Howdy - I'm Clint and I am the Technology Integration Specialist for SEDC, Southwest Educational Development Center in the beautiful SW corner of Utah. Welcome to my posterous site.
Any training I do, any resource that I need to share, or anything that I stumble across that is just plain cool I'll share here. Check out the Tags below to quickly get to a topic, or do a Search for what you can remember from a training of mine.
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Another great curated site for those of you working with special needs students and would like to find some amazing apps for the iPad for these students.
Thanks to @KathySchrock for pointing this article out, and thanks to GigaOM for the information. Following the steps in this article, you can turn your iPad into an honest-to-goodness phone, capable of both sending and receiving calls to cell phones and land lines. Very cool!
Bob Wasden, our SEDC Autism Specialist, is getting a new iPad today. I bet that this is the first app that he'll install!
This app will help you find apps specifically designed for use with and by people diagnosed with autism, Down syndrome and other special needs. Apps are searchable in over 30 different categories, and can be further filtered by price, rating and supported device.
Thanks to Theresa Wilson for passing this article along to me. There are some fantastic rubrics here to evaluate educational apps for mobile devices based on relevance to the curriculum, ability to customize, level of student feedback, encouragement of thinking skills, level of engagement, and performance sharing.
Also included in the article are other app evaluation tools from around the country. If you are using the iPad, iPod or other app-driven mobile devices in your classroom, this is certainly worth a look.
Attached is a PDF of the training for today - the links are active! Just click on the app or service that I've linked with the underlined words, and you'll be taken to that resource immediately!
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- Category: Education
- Updated: Mar 06, 2012
- Version: 1.9.2
- Size: 5.6 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Will Lakow
- © 2012
Requirements: Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
Looks like a great app - from time management to note taking, tracking grades and collaboration with other students, it looks like this app has just about everything a student would need.
Thanks for your time today. Here's the presentation in PDF form - underlined words are functional links to the App or site being described.
Also, I mentioned the Reflection application for the Mac that will allow you to wirelessly mirror you iPad screen to a desktop Mac, which can then be displayed on a projector for the classroom to see. This is still a very young application, but it could safe a LOT of expense and time installing Apple TV's to every projector in a school to do the same thing.
This software was just released today with the announcement of the new iPad. It looks like a good update to the iPhone Configuration Utility, but I've just only looked at the screenshots. It seems to be able to do more as far as preparing, supervising and assigning devices to groups (even supports Open Directory or Active Directory!).
I'll give it a good thorough look, and report back!
Please view the PDF version of my presentation below, which is complete with links to all of the apps and services highlighted in the session today:
Thank you for joining me today to take a tour of 60 of my favorite iOS apps for education in 60 minutes. We will be moving pretty fast, so please use the resources below as your reference and session notes.
Follow along here where you'll find links and descriptions of all of the apps covered in the session today. If I didn't mention one of your favorites, please let me know about it and also take a look at the favorites that others have contributed.
You can also search for apps by grade, subject, Utah Core area, device and cost at UEN's Apps4Edu site.
Here's the presentation for our session today:
