My administration was very kind in giving me an IPad (version 1) to play with and discover what was useful and what was not. I needed to train myself on how to set up a new IPad, how to change the settings, see what problems could occur, and what apps would be useful.
In the process of doing this I crashed the IPad twice, had to redo 4 apps (remove and then add them back) and investigated 49 apps. Not bad for playing part time.
And for those of you that are curious, yes I do have Angry Birds (it did help when the IPad crashed.). So here they are, the apps, a summary, and a pricing. At the end, just to satisfy my curiousity, I did a total pricing of all these apps I think we will need on all our IPads. That was when I got scared. Check it out.
In the process of doing this I crashed the IPad twice, had to redo 4 apps (remove and then add them back) and investigated 49 apps. Not bad for playing part time.
And for those of you that are curious, yes I do have Angry Birds (it did help when the IPad crashed.). So here they are, the apps, a summary, and a pricing. At the end, just to satisfy my curiousity, I did a total pricing of all these apps I think we will need on all our IPads. That was when I got scared. Check it out.
| Name of App | Price | Needed | Explanation |
| Keynotes - | $9.99 | $9.99 | like powerpoint |
| Garage band - | $4.99 | $4.99 | music |
| Draw pad | $0.99 | | for drawing. |
| IMovie – | $4.99 | $4.99 | for IPad2 only |
| Strip design – | $2.99 | | for making comics & you can draw in drawing pad – put in web pictures and use that. by Vivid Apps |
| Toontastic | $1.99 | $1.99 | student favorite. Explort moving cartoons to strip design. Easy to use. Reviews story elements with students as you create. For describing investigation. Easy to export to ToonTube for viewing anywhere. |
| Noteshelf - | $4.99 | | Writing utility. Take notes. Can edit, customize as well. Can do it by handwriting. Has zoom. does grouping notebooks (folders), passcode protected, landscape mode, |
| ShowMe | $0.00 | $0.00 | It helps you draw on what ever is up. Can load to IPad and IPad 2 - This virtual white board app allows you to contribute lessons drawn on your tablet device to an online community where anyone can teach or learn topics from basic algebra to atomic theory. Educators use ShowMe to publish lessons for students to review at their own pace so that face-to-face class time can be used for group projects and discussions. This inverted classroom maximizes collaboration and encourages a more self-directed student learning environment. |
| Idea Sketch – | $0.00 | $0.00 | concept map – free 0 can export it to keynote or for your lectures. |
| Mental Case Class | $4.99 | | lashcards to get - can change font, have words and definitions- you can have students read definitions. Studens can import pictures from web or you can draw from drawing Ipad. |
| Solar system Journey | $0.00 | $0.00 | kids love it. – great resource for Earth & space Science . Great videos, a lot of reading, but images are great and you can increase font for easier reading. |
| Speak it – | $1.99 | | text to speech - the most advanced text to speech solution in the App Store! Speak it is now redesigned and fully compatible with the iPad. Introductory pricing for iPad launch, download today! |
| WritePad for IPad - | $9.99 | | lets you take notes in your own handwriting with an iPad stylus pen or even your finger. The state-of-the-art handwriting recognition software will adapt and learn your style of writing. You can use simple gestures to select text, cut, copy, paste, and insert special characters. |
| Microsoft word 2010 – cookbook | $19.99 | | just like word. Easy to follow stops and screenshots can be done. Can do letters to reports, format text, create tables, apply themes and styles, print documents, envelops and labels. Share you work with others and keep track of changes. |
| Microsoft Excel 2010 | $19.99 | | Make professional quality documents that can do documents. |
| Note Taker HD | $4.99 | $4.99 | In addition to the major features added in version 5.0/5.0.5, version 5.1 has a few new features and some bug fixes: New Move to Front and Move to Back buttons, over 20 new shapes including many commonly used for flow chart diagrams, extra support for the iPad 2 camera and the Digital AV HDMI adapter, and a fix to the rotated EXIF image bug that affected the iPad 2. |
| Evernote - | $0.00 | $0.00 | Thinking of ways to lighten your schoolbag? Your tablet device can replace both your textbook and your notebook. Download the Evernote app and take notes on it during class. The app can be integrated on all your mobile devices, allowing you to save and search your content index from your laptop, tablet, smartphone or whichever device you're using at the moment. |
| Evernote Peek | $0.00 | | only works on the IPad 2 Smart Cover. Evernote peek is the first app designed to let you peek under the cover to prepare for a zuie, practise a language or strenghtne your memory. Here is how it works. Chose a notebook to stury. Close the Smart Cover. Peekunder the cover to see a clue, lieft the cover more to see the answer. Repeat. Close the Smart Cover advances the app to the next clue. If you get one wrong, tap the box marked incorrect – you’ll be able to re-test the incorrect ones. This creates your own study notebook. In Evernote, either choose an existing notebook or make a new one to use with Peek. The note title will become the clue and the note body. |
| Calculator Pro for IPad | $0.00 | $0.00 | everyone needs a calculator |
| IBooks | $0.00 | | to read EBooks – from Apple so you know they’ll update it |
| Adobe Photoshop Express | $0.00 | $0.00 | lets you use simple gestures to quickl edit and share photos from your modile device. Engjoy having your photo and video library right at your hand. Works better with IPad2 that captures photos using the camera in the IPad but there is a limit of space (size) of photos you download. There are some great effects and cropping to upload to the Blog. |
| Camera for IPad | $0.99 | | this app connects your IPad (touch) to your IPad. You open it up on both your IPad and your IPod and they find each other. Your IPad is showing what your IPod is seeing. It’s cool. But you need WIFI and Bluetooth on both devices. |
| PrintMagic - | $4.99 | | Print directly from your iPad. Redesigned UI for the iPad, additional functionality, including use of the full iPad screen for higher resolution printing. Print "Copied" material from Pages & Numbers. Works only with WIFI printers like Epson and HP. None in our school. |
| Idea Boards - | $1.99 | $1.99 | A simple easy way to put your ideas somewhere. This is an introductory price of $1.99 for the 1.0 release of Idea Boards.
Idea Boards right now offers 4 unique drawing surfaces. |
| IM+ - | $9.88 | | iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch app. IM+ will keep you connected all-in-one to Twitter, Skype Chat, Facebook, Google Talk, Yahoo, MSN/Live Messenger, AIM/iChat, ICQ, MySpace and Jabber. |
| Brower Duo - | $0.99 | | Designed specifically for the iPad, Browser Duo takes advantage of the iPad's amazing screen size to enable multi-tasking in the browser. Users will are able to serf two web pages at the same time, side-by-side. http://www.geardiary.com/2010/04/04/browser-duo-ipad-app-review/ |
| Toontastics - | $1.99 | | Parents and K-12 teachers enthusiastically endorse the Toontastic story app. With Toontastic, young authors can either choose from characters and story settings or draw their own. Kids develop plots as the app leads them through the introduction, conflict and resolution of their story, which they can then animate and upload to ToonTube so that others can watch and vote on their creations. |
| GoodReader - | $4.99 | | Within moments of downloading GoodReader, you'll be transferring files directly from your computer over a Wi-Fi connection, from the Internet or from email attachments. It also easily integrates with MobileMe iDisk, Google Docs, Dropbox, box.net, and other popular servers. GoodReader is the super-robust PDF reader for iPad - the #1 selling non-Apple app for iPad in USA in 2010! Mashable describes it as “a Swiss Army knife of awesome!” Reviews worldwide hail it as “essential,” “the best,” “magnificent” and “the killer app”. With GoodReader on your iPad, you can read virtually anything, anywhere: books, movies, maps, pictures. Use it once and you’ll be hooked. Soon you'll be wondering how you ever managed to use your iPad without GoodReader.
GoodReader has earned its accolades by the way it handles huge PDF and TXT files, manuals, large books, magazines, and renderings of 100 mb and more with great speed. The ability to mark-up PDFs opens up new doors to GoodReader users who can now use typewriter text boxes, sticky notes, lines, arrows, and freehand drawings on top of a PDF file. |
| TanZen Lite - | $0.00 | $0.00 | tanagrams for math. |
| BlogPress - | $0.00 | $0.00 | for updating blogs from eblog. |
| Wunderlist | $0.00 | $0.00 | makes lists for kids to think about. |
| Hootsuite | $0.00 | $0.00 | for your twitter account] |
| Google earth | $0.00 | $0.00 | for mapping |
| Google Search | $0.00 | $0.00 | for searching |
| Whiteboard | $0.00 | $0.00 | for writing notes and drawing collaborately |
| Whitenote - | $3.99 | | for writing notes to client – supports free hand drawing as well as images and sound and text |
| Fileapp | $0.00 | | up to easy to copy files to your device for quick look on the road and does all the others. |
| Twitter | $0.00 | $0.00 | No explanation needed but if you have hootsuite do you need Twitter. |
| Tangram free | $0.00 | $0.00 | for math to learn about placement |
| Adobe Idea | $5.99 | | digital sketchbook, letting you capture and explore ideas. Simple vector-based drawing tool, that lets you room, erase, move, scale, rotate, control layers. Save as photos for IPad album and IPhone. Can email ideas as PDF files for editing in adobe illustrator and photoshop. |
| Box.net | $0.00 | $0.00 | gives you 5 GB free to easily view and share files on your IPad to your IPhone. Can use for projecting projects. And files. |
| VLC | $0.00 | $0.00 | streams movies from your computer to your IDevice. Need to watch movies. |
| Timer | $0.00 | $0.00 | simple countdown timer that runs multiple timers from a list of presets. It lets you pause and resume timers and set timers with seconds. It alerts you even when it’s running in the backround. Updated in June 30. |
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| | $128.67 | $28.94 | |
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| All machines (34 of them) | | $983.96 | |
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