iPAD NEWS
iPAD APPLICATIONS CURATED BY THE OAS TEAM All Applications can be downloaded from the apple store by typing in the application name http://www.apple.com/osx/apps/app-‐store.html
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TABLE OF CONTENT Audio Applications………………………………………………..…………………………………3 Creating Digital Portfolios…………………………………..……………………………………7 Colloborative Whiteboards………………………..…………….………………..……………8 Dictionary Applications……………….……………..……………………………………………9 Free Professional Development………………………..…………………………………….11 Essentials for Designers……………………………………………….………………………….14 Google Applications…………………………………………..………………..………………….16 Mind Mapping & Brainstorming…………………………...…………………………………18 Notetaking Applications…………………………………………..……………………………..21 PDF Applications……………………………………………………..………………………………24 Printing Applications………………………………………………………..……………………..26 Productivity Tools……………………………………………………..….…………………………28 Screen Sharing……………………………………………………………..….………………………32 Slide Presentation Applications…………………………………….…..…………………….34 Textbook & Audiobook Applications……………………………...…………………….…36 Video Applications………………………………………………….…….…..…………………….39 Wiki Applications…………………………………………………………....………………………41 Web Curation………………………………………………………………………………………….42 Writing Applications…………………….……………………………………….…………………45 Multiple Intelligences Infocgraphic…………………………………….……………………48 Multiple Intelligences Definitions……………………………………….…………………..44 References………………………………………………………………………….…………………..45 Page 2
AUDIO APPLICATIONS AudioBoo -‐ Audioboo is an application for recording and sharing your voice with the world. This free version allows you to create audio up to 3 minutes in length and post that to your own account on the web.
iTalk Recorder -‐ iTalk Recorder is a full-‐featured recording app with a streamlined and intuitive user interface. Press the big red button to record; press it again to stop.
Mobile Podcaster -‐ Whether you podcast on a regular basis or simply want to add audio to your blog, Mobile Podcaster makes it easy to podcast, saves you significant time and makes podcasting much more enjoyable.
iPadio -‐ Broadcast, record, play back and share high quality audio up to 60 minutes in length. Pause and resume recordings, add up to 4 high resolution photos and automatically geolocate your call.
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Voice Recorder HD -‐ Quick high quality audio recording, reliable, stunning interface plus easy to operate, "Voice Recorder HD" is a must have application for your iPad and iPhone.
Audio Note -‐ Record notes and audio synced with the best note taking app in the App Store! AudioNote combines the functionality of a notepad and voice recorder to create a powerful tool that will save you time while improving the quality of your notes. Perfect for business or students.
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 email messages.
Audio Lio -‐ Audiolio is perfect for bookmarking and adding notes to all kinds of audio: school lectures, interviews, podcasts, audio books, and more.
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Audio Memos -‐ Audio Memos is a voice recorder for the iPhone and iPad. What you'll really like about Audio Memos, is that you can actually HEAR your recordings (try it and compare, you'll hear what we mean). It's also easy to use, with a simple and intuitive interface.
Smart Recorder -‐ Smart Recorder is the best audio recorder for the iPhone and iPad. Use it to record meetings, interview, lectures, classes, to do lists, shopping lists or even your kids voices.
Recordium -‐ Recordium is a powerful yet elegant recording app designed for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Recordium lets you highlight the track while playing or recording audio, helping you focus on the most important parts of your recordings.
Super Note -‐ Super Note helps you create notes very rapidly and make voice recordings during. The notes are color coded so you can find them instantly, and you can swipe through them to go from one to the other. You can also set alert reminders on your notes or change the note color / category on the fly.
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iTalk Recorder -‐ iTalk Recorder is a full-‐featured recording app with a streamlined and intuitive user interface. You can record and email your recordings directly from iTalk.
Voice Thread -‐ this app allows you to talk, type, and draw right on the screen and around documents, diagrams and videos.
AudioBoo -‐ this app allows users to record and share their voice online. They can also add pictures, titles, tags before uploading it and sharing it via Facebook, Twitter and many other social networks.
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CREATING DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS Evernote -‐ Evernote is quite popular and probably many of you are already familiar with it. This app lets you take notes, create to do lists, record voice reminders, capture photos and many more.What is even cooler is that it syncs all of your information across all the devices you use.
Paper -‐ This is a great free app for iPad users. It basically allow them to organize their ideas in sketches, diagrams, illustrations, notes or drawings and share them online. Think of it as a notebook or a journal.
Three Ring -‐ This is a great free app for iPad users. It basically allow them to organize their ideas in sketches, diagrams, illustrations, notes or drawings and share them online. Think of it as a notebook or a journal.
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COLLABORATIVE WHITEBOARD Educreations -‐ This free iOS app turns your iPad into a recordable iPad. This is ideal for creating video tutorials and animated lessons. It also offers its users the ability to : record voice, use diagrams, add text to photos, and share through email, Facebook or Twitter.
ShowMe -‐ This app lets you turn your iPad into a personal interactive whiteboard. It offers several features such as : record voice, make video tutorials and share them, import images and write over them, easily switch between drawing and erasing, and many more.
Jot -‐ This is another great whiteboard app for the iPad. It allows users to: sketch out their ideas and share them in real time, draw, take notes, and share ideas via email or save them as photos.
SyncSpace -‐ This app provides a sort of shared whiteboard. Just turn on the synchronization and send a link to the document to others and they will be abel to see it and add to it using SyncSpace. The resulting finished work can be shared on Twitter, Facebook or be emailed as PDF.
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DICTIONARY APPLICATIONS Dictionary -‐ Dictionary is an intuitive, consistent, talking, hyperlinked and integrated English illustrated dictionary and thesaurus, spell checker, vocabulary builder and wikipedia browse.
Concise English Dictionary and Theasurus -‐ Concise English Dictionary is a premium quality reference for the English language. It is fast, reliable, up-‐to-‐date and really easy to use. You will love it!
Dictionary for iPad -‐ Dictionary is an intuitive, consistent, hyperlinked and integrated English illustrated dictionary and thesaurus, spell checker, vocabulary builder and Wikipedia browser.
Blends -‐ this is a quick, easy to use word app that is well worth the purchase if you are a frequent dictionary and thesaurus user.
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Wordbook English Dictionary -‐ WordBook is a comprehensive, quick and intuitive dictionary and thesaurus of the English language. It's a great combination of comprehensive contents and fast intuitive interface.
Advanced English Dictionary and Thesaurus -‐ The WordNet Dictionary and Thesaurus is a large lexical database of English with up to 140,000 entries and more than 1.4 million words, developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University.
Dictionary -‐ Dictionary! is an easy to use, no fluff dictionary app for your iPad. Helps you find words when you need to without getting in your way.
Wordweb -‐ The British English dictionary and thesaurus: fast searching, spelling suggestions, definitions, usage examples, synonyms and related words -‐ and no adverts. An offline audio version is available separately.
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FREE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Twitter This is Twitter official app that lets you follow your interests, instant updates from your friends, and many more.
Skype -‐ This is a free app that lets you call, video call and instant message anyone else on Skype for free or call other numbers with low rates.
Google Voice -‐ This app allows you to send free text messages to US phones and make international calls at very low rates. It actually accesses your Google Voice account right from your iPad.
Hey Tell -‐ This is an awesome iOS app that lets users instantly talk with friends and family. It does not require any account.
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Flipboard -‐ This app allows you to create a personalized magazine out of eveything being shared with you.
Zite -‐ This is a free personalized magazine for your iPad that automatically learns what you like and gets smarter every time you use it.
Diigo -‐ This is an awesome social bookmarking app that lets you bookmark, annotate, add notes, images and make screenshots from any web page.
Genius Scan -‐ Genius Scanenables you to quickly scan documents on the go and email the scans as JPEG or PDF.
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Discover Apps -‐ This is an interactive map of the App Store that makes it easy for you to discover new apps from your iPad.
AppMiner -‐ AppMiner lets you browse more of the top apps, gives you a better search, finds price drops, lets you customize your categories and much more.
Dropbox -‐ This is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. Any file you save to your Dropbox is accessible from all your computers, iPhone, iPad and Dropbox website.
Readdledocs -‐ It can catch documents from any source you can imagine: PC or Mac computers, web sites, email attachments, iDisk, Dropbox and other online file storages and even iPhones. All files are saved to your iPhone or iPod Touch locally so you can enjoy reading them anywhere!.
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ESSENTIALS FOR DESIGNERS SketchBook Pro -‐ A professional-‐grade paint and drawing application, which Wired magazine called a “drop-‐dead gorgeous app for digital artists [which] packs a rich feature set into a surprisingly intuitive interface”.
iFontMaker -‐ With this app, created exclusively for the iPad, you can create your own fonts in minutes.
Paletts Pro -‐ This app lets you create and maintain color palettes. You can grab colors from a photograph, a website, or add colors using any one of five color models.
iDraw -‐ An app simply packed with features and illustrations: layers, text, images, multi-‐color Gradients, RGB color picker, brushes, bezier Pen Tool, customizable canvas styles and much, much more.
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Adobe Photoshop Touch -‐ Optimized for the iPad, this sleek app retains much of the features and capabilities of its popular desktop counterpart.
Adobe Ideas -‐ A great app for rapidly and intuitively sketch ideas and designs.
iMockups -‐ Easy to use and intuitive, iMockups is a a highly acclaimed app that actually turns wireframing to fun.
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GOOGLE APPLICATIONS Google Search -‐ Search the web faster and easier with the latest Search app from Google. Get exclusive search features only available in this app.
Google+-‐ Stay connected and share life as it happens with Google+ for iPhone and iPad. Join a Hangout, post a photo, or see what friends are sharing while you’re on the go.
Google Drive -‐ Google Drive is one of the online storage service based on cloud servers, allowing users to upload content anywhere through web or dedicated apps meant for PC and mobiles.
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Google Play Books – With Google Play Books for iOS start reading today with millions of titles from Google Play on your iPad.
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MIND MAPPING & BRAINSTORMING MindMeiser -‐ MindMeister lets you create, edit and share your mind maps on the go and synchronize them with the award-‐winning free online MindMeister service.
Mindo -‐ Mindo is a mind mapping tools for iPad. Mind mapping enable you to organize your thoughts, ideas and information whenever you want.
Mind Node -‐ MindNode is a powerful and intuitive mindmapping application. Its focus and flexibility make it the perfect tool for brainstorming and organizing your life.
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Popplet -‐ Popplet is a platform for your ideas. Popplet's super simple interface allows you to move at the speed of your thoughts. With Popplet you can capture your ideas, sort them visually, and collaborate with others in realtime. Quickly and easily.
Idea Sketch -‐ Idea Sketch lets you easily draw a diagram -‐ mind map, concept map, or flow chart -‐ and convert it to a text outline, and vice versa. You can use Idea Sketch for anything, such as brainstorming new ideas, illustrating concepts, making lists and outlines, planning presentations, creating organizational charts, and more.
iBrainstorm -‐ Capturing and sharing your inner most creative genius has never been easier. Introducing the first multi-‐device collaboration tool from Universal Min.
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Simple Mind -‐ Mind mapping tool that turns your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch into a brainstorming, idea collection and thought structuring device.
iThoughts HD -‐ iThoughtsHD is a mind mapping tool for the iPad. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch then please check out iThoughts.
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NOTETAKING APPLICATIONS Paper Desk Lite -‐ PaperDesk is the best way to take notes without dragging around loads of paper, notebooks, pencils, and pens to your next class or meeting. PaperDesk is a fun, easy-‐to-‐use notebook replacement made specifically for the iPad.
Idea Sketch -‐Idea Sketch lets you easily draw a diagram -‐ mind map, concept map, or flow chart -‐ and convert it to a text outline, and vice versa. You can use Idea Sketch for anything, such as brainstorming new ideas, illustrating concepts, making lists and outlines, planning presentations, creating organizational charts, and more.
Mobil Noter -‐MobileNoter is a powerful and multifunctional note taking application which is able to sync with Microsoft OneNote.
ABC Notes-‐ was designed to become your stylish and highly customizable, functional and easy to use assistant in taking notes and managing To Do lists.
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Ghost Writer Notes -‐ Ghostwriter Notes for the iPad gives you the power to take notes, collect & store information, and take it with you wherever you go.
Penultimate -‐ Penultimate gives you the fast, tactile gratification of writing on paper, with digital power and flexibility. Take notes, keep sketches, or share your next breakthrough idea.
Note Taker HD -‐ Note Taker HD is a powerful app for writing and organizing handwritten notes, diagrams, etc., on the iPad. It can also be used to annotate PDF files.
Note Shelf -‐Noteshelf is the handwriting note taker that features super natural digital ink, a stunning UI and a comprehensive toolset that will increase the benefits of owning an iPad by leaps and bounds.
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Notes Plus -‐ Notes Plus is a powerful note-‐taking tool that supports handwriting, typing, audio recording and PDF annotation. It offers close-‐up writing mode, stroke smoothing, vector shape auto-‐detection, palm handling, complete folder structure, images, PDF exporting and emailing, automatic backup to Dropbox and more.
Notability -‐ Apple names Notability one of the Top 25 All-‐Time Paid Apps. Notability powerfully integrates handwriting, PDF annotation, typing, recording, and organizing so you can take notes your way! Discover the freedom to capture ideas, share insights, and present information in one perfect place.
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PDF APLICATIONS PDF Forms -‐ PDF Forms is a powerful software tool for work with PDF documents and forms which allows commenting on ready PDF documents, filling forms, signing legal documents such as contracts or notices and sharing.
PDF Reader Pro -‐ PDF Reader Pro has being included in the iTunes App Store's @Work: Apps for Business campaign! This full-‐featured app is no doubt a comprehensive business helper that enables you to fill forms, sign documents, highlight text, add comments to PDFs, and access various files wherever you are.
ezPDF Reader -‐ ezPDF Reader is the only PDF viewer with the embedded multimedia file playing capability feature in AppStore. It also supports the Annotations and PDF Form Filling.
iAnnotate PDF -‐ Annotate's intuitive interface and comprehensive, customizable set of features let you annotate, manage, and share documents from your iPad.
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Good Reader -‐ GoodReader® is the super-‐robust highly-‐rated PDF reader with advanced reading and annotating capabilities.
Cloud Readers -‐ CloudReaders (TM) is a free book/comic viewer, fully optimized for iPad (and now supports iPhone/iPod touch too!). It supports PDF, CBZ, ZIP, CBR and RAR format, and p2p file faster between iPads/iPhones via Bluetooth.
Stanza -‐ Read books on your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad! Lexcycle Stanza brings the digital book revolution to your pocket with a reading interface that is unrivaled in its clarity and ease of use.
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PRINTING APPLICATIONS Epson iPrint -‐ this is a free iOS printing app that allows users to print photos, webpages, and files including Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and PDF documents.
Print Magic -‐this app enables you to print to your WiFi printers from the iPhone or iTouch. This will work on most WiFi printers.
ACACT Printer-‐ACT Printer allows you to print any document from your Mac/PC to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
Doc Printer-‐ this is a great app for browsing, transfering and printing files, documents, photos and web pages on your ipad.
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Air Sharing -‐ this iOS app allows users to view, share or print everything from PDFs to Excel documents.
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PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS Quick Office -‐ Create, Edit, Access & Share Microsoft® Office files with the most connected office suite for on iPhone & iPod Touch. Includes fixes for iOS 5. NEW -‐ PPT® Editor, Huddle & SugarSync access.
Live Notes -‐ Live Notes is an essential tool for anyone that takes notes.
App Writer Us -‐ AppWriter is the first text editor for the iPad to offer users of all ages with reading and writing disabilities the necessary tools for unlocking a world of information.
Wolfram appha -‐ Across thousands of domains-‐-‐with more continually added-‐-‐Wolfram|Alpha uses its vast collection of algorithms and data to compute answers and generate reports for you.
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iBooks -‐ iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest bestselling books or your favorite classics – day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passage.
Instapaper -‐ Save web pages for later offline reading, optimized for readability on your iPhone or iPod touch's screen. Featured by Apple and critically acclaimed by top blogs, newspapers, and magazines.
Publisher Weekly -‐ Publishers Weekly has a fantastic iPad app that takes advantage Apple’s automatic delivery of issues that come right into Newsstand, ready to be read.
AP Stylebook 2012 -‐ AP Stylebook is essential for writers everywhere. As a standard for most publications, the AP Stylebook is the main reference that should live on your iPad.
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Fantastical -‐ Fantastical is the fastest and friendliest calendar application.
Flashcards Deluxe -‐ Flashcards Deluxe was created by a student and has been optimized with every scholar's needs in mind. You can have five-‐sided cards, images, and many other important study features.
Numbers -‐ This is a fully featured spreadsheet app that allows you to make a spreadsheet for any occasion, and you can even add tables, charts, photos, and other graphics to make yours stand out from the rest.
PlainText – Dropbox text editing – Plain text editor that does what it says on the can. Can edit directly from dropbox.
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SketchBookPro – the ultimate drawing application for professional artists, with a wide variety of brushes. Results can be stunning, but make sure you have an iPAD 3rd gen or better.
Adobe ideas – Vector drawing and illustration – Gorgeous vector-‐based auto-‐smoothing drawing tool from the makers of Photoshop.
Documents to Go -‐ EDIT Documents to Go lets you :. CREATE & VIEW Word, Excel & PowerPoint files (Office 2007/2008/2010)• VIEW/EDIT/SYNC your cloud files! Support includes Google Docs, Dropbox, Box.net, iDisk & SugarSync• VIEW PDF, iWork, Text, .RTF files, and more!
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SCREEN SHARING JOIN ME -‐ With the join.me viewer, you can join an online meeting no matter where you go. View someone’s screen, share ideas and collaborate in real time, for free.
Air Sketch -‐ Air Sketch is great for presentations in the boardroom, classroom, or on the go. Just fire up Air Sketch on the iPad and open the specified URL from any HTML-‐5 compatible browser on the local network. Your photos and drawings show up natively in the browser.
Conference Pad -‐ Control a presentation on up to fifteen iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touches from your device, simultaneously and wirelessly over Bluetooth or Wi-‐Fi. Display it seamlessly on one or more external screens or projectors attached to iPads.
Team Viewer -‐ TeamViewer allows users to : -‐On the fly support your family and friends -‐ Have access to your own computer with all of its documents and installed applications-‐ Copy files from your home pc to your iPad and vice versa.
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Screen Chomp -‐ A simple doodling board, markers, and one-‐click sharing tools make spreading your ideas and know-‐how easy and fun.
Webex -‐ Meet wherever you want – your office, iPhone, smartphone, even your iPad.
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SLIDE PRESENTATION APPLICATIONS Xavier Presentation -‐ this is an app used for advanced interactive presentations shown on multiple iPad devices.
Sliderocket – this app offers users several features such as : show presentations , share presentations any time they want, invite someone to view a presentation using a simple link, download presentations for offline playing, and show YouTube or embedded videos directly from slides.
Prezi Viewer -‐ This is the official app of the popular Prezi. You can use it to view and present your prezis with simple, intuitive multi-‐touch gestures.
SlideGrabber -‐ This iOS app offers users the ability to : take photos of the slides with auto-‐cropping, take notes directly from slides, organize slides by presentations, and email slide image or save it to the photo library.
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Slideshark -‐ This is a great free app for showing and sharing presentations on the iPad. It also provides analytics to your presentations.
Idea Flight -‐ This is another cool iOS app that lets users : share presentations with others, display presentations on an external monitor for large audiences as well as on simultaneously up to 30 or more iPads on Wi-‐F.
Keynote -‐ Keynote makes it possible to create stunning and superb presentations.
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TEXTBOOK & AUDIO BOOK APPLICATIONS eTextbooks for the iPad -‐ This app requires internet. It is a perfect complement to a CourseSmart service. It has just been updated and has now more performance improvements.
Textbooks -‐ his app lets you search for your textbooks, import PDFs and textbooks in one place, uses 3D animations in 2D books, capture, watch and link content from the web directly into your textbook.
Inkling -‐ This is a platofrm for interactive books, rebuilt from the ground up for iPad as well as PC and Mac. Books on Inkling are designed to help you learn just about anything from anatomy to business strategy.
Beyond Textbooks -‐ This app helps students connect to the Social Studies content that they are about to learn through fun interactive games.
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Pearson eText app is a great companion to Pearson’s
eText browser-‐based book reader. It allows existing subscribers who view their Pearson eText titles on a computer to additionally access their titles in a bookshelf on the iPad either online or via download.
Cengage -‐Carry a concise History of the United States with you wherever you go. Lect is an application that gives you access to narrated lectures that tell the story of the United States of America. Topics include: The First Americans.
Audiobooks -‐ This app lets you listen to 4,382 classic audiobooks including professionally narrated modern best sellers and hand-‐selected classcis edited for maximum quality.
iTunes U -‐ The iTunes U gives you access to complete courses from leading universities and other schools, plus the world largest digital catalog of free educational content.
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Kindle -‐ The Kindle app is optimized for iPad and gives users the ability to read Kindle books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on a beautiful easy to use interface.
Nook -‐ Nook app offers an incredible reading experience for Nook Books, magazines and newspapers including New York Times Best Sellers, new releases and hot newstand titles.
OverDrive Media Console -‐ This application, available to iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users, grants individuals access to over 18,000 libraries worldwide. OverDrive Media Console allows users to download eBooks and audiobooks from their school libraries’ digital collections with valid identification cards, and because the book titles expire automatically, users do not need to worry about late fees.
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VIDEO APPLICATIONS Animoto Video -‐Turn your photos into stunning, professional-‐quality videos, complete with music and text, with Animoto’s.
Videolicious -‐ Videolicious 2 is completely rebuilt to make video creation even easier and faster! Instantly combine your videos, photos, music and stories into a stunning movie masterpiece. Just talk and tap to create the perfect video. Super fast and easy movie making.
ReelDirector -‐ ReelDirector is the 1st and the most feature rich, powerful video editor for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Magisto -‐ Magisto is a fun and easy way to automatically edit videos and share them with your friends and family. Just record and upload your videos and Magisto will turn them into beautiful edited movies, complete with music and effects, in minutes.
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Super 8 -‐Using Super 8™, you can make your own vintage movies and add lens, filter and shake effects, arrange clips and scenes the way you want them; you can even add your own credits.
iMovie -‐ Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app that puts everything you need to tell your story at your fingertips. Browse and play projects in the Marquee view. Create Hollywood-‐style trailers or sophisticated home movies in minute.
Vintago -‐ lets you picks authentic effects from 20s to 80s. You can add default soundtracks or music from iTunes, change speed of your video and mix with title cards and stylish transitions.
Vidify –is an automatic video editor that takes different clips from the footage you shot and spreads them around throughout the soundtrack using our proprietary algorithm creating a video that looks like it was edited by a professional.
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WIKI APPLICATIONS Wiki Server -‐ This mobile Wiki server is a full featured professional grade Wiki, no compromises, It allows you to store, edit, and display content that you, or others can change, either on the device, or from other browsers in a Wi-‐Fi network.
Wiki Touch -‐ WikiTouch is an easy to use personal information management application for iPhone and iPad users that helps you to organize and manage your personal and business information by creating content-‐ rich notes.
Trunk Notes -‐ Trunk Notes is a powerful note taking app and personal wiki. Create notes, format notes, and link notes together. Trunk Notes is the app for notes on the move.
Wikipad -‐ WikiPad is a hyperlinked notepad for your iPad. Carry a wiki in your pocket.
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WEB CURATION Pearltrees: Pearltrees is a place to collect, organize, discover everything you like on the web. The unique visual interface lets you keep everything you like at hand so you can organize it your way. Collect web pages and turn them into pearls. Organize your pearls into pearltrees based on your interests. Share all of this and start to cultivate your interests with Pearltrees. Scoop.it: Scoop.it lets you easily publish online magazines by curating content on your favorite topic. Curate on the go with the Scoop.it iDevice App. Select, edit and publish posts in the same engaging visual format as from the Web site. Review your suggestion list or add posts from Safari mobile then share on all your connected Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr... accounts. Hitpad delivers bite-‐size information snippets about the most important and worth-‐knowing topics of the day, highlighting why they are important and may be of interest, so you become current in no time and with very little effort. As you use Hitpad, it learns your interests in order to deliver you the most important information snippets in the areas that you care about. Feedly -‐ Feed your mind. Get the best content from your favorite websites delivered to your iPhone and iPad. Powered by Google Reader, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Instapaper and Read it later. If you are an existing Google Reader user, you can think of feedly as a fast/visual overlay with lots for sharing options and seamless 2-‐way integration.
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Pulse takes your favorite websites and transforms them into a colorful and interactive mosaic. Tap on an article to see a clean and elegant view of the news story. Save stories for reading later across all platforms or sync them with Instapaper, Read it Later and Evernote. Sharing a story via Facebook, Twitter and email is as easy as two taps. Flud -‐ Beautiful design, simple user interface, and integrated social settings make Flud a great place to read your news. Customize Flud to your personal tastes. Follow all your favorite blogs and news sites, save stories to read when you have time or offline, connect with friends and other Fluders who share your interests. Google Currents-‐ uses Google search technology to build editions tracking the five most recent trending stories in categories such as world, entertainment, sports, science, and more. Each story is presented through a fresh edition of articles, videos, and pictures. Instantly, turn your Google Reader subscriptions, or any of your favorite blogs/feeds into a beautiful edition with a magazine feel. News360 -‐ for iPad aggregates more than 7000 different news sources around the web to bring you news stories in a concise and useful stream. The semantic analysis technology behind News360 allows you to get background information and dossiers about all the companies, people and locations that make the news, and to personalize the news based on your specific interests.
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Flipboard -‐ creates a personalized magazine out of everything being shared with you, from Instagram photos and Facebook updates to Tumblr posts and articles from your favorite publications. Connect Flipboard to all your social networks, and you'll have a single place to enjoy, browse, comment on and share all the news, photos and updates that matter to you.
Pinterest -‐ is where you go to discover new things and collect stuff you love. If you find something online you want to build, cook, buy or do, just Pin It to your board.
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WRITING APPLICATIONS Write Boom-‐ WriteRoom is the original distraction-‐ free writing environment. WriteRoom attempts nothing more than to create a quiet place for you to write.
Enso Writer -‐ ensō Writer helps you to grab those thoughts, ideas, inspirational moments. There's nothing more, nothing less: only you with a blank sheet of paper and your words or concept drawings in your head. This App is your white, plain, blank sheet of paper that is always with you in your iPhone or iPad.
Clean Writer -‐ Become more creative with the refreshing distraction-‐free plain text editor that boosts inspiration and fights writer's block by hiding away extra options.
Pages - This word processor on steroids leaves out no features while providing an elegant interface.
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Chapters Notebooks for Writers -‐ Chapters lets you create and manage multiple notebooks, each fully searchable and with its own settings. Keep a travel journal, a photo log, a notebook about ongoing work projects, and your own personal diary in one app. Manage writing projects. Create as many notebooks as you want and fill each with as much as you need to write. It's easy to create simple bullet lists and see a word count while you write. Chronicle for iPad -‐ Chronicle is simple. It's an effective way to start writing more, now. More importantly, the app protects what you write. Export your journal and read it on your computer or enable the Dropbox feature to store your backups in the cloud.
ABC Cursive Writing -‐ ABC Cursive Writing was created to help us all work on our handwriting. The application is fun for kids that are learning the basics of cursive writing. It is also helpful for adults that wish to improve their handwriting. Reduce medical errors due to poor handwriting.
Popplet -‐ Great for work. Great for school. Popplet is a platform for your ideas. Popplet's super simple interface allows you to move at the speed of your thoughts. With Popplet you can capture your ideas, sort them visually, and collaborate with others in realtime. Quickly and easily.
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iSource APA -‐ Writing a bibliography can be hard. Keeping track of your resources, quotes and how to format them can be downright daunting. iSource does quick work of formatting bibliography and in-‐text citations for you, saves these formatted entries all in one place and could not be easier to use.
iA Writer – iA Writer takes the traditional word processor and turns your iPad into a text-‐entry machine.
Simplenote -‐ SimpleNote does what it sets out to do: it creates simple notes. The interface is free of clutter and a full screen mode leaves only your page on your iPad.
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MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES INFOGRAPHIC
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VERBAL/LINGUISTIC -‐ learning through the spoken and written word. This intelligence was always valued in the traditional classroom and in traditional assessments of intelligence and achievement. MATHEMATICAL/LOCICAL -‐ learning through reasoning and problem solving. Also highly valued in the traditional classroom, where students were asked to adapt to logically sequenced delivery of instruction. BODILY/KINESTHETIC -‐ learning hrough interaction with one's environment. This intelligence is not the domain of "overly active" learners. It promotes understanding through concrete experience. MUSICAL/RHYTHMIC -‐ learning through patterns, rhythms and music. This includes not only auditory learning, but the identification of patterns through all the senses. INTRAPERSONAL -‐ learning through feelings, values and attitudes. This is a decidedly affective component of learning through which students place value on what they learn and take ownership for their learning. INTERPERSONAL -‐ learning through interactive with others. Not the domain of children who are simply "talkative" or "overly" social. This intelligence promotes collaboration and working cooperatively with others.
NATURALIST -‐ learning through classification, categories and hierarchies. The naturalist intelligence picks up on subtle difference in meaning. It is not simple the study of nature; it can be used in all areas of study. EXISTENTIAL -‐ learning by seeing the "big picture": "Why are we here?" "What is my role in the world?" "What is my place in my family, schoool and community?" This intelligence seeks connections to real world understandings and applications of new learning. VISUAL/SPATIAL -‐ learning visually organizing ideas spatitally. Seeing concepts in action in order to understand them. The ability to see things in one's mind in planning to create a product or solve a problem. Source: Surfaquarium
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REFERENCES Apps in Education
http://appsineducation.blogspot.com/2012/01/10-‐ipad-‐apps-‐for-‐ web-‐curation.html
AppStorm http://ipad.appstorm.net/reviews/business-‐finance-‐reviews/beesy-‐professional-‐ipad-‐note-‐taking-‐ and-‐task-‐management/ http://designora.com/graphics/7-‐essential-‐ipad-‐apps-‐for-‐designers/ DesignOra Educational Technology and Mobile Learning http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/12/a-‐list-‐of-‐all-‐best-‐ipad-‐apps-‐teachers.html http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/07/5-‐terrific-‐mind-‐mappping-‐apps-‐for-‐ipad.html http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/12/youtube-‐released-‐great-‐video-‐recording.html
elearning gurus http://www.elearningyellowpages.com/blog/2008/10/ditch-‐the-‐backpack-‐100-‐essential-‐web-‐tools-‐for-‐virtual-‐students
Scoop It http://www.scoop.it/
TeachThought http://www.teachthought.com/apps-‐2/the-‐55-‐best-‐best-‐free-‐education-‐apps-‐for-‐ipad/ http://www.teachthought.com/apps-‐2/7-‐apps-‐to-‐turn-‐your-‐ipad-‐into-‐a-‐digital-‐whiteboard/ http://www.teachthought.com/apps-‐2/24-‐essential-‐ipad-‐learning-‐tools-‐from-‐edshelf/ http://www.teachthought.com/apps-‐2/29-‐apps-‐for-‐teachers-‐the-‐educators-‐essential-‐ipad-‐toolkit/
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