New app that lets the teacher interact within the text with her students. Heiko Idensen reports in his curated newsradar "Online Curating & Social Learning Tools and Applications": "Learnist is a new pinboard where users can organize their learning materials. It resembles Pinterest except that Learnist is just for sharing learning resources.
The website is still in beta but looks really very promising for both teachers and students.
Here is a set of the main features that Learnist offers to its users : It is free Itis easy to use It has a user friendly interface It lets users create pinboards around a certain topic Users can create different boards and invite others to collaborate on them It lets you pin images,videos, and text to your boards with a single click from Learnist bookmarklet Users can also upload resources to their boards using URLs Free to use.
Try it out: http://learni.st Via Robin Good, Gust MEES Copy and Paste portions of your paper into the checker to make sure they are truly yours. 
A simple tool that creates color pie chart. This generator will produce an image that you can download. Via Baiba Svenca ![The Best iPad Note Apps [Best Of] | Cult of Mac | Web 2.0 for Education | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/VOVUYkKjfIvkdJjmfe5P6zl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
"One of the first things about the iPad that caught people’s attention was the touch screen, and it goes without saying that some of the first apps to start taking advantage of that touch screen were handwriting/note taking apps. Apps that let you write, draw, sketch—-and sometimes type–notes on your iPad. Something that combined technology with the age-old practice of scribbling notes on paper." Via John Evans 
Kevin Buran teaches 6th and 8th grade science to students at Carmel Middle School. Via Eduware, Inc. , John Evans 
Creatively share your memories and experiences on Wollage.com, the web's first social-network composed of scrapbooks. Wollage, the social-scrapbook. Via Donna Browne 
"Science apps are the most abundant in iTunes. There are several solar systems, and periodic table. If you search science in iTunes, you will find pages. The only thing science apps are missing is a projection app." Via John Evans 
As I started a go-to list of the best educational iPad apps for kids, the list got so long, I split up my posts into categories. Top Tools chosen from November, 2011. 
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"Eyes on the Solar System" is a 3-D environment full of real NASA mission data. Explore the cosmos from your computer. Hop on an asteroid. Fly with NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. See the entire solar system moving in real time. It's up to you. You control space and time. 
Creating presentations and slideshows is one of the needed skills for both teachers and students. Unfortunately many teachers still find it hard to arrange data into a catchy slideshow to share with students. Below is a list of some of the best free tools teachers and students can use to create awesome slideshow and presentations. I have already reviewed all of these tools and therefore attest to their usability. Via Donna Browne 
"Google just updated its iOS Google Search app (iTunes link). I have always preferred searching for Web content on the iPhone using Google's dedicated search app, compared to the search box built in to Safari. Now the experience is better." Via John Evans 
Great search engine for students! Contributed by Mr. Kelly, Social Studies teacher 6-7th grades.
Read more: http://www.sweetsearch.com/socialstudies
Via Gust MEES 
iPads in Education... An educational site for using iPads in teaching and learning. Via David Miller 
Take better notes. Quicklyst helps you take beautiful outline-style notes that help you structure your ideas. Your new favorite study buddy. Quicklyst is perfect for classes of any kind. Take notes effectively using outlines, and even include beautifully-formatted mathematical equations! Via Donna Browne 
Free unlimited questions and responses for teachers and educators who want to bring online quizzes or smartphone trivia into the classroom. Via Gust MEES, Kathleen Cercone 
"Cell phones are a terrific tool to support student engagement and achievement in reading and writing. To follow are some ideas explaining how teachers are doing just that by using cell phones in the way they are most commonly used among youth -- for texting and group texting. We will also look at a newly emerging trend...using cell phones to write novels." Via Beth Dichter 
Get everybody on the same page, when they're not in the same room, instantly. join.me is a ridiculously simple screen sharing tool for meetings on the fly. Via Baiba Svenca 
MediaCollege.com is a free resource site, suitable for anyone with an interest in audio-visual media. Tutorials and articles include everything from video production to website design. |
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