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Welcome!  We are so excited to go through this new journey with you!! Next year, the students in grades two through four will be going 1:1 with iPads, and the first grade students will receive one iPad for every two students!  Each teacher has an iPad in hand and are being training, while getting very excited about all the possibilities!!!  I will use this page as a learning tool and also as a place for reflection.

The handheld devices I have in my second grade classroom now have been a big hit!  Please scroll down to The Daily 5 to see which apps we have been using.

Initial iPad Set-Up                                              

iPad Tips and Tricks                         

More iPad Tips                               

446+ Places to Find Free Books Online

Free Educational Browser for Your iPad (allows flash!)

15 iPad Tips for Teachers (basic but helpful)

iPad Tips

75 Interesting Ways to Use the iPad in the Classroom

APPitic  1300+ apps

1:1 Computing

Using iPad in 1:1 Environment

Free "Content-Neutral" Apps

Screencasting Apps for the iPad 

Apps Posted on Pinterest

Top-10-Spelling-Apps.pdf

Evernote for Educators...Live Binder

Tips for Publishing iBooks

Recommended Apps Based on IEP Goals

iPads in Schools; LiveBinder

Day 1 of going 1:1 with iPads in Grade 1 

Wunderlist Tutorial

Free Webinars

Apps Used for Daily 5 Reading and More...

Listen to Reading Applications for the iPad/iPod Touches (iTunes Applications)
BrainPop (A free video every day; I also have closed caption selected when the students are reading), Toy Story, Read Me Stories, iReading HD Stories, Meet Millie, World of Ants (Can read at three different reading levels), Jerricho the Elf, and Grasshopper.

Word Work Applications for the iPad/iPod Touches
Phonics Vowels, Rhyme Sorting, GLOW, Sight Words, iChalkPad, iChalkboard, Chicktionary, Letterland, Word Wizard (weekly spelling lists can be added), and Chicktionary, Sight Words


Read to Self Apps
iBooks (Most books are a few dollars, but we created one using Book Creator and added it to the iBookshelf for free!), TimeReading (Students names and reading levels can be added; It doesn’t take into account word accuracy though), Snail Race, Childrens’ Classics, Touchy Books, Children’s Classics, and Learning A-Z.

Work on Writing Apps
PuppetPals HD, Book Creator, Picturebook, SketchBookX, and ShowMe, StoryBuddy, AudioMemos (Used to record their work and share online), DragonDictation (Changes your voice to text) Toontastic (Create your own cartoon...Excellent!)

• Students also go to KidBlog to blog during Work on Writing time. The also can use the iPad for this.

Explore Apps
TapQuiz Maps, Kid Mode, Baby Animals, Faces iMake, Google Earth, Zoo Who, VoiceThread, PBS Kids, TouchPets

Math
Invaders, Math Bingo, UnderSea Math, Math Magic, Flashcards, Math Critters, Regrouping, 
MotionX-Dice

Math Apps by Category

Teacher Applications(iTunes Applications)

• G-Whizz--Use with Google Applications
• Evernote--I use this for conferring during the Daily 5
• Splashtop HD--Access main computer from iPad
• Skyfire-Flash videos can be opened in this browser
• Dropbox--Files can be easily accessed here.  You can use dropbox on any computer/device.
• PageCapture
• PowerTeacher--App for our grading program we use in our district.
• Rover--Free Educational Browser 
• Skype 
• Common Core 

Music Apps