IPAD, un nuevo concepto socio-educativo!

For this week's Top Picks List Friday, we are featuring websites and apps for making videos and animations. Teachers know that video making is a tried and true way to get kids engaged in building, demonstrating, and sharing knowledge. These apps and sites feature user-friendly tools and features...

Via Ana Cristina Pratas

There are quite a few apps you should know about. We went through and compiled dozens of the best apps for teachers who don't have time to do so themselves!

Via Gust MEES, @LearningWheel

Here are thirteen of my favorite ABC apps. They vary in style but they are all nicely done. All thirteen were free when I downloaded them but only four are currently free. Sign up to receive my blo...

TeacherKit, con una interfaz intuitiva, es una app simple pero bastante completa y muy funcional en la gestión de las clases. Permite a los docentes importar o añadir alumnos en cada clase y asignarles una imagen. Se puede añadir tantas clases como sea necesario y acceder a una vista resumen de cada clase recreando visualmente la distribución en el aula del alumnado .

Via José Antonio Alonso Sancho, Carmelo Gil Gutiérrez

Mobile Apps.

Via Ana Cristina Pratas

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Finally, the new BeamAir has arrived in the App Store. From the first version, we shifted focus a bit more towards presentations as there are plenty of photo sharing Apps anyway, but presentations ...

Via Baiba Svenca

Educational iPad apps and ibooks for the education sector, schools, students and teachers. Ipad tutorials for teachers. Created by Paul Hamilton.

Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge, Katharina Kulle

Speech Therapy Apps - articulation, language and auditory processing disorder apps.

Via Kathleen McClaskey

Inspiration Maps is an iPad app that allows you to visually organize information. Inspiration Maps makes it easy to create clear mind maps that can help organize information for an essay or walk a student through a multi-step science experiment. The app comes with number of great looking templates for all different subject areas. If none of the templates meet your needs you can create your own.

Via Baiba Svenca

Power Up: Common Sense Media's guide to nearly 100 great apps for kids ages 2-17 who have special needs and learning differences.

Via Kathleen McClaskey

As the year comes to an end I thought I would share some of my favourite iPad activities from this year. It was a difficult decision to narrow it down to five but here goes:

 

1.Towards the end of last year my school celebrated it's 150 year anniversary and we carried many activities with the pupils that term looking at the history of the school. One of the activities was to compare then and now photos. We use an app called InstaShake HD App https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/instashake-hd/id595411264?mt=8&uo=4&at=11lIT4  to blend two photos together in different ways. We also carried out this activity during the recent World War 1 week at the school.

 

2. Last term I worked with a PE department to use the iPads to support GCSE students portfolios. One of the activities was to record video of sporting skills from different angles using the iPad's camera and then add the videos into iMovie app to use some of it's features such as split screen, freeze frame and the speed tool. More detail on this can be found here http://sco.lt/8hTUhd   ;

 

3. Early this term I began an activity with Year 6 pupils to gamify stories using Book Creator App We used the hyperlink tool within Book Creator to link text and images to different pages and give the reader options of where the story went by choosing options within a scenario. More detail can be found here http://www.redjumper.net/blog/2014/12/using-non-linear-stories-gamify-books/

 

4. In summer term I worked with a Year 3 class to use the time lapse feature in I Can Animate App https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/i-can-animate/id399760501?mt=8&uo=4&at=11lIT4  ; to capture shadows moving across the playground. We set the iPad up to take a photograph every minute from 9am-3pm. Recently Apple have added the time lapse tool into the iOS 8 camera, although you cannot adjust the time between photos like you can in I Can Animate.

 

5. A few months ago Comic Life 3 App https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/comic-life-3/id891378056?mt=8&uo=4&at=11lIT4  was released and within the many new templates is a newspaper front cover. We used this at school to firstly produce a weekly newspaper for the school news with Year 6 but also during World War 1 week to reproduce historical newspaper front pages of significant events during war.

 

A big thank you to all the great feedback to Teacher Guide to iPad App. Hearing how much it has helped teachers worldwide has made all the hard work worthwhile. The latest update brings a new icon, new categories of subjects and apps, a new design and 12 new ideas. Details can be found at www.ipadteachers.co.uk

 

Wishing everyone a merry Christmas and best wishes for 2015!

Adam

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En Inevery Crea todos los jueves compartimos apps para trabajar en el aula y nuestra recomendación para hoy: Apps para aprender Programación y Robótica1. 

Via Gumersindo Fernández

Developers fret at their apps getting lost in crowded app stores, but ironically, most make their plight worse

Via Peter Azzopardi

Perspective is a platform for exploring, creating, and sharing audiovisual stories. Today's storytelling involves a mishmash of apps, websites, blog tools, and technologies. Perspective simplifies all this by combining the essential elements of storytelling into a single iPad App.

Via Baiba Svenca, Carlos Rodrigues Cadre

You've been telling yourself for years that you'll learn a new language or at least dust off those high school Spanish skills. How about starting when you're in

Via Patty Ball

In February, we highlighted apps, games, and websites that support science, technology, engineering, art, and math learning (STEAM).

And we invited educators to write Field Notes telling us how technology supports their teaching in these subject areas. Of the many Field...

Via Gust MEES

L'excel · lent bloc Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ha publicat aquesta interessant col · lecció d'apps per a educadors classificades en funció d'una sèrie de temes específics. 

 

Educación tecnológica:

Via CRP Badalona

App Inventor é unha ferramenta para crear aplicacións para o sistema operativo Android. App Inventor está desenvolvida polo MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) para levar a programación de aplicacións para móbiles e tablets a usuarios non avanzados. É unha magnífica ferramenta para introducir a programación nos centros de ensino.

A maneira de programar en App Inventor é totalente gráfica con bloques que se arrastran e se acoplan con outros para construir o programa. Esta forma de programar xa foi utilizada anteriormente polo MIT na ferramenta Scratch, unha plataforma de programación orientada a os máis novos.

Via Gumersindo Fernández

Speech Therapy Apps - articulation, language and auditory processing disorder apps.

Via Kathleen McClaskey, juandoming, Alfredo Calderón

 

"The largest collection of tips, tricks, training videos & resources for Google Apps and Gmail users.

 

"If you can’t already tell, we love Google Apps at BetterCloud. So it was a natural extension for us to launch a resource site where we could publish the tips and tricks that we share in our offices every day. What started as a fun side project is now the largest resource of its kind for Google Apps customers, and an important division of BetterCloud.

 

"Whether you subscribe to Gooru’s daily newsletter, install the Chrome extension, or simply head to the website when you have a question, we’re confident you will learn at least one new tidbit from the Gooru."

Via Jim Lerman