Slide deck from School Technology Summit 2013 presentation: "60 Apps in 60 Minutes"

1. Chris Casal
Technology Coordinator/Teacher
P. S. 10 Brooklyn (15K010)
ccasal@ps10.org
Twitter: @mr_casal
60 Apps in 60 Minutes
an iPad primer
School Technology Summit 2013 - 7/31/13
Presentation Materials:
http://goo.gl/YBkr1Y (case sensitive)
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2. 900,000
That’s how many apps are in the App Store
We will cover 60* in 60** minutes
Brief overviews to get you started with a list you can
immediately use as a reference library for your iOS
device
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3. Asterisks...
* The number of apps is a rough estimate as
some developers have multiple versions of
apps or “Lite” vs “Premium” options
** 60 minutes is the full session but there will be time
left for questions
Think of it as 60+ apps in 45-ish minutes...
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4. Disclaimer
I have a lot of apps...
525 currently on my iPad
Each slide will contain 1-3 apps of a specific function
Most slides will also contain a picture of the
corresponding folder on my iPad, which sometimes
contains up to 20 apps of identical function
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5. Apple Apps
Camera
a great way to document student work & class
activities
iTunes U
Apple has a DOE-centric course:
Podcasts
TechLandia - @TechLandiaCast
Take5 - @DaveGuymon
OutOfSchool.net - @fraserspeirs & @bradleychambers
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6. Apps
Track apps, read reviews, help make sense of the
900,000+ options
AppsGoneFree - $free - daily digest of 8-12 free
apps every day
AppShopper (iPhone) - $free - shows all price
changes & allows Wish List creation & price change
notification
AppAdvice - $1.99 - regular updates with app news
& reviews
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7. Bookmarking
Don’t keep your Bookmarks/Favorites on a single
computer, make them accessible anywhere
Diigo - $free web service & app
my favorite - can bookmark annotations & notes
too
create student accounts to “crowdsource”
references
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8. Browsers
Safari is the built in & only default option but others
provide more flexibility and versatility
Chrome - $free - Google’s browser, syncs with
desktop version - great for GAFE schools
iCabMobile - $1.99 - very robust & versitle browser
with many add-ons & connections to other services
Rover - $free - geared to education & preloaded
with edu content
Puffin - $2.99 + Lite version - plays Flash content &
can download directly to cloud services
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9. Cloud Storage
Keep your files accessible from anywhere
No more emailing files or USB drives
Dropbox - app free - storage fees vary, free->pay
market leader, most app integration
Box - app free - storage fees vary, free->pay
strong competitor, starts with more free space
Google Drive
free but doesn’t play well with all files or apps
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10. Common Core
Apps to help navigate the Common Core Standards
CommonCore Standards by Mastery Connect -
$free
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11. Conferring with Students
Put all your conference notes in one place
Supports individual conferences as well as small group
situations
Confer Lite - $free - limited to 10 students, 5 notes
per student & 2 subjects
Confer - $14.99 - unlimited
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12. Evernote
A great suite of note taking apps & syncing to online
companion - evernote.com
Apps allow you to handwrite & annotate images
Evernote - free service with paid upgrades
type notes, tag & file, add pictures & web content
Skitch - $free - annotate pictures & sync to Evernote
Penultimate - $free - notebook for freehand writing
+ inserting pictures - syncs with Evernote
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13. Flipped
Create “flipped classroom” or general video tutorials
ExplainEverything - $2.99 - whiteboard, insert
images, add video - import & export from various
cloud platforms
Educreations - $free - basic whiteboard & audio
recording, insert pictures - upload to
educreations.com
ShowMe - $free - basic whiteboard & audio
recording, insert pictures - upload to showme.com
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14. Fotopedia
14 free apps with amazing images from around the
world
Show your students in amazing clarity to world outside
the room
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15. Math Dojo
13 iPad apps geared toward students & learning
Free -> $2.99 depending on app - some apps
discounted periodically
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16. McGraw Hill
52 total apps
ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies, Music, PD,
Engineering, College & Career Readiness
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17. Everyday Math
16 iPad apps from McGraw-Hill
Generally $1.99 but are often on sale or free - keep an
eye out!
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18. News
Create custom magazines based on your content
source preferences
Currents - $free - Google’s magazine app
Flipboard - $free - “your personal magazine”
Zite - $free - “an intelligent magazine that helps you
discover interesting things to read”
NewsMix - $free - “your personalized newsstand”
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19. Note-taking
If Evernote isn’t your thing consider:
Notability - $1.99 - supports freehand writing,
typing, images, audio & import/export to cloud
platforms - very versatile app
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20. Paperless
If you create documents on your computer why print
them out just to file them away...?
GoodReader - $4.99 - great for paperless reading
records, rubrics, signing forms - syncs to cloud
services & can email direct from app
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21. Posters
Create original, high quality, classroom posters
Phoster - $1.99 - import Camera Roll photos, add
text, apply filters, export & share
Motivational - $0.99 - create original motivational-
style posters with Camera Roll photos
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22. Productivity
No Microsoft Office on the iPad?
No problem!
Pages - $9.99 - Apple’s version of Word
Keynote - $9.99 - Apple’s version of PowerPoint
Numbers - $9.99 - Apple’s version of Excel
Widely regarded as the best “Office” apps on iPad,
designed for iPad with Mac version syncing available
Expensive, yes. But high-quality & fully functional
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23. Productivity
Smart Office 2 - $9.99 - View, create, edit, share
Microsoft Office documents
DocsToGo - $9.99 - View, create, edit, share
Microsoft Office documents
CloudOn - $free - edit Microsoft Office files from youe
cloud account (Dropbox, Box, Drive, etc) - doesn’t
always work well with firewalls (ie: NYCDOE proxy)
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24. Reference
BYDK - $free - Bet You Didn’t Know from the History
Channel - great facts & conversation starters
EasyBib - $free - look up MLA, APA & Chicago
citations for books
Biography - $4.99 - “... a journey with the world’s
most influential people... 100 biographies of eminent
people of all time..”
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25. Scan
Use the iOS camera to scan documents
Not simply taking a picture, apps convert the image to
black & white (or color) PDF looking exaclty like you
scanned it on a traditional scanner
JotNotPro - $0.99 - scan multiple pages to single
file
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26. Science
Science360 - $free - created by National Science
Foundation - science & engineering images & videos
Video Science - $free - 80 hands-on science lessons
NASA - $free - thousands of NASA images, videos,
news & information
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27. Social
Don’t think of it as “social media” think of it as
networking & connecting
Twitter - $free - network & connect
Google+ - $free - share & collaborate
Hangouts - $free - Google’s app for video chat/
conferencing - create distance learning opportunities
Pinterest - $free - digital scrapbook your resources
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28. Tutorials
Handy to have if you are new to Apple
products
SCO Tutor for iPad - $1.99
SCO Tutor for Mac - $1.99
Developer offers additional titles at varying
prices
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29. VNC (Virtual Network Control)
Remotely control computers
Great for remote tech support & controlling IWBs from
anywhere in the room
Splashtop Personal - $0.99
remote access
Splashtop Whiteboard - $19.99
remote access + whiteboard tools - great if you
have projector but no IWB
Mocha VNC Lite - $free
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30. Many VNC options...
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31. Wikipedia
Various apps to search & view Wikipedia entries
natively on the iPad
Wikipedia - $free - Wikipedia.org’s native app
WikiWeb - $4.99 - shows Wikipedia entries as well
as related pages in connected-web style interface
Wikinodes - $1.99 - “...infinite constellation of visual
links... Browse. Discover. Bookmark. Annotate.
Share.”
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32. Summary
60 highlighted linked apps & developers
Over 100 total apps
Some free, some paid
Hopefully this will give you some ideas of the versatility
& possibility the iPad offers...
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33. Contact
Christopher M. Casal
Technology Teacher/Coordinator
P. S. 10 (15K010)
Email: ccasal@ps10.org
Twitter: @mr_casal
Diigo: mrcasal
www.mrcasal.com
thecasalos.blogspot.com
ps10ipads.wikispaces.com
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