iPad Apps for School

The Best iOS Apps for Students and Teachers

classroom management

Team Shake – A Random Name and Team Selection App

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Screen Shot 2014-04-16 at 2.02.23 PM Team Shake is an iPad app for randomly selecting names to create teams or to select an individual name. On Team Shake you can create rosters by manually entering names or by importing a list of names. When you are ready to choose teams just select the number of teams that you want created, shake your iPad, and then each person is randomly assigned to a team.

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To use Team Shake to randomly select an individual name for a task just open a roster then choose “pick random player.” From the same menu you can exclude names from a list. So if you have an absent student you can simply exclude his or her name from your roster when go to create teams or randomly select an individual name.

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Too Noisy Helps Students Learn About Conversational Voices

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Screen Shot 2014-04-08 at 9.28.15 AM Disclosure: the developers of this app are currently advertising on iPadApps4School.com. That said, I would have written about the app even if they were not advertisers.

Too Noisy is an iPad app (free and pro versions available) designed to help students learn to recognize the appropriate volume for conversations. The app measures the volume of the noise in a room and displays a meter indicating whether or not the the room is too noisy. Too Noisy has four situation settings that you can use in your classroom; silent, quiet, group, and class. You can adjust the sensitivity of the meter for each situation.

The pro version of Too Noisy ($2.99) offers additional background themes for the meter display, star awards that you can give to the class for maintaining an appropriate volume, and audible alarms to alert your students when they’re being too noisy. The pro version also removes the advertisements that pop-up when you change screens in the app.

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Whether you use the free version or the pro version, projecting the Too Noisy meter for all of your students to see could be a good way to help them understand the appropriate volume for conversations when working on group activities in your classroom.

Lead Group Browsing Sessions With RabbleBrowser for iPad

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Screen Shot 2013-10-28 at 4.27.34 PM RabbleBrowser is an iPad app that teachers can use to lead their students in a shared web browsing experience. With RabbleBrowser installed teachers can broadcast their browsers to their students’ iPads. Likewise, students can lead the browsing session and the teacher can follow along. Through RabbleBrowser teachers can lock students iPads into the same browser screen. The video below offers an overview of the RabbleBrowser experience.

RabbleBrowser could be a good app to use when you want to distribute links to students and have them all read the same article for a classroom discussion. RabbleBrowser could also be useful for opening and sharing media across all of the iPads in your classroom.

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RabbleBrowser is currently priced at $2.99 (less with volume purchasing).