Content Area Apps

English

Ultimate Hangman $.99 – Great for independent spelling review.  My students love this.  I can customize the spelling words...Similar to spellingcity.com and it's hangmouse.

Stack the states  $0.99 – This has been a great app for my ELL students.  They have really enjoyed learning locations, neighboring states,etc.

Health and Physical Education

imuscle – allows users to identify and zoom into specific muscles in the body and shows exercises associated with building up that muscle (£1.19)

1000 Exercises by Men’s Health & Women’s Health – training resources, workout creator, videos, ability to log training (£3.49)

BMI & Body fat Calculator – (Free)

MyNetDiary – food & exercise diary for iPad (£5.99)

Languages

Google Translate – Not only do you simple type or paste the word/words you want to translate, you can also speak your text directly to the app in 17 different languages. You can also listen to translations, or let someone else listen instead of sounding foolish using a foreign language that you can’t speak.

Instructional Technology Apps

http://sketch.odopod.com/ - This is a sketching application that allows you to make sketches online. It is free, easy to use and it records your sketches so you can playback from the beginning to watch how it was drawn. Sketching is useful in many classes and the use of this app can be beneficial when doing so.

http://blogs.jccc.edu/edtech/instructional-apps/ - I found this website interesting because it allows you to actually create your own instructional applications. It offers training and support to guide you with creating your own application and gives many suggestions on what to do, how to improve it and so on.

Flashcardlet – This app is combined with Quizlet.com’s comprehensive collection of 1000s of flaschards and is the best way to study both at home and on the go!

Dropbox – With Dropbox, I can save from any device and access all my documents. I don’t have to worry about misplacing important documents and it even has the ability to read different common file formats as well.

Keynote – With this app, you can create awesome presentations on your iPad. Keynote makes it easy to create, deliver, and share presentations on your iPad and iPhone. No matter which device you’re on, iCloud keeps your work up to date across them all automatically.