Top Picks. Presentation. Recommended FREE Apps for Educators

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1 Top Picks Presentation Socrative Recommended FREE Apps for Educators Socrative brings SMART clickers, student response and ease of use to a whole new level. Engage your students for the entire class with educational exercises and games. See all your students ideas in real time and interact with the responses. Provide your class feedback on the lessons and how well they understand the material. Ask you own poll questions for the entire class, or build a premade activity. Be sure to purchase both the TEACHER and STUDENT version. State of the Art Magnifying Glass and Magnifying Mirror designed exclusively for iphone, ipad and ipod Touch. Also great like binoculars and as a mini-telescope. imagnifier Magnifying Glass & Mirror HD Lite Great for explorers, labs, people with low sight, women that use makeup and more. Manual control to select the Zoom level with a slider. Light option for devices with Flash Light. imag Whiteboard Lite: Collaborative Drawing Show Me How is your eyesight? Do you have trouble reading small fonts in menus, the phonebook, a newspaper or other fine print? Do you simply want to zoom in on an object or detail with your grandchild? Here is your portable magnifying glass, always in your pocket and ready to use. Collaborate with friends and family with Whiteboard, the easy-to-use collaborative drawing app for iphone, ipod touch, and ipad. Two users can create pictures together over local Wi-Fi or Bluetooth peer-to-peer. Turn your ipad into your personal interactive whiteboard! ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It s a radically intuitive app that anyone will find extremely easy to use, regardless of age or background.

2 Notes Tech Tools SlideShark Ghostwriter PaperDesk LT SimpleMind+ With SlideShark individuals or teams can view and share PowerPoint presentations on the ipad the way they were meant to be seen. The SlideShark App is easy to use, powerful, professional, and best of all free! Built for business, SlideShark is the one and only app used to accurately and reliably show PowerPoint on the ipad. Ghostwriter Notes for the ipad gives you the power to take notes, collect & store information, and take it with you wherever you go! Leave behind your paper notebook for your next class lecture or meeting. PaperDesk is a simple, easy-to-use notebook replacement made specifically for the ipad. The entire design goal behind PaperDesk was to mimic, as closely as possible, a simple pad of paper with no unnecessary frills. Mind mapping tool that turns your ipad, iphone or ipod touch into a brainstorming, idea collection and thought structuring device. DocScan HD Scan all of your documents, even if they are curled, with your ipad. Dragon Dictation Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon NaturallySpeaking that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or messages. With Dragon Dictation you can dictate status updates directly to your Social Networking applications (Facebook and Twitter) or send notes and reminders to yourself.all using your voice. QuickVoice Recorder QuickVoice is the most popular, full-featured iphone/ipad voice recorder available. Record ideas, voice memos, voice , dictation, lists, meetings, classes, or entire lectures! For professional, educational, and personal use.

3 itranslate By combining voice recognition, machine translation and voice output itranslate is the first app to make the legendary SciFi dream of a Universal Translator reality. Informational Management The Weather Channel Google Earth Near Pod Teacher Pal Looking for the most accurate weather information available? The Weather Channel s staff of 200+ meteorologists, along with our patented ultra-local TruPoint(sm) weather technology, allow us to provide you with the weather tools you need to plan your day, week, or even the next hour. Hold the world in the palm of your hand. With Google Earth for iphone, ipad, and ipod touch, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger. Explore the same global satellite and aerial imagery available in the desktop version of Google Earth, including highresolution imagery for over half of the world's population and a third of the world's land mass. Nearpod enables teachers to use their ipads to manage content on students' devices. It combines presentation, engagement and real-time assessment tools into one integrated solution. TeacherPal is a personal organizer for the teacher. It enables the teacher to organize classes, and students. Its simple and intuitive interface enables teachers to track the attendance, grades and behavior of students. Grade It! The Grade It! app is a must have app for every teacher. Grade It! makes it easy to calculate percentages for any assessment. Grade It! also allows teachers to a copy of the assessment table. Too Noisy! This is a fun app that children enjoy and respond to. It constantly monitors noise levels and lets the children know in a fun and engaging way if noise levels have reached an unacceptable level.

4 Productivity Rover Can t access Flash on your ipad? Rover CAN! Rover is the free education app that streams educational Flash content to your ipad. Resources Dropbox Cloud On OnLive Desktop Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your iphone and ipad and even the Dropbox website! With the Dropbox app, you can take everything that matters to you on the go. The CloudOn Workspace allows you to: -Use Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint on your ipad to create or edit documents. -Rename, delete and manage documents with your Dropbox, Box or Google Drive accounts -View virtually any type of file, including: PDF, PSD, JPG, PNG, GIF, etc. -Send files via directly from the workspace -Display, edit or create charts, change formatting, spell check, insert comments, etc into any Word, Excel or PowerPoint files -Track changes while reviewing Word documents -Use pivot tables and insert formulas in Excel workbooks -Display and edit transitions in PowerPoint slides and present in full PowerPoint mode (not in PDF) -Open files directly from your ipad accounts as well as Dropbox, Box and Google Drive -Automatically save documents to avoid losing changes Instantly view, edit and create documents using actual Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint Easily transfer files between OnLive Desktop and other devices Experience high-performance, instant-response PC applications Interact with lag-free animation and video

5 AppStart AppStar Picks AppStart takes a fresh and fun approach to teach you the basic things that you should know about the ipad, then gets you started with the downloading the best apps available. AppStar Picks is a collection of over 250 top picks apps for kids reviewed and tested by well-established independent review sites. It offers a large selection of curated apps for kids of all ages - from toddlers to teenagers. AppStar Picks is specifically designed to allow parents, grandparents, teachers and carers to easily find the best apps for kids available via a friendly interface and an amazing smart search engine. It is universal and works on ipad, iphone and ipod Touch.