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| iPads and Teacher Education: Secondary Apps |
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| Note: The apps on these pages are for the teacher of secondary pupils not necessarily for the pupils. |
| Sites for apps for the secondary school |
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 some thoughts on what to do if you only have one iPad can be found here |
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| AirServer |
Reflector |
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£8.49 (single)
£36.00 (5 user) |
| AirServer is an AirPlay receiver for Mac/PC. It allows you to receive AirPlay feeds, similar to an Apple TV, so you can stream content or Mirror your display from your iOS devices or Mountain Lion. |
AirPlay mirror your iPhone 4S, iPad 2 or the new iPad to any Mac or PC, wirelessly. |
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| Evernote |
Dropbox |
TED Talks |
Documents to Go |
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£6.99 / £11.99 |
| Make sure you never lose bits of paper with notes on again – instead, type them into Evernote and they're stored on the web to be accessed from anywhere you're online. You can add images to your notes straight from your device's camera, too |
Thanks to the magic and wonder of cloud computing, professors on the go can access their files from other devices they’ve connected to their personal networks, meaning they never leave an important digital document at home! |
Professors love using the intelligent, open source lectures available through TED to supplement their classroom lessons (on myriad topics, to boot) and even learn a few things they themselves didn’t know before |
Available for nearly all smartphone and PDA platforms, Documents To Go offers up the full suite of Microsoft Office programs, and saving a file on one device makes changes to all connected ones as well! |
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| Explain Everything |
Keynote |
Voicethread |
Twitter |
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£6.99 |
£free |
£free |
| Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. You can create dynamic interactive lessons. |
If you think you may ever use the iPad for a presentation this is a good to have. When you are presenting from the iPad, the device itself essentially becomes a large remote presentation controller complete with presentation notes! When you are creating or editing slideshows, the feature set is limited but it is enough to make quick changes or add presentation notes |
Just excellent for collaboration work allows you to have a stmulus [text, image, movie] and then a conversation around the stimulus |
Whether used for backchanneling or sharing reminders and helpful online materials, Twitter has established itself as an essential tool for the 21st century classroom. |
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| iAnnotate |
Dragon Dictate |
JotNote |
Pages |
| £free |
£free |
£0.69 |
£6.99 |
| Making notes, bookmarking, and highlighting is inevitable in academia – or, at least, in academia where work actually gets done – and this offering renders the process easy when it comes to PDF files. |
A great on-line speech to text works wonderfully well with a good internet connection. |
JotNot converts photos taken with your device's camera to PDF.
How do I use it? Easily convert newspaper articles or other print materials to digital for markup and sharing. |
Making quick edits to documents for your students or colleagues is a snap with Pages on the iPad. This is not the full Pages you use on your Mac, but it is powerful enough to do all of the editing basics! |
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| Flipboard |
QR Reader |
Prezi |
Screen Chomp |
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| Great for researching current news and events. Flipboard will help you to bring all of your RSS feeds into one location for easy consumption |
Now scans both QR codes and barcodes. Fast and effective. App opens instantly in real-time scanning mode. |
Prezi is usually billed as an alternative to PowerPoint. If your presentation could benefit from the dynamic nature of Prezi then you may want to consider this tool. I think Prezi really shines at helping to convey movement (such as drilling down into a topic or zooming in on a particular area) very well as the slides are highly animated. |
ScreenChomp is another screen recording app, is an alternative to Explain Everything. This software is not quite as powerful, but may be enough to get you where you are going! |
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| Socrative |
GoodReader |
iMovie |
GoogleDrive |
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£2.99 |
£2.99 |
£free |
| Socrative brings smart clickers, student response and ease of use to a whole new level. Be engaged for the entire class with educational exercises and games. See all your classmates’ ideas in real time and interact with the responses. Provide your instructor feedback on the lessons and how well you understand the material. |
GoodReader supports the reading and annotation of a variety of filetypes: PDF, Office, HTML, etc. GoodReader syncs with Google Docs, Dropbox, and other WebDAV, AFP, FTP and SFTP servers. |
iMovie for the iPad is the mobile version of perhaps the most popular light desktop editor on the market. This is video editing made portable! |
Google Drive is the new name for Google Docs, so if you were using Docs before this is old hat! Google Drive allows you to store files as well as manipulate basic documents, presentations and spreadsheets. |
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| Recorder Plus |
Aurasma |
Inpiration Maps |
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£6.99 |
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| Recorder Plus, like other audio recording apps, uses the iPad microphone to record mp3 files. Bookmarks can be created, both during recording and playback. Files can be shared via wireless, as well as other export options |
Allows you to tag artefactgs (video / audio) to images / graphics which become the trigger for the image. |
Use Inspiration Maps to help brainstorm, plan, organise and build thinking skills. Watch as students engage, create and learn as they build and organise their diagrams. With a single tap, turn your diagram into an outline that can be customised and expanded upon, then exported to a writing app |
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| English |
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| Free Books |
Book Creator |
Shakespeare |
The Poetry App |
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£2.99 |
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| Finding the classics in class or just need to reference a salient passage from a public domain work? Now you have access to those works all in one convenient location! There is also a new in app upgrade that allows you to access audio book versions of may classics as well. |
The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad.
Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBookstore.
Ideal for children’s picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and the list goes on. |
Shakespeare™ is a free app with the complete works of Shakespeare (41 plays, 154 sonnets and 6 poems, including doubtful works) and a searchable concordance to find the exact word or phrase you’re looking for (with “relaxed” searching to find words close to your search term) |
The Poetry App will draw you into a parallel universe of over 100 poems from sixteen of the greatest poets of all time, accompanied by video and audio narrations from over 30 world class actors and performers including Juliet Stevenson, Bob Geldof, Simon Callow, Dominic West and Roger Moore.
For the poetry lover - enjoy a wide selection of great poems, chosen by Josephine Hart and explained through her essays and introductions.
For the poetry novice - explore the power of poetry through the narrations of world-class actors. |
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| Grammar Up |
Writing Prompts |
Dictionary |
Perfect Rhyme |
| £2.99 |
£1.49 |
£free |
£free |
| Grammar Up is a multiple choice quiz system for English which provides over 1800 questions across 20 grammar categories.
Grammar Up was designed to replicate questions with a business focus commonly found in the popular TOEIC (TM) English proficiency test.
Grammar Up can help learners to improve their grammar, word selection and vocabulary.
Custom timer setting can assist learners to improve response times under exam time constraints.
Research suggests that kids and adults learn most quickly when playing learning games with real-time error-feedback.
Grammar Up provides learners with an opportunity to improve strategies for grammar success. |
Our writing prompt generators use current events, scene elements, words, sketches, colors, genres and writing types, unleashing endless random bits of fantasy to fuel your muse. Plus, we've included our database of 600 creative writing prompts so you've got them right at your finger tips, online or off!
Shake your device or swipe across the screen to change prompts. Add the prompts you like best to your favorites and revisit them at any time. |
Top-rated app with trusted reference content from Dictionary.com & Thesaurus.com. WORKS OFFLINE - no Internet connection needed when searching words.
Key Features
• English Dictionary and Thesaurus - over 2,000,000 definitions, synonyms & antonyms
• Offline access – no Internet connection needed for most content
• Daily content, including Word of the Day & The Hot Word
• Audio pronunciation
• Word origin & history
and much more ... |
Perfect Rhyme is an American English rhyming dictionary that delivers "perfect rhymes" with a snappy interface. It's quick because the dictionary is stored on the phone -- not on the internet.
A perfect rhyme is made by two words that share the same stressed vowels and ending sounds, such as the pair "sing" and "wing." An example of an imperfect rhyme is "wing" and "caring".
Key Features
• No internet connection required
• 130,000+ entries
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• Browse by number of syllables
• Smart capitalization of words for maximum readability
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• Quick search for words -- no need to type in the whole word |
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| Geography |
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| World Atlas HD |
Geo Master |
Google Earth |
iGeology |
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£0.69 |
£free |
£free |
| Browse the world using National Geographic's atlas, which includes key stats per country. |
Test your knowledge of the world's countries and more with a variety of GeoMaster puzzles |
The same app as you find on a desktop computer but designed for the gorgeous and tactile iPad screen. |
British Geological Survey based app which gives detailed analysis of UK - needs web connection |
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| Beautiful Planet |
Weather Bug |
Quakefeed |
iSeismometer |
| £0.69 |
£free/£2.49 |
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| Wonderful collection of 570 photographs from all over the planet - good for any number of projects. |
Global weather forecasting app which can use iPad’s location for local analysis - paid version loses ads |
Realtime mapping of earthquakes. A range of filters allows you to sort and examine recent earthquakes. |
Start iSeismometer, leave it on your desk, then tap somewhere. You will realize how sensitive iPhone is! |
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| History |
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| Maps of the World |
Timestream |
History Tools |
Virtual History - Roma |
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£2.99 |
£0.69 |
£5.99 |
| This maps app contains a variety of historical maps with a variety of information, from The Distribution of Principal European Languages in 1911 to the Waterloo Campaign. |
Timestream is an easy and fun way to create timelines and chronologies on the iPad that you can share with your family and friends. You can include events, event periods, and images to create scientific, historical and personal timelines.
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HistoryTools is an app for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch that lists all the famous and infamous people who were born or died on each day of the year, major news events that occurred on each day, plus feast days of saints and holidays and celebrations around the world |
Mondadori presents a fantastic voyage to Ancient Rome, the capital of the largest empire in the ancient world, which has been reconstructed in virtual form and which you can explore in a “full-immersion” panoramic experience. |
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| Today in History |
WWII interactive |
World History Documents |
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£2.99 |
£1.99 |
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| BriToday In History is the easiest/best way to get the history information you want when you want it. We are dedicated to sharing world history, and personally significant "historical" information. |
A very comprehensive App on World War II made specifically for the iPad. Brings World War 2 alive on your iPad screen. World War II Interactive covers the biggest conflict in history with stunning photos, videos and speeches and amazing design |
WHD includes 350 primary source documents and speeches written throughout the course of World History. From the Bible to Obama’s Nobel Acceptance Speech, this application covers the breadth and depth of world history. WORLD HISTORY DOCUMENTS also includes 19 audio and video recordings of famous speeches and addresses |
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| Mathematics |
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| Quick Graph |
Pi cubed |
MyScript Calculator |
Equation Genius |
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£6.99 |
£free |
£1.99 |
| A free (with adverts) graphing calculator in both 2D and 3D with most common fuctions |
A visual math application designed from the ground up for a touch-based interface. Unlike traditional calculators, Pi Cubed lets you construct, typeset, and instantly evaluate mathematical expressions using an interactive menu system |
Easy, simple and intuitive, just write the mathematical expression on the screen then let MyScript technology perform its magic converting symbols and numbers to digital text and delivering the result in real time.
The same experience as writing on paper with the advantages of a digital device (Scratch-outs, results in real time |
Equation solver - gives numerical answers to a range of equations. |
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| iFormulas |
Talking Calculator |
Elevated Maths |
Units |
| £free |
£1.49 |
£free |
£free |
| iFormulas provides an clean slate to effortlessly look up mathematical formulas. |
A comprehensively featured calculator that has become a favorite among adults and primary schools around the world. Designed for a wide range of users, this calculator has large colorful buttons, optional high contrast, full VoiceOver support, and unique to this calculator; the option to use speech for answers, button names and formulas! |
Elevated Math provides initial instruction or intervention on math topics that cover place value, estimation, large digit addition all the way through Algebra I (two years of math instruction!).
The app comes with two complimentary lessons and one complimentary career video. Besides these lessons the user must purchase additional lessons individually or in bundles. |
Convert pretty much anything to anything ... useful if you are working across different systems. |
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| Geometry Pad |
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| £free |
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| With the Geometry Pad you can create fundamental geometric shapes, explore and change their properties and calculate metrics. The shapes are displayed on a scrollable and zoomable workbook with a rectangular coordinate system. The following tools are built into the application: Move and scale, point, line, midpoint, parallel, angle, triangle, quadilateral, circle, polygons, arc, ellipse, tangent. |
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| Modern Foreign Languages |
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| Religious Education |
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| Festivals and Holy Days |
Tales of Arjuna |
The Big Myth |
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£2.49 |
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| Get quick and offline information and forthcoming dates of all religious festivals for 2014.
Major festivals of all religions including,
• Asatru
• Buddhism
• Bahai
• Christian
• Hindu
• Islamic
• Jewish
• Jain
• Sikh
• Wiccan
• Zoroastrian. |
Superbly skilled, speedy and strong, Arjuna boasted that he was the world’s greatest warrior. But, despite his unquestionable courage, this honourable Pandava prince realised he could not confront Lord Indra’s power – or even the wiles of a cheeky monkey – without help. He needed divine weapons, such as the Gandiva bow, with its inexhaustible supply of arrows, and a special war chariot. Most importantly, he needed the blessings of the gods, especially Lord Vishnu. |
From Aztec to Aboriginals, Inca to Inuit, every culture has its own answer to the fundamental questions of our existence. The Big Myth celebrates our rich, cultural diversity, telling the world’s oldest stories with the world’s newest learning tools.
The Big Myth is an animated, educational storytelling app, showing 25 different stories of creation from around the world. For children aged 4-14. The Big Myth offers an entire integrated learning environment, including a teacher’s guide. |
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| Science |
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| Sound Uncovered |
Science 360 |
Lab Guru |
The Elements |
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| Explore the surprising side of sound with Sound Uncovered, an interactive book featuring auditory illusions, acoustic phenomena, and other things that go bump, beep, boom, and vroom. |
Android and iDevice owners listen to audio and watch video on all the sciences here, making it an absolutely perfect resource for sharing with students and boosting personal knowledge. |
iPad-owning science professors sign up for the popular Lab Guru to draw up experiments and tote them into the field or onto the counter for note taking and sharing. |
Even non-chemistry buffs absolutely adore The Elements iPad app, which illustrates the periodic table with richly detailed photos and comprehensive information about all the basic components of everyday (and not-so-everyday) matter. |
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| 3D Brain |
iCell |
GoSkyWatch |
Planets |
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| Wonderful 3D interactive model of the human brain coupled with text-based facts and figures |
Straightforward 3D app looking at animal, bacteria and plant cell structures with some descriptive text |
Easily and quickly identify and locate stars, planets, constellations and more with a touch or iPad or by simply pointing to the sky. Have fun with family and friends discovering the images in the night sky. Go outside and explore the night sky. |
A 3D guide to the solar system for aspiring astronomers. Over 3 million downloads so far! 2D Sky shows sun, moon, constellations, planets, 3D Sky adds constellation names, horizon, ecliptic Visibility shows rise/set times, moon phase, Visibility pull-right for planet info, moon names, Globe shows 3D view of planets and the moon. |
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| Science House |
Science Glossary |
Rocks and Gems |
Building Parallel Circuits |
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| Science Class Experiments brought to you by Science House. These videos are 2 to 3 minutes in length and demonstrate the steps of simple science experiments. The experiments are designed to inspire and excite kids of all ages, with very little set-up time and using only low cost materials. |
An extensive glossary of scientific terms and short biographies of key scientists. Formatted specifically for the iPhone and provided by Visionlearning, Inc. All definitions link to related terms and detailed science learning modules. |
This app includes detailed information minerals, such as molecular formula, properties, common/gem names, etc. This app is mainly aimed at students, professors, scientists, hobbyists, and those in the field who wish for help identifying minerals, or learn a bit about what they're seeing in the field. |
Using 3D graphics and 2D electronic symbols, you will build simple parallel circuits by using wires, batteries, switches, and light bulbs. By constructing their own closed circuit with two light bulbs, you will develop a deeper understanding of series and parallel circuits and discover that electricity follows the path of least resistance. |
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| oScope (lite) |
Tone Generator |
Mild EleMints 2 |
Units |
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£free |
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| oScope turns your iPhone into a portable oscilloscope with incredibly snappy response, gorgeous full-screen view, and helpful features like triggering and a spectrum (FFT) view.
Audio signals are taken from the external microphone or from the Apple microphone, and plotted with very low latency. Using an external microphone like the Belkin TuneTalk, you can plug in any signal using a minijack cable |
Create different frequencies, drive insects away or compare your hearing ability with your friends and relatives and share your results! Or watch others straining their ears to find the sounds that cannot locate you. Party fun is guaranteed! |
A free periodic table with all the details you will ever need including classification, atomic properties, thermonic properties, Ionic radii, ionisation energies, binding energies and isotopes as well as links to more information one-line. |
Convert pretty much anything to anything ... useful if you are working across different systems. |
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| Sparkvue |
Frog Dissection |
Elements in Action |
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| The SPARKvue for iOS brings real-time sensor-based data collection to your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. Using the new PASPORT AirLink 2 Bluetooth interface to connect to over 70 PASCO sensors, measuring a wide range of phenomena, including pH, temperature, force, carbon dioxide level, and many more. Use your iOS device to collect sensor data for your biology, chemistry, earth science, environmental science, physics and physical science studies. SPARKvue can also record data from the iPhone or iPod Touch's internal accelerometer, with no additional hardware needed. |
Frog Dissection, winner of PeTA’s Mark Twain Ethical Science award, is a very user-friendly iPad app that helps you learn more about frog dissection, virtually. Buy the app and save a frog!
Frog Dissection allows you to dissect a chloroformed specimen complete with dissection instruments-pins, scalpel, marker, and forceps. Step-by-step instructions and 3D views give it a very realistic feel. The best aspect of the app is the 3D imaging of the frog’s anatomy that help the user visualize the internal organs very effectively |
This is a phenomenal app which will support pupils learning and studying the chemistry strand of science.
Each element comes with a short looping demonstration video showing the element in action; a brief text explanation of each element; and a rotating thumbnail image of the featured element which also clicks through to the premium version of The Elements – A Visual Exploration. This app is good for those wishes to gain a brief understanding of each element, and would be used as a learning tool and/or as a revision aide to the level required at the end of secondary education. |
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