HUB Notes - September 22, 2010

APPS we will be working with….

Science -
BrainPop – can use school account
Google Earth
Geared (.99) – really fun
World Wiki – world fact book/research

Social Studies –
Library of Congress – research purposes
Stack the States Lite – has full version/upgrade; really cute
Geo Play 2

Math –
Math Magic (.99) -
Tangrams XL Free – taken down from App Store
Math Quizzer
Number Line – easy to use but fairly difficult; made for iPhone but will run on iPad
Basic Math – made for iPhone
Brain Blaze Divide
Tanzen Lite – nice
Tangrams HD
Tape Measure
Units
Mad Math Lite

Language Arts/Reading –
iBooks
Toy Story Read Along
StoryKit
Spell It Lite
Inkling – platform for digital textbooks
ePub Bud – web site-not an app

Apps for YOU –
Evernote – note-taking app
Drop Box – for sharing documents; free account gives you 2GB storage
Adobe Photoshop Express -
Keynote – Apple’s presentation app. Can use video adaptor and projector
Pages – Apple’s word processor/page layout program
Numbers – Apple’s spreadsheet program
GoodReader – for viewing PDF files
Office HD – working with MS Office docs
Docs to Go
Dragon Dictation – free; for iPad and iPod Touch – coverts speech to text
Soundnote – use to take notes and create audio recordings at same time
Shazam – identify/tag music

Fun APPS –
Alice - Alice in Wonderland
Animalia – uses book in interactive format
Miss Spider’s Tea Party
Toy Story 2
Triazzle – matching animals with 3-sided puzzle pieces
Art Puzzle – solve puzzles of famous paintings
Talking Tom – new version/upgrade has horrible reviews
What’s the Difference (ipad edition) – love it
WeeMee Avatar – for iPhone

Primary -
Kid Apps: 13 in 1 By Pilot Fish Media
ABC Phonics/Counting/Math
Ace/Sight Words Dino Free – has rather high level information
ABC Pocket Phonics Lite
Baby Piano - cute