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Learning Ratings | Common Sense Media
Common Sense offers great reviews and advice to parents as well as educators. Their new Beta site – Learning with Technology – reviews apps, games, and other media for kids in terms of learning.
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To create enhanced video experiences, use EmbedPlus to edit, watch, and annotate video embeds. Very cool way to show YouTube or other web videos.
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The app leverages the power of the online WolframAlpha search engine and also performs computations.
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Edmodo is a free social networking/blended learning platform for schools. It now has an app as well.
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iPads (or other devices) and Literature Circles – co-starring Edmodo.
This is a great article about using iPads to create literature circles.
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This is a great blog from a group of educators in Texas. They have written a few good articles about iPad deployment as well as mobile technologies in the classroom.
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Apps in Education: 10 Animation Apps
This is a good list of animation apps. Most of them are not free, but they could be good alternatives for digital storytelling.
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Apps for Literacy Support : Spectronic
Spectronics, a company that focuses on Inclusive Learning Technologies, has put together this list of apps for literacy support. Not all of them are free, but they make great suggestions.
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Another great web site for Spanish teachers.
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Zachary Jones | Spanish teacher
This is a great web site for Spanish teachers.
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This is a visual database of “extra solar planets” that includes images, visualizations, animations, and links to scientific publications
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This free app lets students view and manipulate molecules in 3D.
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This app gives students hands-on experience with the laws of physics. For $.99, it’s a very cool app.
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Teacher Experience Exchange – 9 web 2.0 sites to publish student work
This is a great list of options for publishing student work either as PDF, ePub, or other document format.
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Technology in (SPL) Education | Lexico Cognition for iPhone
“Lexico-Cognition is an App to develop language understanding, vocabulary building, cognitive, memory and auditory skills in a playful way. It was developed and tested by qualified speech therapists. “
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This is a great, free, dictionary app that also includes audio pronunciations.
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Class Widgets – Custom Widgets for iBooks Author
This is a great site full of widgets to use when creating publications using iBooks Author.
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16 Ways Teachers Are Using Pinterest | Edudemic
I’ve been looking for ways to use Pinterest and this is a great list.
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Preparing Your School for an iPad Implementation – iPads in Education
This is a great post about preparing a school for an iPad deployment.
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Another app in the “iTeach” collection, this one addresses Chemistry, providing a solid study resource to accompany the curriculum.
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For $.99, this is a great app for a general math review. It covers Arithmetic to Calculus, and could be a good study guide or resource for review.
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This app could be a great review for a basic physics class. It includes a study guide and covers most common units such as motion, vectors, energy, and optics.