Educreations is a recordable interactive whiteboard that captures your voice and handwriting to produce amazing video lessons that you can share online. Students and colleagues can replay your lessons in any web browser, or from within the app on their iPads. Check out the "Showcase" on their homepage or the "Featured" tab in the iPad app to view some great lessons that other teachers have created with Educreations. Currently being used in a DLC's Kindergarten classroom to model printing. http://www.educreations.com The Akinator is a website and an app that guesses characters and people by asking questions that are answered with yes/no/maybe/probably or probably not. Used best with historical figures or characters from literature, but the database is large and editable, so most characters or people will already be there, or can be entered if not. The target audience is nearly everyone. As long as students know many details about an individual, they can get good use out of this program. Akinator Pick-a-Path - By National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Help Okta reach the target (maximum, minimum, or a specific value) by choosing a path from the top of the maze to the bottom. Seven levels with seven puzzles will test your skills with powers of ten, negative numbers, fractions, decimals, and more. How many starfish can you earn? Quickly catalog, filter, sort, and manage all of the books you own. View information, cover, and add personal details. Free to try up to 10 books. Currently being used by a K teacher for classroom/personal book inventory. Can scan book ISBN number and the app will search data base for book information, pictures etc., and put it on a virtual bookshelf. Available for $5.99 from http://www.sortitapps.com Book Manager Mathmateer - Math App Geared Towards Boys Featured in The New York Times! ▸ Editor's Choice Award! - Children's Technology Review ▸ Top 10 best app for elementary school kids - Appolicious Mathmateer App
Reflector App
Can be purchased through the website or the App store. Reflector is an AirPlay Receiver that allows you to wirelessly display your iPad or iPhone on your computer. Mirror your device on a big screen without wires or complicated setups. Play games, watch movies, demo apps or present on the big screen from your iPhone or iPad. With Reflector, everything you do on your mobile device is wirelessly streamed to your computer in real time. This app acts as an Apple TV but costs only $12.99. http://www.airsquirrels.com/reflector/ DLC Coach Recommended App! The beginner version teaches concepts of balancing equations and cancelling/isolating the variable using symbols and at the higher levels introduces integers and multiple operations. I like it because it makes algebra concepts fun rather than overwhelming but needs teaching to go along with it to introduce the concepts of algebra and point them out as they occur during the various levels. There is an advanced app for grades 7 and up as well. According to the the Dragon Box is a…
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