ibooks Students in Year 7 will need to download the following digital textbooks. Access ibooks by clicking on the ibooks icon (see left) on an ipad. Icon Textbook Cost File size (MB) English English Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah - ibook $10.99 7.1 Aspire English Mao s Last Dancer: Young Readers Edition by Li Cunxin - ibook The Invisible Hero by Elizabeth Fensham - ibook $10.99 15 $13.99 1.2 Page 1 of 6
Apps Students in Year 7 will need to download the following Apps from the App Store. Access the App Store by clicking on the App Store icon (see left) on your ipad. General Apps for all students Icon App Curriculum link Cost File size (MB) Teaching and Learning Book Creator for ipad Interactive book design program ebooks and PDF books $7.99 67.9 Books Reference Free 1 Inspiration Maps VPP itunesu Visual learning tool to organise/represent information visually Learning Management System Resources $14.99 176.7 Free 35.7 Learning Tools 2017 Nearpod Notability Feedback tool to assess student learning Presentation and checking for understanding Organisation note taking, annotate documents, sketch ideas and flowcharts Free 5 Free 110.9 $14.99 291.4 Padlet Collaboration tool for learning Free 63.8 Seesaw: The Learning Journal Showbie Socrative Student Learning Journal studentdriven portfolio where students independently document and share what they are learning at school Feedback students submit work and teachers provide rich feedback by adding annotations, text notes and voice notes directly onto documents Checking for understanding and formative assessment Free 149.5 Free 128.9 Free 1 Page 2 of 6
Productivity imovie Media production Free 690.5 Keynote Presentation Free 691 Microsoft Excel Program for collection and analysis of data sets Free 218.7 Numbers Spreadsheets Free 476.7 Pages Word processing Free 515.4 PowerPoint Presentation Free 248.5 Word Word processing Free 261.5 Functionality ABC iview Access to ABC video content Free 80.1 Campion myconnect ClickView eplatform by Wheelers GoodReader Allows access to all textbooks purchased through Campion Access to videos through school library Access to ebooks and audiobooks through the school library Allows transfer of documents on school network drives to device Free 83.5 Free 15.2 Free 13.6 $7.99 45.7 SZapp Schoolzine app that allows access to school newsletters and calendars. Free 11 Page 3 of 6
Academia, Resilience and Careers (ARC) Health and wellbeing program Smiling Mind designed by psychologists with expertise in youth and Free 51 adolescent therapy Total 4.5GB Students only need to download the following apps if studying the specific subject. Icon App Curriculum link Cost File size (MB) English Green Screen by Do Ink Education Perfect Create green screen videos and images (not essential but highly recommended) Language reading, writing, listening and dictation program (students will be given a logon via their teacher) Humanities (Geography) $4.49 30.9 Free 26.7 Google Earth Navigation and tour creation Free 198.5 Google Maps GPS navigation Free 190.5 Mathematics Mathletics Student Online activities for revision and study Free 61.4 GeoGebra Classic Program used for graphing data Free 51.4 Desmos Graphing Calculator Plot functions, create graphs and tables in maths Free 7.3 The Arts (Visual and Performing) GarageBand Productivity Music/Instrumental/Media/FTV Free 1.7 GB Page 4 of 6
Visual Art, Media Arts (in addition to GarageBand) Adobe Photoshop Mix Adobe Photoshop Sketch Celtx Shots Celtx Script Cut out, combine and create images and designs. Create artworks and designs using sketch and paint options. Create multi-sequence storyboards and block camera and lighting setups Create formatted scripts on your ipad (not essential but highly recommended) Free 220.6 Free 138.2 Free 47.4 Free 12 imotion Stop motion animation Free 89.1 Engineering Evernote Scannable Scan and capture high-quality scans Free 61 The EV3 Programming app interacts with LEGO MINDSTORMS allowing students to program EV3 robots Free 606.4 Robot Commander connects via Bluetooth to the EV3 Intelligent Brick; this allows you Free 135.8 to interact with EV3 robots Digital Solutions Coding basics, additional challenges and program Free 273.6 creation All Languages students Foreign language reading, writing, listening and dictation program (students will be given Free 26.7 a logon via their Languages teacher) All Languages (except Japanese and Chinese) MINDSTORMS EV3 LEGO Education LEGO MINDSTORMS Commander Swift Playgrounds Education Perfect Duolingo Language learning app with feedback Free 176.4 Chinese (in addition to Education Perfect) ChineseSkill Learn Chinese Game-based learning course to assist students in learning Mandarin Free 166.7 Page 5 of 6
Standard Mandarin Learning Mandarin Chinese pronunciation Free 42.4 Japanese (in addition to Education Perfect) Kana LS Touch Learning to write Hiragana and Katakana $5.99 22.4 Kana Bimoji Writing Beautiful Japanese Learning and improving handwriting in Japanese Free 27.3 Japanese Japanese dictionary that allows students to build their own lists Free 342.3 Cogmed Team App Learning and Enrichment (LSU) Improves memory and concentration Extra-Curricular Team App allows team managers to create and manage notifications to their players (this app is used by a select number of teams; talk to your team manager before downloading) Free 87 Free 33.4 Page 6 of 6