Chris Casal Technology Coordinator/Teacher P. S. 10 Brooklyn (15K010) [email protected] Twitter: @mr_casal
60 Apps in 60 Minutes iOS, Web, DOE & Beyond! School Technology Summit 2014 - 7/30/14 Presentation Materials: http://goo.gl/irH2Mo (case sensitive)
Play alongSession hashtag
#60in60NYCSTS Backchannel discussion
http://today.io/phkw Sticky board
http://goo.gl/Oig9Gn
1,200,000
That’s how many apps are in the Apple App Store
even more available when you factor in Android & Web
We will cover 60* in 60** minutes
Brief overviews to get you started with a list you can immediately use as a reference library for your classroom & school
Asterisks...
* The number of apps & websites is a rough estimate as some developers have multiple versions of apps or “Lite” vs “Premium” options ** 60 minutes is the full session but there will be time left for questions
Think of it as 60+ apps in 45-ish minutes...
Disclaimer
I have a lot of apps...
530 currently on my iPad
Each slide will contain 1-3 apps of a specific function
Most slides will also contain a picture of the corresponding folder on my iPad, which sometimes contains up to 20 apps of identical function
iPad…some of these apps offer Android versions, some don’t - check the developer’s website for platform availability
Apple AppsCamera
a great way to document student work & class activities
iTunes U
Apple has a DOE-centric course:
Podcasts TechLandia - @TechLandiaCast
Take5 - @DaveGuymon
OutOfSchool.net - @fraserspeirs & @bradleychambers
Apps
Track apps, read reviews, help make sense of the 1,200,000+ options
AppsGoneFree - $free - daily digest of 8-12 free apps every day
AppShopper (iPhone) - $free - shows all price changes & allows Wish List creation & price change notification
Augmented RealityAurasma - $free - create and share your own augmented reality experiences or browse from thousands in their library
Daqri - $free - explore 4D resources to make traditional items like books and magazines come to life
Anatomy 4D - $free - from Daqri - makes exploring the human anatomy far more engaging than a simple textbook
resources: http://www.twoguysandsomeipads.com/
@TechMinock & @TechBradWaid on Twitter
Bookmarking
Don’t keep your Bookmarks/Favorites on a single computer, make them accessible anywhere
Diigo - $free web service & app
my favorite - can bookmark annotations & notes too
create student accounts to “crowdsource” references
BrowsersSafari is the built in & only default option but others provide more flexibility and versatility
Chrome - $free - Google’s browser, syncs with desktop version - great for GAFE schools
iCabMobile - $1.99 - very robust & versitle browser with many add-ons & connections to other services
Rover - $free - geared to education & preloaded with edu content
Puffin - $2.99 + Lite version - plays Flash content & can download directly to cloud services
Cloud Storage
Keep your files accessible from anywhere
No more emailing files or USB drives
Dropbox - app free - storage fees vary, free->pay
market leader, most app integration
Box - app free - storage fees vary, free->pay
strong competitor, starts with more free space
GoogleDrive - $free
central hub of all your files
access multiple accounts from single app
Docs - $free
creating & editing Google Documents
Sheets - $free
creating & editing Google Spreadsheets Unfortunately no iOS app, yet, for Forms or Slides/Presentations (there is an Android app for Slides)
Common Core
Apps to help navigate the Common Core Standards
CommonCore Standards by Mastery Connect - $free
EvernoteA great suite of note taking apps & syncing to online companion - evernote.com
Apps allow you to handwrite & annotate images
Evernote - free service with paid upgrades
type notes, tag & file, add pictures & web content
Skitch - $free - annotate pictures & sync to Evernote
Penultimate - $free - notebook for freehand writing + inserting pictures - syncs with Evernote
FlippedCreate “flipped classroom” or general video tutorials
ExplainEverything - $2.99 - whiteboard, insert images, add video - import & export from various cloud platforms
Educreations - $free - basic whiteboard & audio recording, insert pictures - upload to educreations.com
ShowMe - $free - basic whiteboard & audio recording, insert pictures - upload to showme.com
Fotopedia15 free apps with amazing images from around the world
Show your students in amazing clarity to world outside the room
Haiku Deck
Haiku Deck - $free
an elegant presentation app
puts imagery above text
free, high-res Creative Commons pictures built in
antidote to “death by PowerPoint”
If This Then ThatIFTTT - $free - create recipes to let the internet work for you
auto save contacts to Google Spreadsheet
auto silence cell phone when you get to school
auto save Facebook photos to Dropbox
News
Create custom magazines based on your content source preferences
Currents - $free - Google’s magazine app
Flipboard - $free - “your personal magazine”
Zite - $free - “an intelligent magazine that helps you discover interesting things to read”
NewsMix - $free - “your personalized newsstand”
Note-takingIf Evernote isn’t your thing consider:
Notability - $1.99 - supports freehand writing, typing, images, audio & import/export to cloud platforms - very versatile app
PaperlessIf you create documents on your computer why print them out just to file them away...?
GoodReader 4 - $6.99 - works on any iOS device - great for paperless reading records, rubrics, signing forms - syncs to cloud services & can email direct from app
Productivity
Microsoft Office is irrelevant
Pages - $free* - Apple’s version of Word
Keynote - $free* - Apple’s version of PowerPoint
Numbers - $free* - Apple’s version of Excel
Available on your Mac & iPad, with syncing capabilities via iCloud
“…free on the App Store for qualifying iOS 7 compatible devices activated on or after September 1, 2013” otherwise $9.99 per (still cheaper than Office 365 subscription)
Reference
EasyBib - $free - look up MLA, APA & Chicago citations for books
Biography - $1.99 - “... a journey with the world’s most influential people... 100 biographies of eminent people of all time..”
Scan
Use the iOS camera to scan documents
Not simply taking a picture, apps convert the image to black & white (or color) PDF looking exaclty like you scanned it on a traditional scanner
JotNotPro - $2.99 - scan multiple pages to single file, connect to cloud services, etc
Social
Don’t think of it as “social media” think of it as networking & connecting
Twitter - $free - network & connect
Google+ - $free - share & collaborate
Hangouts - $free - Google’s app for video chat/conferencing - create distance learning opportunities
Pinterest - $free - digital scrapbook your resources
Tell a storyAdobe Voice - $free - easy way to mix pictures, music, and voice to tell a story - great for students as publishing platform as well as teachers for creating engaging “movies” without movie-making knowledge - example - related blog post
Tellagami & Tellagami Edu - $free & $4.99 - create & share quick animated videos. A more robust and engaging version of Voki - example
BookCreator - $4.99 - create books on the iPad + share pages and create collaborative books with other classes & schools.
Read a teacher’s take: http://www.redjumper.net/blog/2013/10/going-global-book-creator/
VNC (Virtual Network Control)Remotely control computers
Great for remote tech support & controlling IWBs from anywhere in the room
Splashtop Personal - $4.99
remote access
Splashtop Whiteboard - $9.99
remote access + whiteboard tools - great if you have laptop & projector but no IWB
Mocha VNC Lite - $free
Web…not every “app” is tablet based, some are websites
TagBoardtagboard.com
Create a hashtag for your school
TagBoard aggregates from:
Twitter, Vine, Instagram, Facebook, and Google+
A living bulletin board for your community
Free!
Check out PS10Brooklyn’s:
tagboard.com/ps10bk
Ours: https://tagboard.com/60in60NYCSTS/
Graphitegraphite.org
Created by Common Sense Media
“a platform we created to make it easier for educators to find the best apps, games & websites for the classroom”
Reviews written by teachers
Free!
Follow my reviews: http://www.graphite.org/users/mrcasal
Padlet
padlet.com
live, real-time, collaborative tack board
students can add stickies
save & review later
One for right now…
http://goo.gl/Oig9Gn
Today’s Meettodaysmeet.com
“backchannel” site for discussion
better for upper grades in 1:1 or BYOD environments
students can ask questions, others can answer, follow up beyond lesson, etc
Ours for today:
https://todaysmeet.com/60in60NYCSTS
goo.gl
A Chrome (browser) extension
shortens links
creates QR codes
saves a history of links with analytics
chrome.google.com/webstore
http://goo.gl/ygGS6
edtechteacher
http://edtechteacher.org/apps/
Amazing resource for finding apps
Filter by platform or activity
educlipper
https://educlipper.net
Pinterest for teachers
Create student accounts
Create “assignments”, “classrooms” and “portfolios”
companion iOS app, Android being developed
Created by Adam Bellow, a teacher
WeLearned.it
http://welearned.it/
Not available until Fall 2014
From the developer of EduClipper
Keep an eye on it…
DOE…because some things are just that specific…
Schoolview
http://schoolview.nycboe.net/principal/
Need to be within a school to access
Shows network health, bandwidth usage, MDF temperature, etc
Great resource
TechShare
https://techshare.nycenet.edu/sites/FinanceAdmin/DIIT/operations/TechShare/default.aspx
Intranet site accessible outside of DOE
Great discussion board
Access to DOE software for download
including Mac & Windows OS, Office, etc
Wireless Client Configuration
https://www.nycenet.edu/applications/wcc/Pages/Schools.aspx
find wifi information for other DOE schools
Network Grounds
http://networkgrounds.com/bookmarks - Flash
http://networkgrounds.com/mobile - text/html
NYCDOE bookmarks
visual catalog of all DOE services
Built by Dan Morio of CFN 405
Summary
64 highlighted linked apps, developers, and websites
Over 100 total resources
Some free, some paid
Hopefully this will give you some ideas of the versatility & possibility for integrating technology into your classroom
One last link…
http://goo.gl/DcY4M5
Google Spreadsheet
2 sheets
Apps - 240
Websites - 12
… and growing
ContactPresentation Materials:
http://goo.gl/irH2Mo (case sensitive) !
Christopher M. Casal Technology Teacher/Coordinator
P. S. 10 (15K010) Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @mr_casal Diigo: mrcasal
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