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John Evans

Great apps for all book lovers to explore! « Nerdy Book Club - 4 views

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    "Zip! Zap! Zoom! My library is anything BUT quiet during our recess time. Of course students are visiting and sharing about books they love. But they've also had a great time exploring iPads this year. Students read picture book apps, explore nonfiction book apps, and play math games to practice basic math facts."
John Evans

How to Enable and Use Text to Speech on iPhone & iPad - 5 views

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    "The newer versions of iOS include a fantastic text to speech engine that lets you select any text and have it spoken to you. This basically means you can have an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch read you the content of any web page, notes, text files, or even eBooks and iBooks. Before you can use the text to speech function though, you have to enable it."
John Evans

Smart Notebook App for the iPad Launched - A First Look - 2 views

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    "The Smart Notebook app for the iPad has now been launched. This app is a light version of SMART Notebook learning software which you can use to create basic multimedia files and complete SMART Notebook lesson activities."
John Evans

iPad Self Portraits and Photo Editing on the iPad | The Middle Pages - 6 views

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    "Our first project in our Multimedia Technology class was to use the iPad in a variety of ways to take and edit self portraits. After learning some iPad photography basics, the students used Fotolr, BeFunky, Pixlromatic, and other apps (listed here) to add effects onto their photos. "
John Evans

Get FireFox on the iPad (Sort Of) with Foxbrowser - 6 views

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    "Foxbrowser is a new web browser for iPad that's basically Firefox for iOS - though not officially - thanks to an open source fork broken off from Mozillas abandoned FireFox Home app. It's surprisingly fast and best of all has full support for the convenient Firefox Sync feature, keeping your tabs, bookmarks, and history the same across all your Firefox browsers be them on the desktop in OS X, at work in Windows or Linux, or right on the iPad in Foxbrowser."
John Evans

Create Your Own Photo E-books Using Pholium For The iPad | MakeUseOf - 0 views

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    "Ever since its initial release, the iPad has been for me the best mobile tool for showcasing photos. While several basic iPad image programs, including the built-in Photo app, are great for photo management and quick slide shows, the latest version of the Pholium iPad app includes tools for actually creating ebooks."
John Evans

7 Awesome Apps for Molecular Modeling in Chemistry | iPad App Finders - 4 views

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    "There are plenty of awesome chemistry apps around these days. We have already covered plenty of them for students. Most of those cover the basics of chemistry. If you need more advanced apps to handle molecular modeling, these 7 iPad app are worth checking out:"
John Evans

Free Technology for Teachers: Study Hall - Mobile Social Learning on an iPad - 4 views

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    "Study Hall is a new website and iOS app for sharing and studying with friends. Even though the service is still in a beta phase it seems promising. The basic idea behind Study Hall is to enable teachers and students to upload content to a common place and access it through an iPad, an iPhone, or an iPod Touch. "
John Evans

Operation Math for iPad Takes the Routine Out of Learning Math Facts | PadGadget - 8 views

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    "Learning basic math facts is a standard part of an elementary school education, but many children (and even some parents) dread the repetition of flash cards and times tables. Operation Math for iPad by Spinlight Studio hopes to make learning math facts less onerous by turning the task into a game."
John Evans

Free App Friday: 3 Alternatives to Apple's Cards App | Mac|Life - 7 views

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    "While Apple has made it easy for iOS users to turn their personal photos into holiday cards with the Cards app, it's still got a slim collection of templates and needs a little more polishing. Here are three free apps that basically offer the same services as the Cards app, though bear in mind that these apps do eventually charge you to send off physical greeting cards to your loved ones."
John Evans

Convert any picture on the iPad to a coloring page… stay in the lines! | iGo ... - 13 views

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    "The whole 'kids coloring' books has changed now that Crayola has come to the iPad. They released a fun stylus last year, which several of us have, just for fun. Now, they have rolled out a literally endless number of pages coloring book. The basic Crayola Lights, Camera, Color! HD app converts any image you have on your iPad (or take with the iPad2 camera) to a line art, ready for coloring. Included 64 crayon colors, 24 colored pencils, 10 Crayola markers and even an eraser."
John Evans

iPhone, iPad apps for children with learning difficulties | ZDNet - 9 views

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    "Taking this as a starting point, some individuals and organisations have come up with a number of applications that can be used to assist children with learning difficulties. The apps currently on the market cover a variety of developmental issues - including emotional, social, organisational and basic skill learning. Below is a selection of apps I discovered and tested that are available for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. For the full selection, view the gallery."
John Evans

Making Mathematics App-tastic - Part 2: Episode 15 « techchef4u - 11 views

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    " In this follow-up episode we featured 15 free mathematics game-like apps that focused on basic math, ordering numbers, proportions, FDP conversions, and equations for both elementary and secondary. For each app we shared a brief description and then ways the app could be used in the classroom (e.g. stations, assessment, remediation"
John Evans

The Numberlys: With New iPad App, Ex-Pixar Designer Unleashes A Masterpiece | Co.Design - 2 views

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    "I wrote about an iPad app last summer called "The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore", which was basically the acme of interactive storytelling on the iPad to date. In November, I visited the company that created it, Moonbot Studios, and saw what they were working on as a follow-up: a story-app called "The Numberlys," about a group of cute misfits who invent the alphabet in a gray, stern world inhabited only by numbers. "
John Evans

Top Five Security Settings for Apple iPhones and iPads - 9 views

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    "Apple mobile devices are among the most popular gadgets today. In fact, Apple reports that 250 million iOS devices have been sold and 18 million apps downloaded. I often find that, while the popularity of these devices increases, many don't understand the basic security features that Apple makes available to them. "
John Evans

NASA Gets into Games - Releases Free Air Traffic Control for iPad and iPhone | PadGadget - 6 views

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    "Sector 33 is a new educational game from NASA that allows anyone to step into the shoes of an Air Traffic Controller. The game, which simulates the experience of directing flights safely into airports, is designed to challenge students in middle school and above to use basic math and problem solving skills"
John Evans

Recommended iPad Book Apps for Older & Struggling Readers Ages 10 and up | The Digital ... - 24 views

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    "Of all the requests for recommendations I get, the most common seems to be from parents & teachers looking for book apps for children in 4-6+ grades (ages 10-12+) who are struggling with basic reading skills."
eric paul

eBook for Ipad: Basic French Grammar - 0 views

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    new eBook for iPad with audio and videos files, exercises to revise each lesson: http://frenchspanishonline.com/shop.html
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