Technology Tip:
With school just starting this is the perfect blog for teachers to learn some of the best apps that are designed specifically
for the classroom teacher. Those apps that will assist you in the
everyday little jobs that need to be done. Here is a list
of apps that you can use to make your job easier.
Keynote: $9.99
Keynote for iPad is almost as powerful as the desktop application. This
is a powerful presentation tool that has animations, slide transition
and all the features to make professional slides. It allows you to open
templates with graphics already inserted. This is purposely built to
work seemlessly on the iPad and to allow the user to incorporate other
aspects of the iWork suite. Perfect addition to any homepage.
Educate: Free
Since one of the first jobs you have to do each morning is to take the
role Attendance is a great solution for the iPad. This app has some
great features which makes it attractive to teachers; photos for each
student, recording lateness or emailing absent students. It asks if you
would like to import your address book or you can import student info
from external files. It also syncs between different devices. For the
price this is a very functional app.
Teacher Tool: Free
TeacherTool saves grades and makes suggestions for grades. TeacherTool
saves your remarks about students and presents them to you in the
upcoming lesson. It remembers the date of any grade and lets you store
comments along with it. TeacherTool keeps track of your students‘
absences. It is much safer than your traditional mark-book, as with
every synchronization on your Mac, you save an up-to-date backup copy of
all your data.
iAnnotate: $12.99
iAnnotate is a PDF reader and annotation tool for the iPad. It opens
documents from emails, fills out forms, you can sign and send out
contracts, enter notes for edits, sketch diagrams, copy text, and add
highlights or underline with the drag of a finger. iAnnotate fully
integrates its annotations directly into the PDF. This is a great tool
for teachers to mark student's work.
GradePad: $2.99
The GradePad application allows you to grade your students’ performance
directly from your mobile device. The documentation from the
application’s website explains that with this app you can Manage Groups,
Create GradePads, Do Assessments, Track Performance, and Share Data.
Manage Groups, Create GradePads, Do Assessments, Track Performance,
Share Data
Dropbox: Free
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and
videos anywhere. After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file
you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers,
your iPhone and iPad and even the Dropbox website! With the Dropbox app,
you can take everything that matters to you on the go.
Attendance: $5.99
Attendance is a universal iOS touchscreen application. It allows you to
take and keep attendance records. Its main intended use is for teachers
to keep track of records for their classes, but it can also be used for
meetings and group gatherings. Features include; unlimited courses, move
students from one class to another , photo recognition, customisable
attendance statuses.
Teacher Pal: Free
TeacherPal is a personal organizer for the teacher. It enables the
teacher to organize classes, and students. Its simple and intuitive
interface enables teachers to track the attendance, grades and behavior
of their students. Features include; simple tap attendance, grade books,
enter grade with an intuitive touchpad, import, export data files from
and to CSV files.
Flipboard: Free
This is a great app for the iPad. Flipboard allows you to set your
twitter feeds straight back to your iPad. Flipboard then re-presents it
in a magazine format. The tweets are laid out with images in the same
format as an online mag. This is great for making online textbooks for
specific classes or even further reading lists. Only the classes that
you have given the specific twitter address have access. I think this
makes tweets much more user friendly, especially to younger students who
may not be as familiar with twitter.
PowerPresenter: $1.99
PowerPresenter is an app that lets you display local PDFs, websites or
even draw on the screen as a white board. Through the Web, you can
display not just HTML but PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, Word
documents, RTF files and iWork files. This all requires Internet
connection, but if you know you do not have a connection save them as
local files.
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