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Want to learn how your colleagues at the lower school are having their students create multimedia books, screen recordings, and written/photographic reflections of their work? Click the link to view their documentation. Teachers: Meg Krause and Annie Massie Apps Used: iMovie, Explain Everything, Educreations, Touchcast, Camera App, and Speaker DJ *links to the apps in the App Store are available in their documentation*

App: Book Creator Teachers: Leah Sills Book Creator is another awesome app students/teachers can use to create multimedia based content. Click the link below to learn how Leah used the app to have LS students create virtual books. https://docs.google.com/a/riverdale.edu/document/d/1W91TlpYyrVVEN4AZhin54xM9ph7H3NDOCg2GiIAeh7E/edit

A great list of iPad apps that can be used in a variety of science courses. Apps are broken down by specific science course and each includes a brief explanation of the apps features. There are also reference and productivity apps that can be used by students/teachers to learn content specific information and become more efficient in completing lab experiments (among other things).

Great pedagogy tool to help you design enhanced learning experiences for your students with the iPad. Apps are recommended for each level of Bloom's Taxonomy along with suggested learning activities. From the article: "I have added 62 iPad apps to the wheel and put them where they could serve the pedagogy. These are not necessarily the best app for the job and many of the apps can be used in different realms but it is a good start. I hope it helps you rethink the iPad's use in Learning and Teaching… it is not about the tool nor the app … it's all about the students."

Specific link to the Padagogy Wheel: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3138780/padwheelMASTER_V110712.pdf

From iPad Apps for School: "Doodlecast Pro is an excellent iPad app for creating instructional videos. Doodlecast Pro could be a great iPad app for teachers to use to create instructional videos to use in a flipped classroom setting. Think of each page in a Doodlecast Pro video as a step in a process for solving an equation. Or think of the pages as sections in a short history lesson. Students could also use the app for creating instructional videos or creative short story videos."

Link to Doodlecast review by iPad Apps for School: http://ipadapps4school.com/2013/01/11/doodlecast-pro-makes-it-easy-to-create-flipped-classroom-videos/

Date: Thursday - April 04, 2013 Time: 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM Location: The Hewitt School Speaker: Jenny Kirsch   The Hewitt School 45 E 75th Street New York, NY 10021 Grades 4-12 With just a few great tools, teachers can easily provide students with a broader, more vivid learning experience. This workshop will begin with an introduction to Google Chrome, featuring specific Chrome Extensions geared to helping teachers become more efficient in their daily tasks. The morning will be devoted to exploring filters for Google and YouTube searches, and learning how to build custom Google search engines. In the afternoon you will hear from teachers and students who are using concrete applications of Google Apps for Education in their classrooms. The end of the day will be reserved for experimentation with your newly acquired knowledge of Google Apps, so be sure to come with a laptop* and a few curriculum ideas you'd like to enhance!

App recommendations for the iPad by Kathy Schrock based on the different levels of Blooms Taxonoy. Click the various skills/actions around the cogs for direct links to the apps in the iTunes App Store.

From a dyslexic, very tech savvy, high school student: "Here's a list of my favorite iPad apps and how I use them to help me both in and out of the classroom."

Assistive reading app with variable speech rate, multiple voices, and ability to limit text display to just a few lines. $9.99

Apps: Linear Program Plotter, Vernier Physics, DataAnalysis Teacher: Jennie Howell Jennie's used the iPads and several math specific apps with her Algebra 2 classes to graph linear programming models and find the equation of quadratic models. Read her documentation to learn more.

https://docs.google.com/a/riverdale.edu/document/d/1dlyX5YgMqc7ZYglgu5RXdrZ9zYkJX8DODa8TSwDpoLU/edit Click the above link to learn how all the Algebra II teachers are using iPads/apps to teach all sections of this course.

From Mathination: "Mathination introduces a revolutionary new way of solving math problems on the iPad by simply touching them. Rearrange terms by dragging; simplify expressions by squeezing; and multiply them out by stretching. Enter any algebra problem from any textbook and solve it with Mathination. Just type in the problem using Mathination's specialized math keyboard." From Apple App Store: "Mathination also includes a library of sample problems covering basic algebra, polynomials, factoring, and rational expressions."

Mathination Home Page (still a work in progress apparently, but includes good overview video of the app): http://www.mathination.com/

Apps: Camera, iMovie, and others Teacher: Debbie Wing Debbie describes a great learning experience her students had thanks to iPads and the iMovie App. Students captured and edited videos and then watched the videos and completed a self-evaluation of their work. Click to learn more! There's also additional information about other ways she and her students are using iPads in the LS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv6RNEjqvxc For more information about using iMovie on the iPad, click the link above created by Laurie Bartels at the LS (who also created the video right on her iPad using the iMovie app!).

Augmented reality authoring app for iOS and Android. Supports images and video. 

From Wikipedia: "Virtual manipulatives are a relatively new technology and are modeled after existing manipulatives such as base ten blocks, coins, blocks, tangrams, spinners, rulers, fraction bars, algebra tiles, geoboards, geometric plane, and solids figures. Watch the video below for a good overview of the Virtual Manipulatives app: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6eBWcba7QQ

Visit http://www.abcya.com/ to find more apps like Virtual Manipulatives.

From Apple App Store: "MathStudio is the most comprehensive math app available for iPhone and iPad. Whether you need a simple calculator to do your finances or a replacement for your TI graphing calculator, MathStudio is the most powerful and versatile calculator available on the App Store."

"Sprout Labs apps stimulate a lifelong passion for learning by catering to everyone's individual learning style. Different parts of the brain are used by different learning styles. Visual learners prefer images and pictures, aural learners prefer sound and music, verbal learners prefer speech and text, and physical learners prefer touch based learning."

Interval timer - great for productivity!

Interval timer - great for productivity!

Offers Mac, Win, iOS, and Android apps that sync to a cloud account.