Below is a list of apps that were shared during the Appstravaganza workshop in June 2012.
- Amazon – App to scan or snap a picture of a book to add to your wish list.
- Art Jigsaw – Free – get additional paintings through In App Purchasing
- Book Creator – $4.99 – Create your own book that will export to iBooks.
- Brainpop – Free
- Common Core Standards – Free
- Conundra Math – Free – Math operations 5th grade through……
- Craigslist – Free
- Dropbox – Free
- Edgar Allen Poe Collection – Free
- Edmodo – Free
- Educreations – Free – Turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard.
- English Cursive Letter Practice – Free
- Evernote – Free: staff appropriate for productivity, notes, organization. Syncs with your computer, iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.
- Explain Everything – $2.99 Easy-to-use design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. You can create dynamic interactive lessons, activities, assessments, and tutorials.
- Frog Dissection – $3.99 Virtual frog dissection.
- Futaba – Free Word game for kids, elementary
- Gale Databases AccessMyLibrary School Edition Free
- Grammar Up – Free lite version or $4.99 full version Middle School
- Hubble Top 100 – Free
- iBooks – Free
- Inspiration Maps – There is a lite version and a $6.99 full version – mind map: any age
- iStopMotion – $9.99 Stop motion animation.
- Khan Academy – Free math videos – branching into other areas such as science and humanities. Over 2700 videos.
- Kindle – if you have a Kindle or other device you can pull your Kindle purchases into the iPad app
- Literary Analysis
- Murky Reef – Lite version: basic reading and math for elementary – there are 5 Murky Reef reading and math apps of varying prices
- My Radar – Free weather application that displays animated weather radar around your current location, allowing you to quickly see what weather is coming your way.
- NASA – Free
- Nook – Free – if you have a Nook or other device you can pull your Nook purchases into the iPad app
- Notability – ¢0.99 Powerfully integrates handwriting, PDF annotation, typing, recording, and organizing so you can take notes your way!
- Patrick Carman 3:15 – Free – look on his website to find information, middle school appropriate
- PBS – Free
- Photogene – $2.99 Photo editing app
- Piano – there are several apps that pertain to the piano….Piano Tutor, Virtuoso Piano, Pianist Pro
- Pic Collage – Free Create awesome collages!
- Planets – Free 3D guide to the solar system for aspiring astronomers
- Plant Pictures – Free contains over 23,000 plants in it’s database
- Pocket Algebra – Free
- Quick Office Pro – $19.99
- Qwiki – Free (reads information to you) Explore 3,000,000 topics in a format perfect for the iPad: learn about what’s near you, across the world – and everything in between.
- S & T sky week – $1.99 a day-by-day calendar of events to observe in the changing night sky.
- SciFri – Free Science, technology, health and nature explored and explained in both an enjoyable and informative way.
- ScreenChomp – Free record on screen activities and voice – Just – Record It. Sketch It. Share It. – to create a sharable, replay-able video that tells your story clearly.
- Scribble Press – Free
- Sentence Builder – $5.99 Designed to help elementary students learn how to building grammatically correct sentences.
- Show Me – Free Turn your iPad into an interactive whiteboard.
- Side by Side – $1.99 have web site and doc open at the same time next to each other
- Skitch – Free, owned by Evernote, use shapes, arrows, sketches and text annotation to get your point across fast.
- Sky View – $1.99 view real time constellations, point the camera to the sky, tap on what you see and get information about these sky objects.
- Smithsonian Channel – Free
- Snag Films – Free documentaries
- Songza – Free curates music to fit your mood.
- Sparkle Fish – Elementary, audio story completion game
- Splashtop Whiteboard – $19.99 turn your iPad into a mobile interactive whiteboard
- Stack the States – ¢0.99 there is a free lite version, Elementary
- Storia – from Scholastic: eReading app designed to help kids learn and love to read in a fun and interactive way. Scholastic Storia comes with 5 FREE eBooks.
- Story Builder
- Sushi Monster – Free from Scholastic – Math
- Thermo – Free temperature of the day and day before
- USGS Seismic – Free
- WebMD – Free
- Wild edibles Lite – Free Provides an intuitive and easy to use interface for identifying and using wild edible plants
- Xfinity TV – Free Comcast
- Zite – Free personalized magazine that automatically learns what you like and gets smarter every time you use it.
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