60 apps in 60 minutes: ios, web, doe & beyond - #nycsts14

Chris Casal Technology Coordinator/Teacher P. S. 10 Brooklyn (15K010) ccasal@ps10.org Twitter: @mr_casal

60 Apps in 60 Minutes iOS, Web, DOE & Beyond! School Technology Summit 2014 - 7/30/14 Presentation Materials: http://goo.gl/irH2Mo (case sensitive)

Play alongSession hashtag

#60in60NYCSTS Backchannel discussion

http://today.io/phkw Sticky board

http://goo.gl/Oig9Gn

1,200,000

That’s how many apps are in the Apple App Store

even more available when you factor in Android & Web

We will cover 60* in 60** minutes

Brief overviews to get you started with a list you can immediately use as a reference library for your classroom & school

Asterisks...

* The number of apps & websites is a rough estimate as some developers have multiple versions of apps or “Lite” vs “Premium” options ** 60 minutes is the full session but there will be time left for questions

Think of it as 60+ apps in 45-ish minutes...

Disclaimer

I have a lot of apps...

530 currently on my iPad

Each slide will contain 1-3 apps of a specific function

Most slides will also contain a picture of the corresponding folder on my iPad, which sometimes contains up to 20 apps of identical function

iPad…some of these apps offer Android versions, some don’t - check the developer’s website for platform availability

Apple AppsCamera

a great way to document student work & class activities

iTunes U

Apple has a DOE-centric course:

Podcasts TechLandia - @TechLandiaCast

Take5 - @DaveGuymon

OutOfSchool.net - @fraserspeirs & @bradleychambers

Apps

Track apps, read reviews, help make sense of the 1,200,000+ options

AppsGoneFree - $free - daily digest of 8-12 free apps every day

AppShopper (iPhone) - $free - shows all price changes & allows Wish List creation & price change notification

Augmented RealityAurasma - $free - create and share your own augmented reality experiences or browse from thousands in their library

Daqri - $free - explore 4D resources to make traditional items like books and magazines come to life

Anatomy 4D - $free - from Daqri - makes exploring the human anatomy far more engaging than a simple textbook

resources: http://www.twoguysandsomeipads.com/

@TechMinock & @TechBradWaid on Twitter

Bookmarking

Don’t keep your Bookmarks/Favorites on a single computer, make them accessible anywhere

Diigo - $free web service & app

my favorite - can bookmark annotations & notes too

create student accounts to “crowdsource” references

BrowsersSafari is the built in & only default option but others provide more flexibility and versatility

Chrome - $free - Google’s browser, syncs with desktop version - great for GAFE schools

iCabMobile - $1.99 - very robust & versitle browser with many add-ons & connections to other services

Rover - $free - geared to education & preloaded with edu content

Puffin - $2.99 + Lite version - plays Flash content & can download directly to cloud services

Cloud Storage

Keep your files accessible from anywhere

No more emailing files or USB drives

Dropbox - app free - storage fees vary, free->pay

market leader, most app integration

Box - app free - storage fees vary, free->pay

strong competitor, starts with more free space

GoogleDrive - $free

central hub of all your files

access multiple accounts from single app

Docs - $free

creating & editing Google Documents

Sheets - $free

creating & editing Google Spreadsheets Unfortunately no iOS app, yet, for Forms or Slides/Presentations (there is an Android app for Slides)

Common Core

Apps to help navigate the Common Core Standards

CommonCore Standards by Mastery Connect - $free

EvernoteA great suite of note taking apps & syncing to online companion - evernote.com

Apps allow you to handwrite & annotate images

Evernote - free service with paid upgrades

type notes, tag & file, add pictures & web content

Skitch - $free - annotate pictures & sync to Evernote

Penultimate - $free - notebook for freehand writing + inserting pictures - syncs with Evernote

FlippedCreate “flipped classroom” or general video tutorials

ExplainEverything - $2.99 - whiteboard, insert images, add video - import & export from various cloud platforms

Educreations - $free - basic whiteboard & audio recording, insert pictures - upload to educreations.com

ShowMe - $free - basic whiteboard & audio recording, insert pictures - upload to showme.com

Fotopedia15 free apps with amazing images from around the world

Show your students in amazing clarity to world outside the room

Haiku Deck

Haiku Deck - $free

an elegant presentation app

puts imagery above text

free, high-res Creative Commons pictures built in

antidote to “death by PowerPoint”

If This Then ThatIFTTT - $free - create recipes to let the internet work for you

auto save contacts to Google Spreadsheet

auto silence cell phone when you get to school

auto save Facebook photos to Dropbox

News

Create custom magazines based on your content source preferences

Currents - $free - Google’s magazine app

Flipboard - $free - “your personal magazine”

Zite - $free - “an intelligent magazine that helps you discover interesting things to read”

NewsMix - $free - “your personalized newsstand”

Note-takingIf Evernote isn’t your thing consider:

Notability - $1.99 - supports freehand writing, typing, images, audio & import/export to cloud platforms - very versatile app

PaperlessIf you create documents on your computer why print them out just to file them away...?

GoodReader 4 - $6.99 - works on any iOS device - great for paperless reading records, rubrics, signing forms - syncs to cloud services & can email direct from app

Productivity

Microsoft Office is irrelevant

Pages - $free* - Apple’s version of Word

Keynote - $free* - Apple’s version of PowerPoint

Numbers - $free* - Apple’s version of Excel

Available on your Mac & iPad, with syncing capabilities via iCloud

“…free on the App Store for qualifying iOS 7 compatible devices activated on or after September 1, 2013” otherwise $9.99 per (still cheaper than Office 365 subscription)

Reference

EasyBib - $free - look up MLA, APA & Chicago citations for books

Biography - $1.99 - “... a journey with the world’s most influential people... 100 biographies of eminent people of all time..”

Scan

Use the iOS camera to scan documents

Not simply taking a picture, apps convert the image to black & white (or color) PDF looking exaclty like you scanned it on a traditional scanner

JotNotPro - $2.99 - scan multiple pages to single file, connect to cloud services, etc

Social

Don’t think of it as “social media” think of it as networking & connecting

Twitter - $free - network & connect

Google+ - $free - share & collaborate

Hangouts - $free - Google’s app for video chat/conferencing - create distance learning opportunities

Pinterest - $free - digital scrapbook your resources

Tell a storyAdobe Voice - $free - easy way to mix pictures, music, and voice to tell a story - great for students as publishing platform as well as teachers for creating engaging “movies” without movie-making knowledge - example - related blog post

Tellagami & Tellagami Edu - $free & $4.99 - create & share quick animated videos. A more robust and engaging version of Voki - example

BookCreator - $4.99 - create books on the iPad + share pages and create collaborative books with other classes & schools.

Read a teacher’s take: http://www.redjumper.net/blog/2013/10/going-global-book-creator/

VNC (Virtual Network Control)Remotely control computers

Great for remote tech support & controlling IWBs from anywhere in the room

Splashtop Personal - $4.99

remote access

Splashtop Whiteboard - $9.99

remote access + whiteboard tools - great if you have laptop & projector but no IWB

Mocha VNC Lite - $free

Web…not every “app” is tablet based, some are websites

TagBoardtagboard.com

Create a hashtag for your school

TagBoard aggregates from:

Twitter, Vine, Instagram, Facebook, and Google+

A living bulletin board for your community

Free!

Check out PS10Brooklyn’s:

tagboard.com/ps10bk

Ours: https://tagboard.com/60in60NYCSTS/

Graphitegraphite.org

Created by Common Sense Media

“a platform we created to make it easier for educators to find the best apps, games & websites for the classroom”

Reviews written by teachers

Free!

Follow my reviews: http://www.graphite.org/users/mrcasal

Padlet

padlet.com

live, real-time, collaborative tack board

students can add stickies

save & review later

One for right now…

http://goo.gl/Oig9Gn

Today’s Meettodaysmeet.com

“backchannel” site for discussion

better for upper grades in 1:1 or BYOD environments

students can ask questions, others can answer, follow up beyond lesson, etc

Ours for today:

https://todaysmeet.com/60in60NYCSTS

goo.gl

A Chrome (browser) extension

shortens links

creates QR codes

saves a history of links with analytics

chrome.google.com/webstore

http://goo.gl/ygGS6

edtechteacher

http://edtechteacher.org/apps/

Amazing resource for finding apps

Filter by platform or activity

educlipper

https://educlipper.net

Pinterest for teachers

Create student accounts

Create “assignments”, “classrooms” and “portfolios”

companion iOS app, Android being developed

Created by Adam Bellow, a teacher

WeLearned.it

http://welearned.it/

Not available until Fall 2014

From the developer of EduClipper

Keep an eye on it…

DOE…because some things are just that specific…

Schoolview

http://schoolview.nycboe.net/principal/

Need to be within a school to access

Shows network health, bandwidth usage, MDF temperature, etc

Great resource

TechShare

https://techshare.nycenet.edu/sites/FinanceAdmin/DIIT/operations/TechShare/default.aspx

Intranet site accessible outside of DOE

Great discussion board

Access to DOE software for download

including Mac & Windows OS, Office, etc

Wireless Client Configuration

https://www.nycenet.edu/applications/wcc/Pages/Schools.aspx

find wifi information for other DOE schools

Network Grounds

http://networkgrounds.com/bookmarks - Flash

http://networkgrounds.com/mobile - text/html

NYCDOE bookmarks

visual catalog of all DOE services

Built by Dan Morio of CFN 405

Summary

64 highlighted linked apps, developers, and websites

Over 100 total resources

Some free, some paid

Hopefully this will give you some ideas of the versatility & possibility for integrating technology into your classroom

One last link…

http://goo.gl/DcY4M5

Google Spreadsheet

2 sheets

Apps - 240

Websites - 12

… and growing

ContactPresentation Materials:

http://goo.gl/irH2Mo (case sensitive) !

Christopher M. Casal Technology Teacher/Coordinator

P. S. 10 (15K010) Email: ccasal@ps10.org

Twitter: @mr_casal Diigo: mrcasal

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