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Today in class... Questions? Put on Wiki. Your APPS. Be ready to show everyone two apps you have found and like. You don't have to be a pro on it... yet! Keep in mind you will be asked which apps you want students to have on the student iPads in order to use them in your classrooms.
 * Give us a demonstration of the app.
 * How would you use it in class or for teaching?
 * How would your students use it?
 * Include your name.

Here is an example of what we're looking for. (It may be a little long) //Please put a line between each app. Blue Line button above. (To the left of Link ;)//

Pretty self explanatory. That was you can click the keyboard on the bottom and guess what the keyboard pops up and you can type in this application also.
 * Dragon Diction Link - ksmedberg**

Put the cursor were you want and then click the red button. It will let you record in the same document pretty neat so you can add text where you want. The plus sign will add another document the trashcan will delete your document or your last recording as the options tell you and of course the downward arrow gives you some options of what to do with your text. click on it and you'll see the options to fill in some of settings click on settings for the Facebook and twitter accounts. Your best I think it's just copy it and put it into your HD squared or your text editor and then save it to drop box and access it on your computer.

When you speak your text speak into the microphone. Speak slowly clearly and you can say punctuation marks like, and. And it puts it in instead of actually spelling that word is pretty cool

The only drawback i have found with this app is that you need to have wireless access. if you open it up without wireless access and nothing happens because it cannot connect to it's own server I think it needs to display the ads at the bottom. What do you expect for free?

Teachers - Use it to create documents by speaking and saving the text to a word processor. Some editing is probably required. Students - Use it to do the same but NOT ideal in a classroom as it may be too noisy to record

Star Walk Ksmedberg An astronomy app for finding stars and data about the any galactic item. Uses your GPS location (and time) to set your pad to match your current sky. Teachers use it to show and find sky items even during the day. Students can use it to find the same items. Learn how a gps works and use some of the data for research. If they have their own they can even use it at night!

__**Evri for iPad**__ - Tiffany Bliss

I really like this app! I am a news junkie, and I need to be in order to be up-to-date on the events we discuss in my debate class. There are lots of news apps, but what I like about this app is that it groups articles from various news sites by topic (i.e. the Jobs Bill, the Libya conflict, GOP Hopefuls, Unemployment, etc.). It allows you to choose a category like US News, Entertainment, Sports, or Top News and then shows you the topics in that category.

Teachers can use this to find a current event topic to discuss in a history or debate class or to write about in an English class. This would be phenomenally helpful for students in my debate class because one of the events we compete in requires students to have several news articles relating to each of the current issues of the month. This is a huge time-saver, since Evri pulls from numerous news sites and links their articles together by topic.

__**Grammar ("Barron's Painless Grammar Challenge ")**__ - Tiffany Bliss This app has multiple choice grammar quizzes. Once a particular quiz has been passed satisfactorily, a game is unlocked.

Teachers can use the questions for interactive start-ups, or as ideas for quick grammar quizzes. Students can use this to study. I like that there is the incentive of something fun when they have practiced enough to pass at a high rate.

Dance journal app Dance journal submitted by Danell Hathaway This App is wonderful to log class instruction, steps, vocabulary, videos and share logged pages, amongst other goodies. What sets this apart from other classroom helpers (that I have found) is that you can include videos. For dance, this is key. It is relatively easy to use and includes categories, notes, and other sub categories. Teacher's use: create and store lesson plans Student's: fulfill writing assignments in class as well as document classroom instruction, progress, memorization for choreography, composition, etc.

Calorie Counter App Calorie Counter -Danell Hathaway This app includes a bar code scan, calorie counter for popular brands, restaurants and general food items, food journals, meal plans, workout log, weigh-ins and other helpful tools to help navigate a workout/dietary plan. There is a handy search tool as well as a sync tool so you can transfer info to other devices. Teachers: This is a great personal tool as well as a way to help students learn about heathy eating, etc. Students:As part of healthy living and core curriculum components for heath dance and other PE classes, this app can take the place of paper logs and other haphazard ways of tracking food, calories, exercise regimes, etc.

[|AP US Government]This has a diagnostic test and questions in all areas of the test. Would love to have one for all of my students so that they could live government all the time. [|Audio Books] These are great primary sources and could help us with the common core. Why by the classics when you can get them free on line?

You must first download the free prezi.com on your school computer follow the tutorial. Now on your Ipad download: [|prezi viewer] It is a fun presentation program. Your students may research a topic and present their information to the whole class. Sandy Catten My next app is Science360 for ipad. This covers most science topics and it has great short videos.

News and much more and it is free! Great for showing students whats going on - Julie Gardner [] Look at the world as a panaramic picture with []


 * Here is the link for the [|US Constitution app]enjoy.**
 * Here is the link for the [|Dish app](remember it is still in beta testing) :0)**
 * Contact Mark for any questions, I loved all the apps that were presented yesterday I hope everyone will post the links I would love to down load them.**

**Showme Interactive Whiteboard app**

 * allows you to record voice over whiteboard tutorials that can then be shared on line (Denice Smith)**


 * Purely for entertainment and to scare you into using the calorie counter and fast food app.**
 * Fat Booth adds many pounds on to your picture to give you an idea of what you would look like. Could be used in health as well. (Denice Smith)**

Blumel-Wilson 1: Dr najeeb lectures. Free. Various lectures for anatomy and physiology. 2. Leaf snap. Free. After loading, wireless no longer needed. Can classify plants or identify them from leaves,flowers fruit,seeds, bark, and then photo some, if unable and email to a person to assist you. Students will no longer need to defoliate our decreasing forests.

This is a virtual periodic table that shows numerous properties of the different chemical elements. A teacher could use the app to show periodic trends in these properties (atomic size, electronegativity, etc.). Students could be asked to use this app to explore other properties of the elements and deduce for themselves what trends exist.
 * TCT (The Chemical Touch) Lite** - Michael Martin

This app shows rotating 3-dimensional models of some of the most interesting molecules out there: Insulin, DNA, caffeine, and many, many more. A teacher could use this app to show the structure of complex (or even simple) molecules and discuss why the molecules are shaped the way they are. Students could be asked to determine certain properties from seeing a molecule (What elements are in it, what is its molecular formula, what is its molar mass, etc.). This can help students build connections between molecular geometry and properties.
 * Molecules by Sunset Lake Software** - Michael Martin

[|Yelp] cheryl moyle Yelp is free and will give detailed advice about any restaurant you choose. Price, menu, address, phone, photos, reviews, etc

[|http://www.flixter.com] flixter is free and has all info about movies, DVD's, theaters, show times, upcoming, trailers, etc

Evan Bateman > - **FREE** - This is a musical tuner app that is chromatic. It allows you to tune one note at a time in a single note format or all twelve tones at once. In the twelve tune format you can tune overtones within your sound allowing for a stronger tone! > - FREE - This is a great metronome that is easy to use and very easy to customize your needs. > - The basic play along feature includes Jazz Medium Swing, Bossa Nova and Rock. > - In-App Purchase is available for: Jazz Styles Pack (14 styles), Latin Styles Pack (8 styles) and Pop Styles Pack (10 styles). See website for demos. > - Transpose any chart to any key or to number system notation (Nashville system). > - Includes 50 exercises for practicing common chord progressions. > - Loop a selection of bars of a chart for focused practicing. > - Easily share individual charts or whole playlists with other iReal b users via email and the forums. > - Global Eb, Bb, F and G transposition for horn players or global setting for number system notation (Nashville system). > - Create multiple editable playlists. > - Support for AirPrint (requires iOS 4.2). > - Export charts as JPEG or PDF. > - Export audio as WAV (AudioCopy/Paste supported) and AAC (requires iOS 4). > - Support for iRig/AmpliTube and other guitar connection kits. > - See the website for demos and a detailed list of the features of iReal b. >
 * 1) Miso Tuner - h[|ttp://www.misomedia.com/miso-strobe-tuner/]
 * 1) iTick - []
 * 1) iReal b - [] - $7.99 - This is a great app for the Jazz Musician. It is a very dymnamic program that not only provides the chord progressions for thousands of Jazz Satandards but you can purchase add on packs for varied styles of music; Jazz Styles Pack, Latin Styles Pack, and Pop Styles Pack. You can: view chord progressions, print chord progressions, and "Yes" it has a PLAY BACK feature that plays the chord progressins in several basic styles! Here is a description from the Apple web site:

Amy Jones 1. Teacherpal [|teacherpal]this is a great organizational tool for teachers. It has a seating chart feature with photos for those teachers (like me) who have a lot of kids and not a great memory for names and faces; it has an email for one student or the whole class; it has behavior logs for each student, etc. free

2. vocab bubble: [|Vocabubble]a nice app for kids to work on general vocabulary; has several levels for different ages and abilities - kind of fun games free

3. news desk: [|News desk]a great app if you like international news - arranged really well for access and variety. I don't believe it's American, so it gives a different perspective of national events. I think I would use it with my seniors to show the difference in American and international perspectives of current events. free

Brad Goffe [|Flashcardlet] This is an app for flashcards that links with Quizlet. You can use Quizlet to make your sets of flashcards which can be in several languages, or you can even use images on the cards. It also has an audio component. It works great for all my classes: Japanese, Biology, and AP Environmental Science. many of my students have used Quizlet on their computers, now they can use it on their Itouch, Ipad or Iphone. I use it myself to keep up on the Japanese characters. It is Free.

I also use [|Kotoba]a Japanese - English dictionary - the kids in my Japanese classes use this often to translate words or find kanji. It is very user friendly and is not only agood dictionary, but useful in studying Japanese characters. Probably not useful to most of you, but my students like it and there are probably similar apps for other languages. It is also free.