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Our Top 10 Recommended Apps for Teachers and Students
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Pages

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Pages is the most beautiful word processor you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. This powerful app has been exclusively designed for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Create, edit, and view documents wherever you are. Pages works with iCloud, so your documents stay up to date on all your iOS devices — automatically. And the Retina display on the new iPad makes everything you do in Pages even more brilliant.

Keynote

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Keynote is the most powerful presentation app ever designed for a mobile device. Built from the ground up for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, it makes creating a world-class presentation — complete with animated charts and transitions — as simple as touching and tapping. Highlight your data with stunning 3D bar, line, area, and pie charts, animated with new 3D chart builds such as Crane, Grow, Radial, and Rotate. 

iMovie

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Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app that puts everything you need to tell your story at your fingertips. Browse and play projects in the Marquee view. Create spectacular trailers and thrilling home movies in minutes.* And share your finished projects with the world — right from iMovie.

iTunes U

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The iTunes U app gives you access to complete courses from leading universities and other schools — plus the world’s largest digital catalog of free education content — right on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Whether you’re majoring in molecular biology at a university, taking Spanish in high school, or just interested in European history, you now have a valuable tool to help you learn anytime, anywhere.

Ask3

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Ask3 allows teachers and students with iPads to easily share knowledge and collaborate via threaded, video conversations. 

By recording your voice, drawings, and images, Ask3 helps you create videos that can be shared directly to your class. Students can watch the videos you create using Ask3 and can quickly ask and answer each other's questions.

GoodReader

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GoodReader® is the super-robust PDF reader for iPad - the #1 selling non-Apple app for iPad in USA in 2010! Mashable describes it as “a Swiss Army knife of awesome!” Reviews worldwide hail it as “essential,” “the best,” “magnificent” and “the killer app”. With GoodReader on your iPad, you can read virtually anything, anywhere: books, movies, maps, pictures. Use it once and you’ll be hooked. Soon you'll be wondering how you ever managed to use your iPad without GoodReader.

Explain Eerything

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Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.

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Reshan Richards & David Malone
This FREE book is available for download on your iPad with iBooks or on your computer with iTunes.

Dropbox

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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.

Edmodo

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Award-winning Edmodo for iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad makes it easy for teachers and students to stay connected and share information. Use your iOS device to send notes, submit assignments, post replies, and check messages and upcoming events while away from the classroom. 

Book Creator
 

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The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad.
Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBookstore.
Ideal for children’s picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and the list goes on.


Success with Ask3 in the Classroom

Fourth Grade Student Using Ask3


All You Need Is Free
Sean Junkins

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From apps that foster creativity and collaboration to apps that support engagement and productivity, a wealth of free content and resources are available for iPad. This webcast will share innovative ways to use free content to transform your classroom. iPads can be a big investment, but when it comes to engaging apps and resources - think free!
 general overview:
  • Why Free? (The costs of going iPad and using the VPP)
  • Apple apps (iBooks, iTunes U, Podcasts)
  • IWB apps (ScreenChomp, ShowMe, EduCreations)
  • Student Response apps (Nearpod, Socrative)
  • Sharing Links and Resources via QR and AR (QRafter, Aurasma)
  • Finding Resources (Twitter, Pinterest, Google +)
  • Creativity apps (Splice, Haiku Deck, Popplet, Google Drive, Skitch, etc)
  • Collecting Student Work (Dropbox, Evernote, Edmodo)
  • Wrap Up