Favorite+iPad+Apps

//**Instructor Recommended Applications for the iPad: **// //**There are over 6700 applications just under the heading "Education" please be sure to look under other Apple categories including "Productivity" "Games" "Finance" and "Health and Wellness" **//

//**Reading / Language / Writing Applications: **// ABC Magnets: Just like the original alphabet, move them around to work on spelling skills ABC Phonics: Young students can learn & practice alphabet skills Alpha Writer: Young students can practice their writing skills with this easy to use app ArtikPix: Articulation Flashcards to work on letter blends Boggle: Race the timer to create as many words as you can Dragon Dictation: Easy to dictate comments, stories, messages & email Dr. Suess Story Books / Games: Read along, play with the pages (paid apps) Good Reader: Manage all files, photos, pdf, word, excel and more (paid app) iBooks: Read your favorite books, find free books, see what's on the NY Times list iSign (Lite): Learn basic Sign Language to communicate with the hearing impaired MeeGenius: Storybooks for kids (paid app) Website support My Talk: Use the pictures provided or add your own to create a communication tool for your students (free sample or paid app) Quick Voice Recording: Record stories, comments and messages to share <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Poetry Magnets: Create poems, sentences and stories with word magnets <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Popplet Lite: Create word / phrase maps while adding photos & drawings, save & share <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Proloquo2Go: Over 7000 vocabulary words to help your non-verbal student communicate (paid app) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Simple Mind X: Create colorful Word Webs as you brainstorm ideas <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Speak It!: Enter a text and the voice will read it back to you, includes email & file settings <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Starfall ABC's: If you like the website, you'll like the app <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Super Why!: For primary level readers to work on their word, letter and sentence skills <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Tales2Go: Contains a large library of audio books for children and youth including Clifford, Boxcar Children, Goosebumps, Henry & Mudge, Judy Moody & Diary of a Wimpy Kid <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Tap To Talk: Simple word cards that will allow non-verbal students to communicate <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">TalkBoard: A smaller version of the popular ProloQuo2Go but has many of the same features (paid app) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">ToonTastic: Create stories using the basic elements of a story (paid app) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Word Bingo: Play this fun BINGO game using the Dolce Word List / Sight Words (paid app)

//**<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Math Applications: **// <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Add 10: Quick addition of double digit numbers <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Addition Under the Sea: Practice addition skills while creating a unique puzzle <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Alien Kids Math: Practice addition and subtraction skills while being timed <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Math Bingo: A fun BINGO game to practice your math facts (paid app) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Financial Football: Test your financial knowledge with this fun football game <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Graphing Calc: An excellent app to assist with more advanced graphing students (paid app) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Hot Potato Algebra: Practice your Algebra skills while playing a game <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Lobster Diver: Earn lobsters for knowing your number line, fractions and mixed numbers <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Math Tricks: Learn a few extra tricks to solving difficult math problems <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Mental Math Tricks: Simple math tricks for dividing and multiplying numbers along with a few extra tricks <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">My Student Budget: Plan out and practice financial skills maintaining a budget <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Pearl Diver: Learn how to read a number line and read fractions in this fun game <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Rocket Math: Fun math games for elementary level students (free or paid) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Tangram: Create pictures using tangram pieces

//**<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Science Applications: **// <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Brain POP: View daily videos, take a quiz and save your scores <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Compass: Use your iPad compass to locate places <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Cosmic: Advanced detailed information on the solar system and stars (paid app) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Electrons: Create positively or negatively charged particles in this simulator. Includes guided experiments (paid app) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Exoplanet: Access information on the planets and solar system <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Frog Dissection: Get the "inside" view of a frog <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Google Earth: View the world <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">GoSkyWatch: Explore the stars, constellations, locations and facts <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Molecules: See molecules in 3D and manipulate them with simple taps and pinch gestures <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Moon Globe: Your own map to the moon <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">NASA: Access all things NASA with this application <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Oceans and Seas: View the world's seas and creatures, gain information to use in research reports <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Osmos: Tap the screen to make your "lifeform" move <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Planets: Access information on the planets in our solar system <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Subatomic: Push particles into the vortex and see them disappear <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Video Science: Access to videos on a variety of science topics & experiments <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Weatherbug: Keep up with the weather anywhere

//**<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Social Studies Applications: **// <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">ABC Player & ABC News: Catch the latest episodes of your favorite ABC TV shows <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">National Graphic Magazine: View this popular magazine on your iPad for information from around the world <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Old Maps Europe: Review how Europe has changed over the decades and after various wars (paid app) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">PBS TV : Videos, Fulll-length episodes, segments of popular PBS TV shows <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">States & Capitals Free: Review information about the 50 states <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">This is America: Audio textbook with information on the U.S.A. (multiple volumes) (paid apps) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Time: View this popular magazine without a subscription <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">USA Today: Catch all of the world news on easy to read pages <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">US Capitals Lite: Study up on the capitals and 50 states <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">World History Flashcards: Review and study world history facts (paid app) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">World History Oxford Dictionary: An excellent resource to information about world history (paid app)

//**<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Resource Applications: **// <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Atomic Web: An easy to use web page (paid app) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Blackboard Mobile: Access your Blackboard account to maintain your LMS <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Child Timer: Assists with behavior modification <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Dictionary: Have a full dictionary and Thesaurus available anytime <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Documents To Go: Create, edit, save & share word, excel, & pdf files (pad app) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Dragon Search: Easy to use Search Engine <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Dropbox: Sync documents with your computer and pull them up anywhere <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">eClicker & eClicker Host: Turn your iPods / iPad into your own student response system (paid app) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">eCove: Find the app that works for your needs. Monitor student behavior, skills, progress to share with Parents. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Evernote: Create notes from meetings and access them from your desktop later <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">iTeleport: Access your computer from the iPad (paid app) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Keynote: Create / Use "Power Point" type slides for presenting (paid app) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Terminology Ph: An easy to use dictionary for a small fee <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Team Viewer: Access your computer & your SMARTBoard from the iPad <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> This document will assist you in how to correctly download & install TeamViewer

//**<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Creative Applications: **// <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Art Puzzles: Put together puzzles at the level of difficulty of your choosing <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">PhotoPad: Modify pictures & save to your iPad <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Glow Drawing: Draw, write, create and save <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Treble Clef Kids: Interactive music theory for beginners <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Virtuoso Piano: Create and practice music skills

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Bizmarck Lite: Play the game of Risk and sink the battleship <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Buggies HD: Help the ladybug get through the challenging mazes <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Bumper Boats: Can you get the bumper boats out of the coral before the timer runs out? <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Chess: Choose your board and pieces and play the game of chess with another player <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Checkers: Modify the color of the board and the pieces to play a game of checkers with your friend <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Geared: With over 60 levels will you be able to put the gears in the correct place to make them move <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Slider: Move the blocks around, putting them back into numerical order
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//**<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Special Education Applications from The Conover Company: (paid apps) **// <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Everyday Social Skills HD <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Grocery Signs & Words HD <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Hygiene HD <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Information Labels HD <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Information Signs & Words HD <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Initiating Social Skills HD <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Life Skills Sampler HD <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Manners HD <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Money Words HD <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Nouns 1, 2, & 3 HD <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Responding Social Skills HD <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Restaurant Signs & Words HD <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Safety Signs & Words HD <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">School Signs & Words HD <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Shopping Signs & Words HD <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Tools at Work HD <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Verbs 1, 2 & 3 HD <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Words that Direct HD <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Work Skills Sampler HD

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">To work on skills related to learning German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Russian or many others I recommend the AccelaStudy applications as well as the Classic or Deluxe Languages from Paragon Technologie. These are all paid apps.
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Awesome Ball: Choose your ball and your background and bounce the ball off the walls <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Fluid: Play in the water for a calming moment <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Magic Piano: Change the form of the piano and make music <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">iZen Lite: Create your own Zen garden, place rocks, rake the sand <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Smudge: Finger painting at its best without the mess <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Talking Tom (Santa, Roby, Gremlin, John, etc): Just for fun or to get your non-verbal / shy student talking <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">WhiteNoise: Use the sounds provided or create your own mix for soothing sounds
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//**<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Social Networking Applications: **// <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Echofon: If you Twitter, this is an easy to use app to follow & be followed <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Social: A great way to access your Facebook <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Tweetdeck: A popular Twitter management tool <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Twitterrific for Twitter: Easy to use Twitter application <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">WordPress: Modify your WP Blog page from your iPad

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