With this post on my blog, I've decided to start to put together a listing of what I think would be an ideal suite of applications for the iPod / iPhone in the classroom. Given pricing and rules about cell phones to hurdle, I'm guessing that the iPod Touch would be the ideal mobile / portable solution. Please consider joining this wiki and contributing your thoughts.
The iPhone Could be the Ultimate Study Machine - Tech Crunch
100 ways to use your ipod to learn and study better
- Adobe Ideas - brainstorming tool
- Airmouse - control your computer from your device
- Animoto - create a presentation from your pictures
- Atomic Web Browser - alternate and full featured/customizable web browser
- Awesome Facts - become the fountain of all trivial knowledge
- Biblion - from the New York Public Library, the World of Tomorrow 1939 World's Fair
- Blogpress - blog to your Wordpress blog from the ipad
- Blurb Mobile - story creation tool for the iPad
- Cooliris - search the internet for images in this spectacular application
- Delicious Bookmarks - access your bookmarks and then visit via Safari
- Dan Bricklin's NoteTakerLite - great for taking quick notes on the fly
- Diigo - bookmark resources to your Diigo account
- Diigo Browser - alternative browser to Apple's Safari - looks and acts like Chrome
- Dragon Dictation - a mobile version of Dragon Naturally Speaking
- Draw - sketching, drawing, and gaming tool
- Dropbox - share and store your files online
- Earthscape - another earth explorer with great overlays
- Edmodo - iPad application for those using Edmodo as a LMS
- Evernote for iPad - your notes, clippings, web content in the cloud
- Flipboard - flippable news reader
- Fotopedia Heritage - All the UNESCO Heritage Sites, thousands of pictures
- GarageBand - iPad version of the Macintosh music application
- Geo Walk HD - spin the globe and enjoy the imagery from around the world
- Google - the Suite - access to all of the Google suite of applications
- Google Earth - the venerable Earth Exploration application
- Guardian Eyewitness - spectacular images with tips from the pro that took them
- iBooks - read books with your device (comes pre-installed)
- Idea Sketch - brainstorming tool
- iGCT - your Geocaching Toolkit
- IEP Checklist - great concept - someone should create an Ontario app
- Keynote Remote - control Keynote presentations from your device
- Kindle - turn you iPad into a Kindle reading device
- Learn to Draw - as it name says - maybe it will work for you
- Louvre Museum - when you can't visit in real life
- MiGhtyDocs - edit Google Docs from your iPod / iPhone
- NASA Viz - incredible visuals from NASA
- NFB - stream content from the National Film Board
- Note Hub - notes, maps, calculators, to-do lists, etc. all in one app
- Office HD - word processing and spreadsheets on the iPad
- PDF-Notes - edit and markup PDF files and more
- PhotoFactory - powerful photo editor with one touch filters
- Photoshop Express - in app editing of images
- Pocket Pond - you'll want to throw money and make a wish
- Popplet - mind mapping and note tool
- Prompterous - turn your iPad into a teleprompter
- Pulse News Reader - colourful RSS news reader
- QuickVoice - record your voice and then email it
- Reuters Galleries - incredible image galleries from Reuters
- ResponseWare - Classroom performance system
- Sketchpad Explorer - iPad companion to The Geometer's Sketchpad
- Safari - Apple's web browser (comes pre-installed)
- Screenchomp - create your own screencasts with audio and visuals
- ShowMe - markup document and export
- SimpleGoals - to-do list with quotes for inspiration
- Skype - portable version
- Splashtop - powerful remote control over your desktop from your device
- Spore LE - the biology simulation
- Stanza - read books on your device
- Stickyboard - giant whiteboard with never ending pad of sticky notes
- Stocks - track stock prices in the Business Education classroom (comes pre-installed)
- Story Kit - read, edit, and share stories
- Strip Design - design your own comic strip / graphic novel
- Talking Ben - fun for the little ones - collect them all Talking Tom, Talking Gina, Talking Roby
- TeamViewer - share your desktop with others
- TED Talks - power of TED talks gone mobile
- Today in History - see what happened today or any other day
- Twittelator - stay connected to Twitter, your frients, your neighbourhood
- Untangle Lite - logical puzzle
- Weather - check the weather outside and around the world (comes pre-installed)
- Wikipanion - dig into the Wikipedia
- WordWarp - rearrange letters to form words
- WordPress Plugin - blogging from your iPod / iPhone
- WordWhirl - rearrange letters to form words
- WorldWiki - detailed information about any country as you need it
- Zite - a news application that gets smarter the more you use it
Why don't Flash applications work on the iPod / iPhone? Find out here.
Please consider your favourite application and add it to this list.
ICTAC MEMO iPhone Apps for Education
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Comments (1)
ron_millar@wrdsb.on.ca said
at 7:29 am on Jun 4, 2010
iPod and iPhone and ???iPad??? in the Classroom? Can the wiki be opened up to include iPads. A number of us are now looking at the iPad as a possible tool for students. I think it's only a matter of time before you join us. ;-)
Ron
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