iPads+in+the+Classroom

Here are some Classroom resources for using iPads in classrooms.

iPads in Schools is a website with lots of research and articles on why iPads as well as apps for every level: []

Kathy Schrock has an extensive resource list on her web site: []

Evaluating Apps for Classroom Use: []

One model of an app review process used by Common Sense Media has a clearly stated set of standards and criteria. They evaluate a range of media content based on the level of consumerism, the inclusion violence, sex, or drug use elements, educational value, safety and privacy, and ease of use. Identifying the purpose for app selection is essential. Mom's with Apps creates a catalog of apps classified as “family friendly."

Special Needs Students and iPad
This is a web resource from Julene Reed an Apple iPad trainer: Features and Apps for Special Kids

Special Needs Students and iPad.
From Naomi Harm - 1. Can you have more than one app open at a time, say a word document and "speak it"??Yes, you can have more than one app open at one time- open and running, and you can multitask(switch views) between display windows of the open apps through the "Home button" on your iPad once you have launched the apps.

2.Is there a program that allows you to write on an existing document and have it read aloud? Here is a collection of apps that may assist your efforts for text to speech- you may have this list covered already. @http://appadvice.com/appguides/show/text-to-speech-apps-for-ipad

3. Here is a collection of communication apps to assist your students immediate communication and auditory needs that we utilize for all of our special education iPad trainings. Please note Dan and Sally King both work for my consulting company and they have done a fantastic job putting this collection together: @http://danking.net/iPad/spedapp.html

4. Listing of apps of assistive communication apps: @http://blog.friendshipcircle.org/2011/02/07/7-assistive-communication-apps-in-the-ipad-app-store/

5. iPad Educational Impact with Autistic Children Video (Excellent): @http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7385686n&tag=contentBody;storyMediaBox

6. Two Brand New apps as of 1/5/2012- and this may be your solution at $9.99

= Knowtilus Pro (Web Browser+Text Editor+Text to Speech+Translator+Sketcher) = @http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/knowtilus-pro-web-browser/id401450036?mt=8

= Write&Say - Lifelike Talking Text Editor with Translator =

@http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/write-say-lifelike-talking/id428068648?mt=8

FYI we have a Proloqu2go iPad Special education workshop hosted at the West Salem school district on Friday, Feb. 3 from 9AM-3PM and we have a dedicated focus just for teachers utilizing Proloquo2go @http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/proloquo2go/id308368164?mt=8 to design interactive story boards to assist with their students to be active and successful communicators in their learning. More Spring workshops are on their way too near the Madison area.

Here is the Proloquo2go marketing flyer if you are interested: @https://docs.google.com/open?id=1Pp69geeLKT1o9-owfbHxDJ3l3h9yISNeQrfTC7qkRcP2_AwwknUDjopYhoxU

Hope this helps, Naomi Harm

This is Roxxanne Nys list: == **Lists of recommended apps: (Note that I have NOT reviewed every app on these lists...these are other people's ideas of what works for education!)** ==
 * (For additional apps lists for iPods in education, see both Roxxanne's my page on this wiki. For more iPad app lists that she may have found recently and not yet posted here, check out my Delicious bookmarks) **

ISTE Connects comments on Education Applications for iPad (published just a week after the iPad was released.) Apps for Education (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch)

(from Eduleadership.org)

Gizmodo's list of "Essential iPad Apps" A mixed bag list of apps including news, games, productivity and more. Some free some not. I Education Apps Review - IEAR- reviews applications for iPod and iPads

U.S. News & World Report: 10 iPad Applications for Higher Education

Texas Computer Education Association' s member recommendations (iPhone, iPod but many compatible with iPad) Downloadable spreadsheet, nicely organized by curriculum area.

How I made my iPad replace my MacBook - Mac Forums lists the apps the author used to do so.

iPad games: 10 of the best for free One person's thoughts on the 10 best free iPad games

IPAD Apps | rogerneilson some iPad "must have" apps

iPhone-iPad-and-iPod-touch-Apps-for-Special-Education nice list compiled by the creator of two apps "ArtikPix" and "Percentally" Each app has a one sentence description

40 Amazingly Educational iPad Apps for Kids organized by curriculum area and sometimes age with short descriptions

20 Amazing iPad Apps for Educators Published by TeachHub.com (by teachers, for teachers) "Teachers with a love of technology and a passion for nurturing the minds of their students can easily discover creative ways to incorporate the iPad into the daily routine, and some of these great educational and organizational applications are bound to help them get started."

Seline HD: the #1 iPad Music App, Top Best-Seller, nominee for "Best Musical Innovation 2010"... as seen in the hit video "The iPad Orchestra" ( http://ipad-orchestra.com ), featured by TechCrunch, MacLife, TUAW and many more.

[|Middle school apps from a school that is piloting iPads in their classrooms]

For free textbooks in the ePub format (readable on iPad, Kindle) check out CK12.org's Flexbooks Flexbooks are available for download from their site or through iBooks on your iPad. CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning through the FlexBook Platform™.

Articles worth reading:
[|eBook restrictions vex users | Policy | eSchoolNews.com] frank discussion of restrictions built into the various ebook readers

[|For autistic kids, iDevices are life changers - The Globe and Mail] Great suggestions for using iPods/iPads with special needs students

New Jersey school that implemented an iPad-only curriculum for freshmen and seniors in six classes: Baroque art history, advanced geosciences, two Advanced Placement calculus courses and freshmen English and history courses.

Evaluating the iPad for Education A private liberal arts college in Oregon took Apple's iPad through its paces to test its value as a a tool for learning inside the classroom and out. The evaluation followed a pilot of Amazon's first-generation Kindle, which the college eventually decided against. In the words of the college's CIO, the Kindle just wasn't an adequate "alternative to paper." Did the iPad fare any better in the college's rigorous and methodical testing process? YES!

Creating Content with iPads by Brad Flickinger -Brad was tired of people saying that the iPad is only for " // consuming // and not // creating // online digital content. There is no doubt that the iPad is a great device to browse the web, read an eBook and check email (consuming) but it can do so much more than that." You will see from the list in his article "that the iPad is far superior to the laptop in a lot of different areas of digital content creation."

iPad Tips and Tricks:
[|iPad Presenting: Powerpoint, Videos, Web Demos and more - Teach42] Steve Dembo's tips on using an iPad to present

[|http://www.gilsmethod.com/how-to-access-30000-free-ebooks-for-the-ipad] A how to for downloading Project Gutenberg's books to an iPad