This document summarizes several iPad apps that are useful for teaching, including Keynote for creating presentations, Flashcards for vocabulary practice, Notability for annotating documents, Nearpod for interactive lessons, Explain Everything for recording lessons, Trello for project collaboration, and Remind 101 for communicating with students and parents. It provides brief descriptions of the functionality and benefits of each app.

1. IPADS APPS FOR TEACHING
ALEX LIRA APRIL 8, 2014 ALEXLIRA9126@HOTMAIL.COM

2. Keynote
Easy to create compelling
presentations, even while waiting
in the copy room
PowerPoint compatible
Embedded laser pointer and
drawing tools
Control from iPhone
Email as PPT or PDF to staff and
students
Freedom to "walk
the room" with
AppleTV mirroring
See your notes on
iPad while
students see only
your slide

3. Flashcards
Learning vocabulary and unit concepts
in a fun way
Students can practice on their iPhones
and Android devices at any time
Use as formative assessments on
projector
Import from Excel and export via email
Lots of different functions, such as
ability to view Side A, Side B--or both.

4. Use app to Cold
Call students
Great way to
learn student
names
Uses the
vocabulary to
create matching,
crossword, and
other fun games

5. Notability
Import PDF/Word docs and draw, highlight,
and type text directly onto them.
Voice record lectures and sync your notes to it
Fill out forms, sign, and then email as PDFs.
Great for HR and IEPs.
Use on the projector to show students how to
fill out an assignment or go over a quiz / test
Use your finger, stylus, or on-screen keyboard
to take meeting notes.
Insert or take live pictures to add to your notes

6. Notability
Sign forms and
email as a PDF
Grade presentations by importing
student PPT, recording audio, and
writing rubric notes; jump to a
specific time to see your notes sync
to the audio.

7. Notability
Grade essays and quickly
email them back as PDFs to
your students
Import Word docs., PDFs,
or simply take a picture of a
printed essay and correct
Model an essay to your
class on the projector and
instantly annotate

8. Nearpod
Import your PPT / PDF into Nearpod
Insert quiz questions, polls, free text
responses, drawing prompts
Insert mp4 videos and YouTube links,
and they'll instantly play. No more
switching between apps. Students
can watch at home as hw.
Students see only your current slide
Your presentation is downloaded
onto their devices for later viewing
Assign as homework or self-pace
Formative assessments: as students
answer questions on their devices,
teachers get instant feedback
Merge pre-assessment, direct
instruction, and a review session all
in one Nearpod presentation
It's fun and engaging for students

9. So easy to use it's like magic
Great for unit tests and quick formatives
Use phone or iPad to instantly grade
answer sheets. No doc cam needed, and
you can walk around to students and grade
Error on key? No problem! Change key
and all scores are instantly updated.
Eraser errors on student sheet? No
problem! Instantly see original student
sheet and correct answers in a second.
Item analysis can show you how many
students marked each possible answer.
Syncs on all devices: phone, iPad, Internet
Import student rosters

10. Easily correct student errors with
just a tap based on original image
Number 20 has an error
Incorrect Corrected

11. Haiku Deck
Make beautiful and simple presentations from
your iPad or computer
The presentations are pre-formatted so all you
have to do is select a picture and text
Simple text and/or bullets
No need to resize pictures or insert text boxes
Type a keyword and the app will locate
stunning pictures for you to use!
Perfect for students to create presentations if
they don't have a lot of experience with
PowerPoint

12. Trello
Best way to collaborate on projects.
Visualize your individual or group projects, insert checklists, attachments.
Comment, collaborate, support

13. Planbook
Easy to set-up classes
Email daily plans
Embed documents into daily
lessons
Attach links to Dropbox docs
and videos
Change times for special
days
Automatic Dropbox back-up

14. Explain Everything
Create Webinars directly on the iPad
Using a projector, show students the various
components to a lesson on one screen
Show students: documents, graphic
organizers, a web browser, video files, or even
live video using the cameras--all at once.
Pinch to zoom in and out to showcase
different items
Hit 'Record' to make a video file of everything
you and the students say and do on screen
Export video quickly to your iPad camera roll,
Dropbox, or even your class YouTube account
Perfect for flipping your classroom or
recording events of a lesson or field trip for
parents and absent students

15. Tired of PD binders?
Evernote syncs all of your
notes
Email directly to your
Evernote notebook
Attach PDFs and Docs
Take pictures of meeting
handouts, notes, people
Tag notes so easily search
later

16. Decide Now Turn It In
Fun way for class to
randomly make decisions,
or randomly choose topics
or groups
Sync student submissions to view
offline, view similarities, grade
work, use rubrics to issue grades

17. Remind 101
Safely text your students and their parents
No one can see one another's phone
number
Students and parents cannot reply via text
Students register once by texting a code
Teachers can text one class or multiple
classes
!
"We are meeting in the Library this
morning."
"Don't forget there's a quiz this afternoon."

18. Exit Ticket
Formative Assessments that are fun
for students and informative for the
teacher. Perfect if your class has
computers for the period
Classroom management tool that
tracks positive and negative
behaviors; students and parents
use the mobile app to monitor
progress, too.

19. AV Player HD
Store and play almost any video file
On laptop, drag video files directly to
the app (and vice versa) via iTunes
Or, just use wifi to transfer video files
to or from iPad
Play video on classroom projector via
cord or wirelessly through wifi/AppleTV
Easily adjust picture size
Play video from 0.50x speed all the
way to 2x the speed (great when
there's a lot of boring horse riding)

20. iBooks Textbooks
Textbooks are $14.99, no expiration
date
The Americans, World History available
(plus most math and science textbooks
that schools use)
Dozens of History channel videos
throughout the chapters and sections
(2min - 60min)
3-D images / other fun learning aides
Multiple-choice quizzes throughout the
sections
Embedded voice narration of chapter
summaries

21. App recognizes
individual post-its
and saves them
Export collection as
a PDF
Display later on
projector

22. Create a Facebook group to
post discussion topics and
help students practice
academic online etiquette