Surprisingly Educational Apps

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Sharing a Symbaloo List of 35+ Surprisingly Educational Apps with resources and companion blog.

A Growing and Constantly Updated List of iPad Lessons curated on Pinterest!

Create a learning hub with customized links, notes, audio recordings, and dictionary.

Suggestion: Teacher provides a vocabulary word and each student writes a sentence with that word in iBanner! OR use as a prop or subtitle in a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHFh4q8URdg&feature=plcp

Create step-by-step how to guides to support PD/tech tips and dissemination of information in the classroom.

80+ Snapguide examples for the classroom: http://pinterest.com/techchef4u/isnap-2-learn-snapguides-4-the-classroom/

Suggestion: Use in elementary to block out the day or to teach elapsed time.

Suggestion: use to report on location from an event, create book trailers, or even travel reviews.

Suggestion: build and share contacts for shapes or fictional characters (similar to BUMP) or play "flick the fastest image.

Suggestion: Use images for a weather journal or Visual Poet poetry. Cross reference reports with Wunder Map, make conversions between C & F or two different locations.

Physics & Problem-solving (teaches backward thinking).

Suggestion: Create your own matching games for math problems, vocabulary, sight words, chemical names, historical battles.

Suggestion: Create a family tree for a historical figure, characters in a book, or your own family.

Suggestion: Make a stop-motion movie for life cycles, digital storytelling, historical reenactments, force and motion, or personification.

Suggestion: Use these seasonal interactives to inspire your own or rewrite your own for the same season. (Perhaps create your own with TypeDrawing app).

Vimeo example using Mad Lips to adapt and retell an Eric Carle book: http://vimeo.com/43226294

Vimeo using Mad Lips to practice language: http://blogs.neisd.net/ybarke/2012/05/10/ipracticar/

Suggestion: Perfect cross-curricular vocabulary tool.
* ELAR: vocabulary word, quote, theme, character (inferencing)
* Math: equation/expression, math vocabulary word
* Science: scientific concept (force), chemical
* History: historical event, historical figure

See sample in Mathematics: http://www.techchef4u.com/?p=2680

See comments: http://www.techchef4u.com/?p=2778#comments

See this egg-cellent example: http://ilive2learnilove2grow.blogspot.com/2012/04/egg-eggs-eggs.html

Perfect for projects and sequencing.

Suggestion: Use augmented reality apps as a springboard for digital storytelling. Perfect in conjunction with Snapguide, Google Earth field trips, or Sonic Pics or Splice.

Suggestion: Use augmented reality apps as a springboard for digital storytelling. Perfect in conjunction with Snapguide, Google Earth field trips, or Sonic Pics or Splice.

Suggestion: Use as a springboard for descriptive and creative writing. Assemble screenshots to create your own story.

See examples: http://www.ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au/ipad-education-case-studies/5-ringwood-north-primary-school
http://www.porchester.notts.sch.uk/citadel/2010/10/the-pickpocket.html

Suggestion: Use as a springboard for descriptive and creative writing. Assemble screenshots to create your own story.

Suggestion: Create your own visual poetry, haikus, lines of prose, perfect for practicing typing, sight words, vocabulary, etc...

Suggestion: create a 3 panel poem or haiku, vocabulary or word problem, experiment, etc...