Technology in the classroom and beyond Some apps/websites/ideas

Encourage: Contextualised and reconstructive approaches to complex topics Parody, pastiche, memes, mash-up remix Capture and archive found material Allow for multiple outcomes Analyse outcomes at a whole class level

Write Penultimate – linked to Evernote, see below – allows you use your iPad as a notebook where you can write on. Take notes in class or a meeting, journal your thoughts, or outline your next big idea – in the office, on the go, or at home on the sofa. Penultimate GoodReader allows to read virtually any kind of file on your iPad: word documents, books, films, maps, pictures… It’s also a fantastic way to manage your files that are stored locally on your iPad. If they are stored on the School network, then see SecureLink, below. GoodReader Popplet‘s simple interface allows you to capture your ideas, sort them visually in mind map or diagram, and collaborate with others in realtime. Can be used in the classroom just as well. Popplet

Write WordPress allows you to manage wordpress sites from your tablet. You can moderate comments, create or edit posts and pages, view stats, and add images or videos with ease. Having said this, you can also do this by logging in on the internet as normal. WordPress Notability is a powerful note-taker on iPad: sketch ideas, annotate documents, plan lessons, complete worksheets, keep a journal, record a lesson, jot notes, or teach a class. With iCloud support, your notes always travel with you. Notability Book Creator allows you to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad. They can then be read in iBooks, sent them to your students and colleagues, or even be submitted to the iBooks Store. Ideal for creating bespoke textbooks or, if the students have it as well, for the submission of work Book Creator

Create Skitch allows you to save and annotate screen shots of your iPad. Very useful for explaining things in a visual way. This app is linked to Evernote, see below. Skitch PuppetPals HD allows you or your students to create your own unique shows with animation and audio in real time. Simply pick out your actors and backdrops, drag them on to the stage, and tap record. Your movements and audio will be recorded in real time for playback later. PuppetPals HD Morfo allows you to animate photographs or paintings of people so that they speak. I recently saw one in which Shakespeare talked about his sonnets, voiced by a student. Morfo YAKiT makes any photo talk. YAKiT Tiki Toki allows users to create their own interactive timelines.

Film iMovie is Apple’s powerful film editor on the iPad. iMovie iStopMotion allows you and your students to create stop motion animations. It comes with a companion app that acts as a remote camera. iStopMotioncompanion app vjay is directly integrated with the media libraries on your iPad and it allows you to mix and scratch your favorite music videos from iTunes or combine songs from your music library with personal video footage into an interactive audio visual experience. You can even use the built-in camera on your device to add your very own clips to the mix with added special effects. vjay

Film Videolicious allows you to weave together interviews, videos, photos, music and more into a sophisticated video production—in seconds. Just talk and tap—or watch and tap—to make the perfect video. Already an essential app for journalists at the world’s biggest newspapers, magazines, television and radio stations, as well as educators and students. Videolicious iMotion HD is time-lapse and stop-motion video editor. It also has a companion camera app, iMotion R, that allows another iPad to be the camera. iMotion HDiMotion R

Apps for teaching and learning iDoceo is a powerful and easy to use grade book and teacher planner for the iPad. Its spreadsheet engine will calculate averages in real time as you put information in. iDoceo TeacherKit is another digital grade book enables teachers to organize classes, and students. Its simple and intuitive interface allows teachers to track the attendance, grades and behavior of students. TeacherKit ClassDojo helps teachers improve behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily. It captures and generates data on behavior that teachers can share with students, parents and colleagues. ClassDojo Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere. Explain Everything

Apps for teaching and learning Showbie makes it easy to assign, collect and review student work on your iPad. Showbie Socrative brings smart clickers, student response and ease of use to a whole new level. Engage the entire classroom with educational exercises and games while capturing student results in real-time. It comes with teacher and student versions. Socrativeteacherstudent Edmodo makes a teacher’s daily life easier by providing a safe and easy way for teachers and students to interact anytime, anywhere. It allows teachers to set and grade assignments (records are kept) and students to hand them in electronically. Edmodo Zondle allows students to play games anywhere to support their learning, to help them remember what they’ve learned in class and to prepare for tests and exams. Teachers create and set topics on the Zondle website for students. Teachers can also use the zondle website to manage their zondle classes and view progress (with the zondle Gradebook). ZondleZondle website

Classroom Nearpod enables teachers to use their iPads to manage content on students’ iPads. It combines presentation, collaboration, and real-time assessment tools into one integrated solution. Nearpod ShowMe turns your iPad into an interactive whiteboard. ShowMe also allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials. ShowMe Prezi allows you to create and present panning and zooming presentations on your iPad. Prezi’s nature lends itself very nicely to the iPad’s tapping, pinching and swiping interface. Prezi Haiku Deck is a simple new way to create and share presentations. You can use it to present topics in the classroom or your students can use it to submit work to you. Haiku Deck Explain a Website is an iPad screencasting tool that allows to record your interaction with a website and enables users to add explanations to the content of a website as voice-overs. Explain a Website Stick Around allows you to design sorting and labelling puzzles. It comes with an assortment of puzzles, including ordering decimals and classifying rocks. It’s the player’s job to drag the stickers from the tray to their correct spots on the background before time runs out. Stick Around Mind Meister enables users to collaborate on web-based brainstorms.