If you have ones that you LOVE, please let me know via comments!

Financial literacy online software: Banzai

Financial literacy online software: Banzai:

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GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!:

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Using Windows 8?

At a recent workshop I attended, the tech director pointed me to Windows Start which is a program to download to get your start button back on Windows 8. I haven't tried it yet but I'm excited to give it a go!

 

Here is the link:

http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/download.asp

My Notes From iPad sessions

Turning in assignments from an i-Pad
1. Dongle - white cord can be plugged into pc like flash drive
2. Email - old way to do it
3. Cloud storage - google drive or Dropbox
4. Edmodo - turn in from camera and video roll
5. App called showbie!

Apps To Use:
1. Skitch - let's you take a picture and then annotate in the picture
Find picture to make fractions out of like windows of four can be shaded
Grab picture from Internet and shade or identify.

2. Turbo collage lite/ postino - grab images and then make postcards that are saved so they can make them.  Red stamp

3. Go Hollywood sticky board , grafio lite , sock puppet , toontastic , popplets lite, puppet pals hd, imovie, cute cut, osnap, imotion hd,

4. Interactive whiteboard - educreation and doddlecast - students record themselves while doing math problems

5. Become thread heads - voicethreads - student work commenting - invite people to comment but does take some moderation - can set them to approve - free version allows 5 free threads

6. Write and illustrate - outline , drawing pad , strip designer , comic life , scribble press , book creator,  little story maker, ibooks -

7. Witness and report - pocket bmx and Evernote -be the sports reporter while they are playing the game so they are sharing

8. Building a talking museum - croak it and scan - group of kids visited missions and drew pictures and then write about them, next to art work is a qr code to record. Dropvox sinks with dropbox

9. Connect to your community - facetime and skype digitalwish signup genius

10. Math Games:

Geoboard
Fivedice
Moldiv
Math tris
Virtual manipulatives
Ibooks author

More From Twitter!

Okay, I broke down and have become a TWITTERaholic!! At ISTE, they talked about tweeting and how it is beneficial for professional development. They are right!

Here are some of my latest finds:
1. YouTube Ideas - http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/06/8-overlooked-useful-youtube-tools.html?m=1

2. Do you like Pinterest? Check out EduClipper! - http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/05/how-to-use-educlipper.html?m=1

3. Kindergarten Teacher? Need Art Ideas? - http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=70928

4. Interested in Edmodo? - http://blog.edmodo.com/2013/06/28/a-guide-to-getting-started-with-edmodo/

ISTE13

Hi all,
I've returned from my first ever ISTE conference! Now, for those of you who don't know what ISTE stands for, it is the International Society of Technology in Education. It was held in San Antonio, TX this year and I enjoyed every minute of it!
I'm going to post as much of what I learned here as I can. Most of my notes were just the links to their presentations and lectures so if you have questions, don't hesitate to add a comment or contact me.

Keynote: Adam Bellows gave the closing keynote and here is the link: http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2013/07/missed-iste-ok-but-dont-miss-adam.html

Sessions:
Shared to Me - Sessions I didn't go to

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C2k0J5awT7NDQx9ctb9jVvQDSnnE6J2513aJbtI7H50/mobilebasic?pli=1
• http://mskraftnse.wikispaces.com
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/187dQIyYLh8AGrckxuQ5veA8Mkusz9JUZdOtEkOGtHDw/pub
• http://www.screencast.com/users/fsobierajski/folders/ISTE%202013/media/8b659af0-15bc-4c30-aa86-5bc56f1cff3b
• http://www.mveslinks.org/MVES_LINKS/Jessica_Says/Entries/2013/6/20_Tech_Club.html
• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JWGBvo4DrElEJmOCANNnECqKWeXwUvvs57p8yiJyMUw/edit?pli=1#slide=id.p
• https://toolboxofresourcesfortheprimaryagechild.wikispaces.com/home
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C2k0J5awT7NDQx9ctb9jVvQDSnnE6J2513aJbtI7H50/mobilebasic?pli=1
• https://www.evernote.com/shard/s97/sh/4348223c-7b9a-4625-bd9e-2bfe7b6032a6/0506763e836e33b61cf61bbfd5548c81
• http://www.ujam.com/
• http://www.slideshare.net/willrich45/iste13?utm_content=buffer3c497&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer

Google Sessions:

• http://googletreks.org/
• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IfJzYkZQvxVlZpbPIVHLeYCYi8o91h1Q7EcK0Fu6DzQ/edit?pli=1#slide=id.p
• http://www.google.com/edu/teachers/lesson-plan-search.html
• http://www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=67&entryid=6015
• https://www.evernote.com/shard/s95/sh/c593234f-0bd4-496b-8395-4e13dcf46c08/b414d7a255bb944941bab7d3878aaf1f
• https://sites.google.com/a/tcea.org/igoogle/home
• http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/11/10-google-search-tips-all-students-can.html?m=1
• http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/06/three-google-sheets-scripts-that-help.html?m=1
• https://sites.google.com/site/jrginexorinion/google-booth-iste2013-chrome-genius

Apple iPad Sessions:

• https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6316790/iBooksHideSeek.pdf
• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1s5qFRK5Dv5UCaFfH8O_FEuxkKxAoU9hdTz-lQzU7Gb8/mobilepresent?pli=1#slide=id.p
• http://ieasg.blogspot.com/?m=1
• https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0ByqrGJrdHlR1RVVIMFYyVXFmMlk&usp=sharing
• http://icafe.lcisd.org/presentations/10-ipad-app-projects-students-will-love/

Language Arts:

• http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=115700&backurl=/shelf/my