Aurasma

Aurasma is the industry-leading augmented reality app that’s changing the way millions of people see and interact with the world. In fact, it’s the only mobile app that lets you create and share your own augmented reality experiences!

https://studio.aurasma.com/login

ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard

ShowMe - turns your iPad into an interactive whiteboard! You can record voice-overs and share them online. It’s an amazingly simple app that anyone can use, no matter how young or old!

Useful Apps

MindShift has published some useful apps and a brief description of them. Please click here to visit the page.

Using Office 365 on iPad

Steps:

1. Download the 7 office apps from the app store (be sure to download 2013 versions)
2. Login using your Bishops email address.
3. Enter special login information for OWA, OneDrive, and Lync

1. Go into the app store 

Download all of the following 7 Microsoft programs:

(You may want to put them into a folder)

• Excel
• PowerPoint
• OneNote
• Word
• Lync 2013
• OWA (Outlook Web App)
• OneDrive (*must be business version)

 

 

2. For most Office 365 apps you simply need to sign in using your Bishops email address.

At some point you may need to select a work account rather than a ‘Microsoft account’

3. The rest of the apps require other additional information:

Lync: Show advanced options and enter email address

Click HTTP Proxy, and enter domain, username as such:

OWA:

This message will pop up :

- Click advanced

Fill in the information as so:

• User name must be your email address as well.
• Do not enter in anything for ‘Domain’
• ’Server’ must be: outlook.office365.com

An example is shown on the next page:

OneDrive:

Firstly make sure that you downloaded OneDrive for business and not the other version of OneDrive

Next you need to click ‘Show Advanced Options’ and then type your password and the following as the ‘SharePoint Server URL’: https://diocesancollege.sharepoint.com

Example:

That’s it! Enjoy Office 365 for iPad – it’s likely to be more useful than one might expect!

RWT Timeline by International Reading Association

RWT Timeline

Created with classroom use in mind, Timeline allows students to create a graphical representation of an event or process by displaying items sequentially along a line. Timelines can be organized by time of day, date, or event, and the tool allows users to create a label with short or long descriptive text. Adding an image for each label makes a timeline more visually appealing.

Add, drag, and rearrange items as needed. Saving capability allows students to return to their work and make revisions, and they can share their final work via e-mail.

Users can send their finished timeline to their device’s camera roll or email it as a .pdf file to friends and family.

Free IPAD Apps for teaching - Socrative - smart response clicker

Socrative - Engage your classroom via any mobile device. In only three 
minutes, you can set up a smart response clicker that involves students like 
never before. By allowing them to use their phones to participate in class, you can 
actively involve them. With educational games and exercises, you can engage and 
assess your students with ease. 


Works with almost any device with a web browser (except some types of blackberries) 
 Short Answer 
 Space Race 
 Exit Tickets 
 Quick Quiz 
 Multiple Choice 
 Polls 
 Simple Grading 
 Assessment 

Image taken from iTunes.com

Image taken from iTunes.com

Spelling

 

Second Grade Spelling

This is a very easy to understand app that can be used in small group teaching for revision of phonics.
The player starts the game, and a clear voice will give the player the word to spell. They need to manipulate the letters and move them into the correct sequence to spell the word.

Find my iPad

Download this free app.

Find my iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch: 

https://itunes.apple.com/za/app/find-my-iphone/id376101648?mt=8

Then go to settings, iCloud and switch on ; find my ipad

Most importantly what happens when it's lost.

Go onto another iOS device, open the app above and sign in with your apple ID. It will show you on a map where your device is.  Just as long as its "on" in your iCloud setting.

Explain Everything Manual

The teacher and inspiration behind the wonderful Explain Everything app has kindly given permission to distribute the iBook Author copy of their manual here in South Africa free of charge. To access the book for download please go here, and follow the instructions. It is a large book (88MB) and will take some time to download. I suggest you download the file on your iPad so you can send it straight into iBooks.

 Alan Goldberg

Science

A website that discusses apps for Science: http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/01/18-great-science-apps-for-ipad.html

Flipboard

Flipboard is an app that displays all media in a magazine format. Bishops Prep is a site that you are able to link to This allows you to view all Bishops Prep news and twitter postings in a visually pleasing manner. When you log onto Flipboard, search for Bishops Prep. Be careful to scroll down until you find the "actual" logo. Other Bishops Prep sites are found that are not ours so be careful to choose the correct one.

Once you find it (it appears under Twitter) you can subscribe.

Notes Plus - take advanced notes, convert handwriting to text on the iPad

 Notes Plus is an app that allows you to write and convert your writing to text... I find it best to turn gestures off while I'm using drawing / writing apps. This app is not free and I'm not convinced that handwriting is quicker but it may be something you'd like to try. I'm happy to let you try it out on my iPad to see how you enjoy it before you buy.

 

In order to convert your written text to typed text, circle the full sentence or paragraph and click bottom right arrow. It will convert all the text written to typed text. This may be copied and pasted into email, documents or just saved.

Penultimate: Note taking app

Penultimate: Note taking app: http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57522562-285/getting-started-with-evernotes-ipad-handwriting-app-penultimate/

Word and Excel and PowerPoint

Quickoffice Pro HD: A number of staff have asked me what I use for writing documents and for doing spreadsheet type work. To be honest, I don't really like using my iPad to write big documents (I'll use my computer for that) but it is nice to be able to edit the odd document or spreadsheet. Unfortunately this app isn't free but it does the job well and you get 3 apps in one.

Evernote

Evernote is an Internet based note (and other) taking program that works cross platforms (pc/phone/tablet)

Internet resources: It doesn't have to be an app!

There are heaps and heaps of great Internet resources out there. Many are tools that help up plan and deliver our lessons. These are some of my favourites:


stixy - on-line bulletin board

thinglink - makes your images interactive

slideshare - upload and share your slide show

schoolnet  - Fiona Beal is a fantastic educator and her blog and tips on this site are well worth watching. Her courses are designed to be short and fun and I ALWAYS learn something.

MSO Learn

MSO Learn is a guide to instruments of the orchestra.

Glogster

Glogster allows users to create free interactive posters, or Glogs. A "Glog", short for "graphics blog", is an interactive multimedia image

Explain Everything

Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. It's not free but it's reasonably priced and it's fabulous!

SlideShare

SlideShare is fabulous for sharing presentations, documents, PDFs, videos and webinars- all available via a standard internet browser