Carrie Johnson from Minnehaha Academy shared with her best of list from the "Best Use of iPads, iPad Apps and Other Technology Tools to Increase Student Learning (Grades K-8)" conference. Her are her notes along with mine:
Tiny Tap - Could be used for any grade level. A way to create personalized games for kids on the iPad
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tinytap-moments-into-games/id493868874?mt=8
Reading Timer (Scholastic) - A fun and functional reading timer to use throughout the year.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scholastic-reading-timer/id520196131?mt=8
Speakeasy - Good for timed readings. When you sync your device to your computer, it will put all the recordings into iTunes.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/speakeasy-voice-recorder/id284652710?mt=8
Kid’s Journal - Can make a writing journal for every child, which can be exported.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kids-journal/id528173573?mt=8
Toontastic - Especially good for students who have a hard time initiating writing
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/toontastic-free/id404693282?mt=8
Seven Little Words - Played with my fifth graders. The adult version was challenging...the kid version was easy, but they liked it.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/7-little-words/id431434152?mt=8
Word Warp - is a challenging anagram type of word game in which you try to
form as many words as you can out of the six letters you are given
before time runs out.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/free-word-warp/id291374609?mt=8
Stick Pick - "can of sticks" with student names on them.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stick-pick/id436682059?mt=8
Tools4Students - graphic organizers.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tools-4-students/id472911218?mt=8
Skitch - can import pics and draw on them, also has a map feature where you can zoom in and then can annotate on the map.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skitch/id490505997?mt=8
Some resources:
Tween Tribune - Reading Material http://tweentribune.com/
Read Write Think website - http://www.readwritethink.org/
Kid Blog - http://kidblog.org/home/
Give all of the kids the secret code at the same time, they will set up their blog under your class. We saw examples of lower grade kids blogging.
Infuse Learning - Similar to Socrative, but capable of doing more
http://www.infuselearning.com/
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