iPad Apps for School

The Best iOS Apps for Students and Teachers

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Todoist – Create and Manage To-Do Lists on iPads and More

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Screen Shot 2013-07-25 at 10.04.15 PM Todoist is an easy-to-use task management service that I first tried on the web a couple of years ago. When I tried it then I was impressed by its clean design and intuitive user interface. Todoist is also available to use as an iPad app (Android and Windows apps are available too). The free iPad app seamlessly syncs with your Todoist online account.

When you create projects and assignments in Todoist by default they are arranged chronologically. You can reordering them by simply selecting an moving them up or down. The free version of Todoist provides twelve color coded labels that you can apply to tasks and projects.

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Add Your Signature to Documents With HelloSign for iPad

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2013-07-13_2227 If you have ever received an email with an attachment that you need to put your signature on, you need to check out Hello Sign. Hello Sign is a free service that allow you to digitally sign documents. Hello Sign can be used on your computer, on your iPhone, and on your iPad.

On your iPhone or iPad you can use Hello Sign by selecting a document or by taking a picture of a document. I have demonstrated the app to many people over the last year and everyone has been impressed by how easy it is to use. I just open the app, log into my Hello Sign account, and snap a picture of a document. After the picture was captured I have the option to apply a stored signature or sign the document using my finger on my iPad screen.

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Puppet Workshop – Create Sock Puppets on Your iPad

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puppett Puppet Workshop is a simple iPad app that you and your students may enjoy using to create digital sock puppets. To create a sock puppet in Puppet Workshop select one of the socks from the home screen. You can decorate your puppet to your heart’s content by adding buttons, strings, feathers, stars, and lots of other fun things to your your sock puppet. You can enlarge, shrink, and rotate each element that you add your sock puppet. The background scenes behind your puppet can be altered too.

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Puppet Workshop is available in two versions. The lite (free) version only offers two socks to design and has a limited amount of decorations. The lite version is more than adequate to use to decide if you want to buy the full version for $2.99.

Duolingo – Learn a New Language on Your iPad

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Screen Shot 2012-11-21 at 8.54.36 AM Duolingo is a free service that can help you learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, English, and Portuguese. Recently, Duolingo released a free iPad app to complement the free Android and iPhone apps that they offer. The apps and the website provide a variety of translation activities to help learn to you read, listen to, and translate words and phrases. To learn a new language on Duolingo you read, listen to, and translate words and phrases. For example if I want to learn Spanish I’ll be shown Spanish words with translations. I can can hear the words pronounced too. Then to practice I type and or speak translations. The activities start out with simple words and phrases. As I become more proficient, Duolingo gives me more challenging phrases. To help me track my progress Duolingo awards me point and virtual badges.

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CK-12 Study Now! – An Independent Study App for Students

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ck12_study CK-12 Study Now! is a free iPad app from the Ck-12 Foundation. The free iPad app puts CK-12 Flexbooks (multimedia books) on students’ iPads. Students can browse the app by subject and topic. Each Flexbook has to be downloaded individually to students’ iPads.

In some cases CK-12 Flexbooks can be a good alternative to buying textbooks. In other cases they make good supplementary material for your lessons. Either way, CK-12 Study Now! can help you and your students find helpful reference material.

As others have reported, I found the app to be crash-prone. Hopefully, this will be fixed soon.

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