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Apps to help in teaching Explain everything

Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. You can create dynamic interactive lessons, activities, assessments, and tutorials using Explain Everything's flexible and integrated design. Use Explain Everything as an interactive whiteboard using the iPad 2 (and the new iPad) video display.

Notes Plus

Notability

Notes Plus is a powerful note-taking tool that supports handwriting, typing, audio recording and PDF annotation. It offers close-up writing mode, stroke smoothing, vector shape auto-detection, palm handling, complete folder structure, images, PDF exporting and emailing, automatic backup to Dropbox and more. Notability powerfully integrates handwriting, PDF annotation, typing, recording, and organizing so you can take notes your way! Discover the freedom to capture ideas, share insights, and present information in one perfect place on iPad.

Skitch

Use shapes, arrows, sketches and text annotation to get your point across fast. Mark up photos, screenshots, maps, and webpages then share them with anyone you like. Skitch lets you: - Annotate: Add arrows, shapes and text to existing images - Create: Draw something new - Edit: Reposition, recolor and remove your annotations at will - Share: Send your sketches and annotations over Twitter and email - Present: Show your work in real time via AirPlay on Apple TV - Remember: Save everything to Evernote for later

ShowMe

ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It’s a radically intuitive app that anyone will find extremely easy to use, regardless of age or background.

Dropbox

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. Any file you save to your Dropbox is accessible from all your computers, iPhone, iPad and even the Dropbox website!

Eyejot

Eyejot is the first comprehensive video mail solution for mobile devices. With Eyejot you can easily create and send personal video messages to anyone in the world - whether or not they're using Eyejot. Compose new videos using your iPhone or iPod Touch or select existing video from your photo gallery. Easily send a single video message to one or many

Join.Me

With the join.me viewer, you can join an online meeting no matter where you go. View someone’s screen, share ideas and collaborate in real time, for free!

 

Pinterest

Pinterest is a Virtual Pinboard. It lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find in your life. Great for pictures to use in PowerPoints. Thought for the day.

Neu.Annotate PDF

Read and annotate PDF documents. Annotate with drawings, highlighting text, text notes, photos and stamps. Annotations are compatible with Apple Preview and Adobe Acrobat! PDF files can be opened in neu.Annotate from any application that supports the "Open with..." menu command. This includes Mail, Safari, MobileMe iDisk, Dropbox and many others. PDF files can also be imported using iTunes File Sharing and from Dropbox.

eClicker

eClicker is a personal response system that allows teachers to poll their class during a lesson. It provides teachers with the real-time feedback they need to be sure their messages are being received. Developed for smartphones and laptops, eClicker leverages the hardware already in the hands of many students providing a low cost polling solution for the classroom. All you need to get started is the eClicker Host app running on an iOS device, a Wi-Fi network, and students with internet-enabled devices to participate.

SlideShare

Upload your slides to this website and students can download them to their devices by knowing the title or author. www.slideshare.net

SlideShark

SlideShark is the free app for viewing and sharing PowerPoint presentations on the iPad the way they were meant to be seen – with animations, fonts, colors and graphics intact.

TextPlus

Text for free with textPlus & Save up to $240 a year on text plans. Works on WiFi, 3G & 4G so you can message from anywhere. For iPod touch, iPhone & iPad.

Apps to help Students myHomework

With myHomework you can easily know what's due and when so you will never forget a homework assignment again. The free app includes: - Track your classes, homework, tests, assignments - Time & Block based class schedules - Beautiful calendar display

iStudiez

A student's life is a dizzying mix of activity and just plain craziness! Take charge of your schedule and put iStudiez Pro to work for you! Take advantage of iStudiez Pro easy navigation and never miss another course, lecture and lab, track tasks and deadlines, plan homework, arrange assignments and much more!

StudyBlue

NEW - MAKE FLASHCARDS! You can now make flashcards with text and images and study them (along with millions of others) for free.

Flashcards*

Flashcardlet is a free, easy-to-use studying application with material for any class or standardized test. You can also create and share your own. It is the best way to study on any iOS device.

Flashcards+ Flashcards+ is the world's most popular flashcard app! Designed in association

with Harvard University faculty and students, Flashcards+ is an optimized way to

learn and retain new information. It allows you to easily create and study flashcards

without the hassle of having to buy and write on actual note cards. gFlash+ Flashcards & Tests

Studying on the go has never been this easy! Long recognized as the best free

flashcard app on the market, gFlash+ offers users a robust platform for creating,

downloading, and manipulating flashcards in every subject under the sun. This

latest release is jam-packed with new features including in-app access to premium

content from leading educational publishers AND an innovative implementation of

"box"-style flashcards.

Penultimate

The original, easiest-to-use, and best-selling handwriting app for iPad. Penultimate gives you the fast, tactile gratification of writing on paper, with digital power and flexibility. Take notes, keep sketches, or share your next breakthrough idea -- in the office, on the go, or home on the sofa.

Evernote

Take note of anything. Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small from your notable life using your computer, phone, and the web.

    Apps for Specific Courses Human Anatomy

An ideal application for students and others who would like to learn the names of various body parts, organs and other terminologies related to the human body. There is also an option to take tests on how far you are progressing with each lesson..Click on each body part name to learn about it, it has a full description. Also in the quiz area click on each number to type in the name of the body part. Buy the full version for only $1.99.

Speed Anatomy Lite

How fast can you point to your liver or gall bladder? Do you know the difference between, the sacrum and the manubrium? Speed Anatomy is an addictive game that tests your speed and challenges your knowledge of human anatomy!

YourTeacher

YourTeacher – Your Personal Math Teacher Algebra Tutoring and Homework Help App

History of Maps

History: Maps of World is a fun and educational collection of historical maps, which enables you to browse high-resolution maps of the world from various periods throughout history.

The Elements

The Elements: A Visual Exploration lets you experience the beauty and fascination of the building blocks of our universe in a way you've never seen before.

iScience „iScience for iPad“ contains all important mathematical and physical formulas and offers a interactive periodic system with all chemical elements as well.

Med Mnemonics

mnemonic, noun: a short rhyme, phrase, or other mental technique for making information easier to memorize [from Greek mnēmonikos, "relating to memory"]. Med Mnemonics is a unique learning tool with over 1700 of them. Mnemonics got me through medical school and the USLME steps. Wherever you are within the allied health professions - medical school, nursing school, NP school, PA school, residency, and beyond - you can improve your knowledge base in the short and long term with these key associative memory aids.

Leafsnap

Leafsnap is the first in a series of electronic field guides being developed by researchers from Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution. This free mobile app uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves.

MyFitnessPal

Lose weight with MyFitnessPal, the fastest and easiest to use calorie counter. With the largest food database of any calorie counter (over 2 million foods), and amazingly fast food and exercise entry, we’ll help you take those extra pounds off! There is no better diet app – period.

Converter Plus

Converter Plus is a unit converter with very extensive list of currencies and units in hundreds of categories. The list includes area, weight, energy, force, length, mass, power, pressure, speed, temperature, volume, bits and bytes and many more. Converter Plus also comes with mortgage, loan, tip, fuel consumption calculators and many others for everyday problems. You can add your own calculations.

 

  Websites with suggestions for educational apps www.appitic.com    

APPitic is a directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) to help you transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings.

www.educationalappstore.com    

The Educational App Store is THE marketplace for all mobile educational apps. We bring you educational apps for all mobile platforms including iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone.

With a huge range of apps available selected by the Educational App Store team, students, teachers and parents can browse apps by subject, age range or platform to find the perfect app for their needs.

www.appsineducation.blogspot.com/    

Nice collection of iPad apps that are reviewed by subject. These reviews are brief and to the point.

www.iear.org/     Designed as a community effort of reviews posted by a variety of users. There are even student reviews to give a unique perspective on the use of an app.

www.teachwithyouripad.wikispaces.com/iPad+Apps    

Wonderful wiki that lists a ton of apps by subject, type, and grade level.