Volume 1 Issue 17 May 2013 Test Taking Tips and Strategies ~Mrs. Cook Mrs.Linda Cook~Mason County Schools special education TIS lncook@access.k12.wv.us
The Latest News on iPad Apps for School Easy Portfolio: This is ePortfolio tool for students and teachers. It is the easiest and most powerful way to create an electronic ePortfolio for creating portfolios of your work and or your students work. You can create multiple portfolios containing pictures, videos, links, notes, documents, and audio recordings. It is designed for both iPhone and iPad. It costs $1.99.
Story Wheel: This is an app for the iPad or the iPhone. Story Wheel is designed to promote audio storytelling. Spin the Story Wheel on your device and when it lands on an image, dictate a short story based on that image. When you are finished recording, you can play your story back with animations generated by Story Wheel. You can try the basic Story Wheel app for free. To get the most out of the app you will probably want to get the full version of the app for $2.99. Bitsboard: A Super iPad App for Spelling and Reading Practice. This app is designed for elementary students. It is a free app that provides word games, memory games, spelling games and reading practice activities and dozens of other activities in one place. On this app students can learn new voc words, how to tell time, how to count money and learn basic geography.
GoClass: This is a cloud enabled teaching application tool for innovative teaching and inspired learning. It is another free iPad application for creating short lessons and delivering them to your students. It gives teachers tools for creating class rosters that they can use to keep track of which students are using the created lessons and when. Teachers can ask questions to their students and poll their students with using this app. http://ipads4school.com