Some Suggested Apps
Skyward
- Take attendance
- Enter grades (kind of painful to do)
- Modify grades (not as painful)
Show Me
- Use as whiteboard
- Record yourself as you explain a skill or sequence (i.e. how to complete a Buddy Check sheet)
- Can save the recordings to playback at any time
- Students can record Book Talks
- Many, many uses!
Haiku Deck
- Slideshow
- Type high frequency words for students to practice reading
- Students type high frequency words to practice
- Students could type short stories (use each slide as a page)
- The graphics are great!
Skitch
- Import pictures and annotate right on them
- Great for labeling things (i.e. volcanoes, parts of the Earth, 3-D shapes, etc.)
- Students can email their finished drawings to you from the iPad
Google Drive
- Gives you access to your Google Drive documents
- Can click on and edit documents from the app
- This app is already on the iPads
- I have email address attached to each set of iPads: gh__________ipads@gmail.com (the blank is filled with the color of the iPad covers - mine are ghgreenipads@gmail.com). This is already set up on each iPad for you
- Students can submit work to you by emailing it to you.
- You can email links to the iPads to make installing paid apps easier
- You can email work to the iPads for students to do
- Lots of possibilities
Opposites
- This language arts app has many levels of vocabulary words
- The upper levels get really difficult!
Grammar Dragon
- Students practice categorizing parts of speech
- Very motivating to keep playing until you learn the parts of speech required
- Contains many grade levels of practice