Useful iPad Apps for Teaching and Learning

March 6, 2012

There are so many that come out on a regular basis I just choose a few.

Apps that come on the iPad

Calendar, Contacts, Notes, Maps, Videos, YouTube, iTunes, the App Store, Settings, Safari, Mail, Photos, and iPod

Consider this

How to run Flash on a iPad… Use the Photon Browser…

It directs the web page you are looking at to another server and then streams the output to your ipad..

Apps I found useful:

1. Keynote $9.99 if you want to do presentations with your iPad (of course this requires the iPad Doc Connector) Will let you save it as PPT file type.
you can manage the presentation files via iTunes or iWork.com or email there are other ways too.

2. Pages $9.99 It has some nice built in templates that allow you to easily create documents and add images as long as you use one of their pre-formatted templates. Compatible with multiple types (.doc files) and will let you save in word format (.doc )
You can manage the document files via iTunes or iWork.com or email there are other ways too.

3. DocsToGoPremium – $16.99which is great. It handles, PPT, DOC, DOCX, PPS image formats, etc. and supports a variety of image files types, and will easily save to the cloud or you can email, or transfer files.

Quickoffice -$19.99 is great to use, it is compatible with Office comes with Spreadsheet and Document format, both 2003 and 2007 formats, has a file structure, and you can create folders to store content. I like to be able to link to an ip address to upload/download files. You can also email them to yourself.

4. Kindle – Free- You just need to buy the books–really fast download, great highlight and annotation tools, great search-ability. I love it.

5. iBooks – Free- Similar to Kindle, though I like Kindle best.

6. Adobe ideas for the iPad –Free– great for drawing on the fly, easily email to your self can save multiple pages

7. Auditorium Notes with Dropbox and Text –$2.99 — Excellent app, you can record while you take notes! Love it

8. Dropbox –Free– gives you 2000 megs of online storage, and you can access your stuff from any computer.

9. Penultimate –$3.99– This one is like Adobe ideas but does not give you as many options, and it works like a binder where you can keep your hand written notes. You can also email yourself a page

10. Instapaper Free lets you “read a web page later. You get the app and then get a free online account that installs the read later bookmark which makes the whole thing work.

11. PhotoGene for the iPad –$3.99– has nice photo editing tools and you really will need one if you are going to have pictures on your iPad

12. Go Docs –$3.99– works with all docs handled by google Docs. looks like a great app, I need to play with it, but if you use google docs, this is a must.

13. Calculator XL –Free– You just need a plain old calculator sometimes!

14. Voice Memos — $.99 –is a nice record only app. It is good to have a recorder of some kind. You could create audio reminders, etc. Or there is also the recorder

15. Camera for the iPad –$.99– lets you connect your iPhone camera wirelessly to your iPad.

16. Art Studio — $ 2.99 lets you draw, paint and edit photos. very cool, and it is half off right now. (You have to start with a photo on this one.)

17. Sketchbook Pro –$3.99 — the best drawing from scratch tool. Also half off some days. It lets you export your files etc. This one draws from scratch, uses layers, really nice. Made by autocad.

18. NASA — Free — Not all of the resources work on the ipad because of flash, but a lot of them work and you can even download the pictures taken by the Hubble.

19. Good Reader –$1.99– Great app for PDF’s has some kind of OCR software that lets you annotate, search etc. pdfs though they warn you that if the scan was to image, the search, highlight etc. will not work. A Must have!

20. Star Walk— $4.99– Cool apps, and if you are an astronomy buff it is cool because you can aim it at the sky and it will help you with the constellations. I like it They have also come out with GeoWalk. I don’t have this one but it looks interesting.

21. SpanishDict  — Free—This is a great online tool that ties into the  splanguage program books used at SCU…

22. Notebility… 3.99..  this is the reason you got a ipad… Get a  pen for 5 dollars at Central computer and off you go. writes on the screen, review pdf doc, draw pictures and record a lecture all in one. Plus it very easy to use…

Social Networking

Twitter

Facebook

TweetDeck

Utilities

textPlus.  Free

Better that Apples built in because it exceed the 10 person max limit..

AutoWifi $1.99 lets you easily connect to the wireless without having to type the password

MapQuest the FREE app, functions like a GPS and will talk you home

Brother iPrint&Scan … The app controls the scanner on my home network and imports the doc directly to use in Notability… The printing part did not work correctly

Games 

Angry Birds, Aw Craps, Penguinlite, FS Hockey, Tiger Woods PGA tour 12, BFBC 2, Fruit Ninja , Beer Pong