iPad Apps for School

The Best iOS Apps for Students and Teachers

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Draw Your Stories – An iPad App for Little Kids

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drawstories Draw Your Stories is a freemium iPad app on which children complete narrated stories by creating their own drawings. The narrated stories contain prompts for students to draw things to fill-in the scenes. Draw Your Stories gives students small templates to trace to help them draw various objects into the stories they’re listening to. Students can choose from a wide array of colors and brush stroke sizes.

Draw Your Stories provides one narrated story for free. Students can create as many drawings as they like in that story. Additional narrated stories can be purchased for $0.99.

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3D Brain – A Model of the Human Brain

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Screen Shot 2013-06-30 at 2.07.11 PM 3D Brain is a free iPad app that features a model of the human brain. he app provides a three dimensional model of the human brain that students can rotate. To look at a specific part of the brain select it from the drop-down menu and it will be highlighted on the model for you to view. Click the “info” tab to read one page summaries about each part of the brain. On the app you can also find some case studies about disorders and brain damage.

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Fetchnotes – A Free & Simple Notes App for Your iPad

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Screen Shot 2013-06-30 at 1.49.50 PM Fetchnotes is a service for creating and organizing notes for yourself. Organizing your notes on Fetchnotes is quite simple. When you write a note, just use a hashtag to label your note. Then whenever you want to search for a note just enter a hashtag. For example, if I was a student taking notes in a history course I might use the hashtag “#revolution” for all notes related to revolutions. Then I could go back and read all of my notes about revolution by just searching for that hashtag.

Fetchnotes lets you create groups of people with whom you share notes. When you want to share a note with someone else in your group just add @ before that person’s name to have the task appear on your list and his or her list.

In addition to being available through the free iPad app, Fetchnotes can be used in your web browser. Fetchnotes also offers a free Android app.

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Online Safety With Professor Garfield

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Screen Shot 2013-06-27 at 9.09.00 PM Professor Garfield is a free resource developed in part by the Virginia Department of Education. Professor Garfield teaches students how to be safe online, how to recognize and respond to cyberbullying, and how to decide if something is a fact or an opinion. These educational activities can be done online or on free Professor Garfield apps; Online Safety, Fact or Opinion, Cyberbullying.

All of the free Professor Garfield iPad apps use the same format. The format is a set of comic strips that students read to learn about the issues the app is focused on. At the end of the comic strips students play some simple games to practice recognizing good online behaviors.

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Edit & Share for iPad – That’s What It Does

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Screen Shot 2013-06-18 at 10.55.17 AMEdit & Share is a free iPad and iPhone app whose name tells you exactly what it’s used for. Edit & Share is a free app for creating and editing collections of images. By using the app you can crop images, alter the colors of images, and add text notes to your images. You can edit and notate images on an individual basis or create collections of images with notes. Your images can be shared individually or as a group. To share you can Tweet, Facebook, or email your collections.

Edit & Share could be a good app for students to use to quickly take notes about interesting things that they find on a field trip. Students could also use Edit & Share to create simple portfolios highlighting examples of their best work.

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